Make sure your are not Disabled !!

     Hi all, I hope all of you enjoying the lock down as we don't have a choice. Today i am going to talk about Physical disability that we have or create in our body. 

What is disability?

Disability is not that missing of a limb. it is also not using it as per its capability. there is no different between who doesn't have legs and who is not walking with the legs he got. 

When we born we don't Move much because we were not trained our body to. But step by step we learn to walk , talk , run and try to do what ever we can do with our Body. It differs from person to person. People who miss to do Sport activities in Childhood, they also miss to Develop their physical ability. Human body is not as simple as we think, it is a very sophisticated Machine in the world. And we should know its capability and use it accordingly. Every single day without stretching our body and do some exercises we loss its capability slowly. More day we miss to exercise, Less efficient our body becomes.  

      Age is a factor which will reduce our physical ability. But our Mind can always lead the body to do its best. Decay of our body is a process of life, it happens in some time in our life when we get too old, we should always fight for our health with great physical ability. when we have good physical ability it also improves our mental ability. We may feel it every day in our life. If we don't feel physically good in a day, we unable to do any work with our full efficiency and we make some errors and finally the day ends with dissatisfaction which leads to stress and the stress leads to illness and the illness leads to physical damage and it cycles. 

Waking up in the early morning and do some stretches and breathing practices and some exercises which keeps us strong and healthy. at least Stretching our body everyday is very important, We may see Cats & Dogs stretching their body once they wake up. It is not made by humans as a business to make people to do exercises. It is our duty to keep us happy with good health.

Happy Yoga Day 

All the Best.

Guru Manikandan

How Martial arts improves your Immune system

                                                      How Martial Arts Improves Your Immune System

 In our busy life and day-to-day stress, we sometimes fail to take care of ourselves properly. Hence, we end up compromising our health and as a result, our immunity suffers and we fall sick easily.

Just improving your diet alone would not boost your immune system. It is important to strengthening it by training martial arts?

 5 Ways Martial Arts Improves Your Immune System:

1) It reduces Stress

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Feeling stressed from work, or life in general? Well, instead of hitting your usual bar for some drinks, why not head to a martial arts gym! Trust us, your stress would vanish quicker than your hangover will. So put on those boxing gloves or gi and spend that hour experiencing an endorphin rush like no other.

If you don’t already know, your body produces cortisol, which is a hormone that is released from the adrenal gland whenever you’re stressed out. Unfortunately, when your body has high levels of cortisol, you’re more vulnerable to infection and illness. However, before you let this piece of information stress you out, you should know that training martial arts can help reduce cortisol levels in your body.

Every time you train, your body goes through a low-level form of stress due to the fact that you get your heart racing and trigger hormonal changes. Over time, your body would become immune to this kind of stress, and as a result, become stronger and help you cope with other forms of stress better. 

2) It boosts detoxification by sweating

You can burn up to 1,000 calories in a 60 minute training session.

As much as we hate to admit it, we sometimes don’t treat our bodies with enough care. Hence, we indulge in unhealthy junk food or alcoholic drinks – without thinking about the toxins that we introduce to our organs. In order to boost the detoxification process, it’s crucial to get moving! This is to ensure that your body can effectively stretch, circulate, breathe and sweat. By increasing your breathing and heart rate, as well as drinking more water, you would enable your body to flush out those toxins, waste and fats.

Moving your body encourages the circulation of blood and lymph, which plays a role in purifying and cleansing your organs. Besides that, your heart muscles get strengthened and your lungs increase in capacity as they produce and expel carbon dioxide as a waste product. Your skin also helps to get rid of toxins whenever you perspire. 

3) It improves the Sleeping quality

How much sleep do you get every night? A study has shown that you are 4 times more prone to falling sick if you sleep for 6 hours or less. So if you struggle to fall (or stay) asleep at night, then perhaps you should start training martial arts! This is because training consistently at a regular time would encourage your body to re-align its internal clock so you can get those much needed quality sleep every night. What’s more, you would be tired from training and as a result, be able to sleep better. Hence, your body would have the chance to repair itself effectively.

4) It improves your body’s healing ability

You don’t have to be Wolverine to recover quickly. All you have to do is start training martial arts! This is because when you engage in regular physical activity, you can recover more quickly, and heal more easily, while keeping diseases and injuries at bay.

“There is no medication or nutritional supplement that even comes close to having all of the effects exercise does,” shares David C. Nieman, PhD, author of The Exercise-Health Connection: How to Reduce Your Risk of Disease and Other Illnesses by Making Exercise Your Medicine (Human Kinetics, 1998). “It’s truly the best medicine we know of.”

