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Random Assorted Artists with songs in the showdown Pt. 1

This is the first list of random artists that have been submitted. This is pretty much anyone that didn’t get many submissions. If you see a song and are like hey this should be somewhere else the answer is no. Unless there is a repeat of a song somewhere or the artist shows up on another list they are meant to be here. Check out the other lists here.

Sail - AWOLNATION

Sinners - Barns Courtney

My Frankenstein - Kody Kavitha

An Alien’s I Love You - Utsu-P

Beneath the Brine - The Family Crest

Gladiator - Jann

Light - Next to Normal

Gut Punch/Don’t Meet Your Idols - Everybody’s Worried About Owen

Us - Chxrlotte

It’s the end of the world as we know it - R.E.M.

Trouble - Valerie Broussard

A Meadow - Open Book

Serenade - Kamelot

The Bard’s Song: In the Forest - Blind Guardian

The Weekend Whip - The Fold

Achilles Come Down - Gang of Youths (Four different lyric submissions)

Farewell Kabarista - Vagabond Opera

Tango Dancer - Dave Malloy

Cold Day in Hell - Delta Rae

Still… - Sophia James

Mirrorball - Elbow

Waltz #2 (XO) - Elliott Smith

One More Try - Mariam-Teak Lee & Jordan Luke Gage

Marie - Townes van Zandt

City of Lights - The Music Tapes

Bloody Motherfucking Asshole - Martha Wainwright

On Melancholy Hill - Gorillaz

Don’t Let’s Start - They Might Be Giants

Touch - Daft Punk ft. Paul Williams

The Hounds - The Protomen

Infinite Lives - Mega Ran ft. D&D Sluggers

Nights Like These - Bears in Trees

Slumber - Slløtface

gum v6.4 - Devon Again

head - Devon Again

Dissociate - Atlas

Introduction to the Snow - Miracle Music

Wait for It - Hamilton Musical

Ice To Never - The Black Queen

Progress - The Dear Hunter

Warrior - Paradise Fears

Windowpane - Opeth

Voodoo Dust - Urfaust

Yen - Slipknot

Order - Heaven Pierce Her / Hakita

VI: Sons of Fate - The Protomen

Charlie’s Inferno - That Handsome Devil

Paradox - Survive Said the Prophet

This Too Shall Pass - Danny Schmidt

Light - Chonny Jash

Mad IQs - I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Worms - AlicebanD

The Mighty Echo - The Family Crest

Ride - Bligh

Jesus Christ - Brand New

Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist - Ramshackle Glory

The Summoning - Sleep Token

In The End - Black Veil Brides

Don’t Break Me - Milo Murphy’s Law Soundtrack

For You - Barenaked Ladies

Sober - Tool

Bullets - Archive

Relay - Fiona Apple

Let Me Stay - Heather Maloney

New Radio - Bikini Kill

The Marriage of Bigfoot and Mothman - The Forgetmenauts

What’s With You Lately - Car Seat Headrest

Armarillo - Gorillaz

Dark Lover: A Love Song To A Vampire - Tempest

Smile Like You Mean It - Tally Hall

Fine, I’m Fine - Chonny Jash

Rightfully - Mili

Give It to Me - The Northern Boys

We’re All Leaving - Karine Polwart

Matches - SIFU HOTMAN

Unbroken - Man on the Internet

Hell’s Comin’ With Me - Poor Man’s Poison

Necromancin Dancin - Bear Ghost

I Got No Time - The Living Tombstone

Labyrinth - Miracle Musical

Hello and Goodbye - JT Music

A Poem - AJJ

People 2: The Reckoning - AJJ

Your Voice, As I Remember It - AJJ

The River - Bruce Springsteen

Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen

You Only Know - PhemieC

Girls in Love - PhemieC

Evidence - DaisyxDaisy

Portrait of a Woman on a Couch With Cats - Michael Cera Palin

The Moss - Cosmo Sheldrake

Found (Forever) - Caamp

4 Morant (Better Luck Next Time) - Doja Cat, Com Truise

Box Fort Baby - Papa Jake

Flowers - Eva Noblezada (Hadestown)

