- #MartialWayYoga

#MartialWayYoga

Vincent Diaz Jr

#MartialWayYoga is a yoga system I developed as I saw the need for a martial yoga style and
no style fulfilling it. One of the basics lessons of #MartialWayYoga that I have created by living
the lesson is to study every yoga system you possibly can. I do not suggest attending classes
because you can’t get a sense of an entire system. I suggest using books. Something that
would be nice I did not have would be someone to answer your questions that practicing yoga
leads to. This first lesson is something all yoga practitioners should do. As I progress into
#MartialWayYoga specifically the lesson begin to have the specific context of being designed to
aid and advance in advancement and achievements in martial arts, such as #MartialWay.

This book won’t be a clear guide to teach you in depth and excruciating detail how to do every
posture of the #MartialWayYoga system. What this book sets out to do is capture the entire
theory behind #MartialWayYoga with examples and stories. I will present a less detailed lesson
on some yoga routines I have used to advance in the martial arts as well as transform my body
into a better weapon. While all yoga systems are slightly dangerous because of the need to
slightly tear muscle in the stretches to achieve flexibility, this style is particularly dangerous
because of the way it tries to mimic martial attacks to prepare you to be able to go through them
unharmed. Be warned that this style should be approached with great caution and you should
never try to rush progress or compete when practicing it. If you read beyond this sentence you
agree to all indemnity for me forever.

Most yoga systems use the term prana when they begin to describe the energy that is present
in their yoga exercises. I use prana but only in so far as I can directly translate it to Chi, Qi, or Ki.
For the rest of the book I will use the term Qi and if it is confusing to you because you
understand prana you can think in terms of prana instead. I find many styles of yoga try to teach
you to count seconds. In this style the importance of breath is always stressed and you should
be counting breaths instead of seconds. It is desirable to have long, deep, slow breaths. The
breaths are to go with stomach movement exercises. The most common way this is used in the
art is to move the stomach out while breathing in and in while breathing out. This technique is
used to progress in stretches where you breath in and push the stomach out and the pushing
out of the stomach and be used to make the stretch more difficult, with the rhythm of the breaths
and pushing by the stomach being a great help to advance in poses. It is also very important to
have visualizations taking place in every pose. This can be done with eyes close where it is
easier to see your visualization or with eyes open where it is more difficult to see the Qi and
other things you are to be visualizing. Many schools teach visualizations that focus on Qi points
such as the plexuses of the body and to visualize these one at a time and then in groups. In this
art the immediate goal is to visualize them all at all times. There are channels energy is said to
run through and it is taught about in many arts. Qi runs through many different channels in the
body. This art teaches a style where all Qi can run through all channels. You not only visualize
on the points, you visualize channels connecting them. Then you visualize Qi running through
them. You can flow Qi in many ways, with the primary exercise being breathing and the later
stages being simply by thinking about it. You can breath in many ways, not only in the standard
way in through the mouth and nose and into the lungs then spreading through the circulatory
system, but also in the older ways on yoga systems like in through the skin or out through the
bones. When practicing these techniques visualize chi in solid colors moving in and out of the
body with the breathing system of your choice or multiple breathing types at the same time. I
have found in my military training that I don’t need to breath through the mouth and nose and
with the lungs when in the tear gas chamber. I can hold that type of breath while using skin
breathing alone because the pain of the gas overrides the pain of not breathing normally.

Some yoga seems to be content when it is thought of as exercise or something for getting in
shape. That is not what this art is about. This style of yoga is a religion and a lifestyle, and it
needs to be thought of as an entire world view and a way to transform your body into a higher
form of life. There are some common yoga poses and routines that have names of other life
forms like tree pose or snake poses and forms. When I first began the art I thought of them as
comparisons and things used to call to the similarities of shapes and postures. While this is
clearly true, I have also been able to hear tell of old myths and tales of those who have been
practicing yoga for many lives and who have been able to use the art to completely transform
themselves from what they started as to another type of life. Like from a human to a cat, or from
a human to a snake, or from a human to a tree. This also overlaps with kung fu which shares
some of the same names and some of the same shapes and postures, but not the same
transitions between those shapes and postures or the same intent for practice of those shapes
and postures. The tales I have heard of transformations seem to have mostly taken place long
ago, before the introduction of the electromagnetic spectrum and in a time when mythology and
magic were still facts of life. It is unlikely you will be able to transform from a human into a
snake, but with great practice you can surely learn how to move on your stomach, unhinge your
jaw, and swallow large objects like a long rolled towel.