5) It encourages healthy lifestyle choices

Ever notice that you tend to make healthier choices – be it choosing nutritious food or having an early night – after a workout? Research has shown that regular exercise and maintaining a healthy diet both ultimately lead to better health – so people can switch between the two easily. What’s more, when you reach a point where exercise becomes a habit, you no longer need as much mental effort, which gives your brain the chance to think of new ways to feel better. By leading a healthy lifestyle on top of consistent training, you would definitely be taking care of your body the way it needs to be taken care of.

    There’s no doubt that martial arts can benefit your body greatly, that’s why we believe that it would help you to get into the best shape ever – inside out. Now that you know what you can do to give your immune system that much needed boost, go forth and punch your way to great health! 

Train Well, Exercise Everyday, Be Healthy

How to Find what is useful & what is Not in your Martial art training

     Dear All, Hope everything is fine under Lock down. Today we are gonna see what is useful and what is not in your Martial art training. As i Have been Trained with Several Martial art trainers in Several Martial art Styles for 22 yrs, Few Martial art teachers want to make you believe their particular practicing discipline is the best and other styles are doing useless stuff and not efficient.

In my experience i believe that there is nothing useless in any martial art training. But may be some martial arts(may be because of teachers) are not efficient in Self defense or in fitness.

A traditional martial art style training will include the following:

1. Dojo etiquette
2. Breathing practice 
3. Warm up & stretching 
4. Endurance ( power training & Stamina training)
5.  Basics (stance/Punches/kicks/Shadow drills,etc.)
6. Forms 
7. Sparring
8. Flow drills with practice partner
9. Weapons
10.Real Survival drills

Now we will see one by one to see why it is useful or not  in your training

1. Dojo Etiquette: This includes Coming to class on Time, cleaning the practicing place by self, Arranging mats by self, Training with uniform, not talking unnecessary while training, Respecting your seniors, Being focus on training, etc. These things we Don't even learn from the Schools & colleges. These are the things make martial arts as one of the must do in one's life time.

2. Breathing Practice: While breathing practice we sit in seiza position and Do Breathing practice to relax our Mind and body to prepare for the training. 

3. Warm up & Stretching :  Every day we wake up after sleep every muscles and joints become tight and it is very important to warm up and stretch the body to make our body ready to move. It is not good to start the Martial art training without preparing our body. Even when we start our car we let the engine to get warm up sometime then we start driving. Body and mind are not different than Machine & computer memory but more divine than them. 

4. Endurance ( power training & Stamina training): Endurance is the one which keeps us different than normal humans. That difference gives us the self-confidence and makes us feel strong in any situation. it also improves our immunity, stamina and strength .

5. Basics (Stance/Punches/Kicks/Shadow drills,etc.)
How many years you train in martial art doesn't matter, if you refuse to do Basics every time you train than you will go back to beginner level one day for sure.

6. Forms: Forms (KATA) are very important in any        Traditional martial arts. In few styles the Bunkai ( Explanation of the Moves) will be complicated to understand and seems unreal for the real situation. But still the forms are very useful to improve our Focus & concentration, Body & mind co-ordination, Perfecting the stance and movements, Changing the directions, Sharpness of eyes, Memory, etc. 

7. Sparring:  Sparring training is must to Reduce our fear in facing an opponent or a problem in life. It trains our adrenaline to act properly in a survival situation. And train us to hit proper target, Pain tolerance, Control the body & mind to not hurt your opponent very badly. Improves reflexes of our body, etc

8. Flow drills with practice partner: Flow drills are very important to train our body to fight before our mind. If we train the fighting drills every day, then our body will be ready at any time to protect itself. Before the mind thinks about consequence( which may hurt yourself) the body start fighting for survival. And Mind will not take more time to give you commands. The well trained mind will stop you when you have to stop.

9. Weapons:  Weapons are not something which is different than training our body. When we touch a weapon it should become our body, as just an extension of our body. The weapon should listen to you as your body does. When we train weapon for long, we will know how to convert anything as weapon in the survival situation. 

10.Real Survival drills : Real survival drills? is it different than sparring? 
Of course it is different than sparring. Most of the schools and practitioners believe that sparring training will save them in real fight situation. But it may not. When you face a skill full opponent in a real fight or multiple opponents , the sparring experience may not be enough. that is why we should practice real survival drills in martial art training. It is very primary in any martial arts, but unfortunately  it is not happening in most of the  Martial art schools. 

     Now it is time to Decide what is useful and what is not in your training. After all the explanations i don't want to give the answer. You could have found the answer yourself. 

All the best.
Guru Manikandan
Founder of Yutha sasthiram Martial arts

Understand the Martial Arts Spiritually and Fight Fearless

Understand Martial Arts Spiritually and Fight Fearlessly

Hi all!