You - Keaton Henson

rock + roll - EDEN

Tourniquet - Leanna Firestone

Close to Home - Vienna Teng

Spring and a Storm - Tally Hall

You’re the Reason I Don’t Want the World to End - The Wonder Years

I Earn My Life - Lemon Demon

Twisted - Team Starkid

Time, As A Symptom - Joanna Newson

The Party - Regina Spektor

I’m Just Your Problem - Rebecca Sugar (in Adventure Time)

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Sifu Paul Tennet and Sifu Michael Ranft Shaolin Mantis. Sifu Derek Frearson Lion Dance Tai Chi and Chinese Martial Arts Society

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Wing Chun Dao My Mission Statement, by Sifu Paul Fernandez,

Wing Chun Dao My Mission Statement, by Sifu Paul Fernandez,

My journey in the martial arts begun when I was a little boy, in the early 70s where I was greatly influenced by the brilliance of the great Bruce Lee.

Being a son of Italian immigrants, we landed in the shores of Australia in late 1965, son of three children my father was a professional soccer player, he was captain of the A grade division team of Catania in Italy for many years before towards the end of his career he was offered an opportunity to develop soccer in Australia in Melbourne. We then later moved to Adelaide Australia where he concentrated his professional coaching career for the rest of his days.

It was ingrained into myself and my older brother Maurice to excel and succeed in sports and to always look at sports as a way of life and wellbeing as a form of high-level concentration. I will always be grateful to my father for having instilled this mindset into us from when we were born. It is without doubt one of the most powerful driving factors in our lives. Needless to say my father was an advocate for boxing and adored the great Ali, I still remember him taking me to an Aussie pub where we watched via Cable TV the fight between Foremen and Ali, the Rumble in the Jungle, I was 9 years old and I can still remember my fear that Ali was going to lose.

As a child I was very affected by the martial arts as was my older brother, mainly because at school there was always problems of racial integration and bullyism, the Italians along with the Greeks or the Vietnamese were never looked upon with great affection, so it was pretty normal to get into daily scraps even when going to primary school. So, it was in that period I was deeply affected seeing Bruce Lee. A powerful image that represented a sort of superhero image that would fix up thugs, bullies and the big guys. What an image!

So! In 1971 My brother started taking lessons from Sifu Jim Fung, a teacher who was connected to some master I had never heard of called Sigung Choy and apparently they both had contact with Yip Man who at the time was alive. Which to me was really exciting because I thought wow, these guys must be something really special cos they probably know or had some sort of training with Bruce Lee…Lol hey how does a 6 year old supposed to think?

At the time he was teaching at the Adelaide University and then I started after a while learning from my brother. In 1972 Sifu Jim had opened a school in Gouger Street Adelaide on the 3rd floor above a ballet school. And I had just turned 7 years old, I started going and I was really wide eyed and truly excited to be learning this art, I just gave it my everything to become really good.

It wasn’t until the year after in 1973 that Sifu Jim opened his official school next door which became the definite school for the remainder of the time.

So, in my formative years I would follow my brother religiously to all of Sifu Jim’s lessons and met many of the instructors there at the time and just trained really hard with my older brother who is quite a few years my senior. Almost like an older uncle lol… At the time I never understood or realised the importance of lineages or realised that maybe I should have taken selfies to prove I was there,lol,  thank God a couple of photos were taken, and plus many of the old and most important instructors of the lineage still remember me.  However What was the most important thing was the value we got out of it, the importance of what we studied, the people we met, meeting GM Tsui Shung Tin and so on.

I never would have thought especially in the 70s how the world would have viewed Wing Chun today through the eyes of this internet, which can be a wonderful tool as much as it can be equally destructive. All I can say about this tool is that if it is not used wisely it can take away the one thing we strived for and took for granted. The willingness, the sense of anticipation, the methodology of forcing your mind to remember instructions, the attitude of getting out to meet people especially new people from different parts of the world and more importantly, having fun and connect with others!

A lot of this with internet seems to be disappearing and Wing Chun is DEFINITELY NOT ABOUT THIS.

In any case, I will continue with my journey.

Many people will judge my journey as being incorrect, or not being faithful to the wing Chun principles but that’s fine, Wing Chun has always been my home regardless of where I have been and it’s easy to explain why.

