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OKKKR Newsletter September 2012
Okinawa Kenpo Karate Kobudo Renme
Shigeru Nakamura - Founder
Seikichi Odo - Supreme Instructor
Taketo Nakamura - Grandmaster
Neco Medes Flores - President
Elodia Flores - President of Karate for Women
HEALTH & KARATE
Health and karate ... how do you maintain your health? This is the way I do it. So far, I go to an acupuncture treatment center for a weekly upkeep where one pays with donations. The acupuncturist is a martial artist regularly practicing Tai Chi.
I believe a martial artist, such as Gonzo who is an acupuncturist and a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner has a great advantage over other martial artists because of the knowledge of how sanchin works. Sanchin is chi kung. When I go to the Dr. he diagnoses and tells me the problem. I let the acupuncturist know what the Dr. said and I get treated by acupuncture without the side effects of drugs.
The other thing that helps in my healthy life style is that I work construction. It's work that is physical and outdoors. The other thing is that I exercise through Karate and weight training at the age of 68 years old. And that's how I keep fit.
Iron shirt chi kung in Okinawa is known as sanchin. Let's look at sanchin. Sanchin means 3 battles, or goals to achieve. Chin is how you say chi in Chinese. Chi, chin, ki, air or energy have the same meaning in different languages.
The 3 battles are to control: 1) muscles 2) breathing 3) spirit
When you do sanchin you work on all 3 goals at the same time or one at a time and not necessarily in this order ... it depends on your character. So I will explain what happens in the sanchin kata's 3 battles
1) muscles
when you tighten your muscles all over your body and send your energy adrenalin rushing down to an area one inch below your belly button and 1-1/2 inch inward from your belly button. at the same time you can take a hit a lot safer than if you don't tighten up. If you practice all the time properly, you can have tremendous energy. As you do sanchin you get struck punched and kicked in areas of your body where you are most vulnerable in a fight. All this adrenalin rush and the striking developed your muscles where they automatically tighten up and become like armor.
2) breathing
When your hands go in towards yourself you should inhale. When you extend your hands away from yourself you should exhale. Inhale quick, exhale slow and hard. At the end of the exhale force all the air out then make the sound "ssss." This forces you to take in fresh new air or oxygen. If you don't let all the air out of your lungs the inhaled air remains in your lungs therefore you have unused air that eventually becomes stale or polluted. If you don't exercise when you breathe hard or do a lot of hard manual labor you don't exhale all the way thus creating stale or polluted air that you didn't exhale out of your lungs. When you force the exhalation you are injecting oxygen into your cells through the lung's walls. Pressure injects oxygen into the cells in your internal organs. The excess oxygen (chi) goes into your tan tien or hara. This is where your energy (chi) is stored for extra energy when needed.
3) spirit
A good way to put it is team spirit or if you're religious it is your soul. If you're a scientist then it's your aura which is the heat energy generated by your biochemical elector magmatic system all biological creatures posses. In martial arts it's chi or Ki. To generate your chi you do the kata sanchin. By positioning your neck and shoulders in a particular angle you activate the chi and put it to use at whatever you wish. Whether to fight, work, play or any goal you wish to accomplish. This is a natural thing anyone can accomplish with little training.
Here is a story about an 18 year old (Kieth Foust) in North Carolina. When I started giving seminars in the 1980's I met him as a young black belt. I saw him grow up in Karate. He graduated from high school and became a truck driver. One day he told me, "sensei I will not have any time for karate because I got married and got a truck driving job. How can I maintain my karate skills." I said just do sanchin every chance you get ... it takes only 30 seconds. He replied "hai sensei." Several years later I saw Kieth again and he reminded me of what I had told him which I had already forgotten. When he reminded me of what I said, that in order for you to retain his karate skills, you have to practice sanchin. Kieth said "guess what sensei there was a strike going on and I didn't know it but when I backed up my truck up to the warehouse ramp everyone was just sitting around. I thought that they, the dock workers, were on break. I only had 2 small pieces to unload so I did. All of a sudden the dock workers surrounded me and then jumped on me and at that split second I stuck out my hands to protect myself. They flew back as if they were being pulled backward. Then they just laid there as in shock." I'll try to explain. Sanchin stores energy in your hara or lower tantien inside and below your naval.
There is a yin and a yang, positive and negative. The human body runs on electrons ninos nano nutrinos photons. In other words, electrical energy. Your body is an electric magnet or electromagnetic energy, from my understanding magnets, are positive and negative. Get a pair of magnets and they will stick together. Reverse one and they will repel throwing each other away from each other. Yin is calm (pos). Yang is aggressive (neg). One repels the other. That is the way karate works. You have to be very calm, not excited, no adrenalin rush with no bad intentions. While your opponent is the opposite, aggressive, adrenalin rush, hateful intent with negative thoughts. As he attacks and at the moment of about 1/4 inch from touching you, the repelling begins instantly (electromagnetic forces).
