From the back cover:
Dr. Armstrong's many years of Zen Training coupled with his years in the martial art of karate have brought out this fabulous DVD on using many Zen principles for actual combat. An international competitor in USA, Australia and in Japan, he shows you many fighting combinations using strategies derived from Zen
- How to read others and their techniques
- Mental attitude of a tournament fighter
- Mushin or the empty mind and how this will enhance your techniques
- The fighting zone and the creation of a strong mind
Plus so much more it would be impossible to list all the fabulous principles he presents in this, one of his most popular DVDs.
Post Viewing Notes
Video, lighting, and audio are done reasonably well. Not super, but certainly acceptable and easy to understand.
The DVD is broken into several main parts:
Intro to the subject
Reading other fighters
Fudoshin (determination or commitment)
Mushin ("no mind" or "the zone")
Dealing with fear and fighting
The DVD goes over how Zen can be applied to traditional martial arts as well as any other type of fighting. It's also an excellent introduction and a good source of new material (books) you might not have heard of.
The instructor spends a little bit of time with some specific fighting techniques so you get a very "real world" idea of how all this stuff applies to what you're doing. It's not just a big long philosophical discussion.
Obviously, this is not stuff you're going to be concentrating on when you're learning techniques, so you wouldn't get this DVD when you're first starting out (unless you wanted to see where everything was leading). This is not a DVD just for traditional martial artists. It's useful for anyone doing a style or sport that doesn't allow for time outs or "wait, let me do that again".
This is an EXCELLENT DVD on the subject. It started a little slow, but ended up being way beyond original expectations.
If you have ANY interest in this (and you should if you study any type of fighting), this is a true "must see" video. Not the deepest or most thorough on the subject, but certainly one of the best we've seen in this format. Yes, really that good (which is why we carry it...!)
Total running time: 90 minutes with 7 chapter stops
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