People will also accuse me to have copied Bruce Lee but my response to that is Ni…in the sense I was greatly inspired by many many people who had the balls to do their own thing and stand on their own feet BUT I definitely took my own Path, and yes Bruce Lee was definitely a great if not my first inspiration. But so was Mohammad Ali, so was Joe Louis, so was Anderson Silva, so was Bas Rutten, GM Tsui Shung Tin, Mike Tyson, Wong SHong Leung, so was Ip Ching, Ip Chun, Marco Ruas,Leung Ting, Tim Witherspoon, Lyte Burley, my good friend Vince Palumbo and his Grand master Cacoy Canete, Emin Boztepe, Sifu Salih Avci, Fedor Emiliankov, Steven Seagal, the Stories of GGM Yip Man, my brother his colleagues,My pops, my friends and students who sacrifice their lives in the police and military forces constantly

The list actually continues I have many more intimate friends I could include who are not well known to the public who are as equally important, but my point is that all these people have broadened my mind and helped me grow in different areas of COMBAT and especially in Street combat which cannot be denied. THIS Has helped me grow in over 5 decades of experience.

A lot of this knowledge I have cross trained over many years and trained it back against wing Chun. It has helped me greatly improve my Wing Chun.

More importantly it got me to my actual mission statement. Which was to broaden, expand and adapt my Chi Sao. This occurred after many many years when I had a much deeper understanding of Chi Sao, Long pole Chi Sao, my sword, and much deeper connecting factors which include internal work. When I then started cross training with people who did Tai Chi Pushing hands. I saw a much deeper connection of Wing Chun with many combat systems and the internal arts.

I connected this type of chi sao work and started globalising it with many forms of Combat, my first being Boxing which was easy for me because I started doing it in the late 70s. I connected it with my weapons work, my grappling work, with what my Greek Roman wrestling teacher has taught me in the last few years, with my Clinching, elbow and Knee work, with security or police control work and close quarter combat work.

The work is very intensive and rewarding and you need to understand wing chun to progress.

I have a very structured system which follows the Wing Chun structure,

Without Wing Chun you cannot progress that’s your starting point.

My system was founded in 2005, it always had the 3 Chinese Emblems called Wing Chun Dao, but initially alongside those emblems was the writing WingTchunDo, then eventually I discarded that and it retained its original name format. This is what I teach and have been teaching to my personal students for years.

Whoever likes these ideas and wishes to follow or learn about Wing Chun Dao can message me privately on messenger thank you.

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Originally of a Kung Fu Sifu (part 1)

At 35 years of age I was settled into this routine of work, gym, sleep and living for the weekend. To be honest, I am and was pretty fortunate. I have a roof over my head, a full belly most of the time, and I have been happily married to my best friend. But, I was lacking...something. At the time, I felt my job was tedious and that 90% of the the people I encountered on a regular basis were dolts. Plus the optimism of my 20s had long faded as I was well into my 30s having accomplished next to nothing in the traditional American sense, except earn a pretty worthless college degree more than a decade earlier. Since childhood, my self-esteem was pretty low on a consistent basis, aside from a brief uptick during my college years when I knew that I was ripe with potential. But like a #1 draft pick going pro, the years after graduation were fraught with multiple fumbles. I was pretty angry and frustrated, mostly with myself, on a regular basis. .

In the later half of the 00’s I began to enjoy watching MMA on TV. I really respected the conditioning that these athletes put themselves through, and the strength and determination that I thought they must possess in order to engage in such a pursuit. Plus, self-defense skills seemed to me like a body of knowledge worth knowing. I had gotten in a few scuffles as a child where I didn’t fare too well, and I administered one beatdown as an young adult, but even then I realized I had no real skill. So about a year before I started formal martial art training, I started watching videos on how to strike, and I collected workouts that were suggested for fighters, and I would get up in the morning before work and do these workouts; calisthenics, and rounds on the bag, hitting with my jab, cross, hooks, uppercuts, Thai round kicks, and maybe and elbow or knee. At some point the idea of training somewhere with others entered my mind, but where? There are so many schools and clubs and martial art styles in the Cincinnati area. I wasn’t sure where to start. My brother-in-law had been doing Taekwondo for about 5 years by then, but the amount of legwork involved was a bit intimidating because I did not feel it was a good match for my attributes.

