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Unorthodox striking techniques will take your opponent by surprise and give you the edge you need…

Every season, pro athletes return to training camp and start with the basics- why not you?

I will be posting my associate Bill FitzPatrick’s Shaolin Action Principle videos each week. I suggest you also visit YouTube and study Bill’s real estate and success videos.

Chin Na is a Chinese term describing techniques used in the Chinese martial arts that control or lock an opponent’s joints or muscles/tendons so he cannot move, thus neutralizing their fighting ability. Also chin na su, su meaning technique. Chin na su literally means technique of catching and locking in Chinese.Villari’s Shaolin Kempo Karate incorporates White Tiger Chin Na. Long before either the Chinese or the Okinawans practiced and developed their arts, the Tibetans and Mongolians had their own form of combat from which the venerable art of Chin Na, or the art of the White Tiger, was further developed - a devastating form of locking, seizing, holding and grappling. The Tibetans and the Mongols were masters of grappling.

The secret Art of the White Tiger is the ultimate form of neutralizing an opponent, utilizing holding, seizing, locking, throwing, felling and delivering controlled pain. No other martial art gives such control over an attacker.

For street defense, I believe possessing the knowledge and skill in this art offers these four powerful advantages over other grappling arts including mixed martial arts, Brazilian jiu jitsu, and other wrestling and grappling sports:

Advantage Number One- Yielding

Chin Na does not require overwhelming strength. Yielding (not retreating, which I will address in future video lessons) equips a smaller individual with the ability to control and immobilize a bigger, stronger opponent;

Advantage Number Two

Seizing and controlling blood vessels, breathing and nerve centers. This differs from mere chokes and strangulation in that it may be applied not only to the windpipe directly but also to muscles surrounding the lungs, supposedly to shock the system into a contraction which impairs breathing. Seizing requires sinew strength, not muscular strength, which can be developed by women and children as well as males. Applying a tiger claw or eagle’s talon to a nerve center “paralyzes” your opponent and gives you full control over how much pain you deliver.

Advantage Number Three

Not generally going to the ground. Although Chin Na teaches devastating ground technique, the trapping and felling skills give you the advantage of taking your opponent to the ground while maintaining the superior standing position. This is vital for effective defense in multiple attacker street scenarios.

Advantage Number Four

Mongol Locks. The Mongols perfected the art of holding, locking and throwing. These incredibly powerful techniques completely immobilize your opponent and give those with the strength the ability to break the neck, spine, and other joints. A deadly art not taught until only to very advanced students.

Watch Grandmaster Fred Villari teach White Tiger Chin Na. Contact me directly for more information on how to obtain the complete Chin NA: The Art of the White Tiger.

From time to time, I will post kata video from various styles so we can discuss the similarities and differences.

This is a fine example of Italian Shotkan champion Luca Valdesi. For you Shaolin Kempo Karate students, you will see the similarities in movement to our Five Pinan.

Being Shotokan, it is by nature more rigid and linear in technique. Yet Mr. Valdesi is powerful and explosive in his execution. This is a big part of why Grandmaster Villari values karate as a foundation of his art. 

Here is the link to a video of a vicious knife attack. What would you have advised these knuckleheads to do (besides not just stand there filming someone getting stabbed multiple times)?

http://www.filecabi.net/video/vkmanstabswoman.html