Shhhhh....It's A Secret!

[sensei8]

[This is for fun, so please take it that way, and hopefully, you'll get a kick out of it.]

Many, if not all, students of any martial arts have searched for, and are still searching for, the Secret Techniques! No matter what they may or may not be, every student wants to learn what they are, and once the secrets are uncovered, they want to excel at it.

It is said that the best kept secrets are the secrets that aren't told!

If these secrets truly exist, then why would these sensei's keep these techniques a secret from their very own students? Better yet, why would the sensei even tell their students that these secrets exist at all? Especially if they're secrets! That I just don't understand. Saving said secret for the few or for the one student is selfish. Why just those few or one? Why not share it with all of us? Why aren't we worthy to know everything? We're told that it's best for the student to discover these secrets on their own, so that, the discovered techniques are more appreciated. OK?!?

What then? When I find said secret techniques, am I to keep it a secret...still? I must be pretty good in finding secrets. Possibly the secret technique is right under our noses for all to see. Possibly the so-called secret techniques are so secret that our own sensei's don't even know what they are, so our sensei's are waiting for us to discover them so that we'll tell our sensei's just what they are. Then, the sensei's will say...."Yes, grasshopper, you've truly found the secret technique!", while all the same time, the sensei's saying to him/herself..."Aha! So far and so thus...thus far!"

Where should one start to find these so-called secret techniques? Well, our karate sensei's say that within each and every kata lies dormant secret techniques, so maybe I should start there!? In kata, a block isn't a block and a strike isn't a strike and this isn't that and that isn't this. Aha! Aha spelled backwards or forwards or inside or outside is still....AHA! Are the secret techniques ONLY found in kata? Why only kata? After all, didn't any technique come into existance before the kata? No technique equals no kata because kata needs technique and in the kata lies the dance of techniques....or something like that.

Let's say that I found the secret techniques, then, there not secret, but, when they were secret, they were secrets, yet, being found their not secrets before they became secrets because all secrets want to be found, and so that it's a secret with you and for you but yet before you and right after that it was yesterday and then it's today because I found the secret that is no longer the secret of secrets.

Right?!?

Meanwhile, just train and don't let those secret techniques control you because the secret techniques will reveal themselves when they do and not until then. Remember...ssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh...it's a secret!

[Tzu-Logic]

Someone is worrying about the "secret techniques" a little too much

It's funny because my instructor is always saying, "There are no "secrets" to great karate! Just hard work!"

but that was funny!

[Mistassailant5]

Haha. That was a funny rant sensei . But that also has alot of truth to it too.

[quinteros1963]

Perhaps you havent found them yet. Doesnt mean they are not there. Continue to train and the secrets will be unlocked!

[Lupin1]

I know the secret techniques. Of course, I had to hike barefoot to the top of a mountain in Nepal and wait three months in the rain with no food before the Grand Master monk would teach them to me. Maybe you're just not dedicated enough...

[tonydee]

I know the secret techniques. Of course, I had to hike barefoot to the top of a mountain in Nepal and wait three months in the rain with no food before the Grand Master monk would teach them to me. Maybe you're just not dedicated enough...

3 months without food... that would only get you "The Well-known Fact Pretending To Be A Secret That Satiates The Little Secret-Seeker". Better go back and hop to the top of the mountain on your left big toe, then do one finger pushups on the end of a rusty nail until the Grand Master comes back... if he doesn't go senile and forget you and/or the secret in the mean time....

[mr_obvious]

Five point palm, exploding heart technique.....

Quart of blood technique....

......you don't know these, Sensei?!?

[sensei8]

I've truly enjoyed everyones "secret technique(s)"; I'm still laughing...some very funny stuff.

[KarateGeorge]

One of the running jokes among the black belts at my school has always been when someone messes something up in a fairly humorous way, such as nearly falling from dizziness after attempting too many spinning techniques in a row, we'll laugh and say something along the lines of "That was a 1st degree move, we'll teach you that after you get your black belt" or "That was a 3rd degree move..." or whatever their rank happens to be.

[sensei8]

One of the running jokes among the black belts at my school has always been when someone messes something up in a fairly humorous way, such as nearly falling from dizziness after attempting too many spinning techniques in a row, we'll laugh and say something along the lines of "That was a 1st degree move, we'll teach you that after you get your black belt" or "That was a 3rd degree move..." or whatever their rank happens to be.

Yes, I can relate to that very thing. When a student misses a block and gets tagged in the face my accident, I'll say something like...."Wait, that face-blocking is saved for the upper Dan ranks, so stop doing that until we've taught it to you properly." Students will at first just look at me kind of puzzled, and by then, I can't hold my laughter back, and then they get to enjoy the joke with the rest of us....who've done that very same face-blocking...shoot...I've done the face-blocking more times than I care to remember.