In this art there is a theory on how to complete a pose, although as I have been working on this
theory I have been finding ways to push the completion point further and further into the path of
difficulty. For the sake of ease of discussion the first type of completing a pose is the type that
can be reached nearly anywhere where all you need is a flat floor to do the poses on. In the
next examples you have aids because you can complete the poses on a flat floor and you need
things like blocks to raise a body part or ledges to hang body parts over to go further with the
poses. For example, completing a sitting hamstring stretch can be considered achieved when
you are able to keep your legs stretched you straight on the floor and go all the way towards the
floor. A variation of the pose is opening the legs slightly to put your chest to the floor between
your knees. Varying further in this style and moving to trying to complete with an aid would be
propping up your feet on a block and trying to put your chest to the floor between your knees.
An example of using a ledge would be doing pigeon pose on a ledge. You have the leg that is
folded under you on the ledge and then you can try to move your chest past the horizontal part
of the ledge your legs are on.
Transitioning between poses is one of the distinctions between yoga and kung fu and other
martial arts. As I trained this system I would tend to have to goals with my transitions from pose
to pose. I would either want to make the minimal amount of movements and body position
change from pose to pose, or I would want to add a strength training exercise like a plank pose
to transition through. Think about what your goals are and make sure to have a reason for every
movement you make in your yoga routine from start to finish.

#MartialWayYoga is designed to toughen the body as well as make it more flexible with greater
endurance. The basic theory of toughening is about putting weight on the area desired to be
tougher while there is a focus on how it holds most of the weight or an appropriate amount of
weight to toughen it. I used to do special poses I had designed myself where I would start
quickly in a pose like a pushup position where I would through my legs in the air over my head
and push my whole body up. I never reached the point where I could achieve this like I wanted
but I did create a pose where I would toughen my jaw. I would rest my weight on my jaw and my
hands and hold a pose with my feet over my head. I worked up to this with much easier and
more simple jaw toughening where I would just lay flat on my stomach and stretch my neck so I
could look forward with the bottom of my jaw flat on the ground. I have found their are simple
changes you can make to toughen yourself like how you rest your body. Resting your body parts
on things that focus weight on small zones is a great way to toughen in a posing style such as
resting your forearms on the edge of the table will toughen the part of the forearms resting on
that corner, instead of placing your head in your hand placing your head on the knuckles of your
fist, when laying resting your head on your forearm bone, sitting bent forward with your elbows
digging into your thighs, there are more just think about it. I worked a series of poses from an
advanced yoga book with an extremely long series of poses to progress through, something like
fifty years. I found that doing a headstand for five minutes every morning made my skull
extremely tough and doing a shoulder balance for five minutes every morning made the back of
my neck where it meets the skull and the top of my spine as well as the top of my shoulder and
collarbone extremely tough.

