Virtual Training Catalogs

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WELCOME to the advanced principles section. The best way to honor the great masters of the past, individuals like Ueshiba, Wang Xiang-zai, Dong Hua-chuan, Cheng Ting-hua and others is to continue their work and research into the meaning of mastery and potential, and discover how to extend their discoveries to more people.

The goal of the ADVANCED PRINCIPLES section of our Virtual Training program is to present and discuss missing links to the lost knowledge that make internal martial arts effective in real self-defense situations. In our quest to forward the discussion, the first phase of ADVANCED PRINCIPLES includes three areas of study:

These three (seven individual) "trainings," include the most popular lessons that I've taught in national and international seminars over the past fifteen years. Presented in seminars in the U.S., Greece, South Korea, Austria and the French Alps. They were chosen because of what senior martial artists in these many different places said about how these lessons impacted and improved their own practice.

OVERVIEW:

The Empty-full and Advanced knee mechanic lessons are related. They address an important area of body mechanics knowledge that through analysis of photographic and written records of great masters, seems to be lost today. Both areas have to do with one's distribution of weight while in a combat posture and how correct body structure training produces "non-fulcrum" power based "vertical" bio mechanics. This area is further explored in the advanced knee mechanics series where an easy to understand way of determining strong vs. weak knee angles is presented. In my experience, these lessons not only explain how to apply more efficient bio-mechanics, but prevent knee injury.

RIBCAGE POWER. This lesson contains one of the quickest ways to increase power. This three part lesson focuses on over reliance on shoulder complex muscles in striking and other applications and how power can be dramatically increased through training and reliance on abdominal and intercostal (rib cage) muscle. Complete with comparison of photos and muscle structure, this training series teaches you first how to observe these two paradigms of muscle use, then through basic and intermediate level training, change to more effective usage.

As demonstrated in this series, Improved strength and muscle control is linked to conscious articulation of the rib cage (intercostals) muscles. Applications in this lesson include ground fighting, punching and pushing. The lesson includes images of students with and without conscious application of abdominal muscle use as well as beginning and intermediate levels of rib-cage muscle training.

As a final note, Advanced Knee Mechancis addresses a problem sometimes discussed in martial art literature as "Tai Chi Knee." Defined in some circles as persistent knee pain associated with Tai Chi and other internal martial art practice, this video lesson provides a clear, easy way to understand why students injure their knees and lose power, and how to correct this problem.

study well,

jb