Varmakalai Level 1 Workshop 15th Oct 2011

Ahsan Dr K Kannan and Ajit Sigamani  fr0m Combat Kinetics Chennai will be conducting the level 1 workshop.

Ajit will open with a brief oral introduction to Adi Murai and Varmakalai and will also do a small segment on the universal basics of hand to hand combat.

Ahsan will be Taking a class on traditional Adi Murai, Ajit will be assisting him in demonstrating proper form and technique as well as real world application for:

• Basic strikes and blocks
• joint manipulation
• Centers
• Flow Drills
• Yoga exercises

We  close with some light, fun sparring and a question and answer session.

11am to 4pm on Oct 15th 2011 at Shootfighters MMA Gym Koramangala

Cost: Rs 1500 for Shootfighters MMA Gym members and Rs 2000 for anyone else

Minimum age: 15

Questions? Contact Ashwin Mohan 9845396360

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Many men secretly want to see themselves as warriors and leaders and alpha males, well take some action today, sign up for our MMA classes. Train your body, forge it in the furnace of combat and be a man. Which part of this is confusing?

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The long and short of neural circuits

Your brain is a complex bio-computer with neural circuits extending into every part of your body. If you were to become aware of all the information coming in from every part of your body you’d trip the consciousness circuit and enter into a different state of mind. Molecules of certain substances can do this, and while I know a lot about that subject this post is about the circuits and the impulses travelling from the brain.

IMPOTENCE

The organs of action are your limbs, tongue and sexual organs. So its really important to have conscious control over these and keep the unconscious signals also controlled. It’s obvious why you need to do that, who wants to be impotent? And I don’t mean just sexually.

While planning and knowing what to do next is important, it is imperative that these nerve impulses take the long journey to your limbs. Otherwise you won’t act, the impulses get short circuited. That means you think of doing something, like joining MMA classes and no limbs move, fingers don’t dial, tongue doesn’t speak and legs don’t walk towards the gym.

STRESS

Another problem of short circuiting besides impotence is stress, the impulse to move mobilises hormones that enhance action, these are chemicals that are harmful to the body if not expended in action, in other words if you don’t move after having the thought of moving you poison yourself.

So what’s the solution? Only entertain thoughts that are ‘long-circuits’. Thoughts that move you to action, other types of thoughts about action upon which you never act should be avoided like the plague.

If you think about doing something and you don’t feel it in your organs of action you are just poisoning yourself.

DESIRE

You desire something only when you have ‘missed the bus’ desire is a warning sign, If you acted as you had thought or avoided thinking of action when it was not necessary you would feel no desire. It is perfectly possible to get what you want without the want ever entering your consciousness. The body goes about wanting and fulfilling without conscious thought, it is only when the limbs didn’t act on an action impulse from the brain that you become conscious of the want and this is called desire. When you have desire try to galvanise yourself into action as you if you have missed the bus and need to run fast to catch it, if the desire is a bad idea (like having sex with your friends spouse) drop the action thought, therby dropping the desire completely. Anything inbetween these two extremes will lead to stress.

Remember if you become conscious of an action thought either ACT or DROP IT. But don’t gnash it around with the teeth of your brain trying to dissect it and somehow find ‘meaning’ for that thought.

FEAR

If fear becomes conscious you have failed to act unconsciously on the fear signals of your brain, this could be due to social conditioning or just ego.  Now run away or fight or drop the fear or you will be poisoning yourself.

SKILLS

Practice dropping away thoughts often, until the brain can do it at will. Initially it will be hard but in a few weeks you will be able to drop desire and fear easily and go back to unconscious action. The second skill is to develop long circuits, every impulse of your brain should move your body, this is when you feel ‘alive’ I have given up drinking  after I realised this, I don’t need a chemical to feel alive anymore. I didn’t have to work too hard either. I got here in two weeks. You can do it too.

But If you like your impotence and whining and complaining and illness (yes short circuiting messes up your health cos you create toxins faster than the body can excrete them) then don’t bother developing these skills.

If you learn martial arts, which is the path of action, you better skill up.

a typical long circuit

Sport vs reality

 

 

Okay, some techniques are better left to the ring or competition. There is a time and place for everything. Pulling guard in the middle of 3 guys and trying to submit him with a triangle choke is a bad idea. You’re going to get stomped and possibly killed in the process. Reality has no rules. Be prepared to defend yourself with anything and all tools available to you. If you think kicking someone in the groin isn’t cool, try telling that to the street thug who just punted you there.

Be smart and train for all eventualities and all ranges. Know the difference between SPORT Jiu Jitsu and Self Defense Jiu Jitsu.

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Recruiting Warriors

If

1. You’re in the final year of your degree course
2. You don’t want to study further for the next 2 years
3. You love martial arts
4. You’re willing to make martial arts your career
5. You have 2 hours to train with me 5 times a week after college

Then send me a message or call me on 9845396360, I want you for Shootfighters MMA Gym! No prior martial arts experience expected, but a warrior spirit is expected. And a passionate revulsion for the regular corporate humdrum life would be an added advantage.

We’ll adopt and groom you to be a leader in the field of martial arts. And you can make your parents proud, maybe get them off your case too.

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First thing first, get a tape and use the tape measurement method below to calculate your body fat.

BODY FAT CALCULATOR

Next: Call Ashwin on 9845396360 and bring in your body for maintenance and repair at Shootfighters MMA Gym

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Graveyard of failures

I started Shootfighters on March 3rd 2007 with Han Laxman and Vin Dilipkumar as my students. By the end of two months we had over 50 students on rolls. Since then Shootfighters may have trained over 10000 people for various periods of time.

Things were unclear for me back then, ignorance was bliss, I was just happy that I could teach fighting for a living. I knew nothing about vision, leadership, markets and entrepreneurship. Armed only with common sense I developed a habit of studying these things and more martial arts from about 11 in the morning to 6 in the evening.

Today 4 years and 4 months later I think I have developed vision, I have also developed a rich cadre of leaders to work with me on this vision.  Last night I took stock of all the carnage that went into my education, it’s by no means over but my learning is a lot less violent today.

Before you recognise trouble it has to kick you in the face and trouble comes in so many forms, however trouble has an underlying form and I think I have learned to recognise this well in advance. My aunt Rekha who worked in the crumbling Satyam Computers has been a great guide and mentor to me in business.

I had predicted 4 areas of trouble to her 2 months ago and we were so ready for it It arrived as scheduled and the last of it was over last night.

Shootfighters is now trimmed, manageable, weed-free and filled with vitality. We hope to change the face of martial arts in India over the next year.

We have buried our failures in a special graveyard which we visit often so we can keep the lessons fresh. In the graveyard are 12 big failures and 24 weeds. I am so grateful for these 36 things.

People go to the temple but I like to go to the graveyard, remembering the dead makes me feel grateful for the present.

The fight is not fought in a ring with gloves it is fought in the mind against ignorance.

Keep fighting!

A place of great serenity and sobriety

Ashwin Mohan