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What one learn trough Martial Art training will give us
an unsual prism for business and academic ideas.
Followings are Mr Emory Morris' (Tallahassee,Fla,USA.)
advices:
(E. Morris)
BLOCK FEAR.
"In Martial Arts so much of our training addresses the 'what
if' questions - What IF an attacker does this? - so, we teach a block or a
counter for that, and we practice it again and again,"he says.
In the business world, "you can waste tons of energy worrying about all the
'what ifs' Instead of allowing yourself to become paralyzed or to react in
some irrational way to a perceived threat, you have to sit down and say, "Okay,
what if this thing I'am afraid of happens?'
And you come up with a plan to deal whith that situation."
PHYSICS and FOCUS.
We break boards to demonstrate the energy you generate if everything is
focused, if every part of your body is aligned and concentrated. Mr. Morris
says."There is a formula for it in phisycs: the energy delivered is equal to
one-half the mass times the velocity squared."
Think about that. According to the
equestion, you increase the total energy a little by increasing the mass...
But if you increases velocity by just a few miles per hour, the energy output
greatly changes. It's what makes a bullet so effective: low mass, but high
velocity.
The business point, Mr Morris says, is that what matters is how efficiently
you move from where you are to where you want to be.
Passion and purpose(goals).
Titles and trophies come and go. The rewards that stay with you are the battle
you win within yourself to get better and to eliminate the things that block
you from performing at your best. And that becomes your purpose, the better
you get, the more passionate you become. And the passion drives you to achieve
at even higher levels.
In business, I think you have to have purpose that inspires that kind of
passion. It can be just making money or beating the competitors. Those are
like trophies and titles. In the long run, they can't sustain you or help
you grow."
KNOWLEDGE
In the most fundamental sense, knowledge/information is power. Everything you do to better
your skills, to train your powers of anticipation, to know your competition
reduces feaar and increases your potential for success.
In business, you don't always have the luxury of the simulated competition that
is routine in Martial Arts.Often, you have to learn by playing the game and
observing others' experiences.
WISDOM.
The Martial Art have formal structures for the transfer of knowledge.
You have to seek out masters, the seniors in your business who have wisdom...
"But you also should begin thinking about what it means to become a
master yourself and about developing others so they can be the masters of the
future. That menas encouraging young employees to respect senior wisdom.
INNOVATION
In sport and business, you gain the wisdom as you get older and more experienced,
(you see how everything is linked, you recognice patterns and connections
and long-range concequences of a series of decisions you made.)
But out of that same wisdom should come a respect for innovation, fot tactics
that confound competitors and create new efficiencies.
My Martial arts teacher used to wonder around at tournaments and watch the
lower ranked students spar." Mr Morris says."He told me it was to get new ideas
And I would ask him, "After 40 years of training and teaching, what would you
possibly get from begginers?'
He would say, "Oh!, they are the most fun to watch, because they don't know hoe
to spar yet. They try stuff that I think is impossible. Yet it lands sometimes.
And I have to think, why did that work?"
Officially recognized by Japanese government in 1940, Aikido is a relatively new Japanese
martial art created during the 1920s by Morihei Ueshiba. There are no matches or competitions
in Aikido. Aikido is not a tool for winning it emphasizes the process involving in the learning
experience itself. Through intensive and incessant training, Aikido focuses on developing the
inner self. Developing the mind through the process of training the body in
Aikido techniques, Aikido contribute greatly to self-development and person
al growth. http://www.aikikai.org/about/index_e.html
Jigoro Kano's monumental contribution as the moderniser of the art of
judo is endorsed in Article 1 of the Charter of the International Judo
Federation, which " recognize as Judo that which was created by Jigoro
Kano". It was Kano's belief that Judo ought to mean something beyond a
mere art of attack or selfdefense. Through mastery of skills and techniques,
one should also be taught to enhance his/her personal integrity and charac
ter. This conviction led Kano to call the national Judo Centre he founded
in Tokyo. "Kodokan", which means an institution to teach the true way of
life. The essence of judo lies in utilizing the strength of an opponent to
one's own advantage. One does not match strength with strength, but wins by
yielding to strength, by being supple and pliant, for this is what is meant
by word "judo".
Canadas Jujitsu Association site
Jyodo employs a simple stick, called the JO (or tsue), which is approximaterly
128cm in length and 26 mm in diameter.
The techniques are combinations of: thrust,sweep and the strike. When
combined in a series of fast movements, these
actions provide a formidable defense against an attacker.
In the 1960s Jyodo was recognized by the All Japan Kendo Federatiuon as a
form of stick art suitable as a cognate study
for Kendo trainees. Also its taught as part of Aikido. Both Aikido and Kendo Organizations offer trainning in Jyodo:
http://www.aikikai.org/about/index_e.html
http://www.kendo.or.jp/english-page/english-top-page.htm
A Japanese art of empty hand. Karate is an art of self-defense for the
development of character through training in which the arms and legs are
systematically trained. http://www.karatedo.co.jp/index4.htm
http://www.jka.or.jp/english/e_index.htm
http://www.gojukai.com/interest.htm
The origin of Kendo, which began with the emergence of the sword, has a
long history. The modern Japanese sword appeared around the year 940. And
with the development of fighting techniques during the Warring State era
(1467-1568) a high level of sword skill began to emerge. Kendo, which today
is a traditional art of Japan, is regarded as being an especially effective
means of training the young and old to be healthy, both physically and mentally.
In recent years people throughout the world have come to understand the
spilit of Kendo, and Kendo is now acclaimed internationally. In practice and
in competitions, each participant wears special protective clothing: a hakama
a mask, a breastplate,gauntlets. In place of a sword they use "shinai", which
is made of 4 strip of bamboo bound together.
http://www.kendo.or.jp/english-page/english-top-page.htm
Shorinji Kempo was founded in 1947.The techniques were developed to protect
oneself from an act of violence.
These techniques are placed into two types. One is called "Goho"or hard
techniques, which use strikes and kicks the other is called "Juho"or soft
techniques, which uses throws & releases. In both, the techniques are
designed on the principle of human dynamics and physiology. The purpose of
Shorinji Kempo is not to pursue a way to win through fights or to defeat
other, rather it is to pursue a way to develop a physically and mentally.
http://www.shorinjikempo
.or.jp/wsko
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