So, in terms of trips down memory lane . . . !

I wrote about Dr Kolibal and what he told me about needing to be challenged (and guess what, the man was spot on right) on the other blog. If you haven’t already, check it out there (and YES, for now, subscribers to BOTH sites are getting emails from BOTH sites, because . . . well, because that’s how I’ve deemed it to be for the moment).

While the rahulmookerjee.com site will probably eventually branch out in something else down the line, for now, things are what they are.

Anyway, in times such as these, and indeed in life itself, it can easy to get frustrated, give up and lash out when things are not going your way.

If you’re trying to achieve something that most people tell you you cannot or will not (or otherwise won’t) achieve, then guess what – you’ll get a LOT of this. More so than the average Joe, who gets a lot of it anyway during his/her own life . . .

(and always remember – when they say “no” – they’ve just given you a giant YES, but they don’t know it! ?).

I’ve written about that before of course, but for now, lets jump back a few years.

To when a certain “G” (let’s call him that) (and no, it ain’t you, “Mr G”, hehe) once made the statement I’m alluding to in the subject line.

It was back when I had idly once submitted a job application in China, and they rejected it on the basis of race.

NO, yours truly doesn’t work for nobody but for whatever reason I had done a semester teaching English (YIKES!!!!!!!!!!) at an American affiliated school in China (and it was the right decision, if just for the fact that I met Alan, my supervisor, and a BUSINESS minded person if there ever was one) and I figured I might try my hand at another.

And of course, racism in ESL or in China in general ain’t anything out of the ordinary.

I’ve written about that before, and normally, it don’t affect me none.

People make remarks about my ethnic origins, backgrounds and you know what size ALL The time (the last – I know, I know! But I’m being honest here! And no, I don’t know why the hell they’d say they, but . . . !!!).

And offensive though those remarks can be, 99.9$ (%!) of the time, yours truly could care less, and actually WELCOMES it. For reasons which . . . ah, but if you can read between the lines, you’ll know! ?

But that one time was a time when I was stressed out with this and that and sundry, and I let it all go.

I went off on one of my famous “You’re in fine fettle this morning, Rahul!!” rants at G.

G, by the way is the dude I wrote about that actually ended up making racist memes etc about yours truly and sharing them with Charles, a person who I once considered a close friend (and probably still do after all the BS, hehe, as I highly doubt he’s on board with any of that juvenile nonense – but then again, one never knows eh. ?).

NO, this is not the CUSTOMER I write about so often. Different people!

But he did have his sane moments (G).

And after listening to that rant, this is what he said.

In a calm rational tone of voice (much like Hannibal before diving into one of his “liver and Cianti” meals or whatever it is was he was eating in “Red Dragon”) . . .

“Let it go, Rahul! You know how they are!”

“You’re better than that!”

And he was right, and I did let it go.

But it applies to life my friend.

All too often in life, and especially these days, we get frustrated.

Depressed.

Down and out.

De-motivated.

And while some of the time or most, what we need most is a solid kick up the arse to “get her done”, sometimes, you just gotta tell yourself what I wrote in the subject line of the email.

Get the good memories flowing.

And tell yourself sternly (or whatever works for you).

“You’re better than that!”

And you are, my friend.

You are – and on that note – I’m out!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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Ok, so that probably comes across as a bit strange, doesn’t it?

Yes, I hear you say!

But hold on. I’ve spoken often about the power of visualization and how it can be (if used RIGHT) used to amp the results of your workout or even results in your own LIFE manifold – more than you ever expected.

And while done wrong it can actually have the opposite effect of what is intended, done right the power of visualization is just mind boggling my friend.

And though I’m doing record reps almost daily in the rope jump workouts I do, I keep shooting past previous bests, both in terms of time and numbers.

One of the ways I do it, and this “lit up” a certain area of my brain as well (visualization is supposed to do that!) is to use the “sign post” technique.

What do I mean?

I see a signpost, often GLOWING pointing me in the right direction as I work out

With the number of reps I’m approaching as I come nearer the actual number . . .

