Suspending Disbelief

“The life you live is dependant upon the questions you ask.”

For the athlete it is a common practise to model yourself on the best in the business. To learn through observation what the best of the best are doing in terms of training and development. My 20 odd years of martial arts training saw me exposed to some incredible feats of human physical performance. I’m sure you’re all aware of some of the incredible feats achieved by historical martial arts figures.

I had a natural fascination with these incredible stories and, being the wide-eyed kid I was, began to explore anything and everything I could to do with what I can only describe as ‘super performances’, those feats that somehow transcended my mind’s ability to grasp the ‘how’ of what was being accomplished.

I read and watched everything Bruce Lee. I studied under amazing instructors. Before the Internet was available I was reading every martial art magazine I could find. I read about the feats of Mas Oyama, the founder of Kyokushinkai who was proclaimed to have killed a bull with one punch and chopped off its horns with his hands. I read about Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido whose transcendental feats of mystical proportions blew my mind. I also read about Funakoshi standing on the roof of his house, bracing himself in a karate stance and holding a tatami mat against the might of a typhoon. These stories are only a trifling of the hundreds of fantastic stories I was exposed to.

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