A few weeks before I started training Shaolin Wing Chun, I figured it out! I had gone to the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, OH, mainly to mingle among the bodybuilder crowd, when I wandered into the martial arts section. It was fascinating to watch all these different competitions live and up close; Kung Fu weapons forms, Muay Thai fighting, Kendo/Gumdo sparring...and Filipino stick-fighting.

That was it, that was the art that spoke to me; practical, effective, and it would allow me to connect with my Filipino heritage. I also looked forward to participating in an activity that would expose me to people with like-minded values, and interests. It might be a good way to make a few friends. Soon after I got home, I searched online for any place that might teach Kali, Eskrima, or Arnis, and was pleased to find out there was a club only a couple of miles away from my house.

I called the facility and made appointment; however, it did not go quite as planned. The Cincinnati Balintawak Arnis Club DID practice at that location, but I found out that I actually called a Wing Chun Kung Fu school. I had no idea what Wing Chun was. The Kung Fu instructor was, then, Sifu John Lambert. He patiently and expertly explained his art to me, and even let me participate in a one of the drills. It was fascinating and I felt like he understood what I was looking for. At the end of my visit, I found out the membership fee and was assured that I could also train with the Filipino martial arts club at no extra charge if I signed up for Wing Chun Kung Fu. When I got home my wife, Becky,  asked me how it went. Evidently, I told her it went well, because when I said that I was not going to go back because it cost too much, she said that “she had never seen me get so excited about anything in her life and that I HAVE to sign up. We would make it work with our budget.”

After much reflection, I took the first step on my martial arts journey when I signed up about two weeks after the initial visit with Sifu Lambert. I felt like maybe this was a place where I could finally feel that I fit in. More on the results of this first step and why I stayed on the path in Part 2...

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Check out this week’s KUNG FU IN A MINUTE!  Training videos available on my Vimeo On Demand page.

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Me and my Father (the guy in the Crusader Armor) are currently stuck in the closet with, whatever that is outside because father began tweaking.

So we decided to open up a blog and travel to different universes to pass the time, and he forgot to turn on asks when we made this, so I did it for him.

Name: John, John Paul, or J/Jp for short, and Jojo for Nickname

Pronouns: He/Him

Nationality: Filipino 🇵🇭

Raised in New Jersey

Me and Fathers Fandoms:

Yakuza/Like A Dragon, Judgment/Lost Judgment, Call of Duty, Doom, Wolfenstein, Fallout, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, Henry Stickmin, Minecraft, Roblox, Monster Hunter, Fallout, Skyrim, Wolfensetin, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Spy X Family, Dragon Ball Z, Metal Gear, Omori, God of War, Asura’s Wrath, FromSoftWare Games (Dark Souls, BloodBorne, Sekiro, Elden Ring, Armored Core), Nintendo and Sega games, Team Fortress 2, OverWatch, Madness Combat, Marvel, DC, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Street Fighter, Ubisoft Games (The Division, For Honor, R6, Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs), Hollow Knight, FNAF, UnderTale, DeltaRune, Ace Combat, Project Wingman, UltraKill, Darkest Dungeon, Payday, Silent Hill, Telltale Games, Left 4 Dead 2, Halo, Nintendo and Sega Games, Bendy and the Ink Machine, Baldi’s Basics, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Uncharted, Infamous, SCP, Dragon Ball Z, Cyberpunk 2077, Resident Evil, Signalis, Dead Space, Ghost of Tsushima, Warhammer 40K, Until Dawn, The Dark Pictures Anthology, Forbidden Siren, Fatal Frame, LittleBigPlanet, Star Wars, Scriptwelder games, Hitman, House of the Dead, Time Crisis, Multiple Other RPG Maker Games (Yume Nikki, OFF, Oneshot), Sifu, Just Shapes and Beats, Lacey Flash Games Series, Persona Series, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, I Expect You To Die VR Games, Spec Ops: The Line, Borderlands, Earth Defense Force, Crysis, Danganronpa, GTA Series, Red Dead Redemption, Disco Elysium, Lies of P, Chainsaw Man, Killing Floor, Trepang2, The Amazing Digital Circus, Murder Drones, SMG4, RWBY, Red Vs. Blue, Lethal Company, FAITH: The Unholy Trinity, Needy Streamer Overload, Object Shows (BFDI, Inanimate Insanity, Etc.), Hotline Miami, Helldivers, Nier Automata, Superhot, The Liar Princess and The Blind Prince, Dead Rising, Until Then, Warframe

Me and Fathers Interests:

Video Games, Music, Martial Arts, Tabletop Games (Specifically Dungeons and Dragons), Art/Paintings, Horror, Action, Visual Novel Games, Vtubers, Anime, Manga

(Will add more Fandoms and Interests overtime)

Btw I make Moodboards as well, if you want to me to make one just let me know.

