Once, long ago, there was a very small village hidden away in a valley. Everyone in the country knew that this village was where the finest martial artists in the land came from, but no one knew why. Spectacular warriors, brilliant men and powerful leaders had all emerged from this village at one time or another. A very curious young man named Addington decided to visit the village to find out what made its people so unique.

The martial arts have so much to offer, so you should never sell them short. Even the slightest move within any system has unlimited possibilities of use. Acquiring the highest level of skill and proficiency to the point of creating a masterpiece in yourself is true martial arts mastery. The secrets to achievement upon a quest for mastery are knowledge, love, and endurance from which everything else falls into place.

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Chang Hee was training to fight in his tournament that was coming up. He was working hard everyday. He also had to keep up with his academic studies. It was taking its toll on him day in and day out.

He tried to figure out a way to cut his training short so he wouldn’t have to train so hard and he wouldn’t have to study as hard either. He wanted more time for himself and to have more fun with his friends.

Often people will ask me how I get so much done in my life. They wonder at how I am able to accomplish so many things. The answer is found not in what a great person I am, but in an equation I came up with a few years ago and remind myself of on almost a daily basis. And when I live this equation out, it produces big results. What people don’t seem to grasp is that this equation will work for anybody! Anyone can see results in their life if they will live it out!

One secret behind advancement in anything is control, and this is especially the case in your martial arts training. Control is the signature and one of the most important com­ponents for achieving proficiency or mastery. To possess control means that you are in charge and taking responsibility.

Initially, in the martial arts learning about control is very personal. The three primary areas that you should seek to have control are in your body, breath, and mind:

The quality of people being of sound moral principle and sincerity. In martial arts, one will learn the ways of integrity as he works his way up the belt system. To have a black belt is not to know the system of fighting, but to know all of the ways of a martial artist. To know the martial arts mind, body, and soul, you must study and practice the martial arts every day in at least one of those forms. How a martial artist learns the true art is also by living the art by being virtuous, focused, self disciplined, and having honor. By being in the martial arts, you represent an art form of many centuries and should conduct yourself as such. Here are a few ways you might be able to apply some of these tactics to your daily standards.

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One day, Min-Ki was helping his brother, Chin-Ho with the chores. They had to finish their chores first before they could practice the katana with their father. Their father, Hyun-Shik was a great warrior and was training his sons to be great warriors like him.

The partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty, full; the worn out, new.

He whose (desires) are few gets them; he whose (desires) are many goes astray.

Therefore the sage holds in his embrace the one thing (of humility), and manifests it to all the world.

Attitude is the fuel that drives our personalities and characters.

When positive, it burns cleanly and motors us towards our goals. When negative, it leaves us stalled on the road of life. And as a martial artist, positive attitude must run in the engine that propels you forward to black belt and beyond.

In this article, we’ll first show you how to build a positive attitude, then learn how to maintain it. Hopefully, this knowledge will empower all of us to bring energy and happiness into our martial arts environments, professions, families and social lives.

Do you remember when you were a child and no dream seemed too big? Some of us thought we'd walk on the moon, some dreamed of being President of the United States, and others imagined stepping to the plate in a big league game. Every one of us, when we were young, had a common trait: we were dreamers. The world hadn't revealed to us yet that we couldn't always achieve what our hearts longed for. And we were still years away from realizing that, in some cases, we weren't built for achieving our dream, like realizing in junior year of high school that you're too short and slow to play professional basketball. The dreamer is always the last to know. Eventually we started to let our dreams die. People began to tell us that we couldn't do the things we wanted. It was impossible. Responsible people don't pursue their dreams. Settle down, get a job, be dependable. Take care of business, live the mundane, be content.Do you know what I say to that? Hooey! It's time to dream again! Why?

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Never before had man and weapon come together in such perfect harmony. Master Yong Sook was indestructible with his staff, and students lined up at his door for teaching. That was 50 years ago. Master Yong Sook's skills had long since faded into memories for folks in his hometown. These days, people recognized him as a grumpy, old man. Shopkeepers pretended to be closed if they saw him coming. Young boys snuck down alleys to avoid him. No one liked him, and he didn't like himself. The master resented his age, so he refused to instruct students in the art of the bo. His attitude towards life had crumbled and wrinkled, like his aging skin. Yet, deep within, passion and vigor still existed in Master Yong Sook, although he didn't show it to neighbors and townsfolk.

Heroes are ordinary people who rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances. The potential to be a hero is present within each of us, but whether or not you rise to the occasion when necessary depends on the strength of your mind and body. The body and mind must be unified for heroic strength to be built.

COURTESY and urbanity of manners have been noticed by every foreign tourist as a marked Japanese trait. Politeness is a poor virtue, if it is actuated only by a fear of offending good taste, whereas it should be the outward manifestation of a sympathetic regard for the feelings of others. It also implies a due regard for the fitness of things, therefore due respect to social positions; for these latter express no plutocratic distinctions, but were originally distinctions for actual merit.
In its highest form, politeness almost approaches love. We may reverently say, politeness “suffereth long, and is kind; envieth not, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh so not her own, is not easily provoked, taketh not account of evil.” Is it any wonder that Professor Dean, in speaking of the six elements of humanity, accords to politeness an exalted position, inasmuch as it is the ripest fruit of social intercourse?

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Master Han was a martial arts teacher who excelled in aerial tactics and flexibility almost to the point of seeming to be double jointed. His classes were tough, but his instruction was always with care and respect for his students.

Martial arts instruction is a close-quarter, high impact arena with powerful strikes interacting with both imaginary and real targets. Combine that with a black belt of high degree standing before you, imparting lessons in self-defense, and you can see why trust is so valuable in martial arts.