Sensei Flores
related web links:
okkkw.webs.com/
okkkr.webs.com/
okkkre.webs.com/
email: nfdojo@yahoo.com (karate related email/subscribe/unsubscribe)
twitter: nfdojo
OKKKR Newsletter 2012 September
Okinawa Kenpo Karate Kobudo Renme
Shigeru Nakamura - Founder
Seikichi Odo - Supreme Instructor
Taketo Nakamura - Grandmaster
Neco Medes Flores - President
Elodia Flores - President of Karate for Women
HEALTH & KARATE
Health and karate ... how do you maintain your health? This is the way I do it. So far, I go to an acupuncture treatment center for a weekly upkeep where one pays with donations. The acupuncturist is a martial artist regularly practicing Tai Chi.
I believe a martial artist, such as Gonzo who is an acupuncturist and a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner has a great advantage over other martial artists because of the knowledge of how sanchin works. Sanchin is chi kung. When I go to the Dr. he diagnoses and tells me the problem. I let the acupuncturist know what the Dr. said and I get treated by acupuncture without the side effects of drugs.
The other thing that helps in my healthy life style is that I work construction. It's work that is physical and outdoors. The other thing is that I exercise through Karate and weight training at the age of 68 years old. And that's how I keep fit.
Iron shirt chi kung in Okinawa is known as sanchin. Let's look at sanchin. Sanchin means 3 battles, or goals to achieve. Chin is how you say chi in Chinese. Chi, chin, ki, air or energy have the same meaning in different languages.
The 3 battles are to control: 1) muscles 2) breathing 3) spirit
When you do sanchin you work on all 3 goals at the same time or one at a time and not necessarily in this order ... it depends on your character. So I will explain what happens in the sanchin kata's 3 battles
1) muscles
when you tighten your muscles all over your body and send your energy adrenalin rushing down to an area one inch below your belly button and 1-1/2 inch inward from your belly button. at the same time you can take a hit a lot safer than if you don't tighten up. If you practice all the time properly, you can have tremendous energy. As you do sanchin you get struck punched and kicked in areas of your body where you are most vulnerable in a fight. All this adrenalin rush and the striking developed your muscles where they automatically tighten up and become like armor.
2) breathing
When your hands go in towards yourself you should inhale. When you extend your hands away from yourself you should exhale. Inhale quick, exhale slow and hard. At the end of the exhale force all the air out then make the sound "ssss." This forces you to take in fresh new air or oxygen. If you don't let all the air out of your lungs the inhaled air remains in your lungs therefore you have unused air that eventually becomes stale or polluted. If you don't exercise when you breathe hard or do a lot of hard manual labor you don't exhale all the way thus creating stale or polluted air that you didn't exhale out of your lungs. When you force the exhalation you are injecting oxygen into your cells through the lung's walls. Pressure injects oxygen into the cells in your internal organs. The excess oxygen (chi) goes into your tan tien or hara. This is where your energy (chi) is stored for extra energy when needed.
3) spirit
A good way to put it is team spirit or if you're religious it is your soul. If you're a scientist then it's your aura which is the heat energy generated by your biochemical elector magmatic system all biological creatures posses. In martial arts it's chi or Ki. To generate your chi you do the kata sanchin. By positioning your neck and shoulders in a particular angle you activate the chi and put it to use at whatever you wish. Whether to fight, work, play or any goal you wish to accomplish. This is a natural thing anyone can accomplish with little training.
Here is a story about an 18 year old (Kieth Foust) in North Carolina. When I started giving seminars in the 1980's I met him as a young black belt. I saw him grow up in Karate. He graduated from high school and became a truck driver. One day he told me, "sensei I will not have any time for karate because I got married and got a truck driving job. How can I maintain my karate skills." I said just do sanchin every chance you get ... it takes only 30 seconds. He replied "hai sensei." Several years later I saw Kieth again and he reminded me of what I had told him which I had already forgotten. When he reminded me of what I said, that in order for you to retain his karate skills, you have to practice sanchin. Kieth said "guess what sensei there was a strike going on and I didn't know it but when I backed up my truck up to the warehouse ramp everyone was just sitting around. I thought that they, the dock workers, were on break. I only had 2 small pieces to unload so I did. All of a sudden the dock workers surrounded me and then jumped on me and at that split second I stuck out my hands to protect myself. They flew back as if they were being pulled backward. Then they just laid there as in shock." I'll try to explain. Sanchin stores energy in your hara or lower tantien inside and below your naval.
There is a yin and a yang, positive and negative. The human body runs on electrons ninos nano nutrinos photons. In other words, electrical energy. Your body is an electric magnet or electromagnetic energy, from my understanding magnets, are positive and negative. Get a pair of magnets and they will stick together. Reverse one and they will repel throwing each other away from each other. Yin is calm (pos). Yang is aggressive (neg). One repels the other. That is the way karate works. You have to be very calm, not excited, no adrenalin rush with no bad intentions. While your opponent is the opposite, aggressive, adrenalin rush, hateful intent with negative thoughts. As he attacks and at the moment of about 1/4 inch from touching you, the repelling begins instantly (electromagnetic forces).
Sensei Flores
related web links:
okkkw.webs.com/
okkkr.webs.com/
okkkre.webs.com/
email: nfdojo@yahoo.com (karate related email/subscribe/unsubscribe)
twitter: nfdojo
OKKKR Newsletter 2012 September