One of the basic theories of #MartialWayYoga you can use to learn the whole system’s path to
flexibility and see used in other arts is a relatively simple lesson about stretching your muscles
in every direction possible. Yes all joints are designed to stretch in only certain directions, but
when you are training in the martial arts you will rapidly learn the advantage you have if you
have great flexibility in the movement ranges the joints aren’t exactly designed to go through. I
will follow with a series of examples designer to stretch the whole body, but while your minds are
open you can think of movements you can do to stretch that muscles or move that joint in order
to increase flexibility to protect yourself. Sometimes it is even appropriate to just take hold of a
muscle and move it around or press it. Some basics that I found myself doing over and over as I
was preparing my body to be joint lock proof are elbow stretches, wrist stretches, finger
stretches, toe stretches, knee stretches, ankle stretches, neck stretches, shoulder stretches, hip
stretches, and jaw stretches. I would practice a common stretch where you clasp your hands
behind your back with your arms straight and have someone raise them, except I would use a
wall or the ground to do the raising. You put your hands clasped on the wall while bent over
deep and then begin standing to stretch. If this isn’t enough stretching and you can stand you
can then bend your knees while keeping your hands still on the wall and raising them up above
your head by squatting. There is a tricep stretch that is also great for shoulder flexibility that is
common where you put your hand over your head and push down on your elbow. If this is easy
you can grad the hand of the arm over your head with both hands behind your back. Sorry for
breaking into brazilian jiu jitsu slang but this is going to be the best way to describe this stretch
and it is the self paintbrush. The next one is good for the shoulder mainly as it works a
commonly targeted range by joint locks but it also helps the elbow. You place your hand behind
your back between your ribs and your waist. Then you pull your elbow forward with your other
hand. You can use a wall to hold your elbow still and go through the movement if you choose.
For my wrists I would simply put myself in wrist locks. Grasping your hand with the other hand
and twisting it in the directions that stretch your wrist achieve this. I push on the hand in the
stretch so that the stretch is more intense. I will also sit in seiza, much like the catholic prayer
position, and put my hands on the ground to be held still while I lean to achieve the stretches. I
also try to work my fingers in all directions for the finger and wrist flexibility. I put myself through
all the finger locks. For stretching the knees and ankles I practice a number of postures. I sit
with my legs stretched out in front of me and then grab my feet and pick up my feet and shins
while keeping my thighs down. I also sit on my shins and feet working through variations of feet
positions, starting with the feet in line with the shins. I lean back in this posture while trying to
pull up on knees to focus the stretch on the feet and ankles. I then move my shins out to the
sides of my hips not sitting directly on my shins and try to sit between my shins. I usually keep
about this posture and turn my feet outwards so the parts of my feet that would touch each other
if I was standing with them together are placed on the ground. Usually it takes leaning forward
to achieve this and then leaning back to work the stretch. Next I place the part of my feet that
would not be touching each other if I was standing with them together on the ground. I do this
with the toes on the same line, left in front of right, and right in front of left. Lastly I return to
sitting on my shins and pull my toes under my feet so my feet no longer touch as I have my
weight on my toes. For the toes I also work toe locks and try to work all motions they can be put
through. The last part of my knee stretching routine I do standing. While standing with most of
your weight on one leg you push the other knee around to stretch the joint. I push from front to
back, left to right, right to left, and then I push in circling motions in those directions. I have
found that with years of practice I can now achieve most of the stretch this would achieve
without the pushing and with a great amount of weight on the leg. I even go as far as to
hyperextend my knees with them bending in the wrong direction and then take little hops for
toughening on top of flexibility. This flexibility really helps with the kung fu horse riding stances
where the shins and legs are supposed to bow in or bow out. For the hip and knee trying to put
your foot behind your head is very useful. I do a pose I haven’t seen anywhere where I tend to
start in lotus and then I take one leg and place it behind me with my inner leg on the ground. I
bend over my legs in all directions, forward, back, side to side, and in circling motions. For my
neck I look stretch, looking up, down, left, right, then i put my left ear to my chest, then right ear
to my chest, left ear to my collar bone, right ear to my collarbone then rotate in circles doing
these different stretches. For strengthening, toughening, and further flexibility I perform a bridge
with my head on the ground my body arched off the ground with my weight on my feet. Then i
lean to the left and right trying to put my ear to the ground, look over the top of my head while
pushing back then rotate on my head left and right trying to hold my body weight on the side of
my head and then try to rotate in circles left or right all the way around my skull. The bridge also
helps prepare the back. For the back i do the bridge for my backwards stretch then a forward
stretch like a hamstring stretch focusing on the back and I also make sure to do twisting
stretches twisting to the left and the right. Sometimes I try to twist at angles where I will be
bending forward or backward and then twist.

If you can do all these stretches and poses before your martial arts workout you will find you will
be in great shape for the exercises, get hurt less often, and not even get sore during exercises
that used to make you sore. I worked the neck stretches and strengthening toughening every
day before brazilian jiu jitsu because I was so sore after the last choke day we had. The next
time we had a choke day I was not sore at all afterwards. There are of course other stretches
and poses you can do to get ready for martial arts that are more common sense and can be
easily found in most stretching and yoga books. The focus more on building the flexibility to do
moves certain ways instead of preparing you for combat the way these yoga moves can prepare
you for combat.

There is a great deal of talk about how moving quickly in stretching exercises can cause
damage or injury. I tend to think not building up to this type of exercise is just trying to cause that
damage or injury. In my youth I found people would be very quick between poses or bounce in
them only to be told this terrible rule that would set them up for injury. With the formentioned
warnings, the goal of this art is to graduate to #MartialWayTaiQiGong where you slam your body
from pose to pose as fast as you can. The first step is some gentle bouncing on a stretch. This
moves up to more vigorous bouncing until you actually start to slam yourself into stretches
because if you end up like me you just won’t have the strength to get into the stretch without a
great deal of momentum built up to pull you into it. #MatialWayTaiQiGong is a moving stretching
style that is also about practicing movements to be used in delivering attacks and defending
attacks that is something new to the martial world I have developed out of the need for it to help
heal my body. I am working on a book on it and this book is a guide of what the path is that I
followed to achieve the ability to practice #MartialWayTaiQiGong without injury.

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