Blog won't always be Spoiler-Free

My Voice Reveal, doubling as a motivation Ted-talk I felt like doing:

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Phil Morris

Phillip Morris (born April 4, 1959) is an American actor and voice actor. He played Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld, John Jones on The CW series Smallville and voiced Doc Saturday on The Secret Saturdays. He currently plays Silas Stone in Doom Patrol.

Early life

Morris was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and is the son of actor Greg Morris. He is also the younger brother of actress Iona Morris. He is a practitioner of Wing Chun under Sifu Hawkins Cheung.

Career

Morris's first acting role was as a child when he appeared in the 1966 Star Trek episode "Miri". Star Trek was, at the time, shot at the same studio (Desilu Productions) that produced Mission: Impossible, where his father was working. He made his feature film debut in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock in a small role and later guest starred on Babylon 5, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager.

In the mid-1980s, he portrayed law student (later attorney) Tyrone Jackson on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. During a major storyline, his character used heavy theatrical make-up to appear Caucasian, in order to go undercover to expose an organized crime organization. In the 1990s, Morris played a recurring character, the Johnnie Cochran-inspired defense attorney Jackie Chiles, on the comedy Seinfeld. One story line as Chiles depicts him suing a tobacco company with great delight which rang true for the actor as his name Phillip Morris is also that of a major U.S. based tobacco company. Morris also co-starred in the TV remake of Mission: Impossible as tech wizard Grant Collier (son of Barney Collier, who was played in the original series by Morris's real-life father Greg Morris). He also said in an interview that he grew up watching the original Mission: Impossible, with series' lead Peter Graves, whom Morris came to consider his acting mentor. Through his childhood, Morris knew Graves' real-life children. The friendship continued, until Peter Graves' death on March 14, 2010, which devastated Morris. He voiced the supporting role of Dr. Sweet in Disney's 2001 film Atlantis: The Lost Empire as well as its 2003 sequel, Atlantis: Milo's Return. He played one of Will Smith's college professors on the NBC show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and played Dr. Clay Spencer on the then-UPN television show Girlfriends.

In the January 25, 2007 episode of the CW television series Smallville, Morris portrayed the DC Comics superhero Martian Manhunter, which is a recurring but small character in the series. He reprised that role on the show's sixth-season finale on May 17, 2007, as well as the episodes "Bizarro" and "Cure" in the seventh season and the episodes "Odyssey", "Prey" and "Bulletproof" in the eighth season. He reprised this role in the ninth-season episodes "Absolute Justice", "Checkmate" and "Salvation".

As a voice actor, he portrayed the villains Imperiex on Legion of Superheroes, and as the Immortal Caveman Vandal Savage on Justice League and Justice League: Doom. He voiced W'Kabi in the animated series Black Panther. He appeared on one episode each of the series CSI: Miami and Seven Days. Though largely unnoticed, Morris also was the voice of Paul the Apostle in Zondervan's The Bible Experience. Morris also made a cameo appearance as Miles Dyson in photographs in the television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. He provided the voice of the character Doc Saturday in the animated show The Secret Saturdays. He also played a major supporting role in the PlayStation 2 game Ratchet: Deadlocked, as Merc, one of the combat bots that accompany the main character Ratchet. He also worked as a voice actor on The PJs; according to Morris, co-creator and star Eddie Murphy didn't want to show up on some days to record the voice of Thurgood Stubbs, so the producers hired Morris to record Thurgood's lines, where he worked in a separate booth with the other actors, allowing the producers to replace Morris' recordings with Murphy's voice in case Murphy decided he wanted to record his dialogue. He did several voices in the animated film Dead Space: Downfall as Hansen and Glenn. He played Delroy Jones on the TV One series Love That Girl!, Saint Walker on the Cartoon Network series Green Lantern: The Animated Series, and Ultra Richard on the Cartoon Hangover series SuperF*ckers. He also voices Plank in the Sofia the First episode "The Floating Palace", Green Arrow and Hawkman in the film Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League and Vandal Savage in the film Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Cosmic Clash.

