[I:http://yozing.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/AlCase3.jpg] I was working in a plastics factory a few decades ago, and word got around that I was training in the martial arts. A Philippine co-worker came up to me one lunchtime, and he said, “You no study martial arts, martial Arts bad…bad, ” then he shook his head and walked away. From this odd incident I ultimately realized where the martial arts originated.

As one might expect, I was intrigued by my co-workers attitude, the Philippines were renowned for their martial arts, and so I tracked him down and questioned him further. “Why are the martial arts bad?” I asked him. This is the story he told me.

“One day I decide I learn martial arts, so I go outside and hit tree. I chop like so (he did a vertical chop, as if chopping down on somebody’s forehead), and a I chop and I chop. I chop two hour a day for two year.

“One weekend my neighbor have crazy party, and three in morning I go ask him to turn music down. He laugh at me, so I karate him. I chop his face and he turn upside down, so I go home and worry I kill him…that why Karate bad!”

I didn’t crack a grin, because he was serious, he really thought the art was bad, and didn’t understand that his bizarre method of self training, and his own lack of control, might have something to do with ‘being bad.’ But his story led me to wonder where and how the martial arts had originated. I mean, the fighting disciplines are the world’s second oldest profession, so where did they come from?

They were invented because some person wanted to take something away from some other person, and they came from somebody wanting to stop somebody from taking something away. This is nothing more than the source of all lawyerism, but applied to the actual hit and punch that occurs when talking breaks down. Over time, the concept of stealing from somebody, or having to protecting what you own from somebody else reached the magnitude of whole armies and weapons of mass destruction.

The idea that what you have belongs to me, and I don’t have to pay you no stinkin’ money…that is where the martial arts came from. And people train to war, and steal money and property and wives and whatever else they covet. And, oddly, as my previous words indicate, the solution to this avarice and misbegotten art is…in the study of the true art.

You study the art to protect yourself, and in that practice you discover the truth of yourself…you discover your self worth, and the idea that you are honorable and don’t have to fear others, or that they might take from you. On the day that everybody on earth knows the martial arts, on that day the immorality and war stop, and on that day everybody will know where the martial arts originated. They come from inside, from the spirit, from the honor that motivates every beat of your heart and every breath you give.

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