Sunday, July 20, 2008
Quote of the week....
I have learned that you shouldn't speak unless you can improve on the silence....
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
JUDO
JUDO
Meaning: JU- gentle or soft, DO- Way; gentle or soft way.
The first DOJO (place to practice) was in the grounds of the Eisho-ji Temple in Tokyo comprised just of nine members in 1886. It was started by JIGORO KANO.
About the sport: Judo, a martial art in which judoka, or judo players, use movements, balance and leverage to gain advantage over each other. Seems heavy to understand, let me make it simple…
Judo has three main aspects
1.Throwing and grappling techniques.
2.Chocks - or strangulation techniques in which we actually cut off the blood and air supply to opponents mind.( I have done it…I m not kiddin)
3.Bone locks - extremely pain full, dangerous, since it takes no time to brake bone joints.
Listening this, one will think how judo is ‘gentle way’. Believe meit is the sport to enjoy our sweat or… others perhaps some times… well this sport is a byproduct of master sport ‘JUJUTSU’ which is even dangerous for…. both the players.
And yes… it different from other martial arts because in judo you can not kick or punch a person, so do not confuse it with Karate or Kung Fu or Kickboxing or Sumo wrestling…please.
I will put up some more interesting facts a
nd literature about JUDO…. Martial arts and Spirituality
This article may seem as superficial thing but there is a lot of similarity between the two.
Before going ahead with what ever I have written I would like to declare that I am not master in either of the two. I have practiced martial arts for around 5-6yrs now. And I was introduced to spirituality by ART of LIVING. I was amazed to find that there was lot in common. I have tried to put together masters of both the field. At one end it H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shanker and other end is Bruce Lee (Ref: ‘TAO OF JEET KUNE DO’).
The things which I found common were:-
1. YIN and YANG / opposite values are complementary.
In fight when opponent is of aggressive nature the smart martial artist will fight with calm mind and depends on his simple tools like timing of the strike and limited movements. Smart fighter will gain control over aggressive fighter’s attitude. It stands true in judo where we use opponent’s energy and motion to throw him. And to my surprise it works.
‘Soft can control hard, u can brake a wooden boards, some bricks, but try braking sponge’ - Bruce Lee.
2. Present moment is inevitable.
When we are in fight we need to be so much there because even a blink of an eye is important. A trained fighter’s (international players) time their movements according to opponents ‘blink timing’ i.e. they actually calculate that what is the intensity of the opponents eye blinks, so that they can plan an attack accordingly.
Give full respect the opponent.
In JUDO when we start to practice or fight we bow down and formally ask for play and when we finish we formally do the same. And when we enter the birth place of judo in Japan it welcomes you with a saying
‘IN SPRIT UNITED, IN SKILL OPPOSED’. – Eisho-ji Temple, world’s first judo DOJO, 1886, Tokyo.
If we are little aware of the story of Ramayana we will find that both Rama and Ravana had respect for their opponents (listen Guruji’s Holi tape).
3.Greatest fight is within.
I learnt this from both the sides that until and unless you don’t defeat the person inside you u can not win on the mat. I think spirituality is the thing which introduces to person inside me and martial arts helped me over come it many times. Both parties showed my new potential, which was otherwise unused.
‘If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still be like mirror. Respond like an echo’. – Bruce Lee.
Before going ahead with what ever I have written I would like to declare that I am not master in either of the two. I have practiced martial arts for around 5-6yrs now. And I was introduced to spirituality by ART of LIVING. I was amazed to find that there was lot in common. I have tried to put together masters of both the field. At one end it H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shanker and other end is Bruce Lee (Ref: ‘TAO OF JEET KUNE DO’).
The things which I found common were:-
1. YIN and YANG / opposite values are complementary.
In fight when opponent is of aggressive nature the smart martial artist will fight with calm mind and depends on his simple tools like timing of the strike and limited movements. Smart fighter will gain control over aggressive fighter’s attitude. It stands true in judo where we use opponent’s energy and motion to throw him. And to my surprise it works.
‘Soft can control hard, u can brake a wooden boards, some bricks, but try braking sponge’ - Bruce Lee.
2. Present moment is inevitable.
When we are in fight we need to be so much there because even a blink of an eye is important. A trained fighter’s (international players) time their movements according to opponents ‘blink timing’ i.e. they actually calculate that what is the intensity of the opponents eye blinks, so that they can plan an attack accordingly.
Give full respect the opponent.
In JUDO when we start to practice or fight we bow down and formally ask for play and when we finish we formally do the same. And when we enter the birth place of judo in Japan it welcomes you with a saying
‘IN SPRIT UNITED, IN SKILL OPPOSED’. – Eisho-ji Temple, world’s first judo DOJO, 1886, Tokyo.
If we are little aware of the story of Ramayana we will find that both Rama and Ravana had respect for their opponents (listen Guruji’s Holi tape).
3.Greatest fight is within.
I learnt this from both the sides that until and unless you don’t defeat the person inside you u can not win on the mat. I think spirituality is the thing which introduces to person inside me and martial arts helped me over come it many times. Both parties showed my new potential, which was otherwise unused.
‘If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still be like mirror. Respond like an echo’. – Bruce Lee.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
KISS OF the DRAGON ! !
‘When u do good …some thin good happens to you’.
Recently some thing happened, which is keeping me in dilemma. Tell me how I react to this situation.....
Recently I was standing below my office and discussing some thing with my office friend. A car (Ford Endevor) stopped, a lady and a child got off that car an walked in to a store. Now, the driver had kept the car running, he hadn’t put down the engine. This provoked me to tell him to please turn off the engine as it was wasting fuel. The driver started arguing with me….as usual I started to explain to him hazards of air pollution. As I was arguing I said ‘ Jyada petrol hai to idhar de doo, mari bike me lagega…petrol free main ata hai kya?’ suddenly, from no were a ‘Hijra’ (Eunuch) came and kissed me…..i was like blank!!! it was so embracing situation….(I will not discuss what happened next…)
Recently some thing happened, which is keeping me in dilemma. Tell me how I react to this situation.....
Recently I was standing below my office and discussing some thing with my office friend. A car (Ford Endevor) stopped, a lady and a child got off that car an walked in to a store. Now, the driver had kept the car running, he hadn’t put down the engine. This provoked me to tell him to please turn off the engine as it was wasting fuel. The driver started arguing with me….as usual I started to explain to him hazards of air pollution. As I was arguing I said ‘ Jyada petrol hai to idhar de doo, mari bike me lagega…petrol free main ata hai kya?’ suddenly, from no were a ‘Hijra’ (Eunuch) came and kissed me…..i was like blank!!! it was so embracing situation….(I will not discuss what happened next…)
Saturday, July 12, 2008
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