Please take a look at Articles on self-defense/conflict/violence for introductions to the references found in the bibliography page.

Please take a look at my bibliography if you do not see a proper reference to a post.

Please take a look at my Notable Quotes

Hey, Attention on Deck!

Hey, NOTHING here is PERSONAL, get over it - Teach Me and I will Learn!


When you begin to feel like you are a tough guy, a warrior, a master of the martial arts or that you have lived a tough life, just take a moment and get some perspective with the following:


I've stopped knives that were coming to disembowel me

I've clawed for my gun while bullets ripped past me

I've dodged as someone tried to put an ax in my skull

I've fought screaming steel and left rubber on the road to avoid death

I've clawed broken glass out of my body after their opening attack failed

I've spit blood and body parts and broke strangle holds before gouging eyes

I've charged into fires, fought through blizzards and run from tornados

I've survived being hunted by gangs, killers and contract killers

The streets were my home, I hunted in the night and was hunted in turn


Please don't brag to me that you're a survivor because someone hit you. And don't tell me how 'tough' you are because of your training. As much as I've been through I know people who have survived much, much worse. - Marc MacYoung

WARNING, CAVEAT AND NOTE

The postings on this blog are my interpretation of readings, studies and experiences therefore errors and omissions are mine and mine alone. The content surrounding the extracts of books, see bibliography on this blog site, are also mine and mine alone therefore errors and omissions are also mine and mine alone and therefore why I highly recommended one read, study, research and fact find the material for clarity. My effort here is self-clarity toward a fuller understanding of the subject matter. See the bibliography for information on the books. Please make note that this article/post is my personal analysis of the subject and the information used was chosen or picked by me. It is not an analysis piece because it lacks complete and comprehensive research, it was not adequately and completely investigated and it is not balanced, i.e., it is my personal view without the views of others including subject experts, etc. Look at this as “Infotainment rather then expert research.” This is an opinion/editorial article/post meant to persuade the reader to think, decide and accept or reject my premise. It is an attempt to cause change or reinforce attitudes, beliefs and values as they apply to martial arts and/or self-defense. It is merely a commentary on the subject in the particular article presented.


Note: I will endevor to provide a bibliography and italicize any direct quotes from the materials I use for this blog. If there are mistakes, errors, and/or omissions, I take full responsibility for them as they are mine and mine alone. If you find any mistakes, errors, and/or omissions please comment and let me know along with the correct information and/or sources.



“What you are reading right now is a blog. It’s written and posted by me, because I want to. I get no financial remuneration for writing it. I don’t have to meet anyone’s criteria in order to post it. Not only I don’t have an employer or publisher, but I’m not even constrained by having to please an audience. If people won’t like it, they won’t read it, but I won’t lose anything by it. Provided I don’t break any laws (libel, incitement to violence, etc.), I can post whatever I want. This means that I can write openly and honestly, however controversial my opinions may be. It also means that I could write total bullshit; there is no quality control. I could be biased. I could be insane. I could be trolling. … not all sources are equivalent, and all sources have their pros and cons. These needs to be taken into account when evaluating information, and all information should be evaluated.” - God’s Bastard, Sourcing Sources (this applies to this and other blogs by me as well; if you follow the idea's, advice or information you are on your own, don't come crying to me, it is all on you do do the work to make sure it works for you!)



“You should prepare yourself to dedicate at least five or six years to your training and practice to understand the philosophy and physiokinetics of martial arts and karate so that you can understand the true spirit of everything and dedicate your mind, body and spirit to the discipline of the art.” - cejames (note: you are on your own, make sure you get expert hands-on guidance in all things martial and self-defense)



“All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.” - Montaigne


I am not a leading authority on any one discipline that I write about and teach, it is my hope and wish that with all the subjects I have studied it provides me an advantage point that I offer in as clear and cohesive writings as possible in introducing the matters in my materials. I hope to serve as one who inspires direction in the practitioner so they can go on to discover greater teachers and professionals that will build on this fundamental foundation. Find the authorities and synthesize a wholehearted and holistic concept, perception and belief that will not drive your practices but rather inspire them to evolve, grow and prosper. My efforts are born of those who are more experienced and knowledgable than I. I hope you find that path! See the bibliography I provide for an initial list of experts, professionals and masters of the subjects.

PERSPECTIVE: Pattern-no-pattern [型-否-型]

Blog Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)

Comfort Zone: that space, if you will, that feels really good; feels solid; feels strong; feels skillful; feels accomplished puts us all in the very comfortable space that fosters safety, security and ability especially in martial arts BECAUSE that discipline as you already know and believe is about conflict resolution through physical intervention against criminal violence. 

The "hardest road to travel" is the one single lane that is smooth, straight and instills comfort BECAUSE it is that thing we learn, learn to know, and learn to understand. Life is not really a smooth road BECAUSE life tends to take us on side roads, sometimes off the road to the edge and even into the brush, bramble and obstacle strewn bumpy uneven dangerous off-road experience(s). 

Pattern-no-pattern is a concept whereby one enters the dojo; leans the fundamentals and methodologies through the strict adherence to the patterns, rhythms and cadences that come from basics, kata and pre-arranged drills. It sets the cement into the foundation and then through a repetitive patterned practice it sets and cures a solid foundation that is there for your entire life. 

To take the smooth and straight and comfort of the lane we begin to perceive the dangers and obstacles that reside just off to each side of OUR lane for our lane is always different from others lane... that presents a means to diverge from the pattern, rhythm and comfort of that lane pattern, it is a wake up call that there is something bigger, dangerous and predatory both in reality and by nature ready to take advantage if we stray - BUT - stray we must, at least in training and practice, if we intend to deal with it appropriately. 

Here lies the no-pattern of the pattern where we diverge from the norm and the comfort and the false knowledge of the efficient and effectiveness we perceive in the pattern. It is only through the no-pattern within our pattern that we can create the methods necessary for the chaos and the paradigms of others who would do us harm. Here lies the truth to one persons pattern differences to your patterns providing the motivation to enter the stranger, difficult and uncomforted of the no-pattern. Like yin/yang, pattern-no-pattern provides a balance of reality based stress oriented training necessary to deal with a variety of natural human conflicts we run into every single day and that provides conceptual triggers that allow us to flip a switch to a more robust effort to avoid or escape-evade or deescalate before resorting to the last resort of physical damage control efforts. 

For reference and sources and professionals go here: Bibliography (Click the link)
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Kata (gata) [型] kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.); form (i.e. customary procedure); type; style; pattern; mold (mould); template; model. 

Kata -no- kata [型-否-型] see kata defined above; add the word NO meaning NO then kata defined again. 

Dou [動] move; motion; change; confusion; shift; shake, i.e., in karate or martial arts it refers to kata-dou [型動] referring to ‘movement’ where one moves, creates motion, uses change and confusion/‘creativity if you will’, to shake up the kata patterns into no-patterns [否-型]; related to the concept of mind-no-mind, a philosophical symbolic concept that relates the mind to the bodies need to be creative, etc., in its situational environment with emphasis on aggression and violence and conflict… toward appropriate resolutions to meet the standards, requirements and social practices (both natural/reality based and legal). 


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