Traveling alone makes people vulnerable and open for danger. There are many things that you can do for personal protection to ensure your safety.

Always plan your trip in advance if traveling by yourself. In short, know where you are going. Have it all mapped out and know the safest route to your destination. If you arrive at an airport and pick up a rental car try to make sure you get one with a GPS system. This will help you avoid having to pull over in unfamiliar territory and ask a stranger for directions to where you are going. Also, check to make sure your final destination point is in a safe part of town. You don’t want to pull up to your hotel late at night only to find out that it is in one of the seediest parts of the town.

This Korean Karate trick is one of the simplest and most deadly moves you will ever find. As simple as it is, it requires exquisite timing, and a number of little bits and pieces of which I am about to tell you. Understanding these fine points, and working on the thing a bit, and you are going to have one of the most powerful punches in your martial arts arsenal.

Any kind of style or skill involved in fighting methods is recognized as an act of physical violence. Even this nation in which laws and regulations condemning violence are passed to safeguard and secure the victims, there are still circumstances when people are compelled to commit physical violence for protection and survival. Hence, the guidelines and laws that will apply to fighting strategies in relation to self defense are still complex and fairly vague. But as you think about on committing to violence to fight violence, self-defense specialists claim self-defense skills as actions of de-escalating excessive tension situations given that these tactics are intended to teach people to speak, negotiate as well as act in ways that may prevent the individuals from becoming victims or random street crimes.

Whether you study Tae Kwon Do, Kenpo, or that rare Wudan Art from Faroutistan, speed is vitally important to the martial arts. If you are going to get anywhere in freestyle, you must be faster than your foe. Even in the doing of your patterns, speed gives a certain instruction that is necessary to the successful martial artist.

That said, there is another facet to the subject of speed, a facet which embraces the entire martial arts and is the mark of your progress over the decades. This is a side which relates to the speed of the art you are studying, and the speed of what is happening inside your head and in your day to day life. I am talking about the speed at which you execute your art.

Tai Chi Chuan is the art that preaches emptiness. One must move without force to realize the true depth of Tai Chi. And, in Tai Chi, you never run out of nothing.

One must understand, of course, that there are stages of emptiness. The beginning student will have one viewpoint concerning this notion, and the advanced master will have another, and there is plenty of room in between. Indeed, one could almost say there are as many viewpoints of this great nothingness as there are students to perceive them.

Many people walk to the corner mall, walk into their Korean Martial Arts dojo, and train in nice, neat uniforms, watching themselves in wall sized mirrors, kick soft and well hung bags, and think that they are doing hard core Tae Kwon Do. These people should learn some beginnings of Korean Karate. They will find that that polite block and kick combo they are practicing was born in hell, perfected in hades, and then things got nasty.

Bobby lost his left arm because of a childhood infection, but it didn’t slow him down. He rode bikes, climbed trees, and did everything a child is supposed to do, except for one. He never did the martial arts, he figured he had finally found the one thing he would never do.

When a martial arts dojo opened up in his neighborhood, however, he could not stop thinking about it. He would pass by slowly, staring at the kids working out inside. He would ask his friends who studied martial arts endless questions, but he never went inside the dojo because he knew that there was no way he could do that physical discipline.

The first time I ever actually perceived someone elses thoughts happened in San Francisco. My wife and I were ambulating through Chinatown, and we entered a shop where a grouchy old Chinese lady perched on a stool in a corner. As we peered at the various bric a brac, the grouchy one snapped at her daughter, “Look, look, look, everybody just look!”

We left the store, and I asked my wife, “Did you hear what that old lady said?” “How could I,” answered my wife. “She was speaking in Chinese.”