During ‘the = sixth century |
(about 530), vicious hordes of
“nomads were sweeping through
parts of China, killing and
pillaging villages and monas-

teries. The monks carried nei-

ther weapons nor shields, but a
prince and Buddhist monk, Ta-
mo, who had studied martial
arts in India, declared that
through the powers latent within
the mind, one could transform
the hands into knives, the arms
into shields.

by Charlynn Toews

Thus an organized system of
martial arts began, limited at
first to the monks, ‘“‘With the
fall of the Ming Dynasty (c.
1644), outsiders were permitted

to enter the temple and learn the —

art. to drive out the invading
Manchurians,”” notes Lawrence
Galante in Tai Chi. “Chinese
temple boxing’? then spread
throughout Asia, being called
Karate in Japan, Tai Kuan Do in
Korea, and Shao-lin Ryu in
Okinawa. Japan’s Ju-Jitso is
about 385 years old, and Judo
celebrated its centennial in 1982.
Martial arts came to North
America around the turn of this
century, and is represented well
in Terrace, with four different
types of classes being offered.
Tai Chi is an “‘internal’’ mar-
tial art, combining concentra-
tion, calmness of mind, and
_ breathing exercises with slow,
graceful movements. The exer-
cises are based on the cycles of

nature, the principles of the I

Ching (the Book of Changes)
and the philosophy of Yin and
Yang. There is a constant in-
terplay and harmony of op-
posites: firmness dnd softness,
strength and lightness, motion
and stillness.

Taoist priest Chang San-Feng,
the founder of Tai. Chi, devel-
oped the art after observing a
fight between a crane and a ser-
pent. The crane’s apparent
calmness and flexibility over-
came the blunt and powerful at-
tacks of its assailant.

Instructor Peter Dickson
demonstrated one of the fun-
damental principles of Tai Chi
during a recent workshop: in
“push hands” a novice is taught
to yield to repeated pushes,

‘o

- ‘Terrace Review - — Wednesday; September 21, 1988 15 :

Tal Chi Instructor Peter Dickson (far right) leads a workshop ona recent weekend. This “Internal” martial art aims
to promote the health and well-being of the practitioner through the practice of a set sequence of 150

movements.

without getting angry or panick-
ing. ‘You have to get past your
ego, or you’re not going to ad-
vance,’? he explained. The stu-
dent also learns to ‘‘listen’’ to an
assailant’s physical presence to
anticipate the next move.

Dickson said competitions in
this martial art are rare. Tai Chi
is ‘‘soft'’, while Karate tends to
be “‘solid’’, representing the two
sides of Yin and Yang, but both
sprang from the same source.

Martial arts from China came
to Okinawa, islands to the south
of Japan. A secret fighting art,
the prototype of Karate, devel-
oped there because the common
people of that island group had
been conquered and forbidden
to carry arms. ‘‘To defend
themselves they developed an art
which could, in the hands of a
master, defeat an armed, ar-
moured man,” C.W. Nicol
writes in Moving Zen. Karate in-
structor Joseph Zucchiatti con-
tinues the story. ‘‘They weren't
allowed to carry weapons, but
they could carry walking sticks
and cooking utensils, which they
learned to use as weapons, as

well as using their hands and
feet,’’

Two types of Karate are
taught in Terrace. Zucchiatti ex-
plained Chitu-Rye style aims for
a balance between soft and hard
styles. ‘‘There are some Goju-
Ryu style Karate clubs active in
the province, and they focus on
90 percent strength, only 10 per-
cent deflection. Chitu-Rye is
more middie-of-the-road.’’
Sport competitions make up a
big part of training, which is
based on Budo, “the way of the
warrior,’

Joseph Duguay teaches
Kempo-Jutso Karate, which he
says is more oriented towards
self-defence, not sport competi-
tions. He’s been in Karate for 30
years (third degree black belt),
and teaching for 15 years, eight
of them in Terrace.

He said they draw on Zen
Buddhism, making use of medi-
tation, concentration and per-
ception training. ‘‘You learn to
sense danger before it arrives.
It’s like when you’re in church
and can feel someone staring at
the back of your head, a sixth
sense.”

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at competitions. Ju-Jitsu is also
self-defence oriented, rather
than sports-oriented, instructor
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on developing one’s power, agil-
ity, mobility and suppleness.

From the traditional, formal
Karate of Chitu-Rye, to the self-
defence moves of Ju-Jitsu and
Kempo-Jutsu, and the internal

“< martial art ‘of Tai Chi, there is a

broad range of styles. Tai Chi
classes started September 20,
Chitu-Rye Karate September 19,
and both Kemp-Jutsu and Ju-
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