A Student's Guide to Knowing More than your Martial Arts Master

A Student's Guide to Knowing More than your Martial Arts Master is a passage through the gates of empty hand self defense from every continent and an introduction to the world of empty hand self defense at a level beyond your Masters. A Student's Guide to Knowing More than Your Martial Arts Master is the result of Master Losik's wish to increase all student's knowledge and wisdom beyond their Masters for those who know little about it. This book comprises previously unpublished writings together with simplified and complex explanation of movements that will expand your ability to utilize your new found knowledge-synthesized by Master Losik from the traditional Korean, Okinawa, Chinese and Japanese Forms, Kata, Kuens and Hyungs. Master Losik begins by exploding some of the myths of Karate, Taekwondo, Chuan Fa and Tang Soo Do as a noble martial art, and the reader can rest assured that those who take pride in breaking boards or smashing tiles, or who boast of being able to perform outlandish feats like stripping flesh or plucking ribs, really know nothing about empty hand self defense and are only doing carnival quality side show tricks. They are playing in the leaves and branches of a great tree, without the slightest concept of the trunk. In his description of what styles of Karate, Taekwondo, Chuan Fa and Tang Soo Do martial arts, Master Losik describes the origins in the ancient methods of unarmed combat in China, Korea and Japan and its explosive growth as a fighting method. Master Losik recognized in this book and his many others the need to formulate precisely the communications and explanations between Master and student for what is being taught and why, so to establish a standard of true knowledge of empty hand self defense. The charts and graphs are not traditional, but they serve to establish the correct understanding of every aspect of every style's Instructors thought and action, and to facilitate the mastery today of the true requirements in every style of martial art. All these special characteristics are clearly explained by charts and tables that allow full comparisons between all styles and systems never available in the past Lastly, Master Losik recalls the explosion in information and oral traditions as a result of world wide conditions post World War II and the Korean War caused the greatest spread in martial arts in recorded history. This is a book that no martial arts Master wants his students and Instructors to read because it will show what little is known by the Masters and how much more their is too learn.