Personal life

Morris has been married to interior designer Carla Gittelson since 1983, together they have two children.

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Shifu Tom Lugo- USMAO: stretching, Qigong, and fighting strategies

Shifu Tom Lugo- USMAO: stretching, Qigong, and fighting strategies

The first Universal Systems of Martial Arts Organization training session was held Sunday February 16, 2020 at MBMA Karate 3413 Edgmont Ave, Brookhaven, PA 19015. Master Mark Baker lead the session on fighting/striking strategies with the assistance of Master Paul Cheng, Master Alan Shen L Cheung, and Sifu Tom Lugo Sifu Tom Lugo started the training session with a stretching routine to apply to…

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Self AWARENESS... A Work In Progress

As I’m sitting here in my empty training hall, I, by chance, came across a story that a friend of mine posted in one of the Facebook groups about a horrific home invasion that happened over the weekend.  As I read the story, I realized to myself how deeply unaware we are as individuals passing through our daily lives, oblivious to all the evil that surrounds us.  We don’t have to look to bygone days for lawlessness, evil and people that commit such heinous crimes as murder, rape and theft.  These criminals and evil people surround us daily; we’re just not aware of it.  Unfortunately, this evil abounds and surrounds us continually.  It’s running rampant in our modern day society.  

The awareness that we carry with us on a daily basis is something that we all need to focus on.  We get lulled into a false sense of security going through our daily lives in our daily routine.  We are oblivious to the fact that these individuals and crimes exist all around us and are happening all the time.  We desensitize ourselves and make ourselves unaware, basically falling asleep.  We need to concentrate on our own awareness of our surroundings, the people around us and how we perceive and see things.  I’m not saying that you need to become paranoid, but at the same time you have to wake up and understand the world is not a beautiful place that is populated by rainbows and unicorns.  Rather, it’s a stark landscape mostly populated by individuals that don’t have your best intention at heart.  In truth, human beings are just animals, and without some form of civilized social code cannot coexist with one another.  Unfortunately, in the convenience of our modern society, our edge has become dulled by everything that is around us.  I’m not saying that we should do away with the convenient modern society that we have, only to be aware that there are people out there who have been pushed to a societal level where committing heinous crimes seems plausible and reasonable, turning human beings into less than animals, but really monsters.  We see bad things happening every day but yet turn a blind eye and think, well it’s happening somewhere else to someone else, out of sight out of mind.  We all need to heighten our sensitivity to protect ourselves and our families and make sure, to the best of our ability, that something like this doesn’t happen to us.

This, first and foremost, can start with training in the martial arts to make ourselves aware primarily of ourselves and our surroundings.  The understanding and awareness of the self is paramount to one��s own self-preservation and protection.  Martial art training is a mirror of how you live your life.  If you train in the martial arts and follow the codes and ethics that we adhere to, this should have a profoundly positive impact on your life and the people within your life.  The martial art training that we receive should help to heighten our personal awareness as well as the awareness of our surroundings, the people around us and the energy in the area that we’re in.  This should all serve to help us understand and feel what’s up.  I’m not saying that it’s going to stop everything horrible from happening, but it should raise the level of your understanding of what’s going on around you, rather than just going with the flow as most people do.  I see many people just taking things in stride; another sunny, beautiful day in the neighborhood.  It may be, but you can’t fall asleep on the A train, watching your Netflix, playing your Candy Crush, and browsing through Instagram.  I’m not preaching gloom-and-doom; I’m just saying all of us need to wake up and make sure that we know how to spot something that may be going on. 

Awareness is an intangible understanding that one must develop on their own in order for them to understand themselves better.  Awareness can be looked upon as both internal and external awareness.  These two dual aspects of awareness are what we should strive to derive from our daily training.  Many people pick up training in Kung Fu or the martial arts and just simply go through the actions without thinking and feeling from within and without.  That is to say, they just go through the martial calisthenics without trying to tap into a deeper understanding of what’s going on around them as well as within them at the same time, what energies are being used and moved and required.  One must understand the intention, the attitude and the spatial awareness in order to apply and utilize these movements.  All these aspects must be taken into account, and form a special type of awareness that everyday people don’t have.  The race car driver understands the confines of his surroundings.  As he goes around the track at high speeds, he feels and is aware of the machine that he is within and becomes one with it.  He’s aware of the road, the tires, and the pressure within the engine.  All these things are the same for Kung Fu.

