Realities
This is what is missing in the Kyusho world, common sense. Too many are caught up in the mystic and mythical world of TCM (Related to Martial Endeavor).
After you watched these first two podcasts, then you go and listen to fire melts metal type talk and you just have to say what???
I believe reality and common sense (along with actual training) will prevail... well for some.
OK first it is one thing to realize that the real anatomical structures are what Kyusho is all about, (see http://www.kyusho.com/heresy/ ), but then what do you do with that information to actualize it into skill is the next vital point.
Components
There are vital components that need to be in place to get the affects you are looking for, be it in martial, health or energetic aspects, they are the same:
- What type structure
- How to access
- What are you trying to accomplish
- How do you accomplish it
- Tools to accomplish it
Attributes
Next one needs to understand these components in relation to their attributes to best understand, manipulate and achieve the desired results:
- Electrical - Nerve impulse for motor, sensory and autonomic function.
- Mechanical - Vessels when stopped or damaged, organs torn or bruised
- Organic - gravity, lesser to greater flows, structural collapse.
Actions
Then we must study how the body moves so that it protects or exposes any and all of these targets in a constantly fluctuating set of actions. For example many people study the point called ST-15 on the chest.... however if the opponent is extending their arm forward in any manner the nerves underlying that "Point" and even the Muscle Spindle Cells, are now muted. And this is where most lack in skill as they practice in standing (static) applications, set techniques of pre-planned actions and Bunkai from Kata (Kata was originally a vehicle for Kyusho Targeting, but in reverse of what is taught today).
Training
This is where the real education takes place, as Kyusho is not meant to be theory, simply a mental process, it is hard training that will gain you real skill and nothing else. Not only will real training gain you more access skill, it will prepare you for real need. You can only master Kyusho if you can use it on the move under increasingly confusing, stressful and fatiguing actions, this is your education into Anatomical Reality.
You will also learn via your own actions and body position and transition what targets you may see but then can not access... quite simply folks...
Kyusho is all in the training... Click Here
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