1/ IKA
The IKA is born! International Ki Do Association.The way of Energy! This is a parallel system so traditional external martial artists can learn the internal elements to the martial arts without loosing what they already know. Ki Do will include all energy work associated with Health and Martial Arts applications.
Rank will be displayed with a Ki Do Patch on the right arm. Ki Do Master will be given a Dan rank so we can have different levels to aim for.
International Ki Do Association
Master Adlington England Rep
Master De-Vry Scotland Rep
Master McCann Wales Rep
Master Jacobsen South Africa Rep
Master Klee USA Rep
2/ Message from Stephen
Hi Mark, just thought I'd give a few words about my 1st lesson in the dragon academy. I thought that the energy work was fantastic, i can't stop doing the rooting because of the feeling that goes in my stomach and feet! Wouldn't mind knowing why it feels tingly! The waveform punch that i tried was twice as powerful as doing a traditional punch putting everything into it! Hurts you hand less though! I think that everybody who trains in martial arts and in other tang soo do federations should join up, the stuff is fantastic, and if i was to say that the DBBAI was amazing it wouldn't surprise me if you was to say that's offensive, i thought it was that good, very impressed and it was only level 1!!!! Wonder what level 8, 9, and 10 is like!! When i get a job the 1st thing I'm going to do is to get membership, then buy a car, then come down on a regular basis! There are hundreds of thousands of people missing out on this side of martial arts. I'm never grading again in the international tang soo do federation, what's point? Do it here, learn how to be part of the x-men at the same time! Keep it up
Stephen
3/ Results of Energy work From Master Jacobsen
Hello Master MarkB
Energy work is not only fascinating, intriguing and great fun, but the Martial Artist that does not get involved with energy work will never understand the full potential of techniques that are taught using the "hard " form of Martial Arts.
One of the aspects of Martial Arts in the years gone bye, is that the old Masters were very capable of defending themselves even when their bodies had deteriorated due to the natural process of aging.
I have been playing around with some of the energising techniques and combining them with pressure point knock outs. Commonly it is thought that you have to strike or manipulate 3 pressure points to enable you to knock out a person. While we have been creating energy circuits using the tongue on pallet and at the same time energising the hands and doing pressure point knock outs, we in South Africa (Master Jan, Master Anne can't wait to show you) at this stage only have to strike one point which then together with the energised body creates the desired knock out.
We are still experimenting and will keep you informed. (Knock outs using energised weapons work tremendously).
4/ Rugby Seminar Dec 2002 (Not a seminar on Rugby football!)
Rugby is renown for having last minute problems with hall hire for seminars. Yet again we ended up in a horrible little room in the basement of Esporta. When we first went into the room you could tell instantly that there was lodes of negative energy flying around. It made you feel dizzy and sick. Master Adlington feng shuied (if that's how you spell it) the room which instantly felt better.
I also have been teaching a women's self defence course in rugby of which some of the ladies wanted to come along to a seminar. Why is it that the majority of women are more interested in energy work (reiki, crystals, reflexology, dowsing etc) then men?
So I asked Master Adlington if he could do a seminar not martial art orientated so as to please all. This was done with great success.
The seminar contained dowsing for negative and positive energy within the room (and yes even in the depths of horribleness we found some), dowsing for trapped nerves, reiki healing, disrupting other peoples energy from a distance, and massaging trapped nerves. I had a couple of friends there who had had problem with their back from various accidents. one of which had been having treatments from so called experts for the last 12 months or so with no success. They both left the place feeling a whole lot better!! Spooky stuff.
Many thanks again to Master Adlington. It is a privilege to be part of an organisation that studies and researches all aspects of art forms rather than just doing what are instructors have told us is the right or wrong way. This is the future if we can only remove the blinkers off the western way of thinking and allow us to be individuals at one with our bodies.