As one goes through their training regimen in Kung Fu and slowly begins to reawaken themselves through the stretching, breathing, stances, punches, kicks, matching up with their partners, going through their weapon and empty hand sets, one cannot help but build a better respect for oneself, their own mind and body and personal awareness of space and time.  Slowly, you also begin to read other individuals.  Become a student of human nature and watch people’s reactions, body language, gestures and start picking up on the energy so to speak.  As we had stated in the previous blog, learn to discern what is evil or bad energy as opposed to good energy, and put yourself in the proper position to be able to eradicate and deal with such.

I spent some time the other day striking on the sandbag as we normally do, and was striving to become more aware of every fiber of my body being used to make that one strike with one action, one breath, one thought, honing a higher level of awareness.  In order to attain this awareness, everything has to slow down.  Most people, when they come in, they just want to jump right into it and begin training and ascend to a god-like status in the martial arts.  Everyone does this, but it’s a misconception.  Hopefully, as you start training, you will see that it requires you to actually slow everything down that you do, including your thought process, in order to become more aware of every little facet of every little motion and action that you’re doing.  Coming back to the sandbag, I straightened the sandbag, watching my own stance, the way I initiated the power of the energy, the breath, trying to focus and make everything synchronized and work together, and I took a step back to realize that this is also the training for awareness that can be seen in a larger grander scheme or in a small minute detail.

The awareness developed through training is a heightened sense.  In one way, it can be summarized as a sixth sense, giving you understanding of what is around you at that moment in time. Awareness not only gives us understanding of the physical aspects of space, time and speed, but also that of different types of energies.  It allows you to know where to put yourself and how to situate yourself.  This is an active pursuit that you have to be actively striving towards, to attain that next level of awareness.  You’re not going to get it just because you participate in class; you have to be actively seeking the awareness.  That comes back down to the individual’s approach.  As I was watching my class last night, I could see who was actively thinking, feeling and striving to understand, as opposed to those that were purely doing the exercise aspect and not clicking with themselves. 

As I’m looking for images for this blog, I’m searching the Internet and I come upon an image that is eerily what I was telling my class last night.  You have to be the captain of your own mind.  Many of us don’t understand this, or, at worst case, our captain is asleep at the wheel. Everything must be guided from your own mind.  Therefore, your mind must be clear, clean and pristine to the point of almost being empty. The self-awareness that everyone should strive for will first come when we do, as we said, a spring cleaning, a spring cleaning of the mind in order to be able to understand better ourselves and the surroundings that we are in.  You have to be ready, willing and able to partake of all aspects of your training in order to gain that awareness.  This is where most students fail themselves because they are incapable of understanding that aspect of it. There is no magic that is going to happen unless you fully engage.  If you don’t do that you’re missing the point.

Training every day raises our level of awareness of ourselves which ultimately raises our awareness of everything that goes on around us, keeping us safer and more secure and allowing us to understand ourselves better.

-Sifu Paul Koh 高寶羅

[prolesmoneysex]

Lore

Go learn tai chi from sifu Paul Davis and learn boxing from AKA in Sunnyvale, California.. Everyone knows Kung Fu, tai chi and American boxing goes together nice..

[taichimexico]

LA SUAVIDAD EN EL TAI CHI . «Se dice, a veces, que las artes marciales internas son suaves. Ello ha llevado a algunos estudiantes a creer que suave significa flojo; pero esto es un error. Suave significa algo que resulta de tener el correcto equilibrio entre el interior y el exterior. Es una especie de flexibilidad, como la suavidad del caucho, que cede pero recupera la forma». Paul Crompton . Mi querido Sifu James Wing Woo, solía usar términos parecidos a los de Paul Cromton, para él la suavidad tenía que ver más con “firmeza” y “tono” muscular pero nunca con tener los brazos y las manos como si fueran spaghetti. . Los libros de Paul Crompton fueron de los primeros que se tradujeron al español a principios de los años 90 por la editorial EDAF. . En aquella época encontrar libros especializados en Tai Chi, en español era una tarea difícil porque prácticamente todo lo que había de calidad en el mercado era en el idioma inglés, por eso guardo con mucho cariño éste libro en mi biblioteca de Tai Chi, “horas de estudio para tratar de comprender aquello que no se puede comprender con la razón, sólo con práctica y sintiéndolo con el corazón”. . https://www.instagram.com/p/CHdHIY2sH_Z/?igshid=16tqr8td792pn

