Martial Arts is a phrase that has a bit of GNotUnix, a bit of semantic redundancy in it don't you think. mArtial.
Martial is when our fight instinct gets channeled into a highly organized activity, maybe one at the apexes of human civilization. Cause most of us nowadays survive or do think so due to the highly organized, trained and endowed armies or all nations. Countries like US spend most of their (enormous) budget for defence of mostly other countries.
A balance of powers that brings prosperity.
But can it exist. As an unmediated link between our fight instinct (as in fight or flight) and fighting like a trained soldier. No i believe not. I think we delegate the power of our martial instincts to the politicians who control the armies. I think those who chose the path to let themselves be trained into soldiers, like in any trade, in the end are just applying their skills under the coordination of their generals.
During a war your unhinged fight instinct will get you killed immediately. Martial arts is above all discipline, but in the end war is an art governed maybe by the 36 stratagems of General Tsu.
Fighting by instinct is also an illusion that professional wrestlers, boxers, other entertainers are trying to maintain. The reason for its attractiveness. But everyone who ever looked into it knows it's all script and skills, more like acrobatics than fighting.
Did not really want to write the two paragraphs above until i saw the two words written together. Has little do to with what follows.
I've been wrestling with myself since this morning about writing this post. Literally. A persistent sharp middle back pain. Could not raise from bed to take the keyboard. Changed title in my mind several times (my mind, another little semantic trap, is our minds everything that's really us). Did some searches, only to get deeper in trouble.
Also an infinite feel of uselessness of an ant fighting the cosmic Godzilla. But i shall try cause you will see in the end, i have no choice. (This is definitely not one of those days when writing on the blog is fun).
There is a group in Bali, Indonesia that claim that can use no contact martial arts to knock an opponent unconscious. Yellow Bamboo. Others, all squeezed on a small Wikipedia page. From the category "self ridiculing". That sooner or later got debunked. The immediate question is, why and how to live a lifetime, like the "Kiai master" in the videos, ridiculing self? Could it be other things they are trying to cover?
Now i vaguely remember is not the first time i saw the last video. Was searching for the same thing, from time to time. If there was something on the web documented, no matter how little, about the possibility of psychic martial arts. Or should i call it psychophysiological. Cause me personally i am more than convinced it exists and i spent a great deal of my life in this environment. Being remotely manipulated by such techniques, that are far from lethal, however, toxic (sometimes literally), debilitating and effective in manipulating (influencing) me and through me, others who happen to watch.
Most martial arts as we know them from competitions come from Japan. All so called competitive, recognized as sports, sometimes olympic "disciplines" that happen on a tatami start with a bow... Sumo wrestling which happens on clay and sand, also start with a bow, though somewhat more... complex (the purpose of a sumo match is to make your opponent touch the ground with things other than soles and/or push him out of the circle).
So we shall start (and probably end) with the bow. But what is the bow and where does it come from in Japan? The bow is so important in Japan that every newcomer knows that he started to be assimilated into the culture when he involuntarily bows during a phone conversation.
To me it looks like an unparalleled type of body language that is unique to Japan and lost its traces in history though it is a very important element of the culture, one more layer of ...overhead that makes it so hard to understand for the rest of the world. And since i took the picture and already posted it i will start again with it because i just realized i should have never posted it cause i may contribute to spread of toxic subliminal ideas as i did not understand from the beginning all of its elements.
Cause i believe this is what it represents. A mind merge or melt that comes all the way from the corroborees of Australia... Towards a type of collective consciousness, maybe? Excluding the rest of the world maybe?
Like everything in Japan, the bow is taken to the extreme. There is a 15 degrees bow, 30, 45 and all the way to 90 and beyond...
But to me the most important part is just beginning. It is not only the muscles of the back that are involved in the bow. Holding of breath ensures some pressure in abdomen that helps with the posture. It is then where your organism becomes vulnerable. I do believe for the short time of the bow some psychophysiological synchronization occurs between the two. Something that would help mediate and place into the hierarchy the rest of the conversation.
However i came lately to discover that they also have what i call the "reverse bow". Available probably through oral tradition within ninjutsu, the trick is part of what i call the true no contact martial arts. One gets on the street in the way of the subject, catches him in a moment of stress, like crossing the street or a busy parking lot etc.., or in other busy place, like inside a casino, and then bends... the other way, under a pretext, like tying shoelaces, searching for something in a car etc. while probably saying a mantra in his mind. Subject will be annoyed for a second maybe and then forget.
It happened to me for the second time within a week, for a dozen times in the last few months. I don't know exactly what happens, but your body has an urge to block back muscles and/or intestinal transit. The pain comes the second day and if not debilitating, it's scary because at this age you start thinking. Organ damaging diabetes, kidneys, pancreas, etc.. It may come with a true blockage of the bile.
To me, statistically proven enough. Don't have direct evidence and probably never will because it's all in their "national" oral tradition of a few. A tradition and a culture defended with the mighty power of US military and paid for the American people.
There is also shin shin shin gan. God's eye and mind. An area of ninjutsu training where they literally learn how to read to you mind (for what's worth it), through awakening of the ancient vibrational communication, common to all vertebrates, an atavism to humans. The bow may be based on that one as well, but just at the beginning of a conversation.
Based on that that may interfere with the subject, guess his next actions, force him to synchronize or out of his thinking cycles like through annoying sound, some coming constantly from as far as the apartment above. The squeaks. Slammed doors in the parking lot. Loading/unloading junk in pickups with unnecessary noise, kids specially trained in yelling for hours, etc.. Unnecessary noise during emptying the bins on Thursdays, with the 20 ton trucks. Blowing the parking lot for hours on Wednesdays with power blowers. Modified exhausts. Trailers going around the complex and hitting all 20 bumps etc..
Basically all activity in the complex is exaggerated, coordinated and targeted towards one single person with the purpose of constantly knocking him out, like in contactless martial arts.