Adam Britton
5/ Subtle energy research.
a/ Energetics to escape from restraint holds
b/ Reverse rooting
c/ Energetics of the bladder meridian
d/ Energetics to reduce & increase perceived mass
6/ IGTSDA World Champs 2003
Gatwick or Heathrow airports are both ok for transport to the championship event.
Venue location below
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?X=541500&Y=182000&scale=10000&coordsys=gb
http://www.igtsda.co.uk/ for your world championship update Entry forms are here!
Team forms for the world championships are free!
As a good will gesture Master Adlington and Mr Fernandez agreed to include this free event at our IGTSDA world championships July next year.
Each country can enter 2 teams.
Junior team X5 students under 16years old.
Senior team X5 students 16 years and above.
Any combination of male and female.
Please show us where you are from on the guest map.
http://pub30.bravenet.com/guestmap/show.php?usernum=2522498725&password=&zoom=4&movetox=-900&movetoy=-525
7/ New theory on seeing
The human eye does not simply see what is “out there” but rather a world based on past experience, according to a book by US neurologists.
In “Why We See What We Do: An Empirical Theory of Vision” Dale Purves and Beau Lotto claim that the human visual system does not generate a picture of what actually exists in front of the viewer at any given moment.
Instead, they suggest that evolution, as well as individual experience during development, has created a system in which perceptions represent what a given stimulus has typically signified in the past.
This is because the information carried by the light that falls on the retina is invariably ambiguous.
The neurologists, therefore, believe that what humans and other mammals see is a reflex response to all the things the stimulus has turned out to be in the past.
“As a result, what we see at any moment, is quite literally, always predicated on the probability distribution of the possible sources of the retinal stimulus,” said Professor Purves, from Duke University.
This, say the authors, explains why our visual perceptions are often at odds with physical measurements of the underlying objects – such as the angles and line lengths of a simple geometrical figure.
Prof Purves, and Mr Lotto, from University College London, believe their theory explains a wealth of striking visual illusions of brightness, colour, form, depth and motion that have puzzled scientists for decades.
“Especially puzzling have been the obvious discrepancies that exist between physical measurements of the real world with photometers, rulers and the like and the corresponding perceptions,” said Prof Purves.
The researchers believe this theory could also change our understanding of how we hear, as sources of auditory stimuli at the ear are just as ambiguous as light reaching the retina.
8/ Vampires
A blood-clot dissolving-substance found in the saliva of vampire bats may be the source of a new therapy for strokes, say researchers.
The study, published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, suggests an enzyme extracted from the bat saliva could be used up to six hours later than existing stroke treatments, without increasing the risk of additional brain damage.
The “clot buster” enzyme Desmodus rotundus salivary plasminogen activator (DSPA) destroys fibrin, which is the “structural scaffold of blood clots”, according to lead author Robert Medcalf, senior research fellow at Monash University in Victoria.
The present treatment for strokes in the US is intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) but the therapy can only be used up to three hours after the onset of the stroke.
There have been concerns over rt-PA after it was shown to promote brain cell death in some animal studies. However, tests on DSPA revealed it had no effect on the two brain receptors that can promote brain damage.
The clot-busting activity of DSPA is said to increase about 13,000-fold when exposed to fibrin. The activity of rt-PA increases only 72-fold.
DSPA is being tested in Europe, Asia and Australia on patients up to nine hours after the onset of the stroke. A US study is also in the pipeline.
Eoin Redahan, a director of The Stroke Association in the UK, believes DSPA may have a huge impact on stroke patients. “This is fascinating research and holds great potential,” he said. “About 80 per cent of all strokes in the UK are caused by blood clots and so the bat saliva could be very important.”
9/ NEW EVENING CLASSES FOR MEN!!! ALL ARE WELCOME! OPEN TO MEN ONLY! (Thanks Dave)
Evening classes for men. Starting this month!
Note: due to the complexity and level of difficulty of their contents, each course will accept a maximum of eight participants each.
Topic 1. How to fill ice-cube trays. Step by step with slide presentation.