I hope everything is fine in the universe, even though our planet has been affected by the coronavirus. LOL! 😄

Okay, today I want to discuss an interesting and important subject to explain why I believe martial arts is a spiritual art.

And by the end of this blog, you will understand why we don't need to be afraid to defend ourselves against anyone who tries to mess with us.

Martial Arts vs. Martial Sports

When I say "martial arts," I want to make it clear that I am not talking about martial sports, which are based on points or fighting in a ring or cage.

I am going to talk about martial arts that are based entirely on using energy rather than brutal physical power.

You may ask me, "How can beating a person be spiritual?"

Okay, let me explain.

I believe that being united is spiritual. We are all made up of atoms, cells, or whatever terms scientists use to describe our physical existence.

If we all come together as one, we are simply the universe itself, not separate beings as we perceive ourselves to be.

In the name of evolution, knowledge, religions, cultures, and technology, we have separated ourselves from one another. Yet we proudly claim that we humans are the most intelligent beings on the planet!

Okay, now let's move from the funny part to a serious discussion.

Understanding Unity Through Martial Arts

As I mentioned above, if all of us (atoms) were united, we would simply be one universe, with nothing to fight against one another about.

But through our evolution and what we call our sixth sense, we started thinking and identifying ourselves as something separate from what we truly are.

Now, let's look at this from a fighting perspective, since that is the subject we are trying to understand.

Your Opponent Is Just You in a Different Living Experience

In a fight, when you connect with your opponent, even the slightest physical contact can make you experience your opponent as an extension of yourself.

It may be difficult to understand, but if you continue learning and practising martial arts according to its principles, you may eventually understand what I mean.

Your opponent is simply you, living a different experience.

You can avoid that person (atom) hurting you by avoiding the situation altogether.

However, sometimes the situation becomes worse, and your opponent may launch the first attack against you.

Now, when you begin defending yourself, the first thing you must do is connect with your opponent's energy.

Once you establish that connection, your opponent becomes an extension of you.

Understanding Your Opponent as Part of Yourself

When a part of your body is malfunctioning and you cannot correct it, what would you do?

In extreme situations, you may have to remove that part of your body if it becomes medically necessary, right?

For example, when people with diabetes develop severe injuries or complications in their legs or hands, doctors may sometimes have to amputate the affected parts with the patient's consent.

Similarly, when you connect with your opponent and begin to experience them as part of yourself, you can decide what action is necessary to stop the threat.

It is easier to control your own body than someone else's, isn't it?

So, through connection, learn to experience your opponent as an extension of yourself and perform whatever defensive action is necessary, as though you were operating your own body.

Understanding Fear, Energy, and Existence

If two atoms unite, they can form something stronger. But when they oppose each other, their connection may break.

In my philosophical understanding, the fundamental energy of existence does not simply disappear.

So, when someone tries to destroy you, do not hesitate to protect your life. Remember that the person attacking you is also part of the same existence.

If you are physically weaker than your opponent, don't worry!

From a spiritual perspective, I see our fundamental existence as something beyond the temporary human body.

But since we are all living as human beings, with our so-called sixth sense, we have many things to take care of. LOL! 😄

So, we need to stay alive, protect ourselves when necessary, and fight to live!

All the best!

I hope at least a few martial artists will understand the deeper meaning of this blog.

Thank you all, and be united! 🙏

Guru Manikandan

Founder of Yutha Sasthiram Martial Arts

Indian Executive for Filipino Kyusho Association

www.fightbackcombat.com

Why Grading is a Must in Martialarrs

   

                 Why Grading in Martial arts is Necessary?

                How one should get promoted to next level??

Hi Freinds, 

     Happy new year to all.

     Writing after long time in the beginning of the new year,  In this blog i would like to talk about 

Grading and belts in Martial arts and How should a student be promoted to His/Her next level.

The Grading in martial arts is Necessary to check the progress of training and the improvement of student's capacity and maturity in martial arts.

It doesn't mean a person who gets black belt can beat anyone in this world? if it was like that, there would be only one Black belt in the world. As a life lesson we always try to become our best, 

want to be better than ourselves from the past. I cannot talk about other martial arts schools and their grading system. But as per our Learn to win-Martial arts school as a Teacher i believe that the one who can perform better than their last grading and finished their syllabus are ready for the next grading. I don't put them in grading and fail them for any reason. I put them in to the grading once they are ready to face it and worth to do it. Adult's and kid's grading may differ a little bit. But i always check and confirm that they are better than before and they are eligible to get their next belt. 

