The End of Martial Arts

by Lor Mun Mak

Overview

This book focuses on advancing martial skills that develop a more instinctual way of fighting off multiple attackers. The first blind spot is, Martial Artists tend to spend most of their time learning techniques from a traditional viewpoint. The second is the return to competitive ring fighting, focusing on a two-person competition. In both cases the persuasion is a battle to overcome the opponent’s resistance and be the victor. The promise is, learn Martial Arts and control your attacker. The arenas are abounded with gladiatorial winners. There is no argument, they are good fighters, hence a delusion of omnipotence created by the marketers.

What is being proposed is there is also the Energy World that opens the mind to consider another way to deal with attacks. My approach is to focus more on group attacks as this is the area that confronts the best of fighters. Uncontrolled violence requires a different set of skills and understandings that run counter to what is need in the ring. The Energy World offers a set of strategies that deals with the realities of multiple attackers in real time. By reading the book, you will sense it could be the End of Martial Arts as we know it, the resistance world, replaced by Energy World strategies.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044468726
Publisher:	Lor Mun Mak
Publication date:	04/13/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	329,361
File size:	867 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

I have never considered myself special in the Martial Arts world; never wanted any accolades that I could use to promote and market my credibility. In truth, I did not want to be in the limelight. Even so, I still attracted my fair share of unwelcome challenges. My drive was directed to unravelling the accepted illusions created by Martial Artists. When taught, it is like watching magicians performing a magic trick on the unsuspecting. The spin is as diverse as the number of techniques that support the rhetoric. I am sure many devotees would not agree but are ready to justify their success with a good story. I am writing this book to get people to look beyond the blinkered view of media output. There is always a lot more to be discovered than the current loudest noise.

I found during my travels that Martial artists could not allow for unexpected events. They always needed to be in control, so they can dominate the situation. Any suggestion of a random attack was treated like a stage play, leaving no room for error. Interestingly they could not imagine a violent group attack where the little kid with a knife could take the best of us out. The Question I asked, are you ready to experience the freedom of thought needed to survive such a chaotic situation? To me this was obvious that you can be caught out of your comfort zone. So, my focus in the arts shifted from fighting skills to surviving a group attack. What I discovered was not in the bounds of the fighting arts.

Like most martial artists, we all have too many techniques. Much of what we learn is waist. I also became a control freak, making each technique so valuable to an unsuspecting student that they believe the spin wholeheartedly. I must have spent years perfecting these teaching strategies. It was worth it, the enthusiasm paid the electricity, but it was a real time waster. All I personally wanted was a way to deal with the chaos of a non-staged group attack. I had enough of social fights, like facing unwanted challengers and ring fighting. I noticed my thoughts shifting from fighting to survival, so I spent more than forty years following the stories of great fighters and self-defence stylists, only to be disappointed that most of them wanted to show their prowess by having a fight. Even with the most delicate inquiry resulted in a mismatch of what they said and did. As frustrations grew, they had to ask, “do you want a fight?”

To me these people have developed fragile personalities, trapped by technical delusions, and will fight anyone to prove their point. I concluded, ‘I must be talking a different language’. My issue was an uncontrolled group attack, while their perceptions was only on a two-person fight. I did not like their desire to dominate or to be their door mat. I treasured life. It does not take a martial artist to beat up on people. Today, streets are much more like the wilds where unskilled people cause death and injury even to good fighters.

This book aims to promote survival skills as an alternative to the social organized fighting approaches that suppress people’s instincts to deal with multiple attackers.