Some great streetfights

Some russian security guards trash some goons in a supermarket. Watch for the guy who gets hit first, and see what he does to them in return. Yowza. I read somewhere in the comments that these guys are trained in Systema, a russian martial art.



Some idiots pick a fight with a Kurdish boxer, and he whopsass.

Some nice headbutts

Kyokushin students learning capoeira moves!

Vladimir Vasiliev teaches Knife Disarmin

Lisa Nova - Affirmative Girl

and more Lisa...

Ipdu choodu!!

watch that face

Yoga brand Aerobics

Bikram's patented yoga style. He claims that he has invented 2 breathing techniques and 9 asanas to be performed in a heated room. Poor things, the Americans. These classes seem packed so a lot of them must be really interested in Hatha Yoga. Bikram's Yoga is about as appropriate as teaching someone the Heimlich maneuver claiming it cures cancer.

For those who really don't know, Yoga is a Sanskrit term used to denote a series of widely different processes by which practitioners reach the single goal of god consciousness.

Hatha Yoga (Ha-Tha) is primarily a series of body locks used to control, arrest or release pranic energy (perhaps constituted from raw Solar energy) coursing constantly through our body. The Sun-Moon or male-female, or positive aspect-negative aspect are all terms to capture the essence of polarity that marks almost everything in the known universe. Through skillful use of aasanas, the yoga practitioner first controls the flow and use of energy, following which he is then taught to skilfully merge the dual aspects of energy in what is today recognized as the frontal lobe.

Since the sudden rush of energy can literally cauterise or damage delicate brain working or even tissue, students are taught to release energy in small doses over years until the system is able to withstand spontaneous power surges to the brain, resulting in the merging of ones conciousness. In other words, there is probably no "I think therefore I am". Rather I beleieve that the new position may be. "I am my thinking, if i think i am, if not i am not."

This goal is synonymous with all mystical practices (and eventually even all religious practices) across the world.

So, if Bikram is teaching people to tone muscles to heat and music that's his shtick. Should he really drag Yoga into all this?

hm. Then again. What does it matter anyway.

sigh...

Similar to Mushin (Japanese) though I think the actual idea of wei wu wei is a lot more esoteric than is being explained. More on that later perhaps :)