Topic 2. Lavatory paper rolls: do they grow on the holders? Round-table discussion.
Topic 3: Differences between the laundry basket and the floor. Pictures and explanatory graphics.
Topic 4. The after-dinner dishes and silverware: can they levitate and fly into the kitchen sink? Examples on video.
Topic 5. Loss of identity: losing the remote to your significant other. Helpline and support groups.
Topic 6. Learning how to find things, starting with looking in the right place instead of turning the house upside down while screaming. Open forum.
Topic 7. Health watch: bringing her flowers is not harmful to your health. Graphics and audio tape.
Topic 8. Real men ask for directions when lost. Real-life testimonials.
Topic 9. Is it genetically impossible to sit quietly as she parallel parks? Driving simulation.
Topic 10. Learning to live: basic differences between mother and wife. Online class and role playing.
Topic 11. How to be the ideal shopping companion. Relaxation exercises, meditation and breathing techniques.
Topic 12. How to fight cerebral atrophy: remembering birthdays, anniversaries, other important dates and calling when you're going to be late. Cerebral shock therapy sessions and full lobotomies offered
CLASSES FOR WOMEN..
Women think they already know everything, but wait...training courses are now available for women on the following subjects:
1. Silence, the Final Frontier: Where No Woman Has Gone Before
2. The Undiscovered Side of Banking: Making Deposits
3. Parties: Going Without New Outfits
4. Man Management: Minor Household Chores Can Wait Till After The Game
5. Bathroom Etiquette I: Men Need Space in the Bathroom Cabinet Too
6. Bathroom Etiquette II: His Razor is His
7. Communication Skills I: Tears - The Last Resort, not the First
8. Communication Skills II : Thinking Before Speaking
9. Communication Skills III: Getting What you Want Without Nagging
10. Driving a Car Safely: A Skill You CAN Acquire
11. Telephone Skills: How to Hang Up
12. Introduction to Parking (hahahahahahaha)
13. Advanced Parking: Backing Into a Space
14. Water Retention: Fact or Fat
15. Cooking I: Bringing Back Meat, Eggs and Butter
16. Cooking II: Bran and Tofu are Not for Human Consumption
17. Cooking III: How not to Inflict Your Diets on Other People
18. Compliments: Accepting Them Gracefully
19. PMS: Your Problem . . . Not His
20. Dancing: Why Men Don't Like To
21. Classic Footwear: Wearing Shoes You Already Have
22. Household Dust: A Harmless Natural Occurrence Only Women Notice
23. Integrating Your Laundry: Washing It All Together
24. Oil and Gas: Your Car Needs Both
25. TV Remotes: For Men Only
10/ Dates for 2003
February 2nd CTC self-protection seminar London
February 6th Seminar Milton Keynes (Ki Do)
February 8th Healing/Energetics seminar 11am - 6pm my house.
February 16th Sawtry Testing (Moved from the 2nd)
February 23rd Ki energy seminar Sawtry (Ki Do)
February 24th No Oundle Class.
March 2nd Weapons seminar Sawtry
March 9th Testing and seminar Rugby
March 15th British Championships London
March 30th London colour belt test & seminar
May 4th Colour belt test Sawtry
May 11th Black belt test
April 5th-6th TSD England Boot Camp?
April 6th Possible Seminar with Grandmaster Tom Muncy
June 8th Scotland Seminar (Ki Do)
June 29th London colour belt test & seminar
July 10th - 12th World Championships London
August 3rd Colour belt test Sawtry
August 16th-17th Scotland TSD Boot Camp
September 9th instructors AMA insurance
September 20th Master Adlington's Championships
September 28th London colour belt test & seminar
October 25th Scotland Championships
November 2nd Colour belt test Sawtry
November 9th Black belt test
December 7th Scotland Seminar (Christmas party?)
December 14th London colour belt test &seminar
December 21st last class Sawtry