So for instance if I’m at 420, I might have a signboard illuminated and glowing with the numbers 500 in my mind.

Once I pass that, on to a dimly lit or not lit 600.

Once I get close, that sign post LIGHTS up. Motivating me to get there, and get there faster and without ANY break, much like a good boxing coach would. Hehe.

Motivating me to blast past past record number of reps and past P.R’s.

And so forth.

And the illuminated nature of the signpost helps, my friend. I don’t know why, but when that damn thing starts to blink I know I’m near, and I really, really speed up!

I did 3500 jumps today before my pull-up workout today and the results (in terms of time taken) were nothing short of astounding.

Yes, I know.

I keep talking about blasting past P.R’s almost daily.

But so will YOU my friend; if you train and visualize your training the way I do!

More on this later, but for now, I’m out for a well deserved meal. Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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So, had a great, great workout today – two actually.

The first one was pull-ups and jumping rope (not in that order), and those “lovely” fingertip pushups I refer to so often!

While 50 of the first and second and 3000 of the other exercise would be enough to fry anyone except the most determined amongst you fitness guys (and gals) out there, I didn’t stop there.

I wanted a solid grip workout today, and I finished off with a VARIETY of exercises I teach in Gorilla Grip.

A handstand (held for time).

Monkey bar work (a lot of it) followed up by monkey bar WALKS (if you don’t know what that is, check out Gorilla Grip – Advanced; you will KNOW!)

Fingertip holds of various natures, and of course, dead hangs with one hand and two.

And I could barely turn the key to get back in the apartment later.

And then, after a late, late lunch, I took my daughter out to the park.

She’s learning how to ride a bike, and doing pretty well at that actually.

And as I held her, and got her on balance every so often (she’s pretty much learned already, it’s just a few minor things here and there that remain), that was a finger workout unto itself. Until she got tired, and . . .

Dad lets walk a little, she said.

Sure, honey, I grinned.

But the conundrum was the bike, of course.

I could have of course done what sane people would do at this point.

That being to wheel it around.

But I didn’t.

I picked it up by the middle bar, and held it like a heavy weight, much like I was doing the Farmer’s walk, and started walking around the park.

Round and round, round and round, round and round!

And let me tell you, although it’s cool out here (to an extent, anyway), and it wasn’t a humungous weight, doing that sort of thing after a workout will make you feel it and then some.

Soon, I was drenched in sweat.

Took my daughter to the swings, and swung her high and handsome for a while.

In the middle of all that, I did more dead hangs on my favorite THICK bars.

Did 10 pull-ups. That makes it 60 for today . . .

Did some “arms extended” pushups. And by the end of it all, my daughter was exhausted too, and off we traipsed home.

And so goes it, my friend.

An oldie, but goodie I should say, and whether I’m referring to this here EMAIL or workout, or both, or none – well – you be the judge! Hehe.

Great workout – great night – and on it is to the weekend now!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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Ouch!

Yours truly, the 20,000 plus word “pounder” in one sitting is writing lesser than 500 words at one time now. Lesser than 100 actually!

Before he stops, raises and lowers his arms, and takes a break.

Because his right shoulder is SCREAMING in agony . . . . in a good way!

Yes, that is how sore I am through my shoulders and traps after today’s workout!

And yes, while pull-ups were on the list and so were many other things, what really did it was a slight change in grip.

Close grip.

Ultra close.

Thumbs touching each other.

And from that position I did various advanced versions of pull-ups, and let me tell you, that’s some shoulder work bar NONE.

Combine that with handstand pushups, and you’ll literally be off to the races my friend – – in more ways than one!

And as I sit here, sweating even an hour after the workout (or more than an hour), I feel compelled to share my workout with you today.

This is just the pulling part of it.

Which was preceded by 2500 jumps and succeeded by a 100 pushups and 40 dips.

55 pull-ups.

Except they weren’t normal pull-ups.

They were done on EXTRA thick bars. ONE of them, actually.

Some were doing hammer style with one hand over the other.

But the real scorcher was the CLOSE GRIP pull-ups, and something else.