[titeknots]

September 2020 show for 1BTN

My 3 hour September radio show for 1BTN is now available to stream again online. After a long series of pre-records, this was the first of my shows to go out live in the newly refurbished Brighton studio for quite some time.

https://www.mixcloud.com/1btn/titeknots-09092020/

– TRACKLIST –

Makaya McCraven - Everybody Cool

Kareem Ali - Black Woman III (I Love You, I Need You)

Oui Ennui - Parisians Are Just People From Paris

Wonky Logic - NEV ERBEEN

Dele Sosimi x Medlar - Gúdú Gúdú Kan (Full Length Version)

Jank - All Be Free

Jurango - Before Meander

Pete Brandt’s Method - What You Are

Saine - Cherish

East Coast Love Affair - Taken For Granted

Ghost In The Mall - Nonstop

Sirens Of Lesbos - Zeus (Sirens Of Lesbos Extended Club Mix)

Toribio - Swett

Minority Band - Tasty Tune

Afrobot - Body & Soul

Caswell James - Corzaon Angustiado (Original)

King Knut - Paolo Casa Dub

Seekersinternational - Who Fyah Shot?!

Lavan - Proxy Goon

MistaPete - One Bruk Rushen

Stefan Ringer - Let’s Get The Rhythm (ft. Ash Lauryn)

Angel D’lite - Dance Like A Dolphin (JAY Remix)

zeroh - Heyoka

Makaya McCraven - Isms

Jimi Tenor - Vocalize My Luv (feat. Florence Adooni & Lizzy Amaliyenga)

Will Hofbauer - Count Me In

Superabundance - Antimatter Circus

Phoebs & Maxwell Owin - Come With The Ragga

Jessy Lanza - Anyone Around

Space Ghost - Time To Dance

Paul Rudder - Summer Rain

Hiro Ama - Broken Satellite

Raw Gamma - Say What U Mean

Pink Sifu & Fly Anakin - Dollar Dr. Dream

Tobe Nwigwe - EAT (ft. FAT)

Wonky Logic - EfferveCenCE

Ensemble Entendu - Well, Why Not

Divine Interface & Stefan Ringer - It’s In Me

Greymatter - Crush Roller

Vex Ruffin - Mabuhay Boy

Ryuji Ono - Should Be There

They Hate Change - Screwface

Laura Groves - M6 North

[bamboo-kungfu]

Remembering the old days of kung fu training [circa 1997] 👋 here posing with my Sifu Paul Chan at Hong Luck Kung Fu Club 💯💥 always indebted to my sifu for the lessons he has thought me and showed me the way 💢💥 * * * #memories #kungfutraining #disciple #martialarts #rememberingmyteacher #discipline #hongluck #hongluckkungfuclub #traditionalkungfu #redandblack #yinyang #choylifut #dopi #sanshou #jowgakungfu #蔡李彿 #道派#torontochinatown #the6ix #bambookungfu (at Hong Luck Kung Fu Club - 康樂武舘) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEwHkWcB9Zp/?igshid=1gqzsqf2k234g

[chineseboxing]

After yesterday's training Paul Macke @mabicke Darius Tolkmitt @rabidius and Sifu @chineseboxing #boxing #brucelee #chineseboxing #bjj #fight #fightnight #gym #icbo #jiujitsu #judo #k1 #knockout #köln #kölnstammheim #kungfu #karate #martialarts #mixedmartialarts #mintahjao #mma #muaythai #nihatatamtürk #sifu #sigung #sport #training #ufc #wdatf #chineseboxingakademie (hier: Chinese Boxing Akademie) https://www.instagram.com/p/B37AaL3INYb/?igshid=1vyk9se0orrwl