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THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO

THE INTERNAL MARTIAL/HEALING ARTS

June 2003 Edition

Combat &

Vol. 53

Healing

Lead Story

Double Weightedness

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Questions & Answers

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Peter Smith Over

Folkestone

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New Videos from

Moontagu Books

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Vincenzo Over Italy

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Searching For Excitement

PLUS

WTBA NEWS

Kathleen Montaigue

PUB LISHED BY MOONTAGU BOOKS AUSTRALIA

Death & Hesitation

Everything You Want To Know About the Internal Martial/Healing Arts

Healing

Editor in Chief

Erle Montaigue

CON TENTS

Executive Editor

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Managing Editors

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Eli Montaigue

Page 1 .....Dou ble Weightedness, Death & Hes i ta tion

Senior Writers

Mi chael Babin

Erle Montaigue

Page 2 ...................................Ques tions & An swers.

Senior Copy Editor

Kathleen Montaigue

Page 11 .......................Pe ter Smith Over Folkestone.

Copy Editor

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Page 13 ........................Vincenzo Staltari Over It aly.

Research Editor

Blue Montaigue

Page 14 ............................Searching for Ex cite ment

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Erle Montaigue

John Sklotz

Page 17 ...Zen Shiatsu, Acu punc ture & in ju ries in

the Mar tial Arts

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Com bat &

Double-Weightedness, Death, and Hesitation.

John Wingert . USA

You can no tice the feel ings

that you get, when you read

that para graph, and see how it

can ap ply to you. Or when

you ap ply it to you, you can

no tice a lan guage based "dou -

ble Weightedness".

some one who is re laxed and

com fort able, you can be come

more com fort able. With me,

be cause of these won der ful

arts, there is a third al ter na tive

too, be gin con sid er ing this.

W hen you hes i tate, the

only thing to miss out on is

your life...

When you are weighted dou-

ble, seems like you weigh a

bil lion pounds, be cause your

weight, en ergy, and in tent are

not con gru ent. This not only

re sults is in ef fec tive "move-

ment" but can also re sult in

hes i ta tion.

Re mem ber how you feel

when you are do ing your

forms, the flow, the

connectedness, the in spi ra-

tion.

If you are "mov ing from the

cen ter", then if at the cen ter

you are com fort able, then

that will truly ra di ate, and be

felt, and ef fect ev ery one. In

other words, he who moves

con gru ently from the cen ter,

will in flu ence more....

Hes i ta tion re sults, be cause

the body / mind / spirit may

want to move in op pos ing di -

rec tions at once. This even

can be no ticed when at tempt-

ing to make a de ci sion, when

you have a part that wants to

do some thing, like write an

ar ti cle, and a part that says oh

you're not good enough, or

why bother him.

It don't feel good, plus it lim-

its you to "ra tio nal brain". Bad

Eng lish here very in ten tional.

Chop words, chop feel ing.

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Leaving that be hind,

John Wingert is a reg is tered In -

struc tor with the World Taiji

Boxing As so ci a tion in the USA.

Re mem ber how you feel

when you are do ing your

forms, the flow, the

connectedness, the in spi ra -

tion. Watching what they call

a "big man" do their form, like

Erle can also be very life

chang ing and in spir ing. Be-

cause we all share states.

Which is why I per son ally

did n't write much be fore. If

you ap pre ci ate how this

makes me feel, then keep in

mind I'm ap ply ing it to the

rest of my life with this sin gle

thought, What have I hes i-

tated on be fore, that I will

pas sion ately em brace and en -

joy now?

Walk down the street. When

get ting close to peo ple, you

can ob serve when one per son

is un com fort able, and when

some one ap proaches them

they of ten can seem to catch

it. Or when you ap proach

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Ques tions & An swers

By Paul Brecher: Lon don UK

as a re sult of his down to earth

ap proach and ex cel lent sys-

tem I have slowly be gun to

un der stand what is real, prac -

ti cal and use ful and what is

not.

the mar tial arts. To be a good

fighter you have to go on to

the street and fight. The dif-

fer ence is that a good fighter

is a good fighter be cause of

his state of be ing not be cause

of how many mar tial arts

tech niques he knows.

Q ues tions and An swers by

Paul Brecher For most of my

life I have im mersed my self in

the mar tial arts. I still have my

first mar tial arts comic from

De cem ber 1971 its called The

Hands of Shang-Chi Mas ter

Of Kung Fu. On tele vi sion

when I was a kid I used to

watch pro grams like The Wa -

ter Mar gin, Kung Fu and

Mon key.

Over the years my stu dents

have asked me ques tions

about the mar tial arts and I

have tried to an swers in a sim-

ple and prac ti cal way. The an-

swers I have given are an

at tempt to clar ify what is and

what is not real in the mar tial

arts.

