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: The Door

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

A door does not make a house and yet it does provide access to the house and all that the house has to offer.

There are many types and categories of the door. The outside door allows ingress and egress to the house. The inner door allows access to various rooms and closets AND no door IS the room or closet or garage but merely a means of access and control.

Even the doorway is not the door and yet the door helps us control access through the doorway - it is still not the door. 

The dojo has many aspects that make it a dojo and one is the ganken or entrance. How that entrance is depends on the dojo and its dai-sensei. It is a means of entering the dojo and departing from the dojo, usually the main entrance. It leads us to the many things that make the dojo, a dojo but those aspects or traits or things are not the entrance and yet the entrance allows us to access the dojo yet is not the dojo, merely the entrance/exit. 

The dojo has many interesting and important concepts and traits like the kakemono, the wall of hanging scrolls; the kamiza and shoman or wall of honor and a seat of honor. Within the dojo proper, the dojo training floor, there are places for the dai-sensei/sensei, the senpai and the kohai designated as the shimoseki and joseki or the lower seat left and the upper seat right. Then there is the shimoza, lower seat farthest from the seat of honor and all have there cultural places and establish certain dojo-statuses and so on AND YET they are not the ganken or entrance and the ganken is not the door, the door has its form and function that allow us to enter and leave a place like the dojo and control that ingress and egress. 

All the traits, aspects and concepts within the dojo also stand alone with their form and function often indirectly related to one another yet, stand alone things within and around the dojo. The makiwara is not the dojo, the door or the entrance yet the entrance/door lead us and provide us access to the dojo and makiwara. The door is NOT the makiwara and the makiwara is NOT the door... or entrance. Everything has its place and everything is in its place while connected in category to the entire dojo with these traits and concepts and things are various types of distinct and separate things within the dojo accessed by the door yet the door, the makiwara and the entrance are themselves of an individual nature that could be anywhere but often in a dojo.

Chinkuchi is energy, chinkuchi is the door/entrance to those benefits and concepts that are like the things within and part of the dojo and provide a means to access all of them yet they are not chinkuchi for chinkuchi is the door, the energy that allows things to be, happen and become force and power to control, govern and dictate actions of the body through controllers and triggers in and of the mind from training, practice and experience. None of these are chinkuchi for chinkuchi is energy yet all of them manifest and are skills and tools that energy fuel so we can make use of them... energy is kinetic and potential regardless of how triggered to manifest as something with the something being a product of, not chinkuchi. 

Chinkuchi is the energy that allows the door to open and close and yet is NOT the door nor the door chinkuchi. Like a garage opener that pulls up and runs down the garage door with triggering the energy or electricity that results in the garage door opener to operate, the garage door is a garage door that in inanimate until the energy is applied to operate to tools to open and close… it is not the door and the door does not make the others operate or exist for the door is just a door. 


Contemplate this, mull this over and let the mind that is the mind come to a conclusion and then let the mind, the door, trigger impulses or energy so that the body manifests the products of the mind… mind is still just the mind regardless; the mind triggers the energy to manifest work; the energy is chinkuchi yet not the work nor the mind. 

For reference and sources and professionals go here: Bibliography (Click the link)

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