![]() Face countless adversaries, hone your skills, and outmaneuver waves of martial-arts masters and fearsome monsters. But if you yearn to ascend to the echelons of martial arts grandeur, your path lies in embarking on a grueling cultivation journey. Sifu Singh and Joshua talk about the Sight Beyond Sight initiative, a program in development which will provide a path to the warrior lifestyle for blind and visually impaired people everywhere.The choices are clear: If you seek a tranquil life, you must shatter the secret and leave Jianghu as an ordinary swordsman. One of many wisdom gems from Sifu Singh: “Becoming better is letting go of who I thought I was.” You’re doomed to fail."Įxpanding on this, he also talked about the importance of self discovery and increasing your awareness of your opponent and your environment. Know yourself don’t know your enemy, it’s 50/50. “Know yourself and know your enemy, and you’re sure to succeed. Sifu Singh also delved a little into martial arts as life philosophy by speaking to a principle found in Sun Tzu’s Art of War. If you do something that you want to do, you will do much better than you would forcing yourself to do something.” You can then, either at the same time or later, add in those things you need to do to accomplish your personal goals. “Start with something that you want to do. ![]() To this end, he also encouraged anybody who had yet to practice martial arts to find what they wanted to study and branch out from there. Have your specialty, but also be aware of what other people know and can do. His encouragement to martial artists, especially teachers, is to be a jack of all trades and master of one. In this era, it was enough to be a master of one art and take the gamble that your art would be enough. ![]() People only knew martial arts from movies and professional wrestling. Sifu Singh also talked about how the landscape of martial arts has changed from the 1970s and 1980s in the pre-UFC days. On the changing perception of the martial arts. I’m the pointer to the truth for you to discover on your own. But as for me, being a teacher… My goal is to shatter that box, and for you to see what’s outside of it, and that I’m not the giver of truth. People want to follow their teacher and become an exact copy of their teacher, and then they are put in a box by their teacher’s box. On creativity in exploration while travelling the warrior's path. These are universal martial arts principles that can be employed and deployed by martial artists of all styles and systems that will help them survive a dangerous street fight.” It’s about the principles, not the styles from which the principles come. ĭuring our conversation, Sifu Singh went into a bit more detail on his digital martial arts seminar he produced in collaboration with Budo Brothers, Martial Arts For Everyone. On his martial arts seminar with Budo Brothers. As soon as we know that reason, we are awake in this dream, and when that happens, it’s a really wonderful experience. ![]() It’s to use all of my resources to help my students get in touch with their resources, so they can be of service to the world. Those attackers of mine became the greatest blessing in the world because those attackers came and pivoted my entire life. ![]() These proved to be a helpful compliment to his study of wing chun, jeet kune do, and Filipino martial arts, among others. He wanted to learn the subtle aspects of fighting, which lead him to learn tai ji and qi gong, including the healing and restorative aspects of these disciplines. Sifu Singh, after these harrowing experiences, was primarily interested in martial arts for the sake of combat readiness. Nonetheless, he experienced stillness in chaos for the very first time, and this would go on to be a theme in Sifu Singh’s teaching. Everything stopped, and everything was moving in slow motion. I had my Matrix moment, where time completely stopped. Here are a few takeaways from our conversation. Sifu Singh also collaborated with Budo Brothers to produce a practical and affordable training resource for anyone interested in martial arts called Martial Arts for Everyone. Show NotesIn this episode of the Adventure Mind Podcast, we talk with Sifu Harinder Singh Sabharwal, President and Chief Training Officer of the Jeet Kune Do Athletic Association. ![]()
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