For ex am ple if I was in a fight

and I had a cer tain in ten tion,

if I de cided I was go ing to kill

the op po nent, with out any

con cern about the con se -

quences of my ac tions,

whether I go to jail for mur -

der or whether I die in the

fight. If I de cided to use all the

rest of my life’s avail able en-

ergy in this one con fron ta-

tion, to have no rules, no fair

fight, just to beat the op po -

nent to death with my fists

and feet or any weapon

nearby, a bot tle, a glass, a

knife or an iron bar.

In the cin ema and on video I

watched Kung Fu mov ies and

when I was in Asia I trained

with teach ers who ap peared

to have in ex pli ca ble abil i ties.

The end re sult of all of this

was that I mixed up the truth

about the mar tial arts with

fan tasy and wish ful think ing

and a ro man tic idea about an -

cient China.

Ques tion. Which is the best

mar tial art?

An swer De pends what as -

pects of your self you want to

de velop, phys i cal fit ness,

health, ex ter nal power, in ter-

nal power, strik ing, punch-

ing, kick ing, throw ing,

lock ing, break ing, grap -

pling/wres tling. Dif fer ent

styles em pha size dif fer ent

things. So no style is the best,

it is just per sonal pref er ence.

Fighting and mar tial

arts train ing are sim i lar

but dif fer ent.

The mar tial arts mag a zines,

books and mov ies that I see

to day per pet u ate this con fu -

sion. And I can imag ine that

many peo ple who are in ter-

ested in the mar tial arts are

get ting as mixed up as I did

and be liev ing that all man ner

of mys ti cal and mag i cal

things are pos si ble through

mar tial arts train ing. I be gan

train ing with Erle in1989 and

Ques tion. But which style

will make me the best fighter?

If this was my state of be ing I

would win ev ery fight

whether I knew mar tial arts or

not. And if the op po nent did

or did not know mar tial arts is

also not as rel e vant as his state

of be ing. If he was look ing for

a fair fight and had some self

An swer. Fighting and mar -

tial arts train ing are sim i lar

but dif fer ent. To be a good

mar tial art ist you have to

spend a lot of time train ing in

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im posed lim i ta tions about

what he was and was not pre-

pared to do be cause of his

con cern about the con se-

quences of his ac tions or be-

cause of a cer tain code of

hon our then he would lose.

for the po lice force. If your

life was in dan ger it could be

used for self de fense. The re al -

ity of self de fence is that we do

not ac tu ally try and de fend

our selves, if this is what we

did then the at tacker would

con tinue to be the at tacker

and we would con tinue to be

the vic tim, both phys i cally

and men tally.

They at tack you and you

don’t de fend your self, you get

out of the way of their at tack

and con cen trate on at tack ing

them. The Old Yang Style of

Taiji is not a self de fense sys-

tem it is a de feat the op po nent

sys tem.The sys tem could be

al tered so that it becomes non

le thal so that it could be used

by the po lice and se cu rity

staff.

Ques tion. Who would win if

a prac ti tio ner of (name of one

mar tial art) fought a prac ti tio-

ner of (name of an other mar-

tial art )?

Its not the style which wins,

its the man, in that mo-

ment, de pend ing on his

state of be ing. A good

fighter can make their

mar tial art work amaz -

ingly well even if they are

only a be gin ner in that

style.

An swer. Its not the style

which wins, its the man, in

that mo ment, de pend ing on

his state of be ing. A good

fighter can make their mar tial

art work amaz ingly well even

if they are only a be gin ner in

that style. And a per son who

is not in the right state of

bieng even if they have

trained to high est level of

their mar tial art will still

loose.

The prob lem is that al ter ing it

makes it less ef fec tive.

Ques tion . So would you win

a full con tact com pe ti tion

An swer. First of all I would

never en ter a taiji com pe ti tion

nor would I rec om mend any

of my stu dents to be cause I

don’t train or teach any thing

that is rel e vant for com pe ti -

tions.

The in ev i ta ble out come of

this is that even tu ally one of

his at tacks gets through we

are weak ened, he ex ploits this

weak ness and grinds us into

the ground, where we are

then kicked to death.

The em pha sis in The Old

Yang Style is to kill the op po-

nent, we first dis able them by

strik ing their eyes to blind

them and then we punch and

el bow them in the throat and

neck re peat edly with fa jin

and dim mak. The main tar get

ar eas eyes, neck and throat

that we are trained to at tack

are al ways for bid den tar get

ar eas in com pe ti tions so we

would not be able to use our

taiji.

It’s the per son who in that

mo ment has the vic tory or the

de feat not the style.

Ques tion. Is The Old Yang

Style of Taiji good for self de-

fense? or for se cu rity staff? or

for po lice forces or for the

army?

So the only way to stop this is

to turn the ta bles, we must be-

come the at tacker, as soon as

we are at tacked or even as

soon as we are threat ened

with at tack we should not

hes i tate but go on the of fen-

sive, the only way to win is to

re verse the rolls.

An swer. The Old Yang Style

of Taiji was de vel oped to kill

the op po nent so it would be

good for the army but not ap -

pro pri ate for se cu rity staff or

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