Martial Arts how he developed mental training and stamina that would change him from the white chicken and train him to be the war chicken.
Martial Arts how he developed mental training and stamina that would change him from the white chicken and train him to be the war chicken.
I am inspired by Carlos Gracie ' s 12 commandments, and would like to share them here:
1 To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
2 Speak to everyone of happiness, health and prosperity.
3 Give all of your friends the feeling that they are valuable.
4 Always look at events from a positive point of view, and turn positivity into a reality in life.
5 Think always in the best, work solely for the best and expect always the best. 6 Always be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. 7 Forget about past mistakes and concentrate your energies on the victories ahead. 8 Always keep your fellow men joyful and have a pleasant attitude to all that address you. 9 Spend all the time you need in perfecting yourself, but leave no time to criticize the others. 10 Become too big to feel unrest, too noble to feel anger,
too strong to feel fear and too happy to tumble in adversity. 11 Always have a positive opinion about yourself and tell it to the world, not through words of vanity but through benevolence. 12 Have the strong belief that the world is beside you if you keep true to what is best within you. This all came back to me during my last training with Hanshi McCarthy while I was looking into more study between swordsmanship, Judo, Jiu Jutsu and BJJ. In looking at today ' s Modern Martial Arts, we must excel at what we do and what we teach and with what ' messages ' we will and must pass on to the next generations.
One of my ' messages ' was to develop a new knife based on this whole study. The new knife is made by Fox knifes in Italy and it ' s called the“ Israeli Tracker: KAPAP.” This knife was developed from many ideas, beginning with my own history. My father was a combat paratrooper. The background color of his wings was red( as opposed to blue) signifying that he actually made combat drops. This is rare, since most paratroopers train but do not actually deploy into combat in this fashion. As such, I grew up amongst the first paratroopers of the IDF, absorbing their culture, their history, their stories and pictures from the old days. One picture I have never forgotten is that of the platoon training knife-fighting in the 1950 ' s, when KAPAP, Krav Panim El Panim / Face-to-Face combat, was the close-combat system used in the IDF. As we re-de ¬ veloped it and started to re-introduce it throughout the world to the civilian market, this picture kept popping up again and again in my mind as the start of KAPAP. The picture is that of my father, which I adapted into my logo. I carry my father ' s memory and tradition. This ' shadow ' of the knife has fol ¬ lowed me since I was a small child. I remember how my father used the knife outdoors and indoors as a heavy duty knife.
I enlisted in the army in 1980 and was challenged to go to war in 1982. I served in a war zone for two years, and my father ' s knife was always on my military vest. When I left the army, I gave my knife to a Lt. Colonel friend as a present. I then traveled to Japan to study Japanese Martial Arts for almost 8 years. I became a 6th Dan in Japanese swordsmanship and a 7th Dan in Aiki Kenpo Jutsu. I have done different martial arts, but I always see myself as a Combat and swordsmanship teacher.
My school of swordsmanship is that of giving life. When I started to teach Combat, I noticed that many were teaching how to kill with a knife and explained the knife in the wrong way. You can kill with a stone... but the knife is the most important tool for humans. We use it for our survival every ¬ day. By connecting my personal history, my way of life, and my principles, as well as a deep study of swordsmanship and knife fighting from the masters, I developed ideas as to what would constitute the ideal all around knife. Based on the origin of the knife,
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