Belts are a physiological thing, it is not just a one day celebration or life time pride. it is just to tell ourselves that we got better in martial arts and we are travelling in the right path for the right destination. Here the martial arts doesn't only mean about Fighting and Doing Forms, but also we consider the improvement in our Concentration level, Discipline, Behavior, maturity about reality, etc. Training without grading will be like Hobby class with no Goals.

I cannot expect my students to perform like me. Obviously there are lot of difference in year of experience, Dedication level, Body flexibility and everything. But as a teacher i Monitor each and every student of mine from the very first class they start and try my best to improve their capability and maturity in every aspect of life (Martial arts).  Every grading they attend i know what they improved and why they can be promoted to the next level. from other's eyes some may say why this kid or adult got a belt? He/She didn't perform kata or sparring good. But i know why. 

Students must be promoted for their own growth in martial arts and the primary thing we must consider is Survival skills. That is very important. And again i cannot expect a kid to fight with an adult and defeat him. If it is a real situation that an adult against a kid, it is very difficult for the kid to fight an adult, but they still will have the brain to think better and smart body to try its best with better stamina and pain tolerance. when a student is in continued training, Their body reflex automatically in survival situations.

Few may argue that the kid black belts are not real. we can say any black belt student is real when they did their best in every aspect to receive their black belt, or any black belt student is fake when they just get the belts with no improvement in every aspects of martial arts.

And when A black belt quits Training, become a white belt physically and mentally.

Black belt is an Achievement for the students but it is not the end of the journey it is just the beginning.  

All the Best.

Guru Manikandan

The best part of Traditional Martial arts are Forms (Kata)

Kata (Forms)

In current generation Martial art grown in to a different level. Everyone want to go to Combat based arts instead of Traditional martial arts.

I agree that traditional martial arts don't give early what is very important for survival. But modern MMA kind of arts Never give what a martial art should give to the practitioners which is calmness, Focus, Humanity etc. In traditional martial arts we spend time to train in Forms (Kata) which prepare us to control our selves after we get lots of knowledge in combat skills. It is not only important to know how to fight it is also important to know when to fight and where to fight. Forms are also filled with fighting techniques which can be used in particular situations (in real fight it is not compulsory to use the same what we practice in the forms) but we can able to mix up with our knowledge to fight better in survival situation. 

Benefits of forms are

Focus, Balancing, Directions, calmness, foot work, activating every muscles and joints, style which means perfection, creativity etc.

Martial art without forms are like Body without Mind

Train well, All the best

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Yin Yang and Martial arts

How Yin Yang represents Martial arts and how to Understand it??

     Hi Every one i just want to start this blog with New year wishes to everyone wishing that great years ahead with more knowledge and enlightenment which are the purpose of LIFE..

                   I want to explain about Yin yang and how it represents martial arts.

 Most of us know that Yin yang represents life, It represents everything in the universe about being Bright and dark sides of everything in physical and mental state. For example we have everything in contrast like Day and Night, Bright and Light, Soft and Hard, Happiness and sadness, sweet and bitter, etc..

Same in Martial arts and Real fight we have 2 different things to do or get, One is Defense another one is Offence. okay this is just a small thing to know. But which is important to know about Yin yang in Martial arts is the shape of it. The circle and 2 circles travelling inside the circle in circular movement and follows each other.also small circles inside circles are closer to the Big circle.
     
And the Black and white is Obviously Defense and Offence and Defense with Deflection and then the Offence. 

These are the basic principles which has to be applied in every martial arts which is not being applied in most of the martial arts unfortunately. These principles are strictly applied in Yutha sasthiram martial arts and Filipino kyusho  

Years ago the Purpose of martial arts have been for using them in real situation. But nowadays it became a Big Business around the world so there is no time to prepare for the real situation while preparing the students for Belts, trophies and being proud to beat some one who is not fighting with
his full freedom But following the rules. Belt are important to know the level of the students but they 
don't make sure of their survival. always belts should be less than their skills for adults. here it will vary between kids and adults. because kids will be trained very gradually according to their capacity and understanding level. for Kids the Belts helps them to continue study long time so they can understand everything slowly but in the end we have to make sure they understood what they have to.

For Adults martial art is not in the waist. it should be in the blood. When they are in training everyday, they do not have to fight. Their body should be able to respond quicker than their mind realizing they are in a fight. Body has more memory than Mind. So more we practice physically is better.

As Bruce lee said when the opportunity comes i Don't fight, (showing his fist) it fights all by itself.

Yin Yang

In LIFE  or in MARTIAL ARTS It looks simple to understand the Yin yang but It is not. We need more practice with consciousness and more understanding.


In Mohammad Ali's Words

Yin    - Fly like a Butterfly

Yang - Sting like a Bee..
                                                     

                                                     See you all in my next Blog

                                                    
  HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019