FIGHTING, PLAY AND SELF DEFENCE
There are three types of fighting. Play, dominance, war. The first, the play category includes everything from cooperative to competitive partner training. Usually people do never get badly hurt in this category of playful fighting. The competitive aspect of hard sparring
INTERNAL VS. EXTERNAL MARTIAL ARTS
External Styles also use internal principles. In Karate (a Martial Art, that counts as external style), the teachers used to tell us to “stick” to the bag, to the pad, or partner, when we punch. And to “think the technique
BROKEN SWORD
Teaching martial arts and internal work (nei gong), which includes and is similar to qi gong, yoga, 'meditation', I was forced to learn about the mechanics of trauma and healing of trauma, as the release, that happens within internal work,