Something that is very functional indeed, and something most people cannot do, and something I haven’t as yet included in my books.

That being ROPE work.

Actually, in my case, CHAIN work.

I hung off the chains of a swing set (two of them) and did pull-ups that way.

And while the initial set felt easy, the latter sets felt anything BUT.

Believe me, while this here email contains tips on grips, that LAST part is something you might want to focus upon when talking about GRIP. Or trying to build yours!

Or trying to get better at pull-ups.

And believe you me, ropes and chains lend themselves to a great workout overall – not just when it comes to pull-ups.

As do gymnastic rings.

They tax your body in ways different to doing them the “normal” way and while I ain’t (as yet) prepared to say they’re better either way, trust me when I say that rope work is some of the most functional work you can do – and some of the best upper body work you can do.

Just look at the military where rope climbing and doing so well is a pre-requisite for just about anything.

Or martial artists. Or gymnasts.

And so forth.

They ALL include this sort of training in their routines and so should you!

Be prepared for some extra sore forearms, traps and shoulders as well if you do so!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – And if you do pull-ups the way I teach you in the ADVANCED course, and combine it with the above – whoa! Watch out, as you’ll be needing new shirts likely every few weeks if you keep it up! ?

So, I was doing some idle browsing on the Internet. Business related, of course, and what came up first was . . . yes, you guessed it.

Good ole China!

China and the US have been in the news a lot, and we’re all aware of my views on China in that (or any related) regard.

But the BBC article I read said something interesting, and something that is, or SHOULD be basic common sense to all involved, and has been for me for years (and yet, not always!).

What do I mean?

Well, the bio warfare that the Chinese willingly and knowingly unleashed upon the world has and will have many consequences, most of which people globally still don’t believe (or don’t “want to believe”).

Deep down inside they know whats happening, and what might happen, but they don’t want to acknowledge it . . .

Hope springs eternal as it were in the human breast, and while that is never ever a bad thing, it DOES need to be mixed with more than a modicum of REALITY.

Mix in hope with what is going on out there in the REAL world, and THEN you’re off to the races, my friend. Otherwise, you might as well just be building castles in the air.

Anyway, where was I?

Ah. The BBC link I was reading.

Has a fantastic headline for one “Breaking up is never easy”

And . . . here is the quote I was referring to

It taught them a valuable lesson that depending on one country all the time for everything is bad for business.

And this rang so true that I immediately had to DROP everything I was doing and write to you about it.

It’s always a bad option to not have a backup plan.

True, as Napoleon Hill once said, the ONLY way to achieve real success whatever it is you really, really want is to burn ANY AND ALL bridges first.

Or during the process of getting wherever it is that you want to be.

You cannot have any backups – or excuses.

No “if this doesn’t work”. You HAVE To make it work!

But on that note, he was referring to the GOAL and sticking to it. Not necessarily how you get there!

And yours truly has been guilty of violating above advice more than a couple of times.

Web hosting, for one.

You on this list know about the travails I’ve been having (before I finally switched over to the latest host I have now – – in the good ole US of A and they’re the best ever!) when it comes to site downtime etc.

All in the past now, but what those few months taught me (and really, based upon how the last web host responded to me etc when there were issues – and indeed, the new hosts (all of them) were all SHOCKED when I told them of the same as in “you shouldn’t have to go through anything like that with a web host, Rahul!” – I should have known this before and acted accordingly) was this.

That relying on just ONE option is a bad idea.

And right now, I’ve got my sites sitting on multiple hosts.

Fitness sites on one host.

The others on another host.

And YET more on . . . yet another host!

And I’m glad to say that after the very stringent (and sometimes annoying probably!) vetting process I’ve put these guys through, they ALL Came out with flying colors, and I couldn’t be happier at this point.

And yet . . .

Always have MORE than one option in your kitty my friend!

And the same thing holds true for fitness.

If pull-ups are your go to upper body exercise, well, guess what.

GREAT!

They’re one of the best exercises you can do, period!

What if you’re confined to your house though with no pull-up bar or place to hang from?

Or, if you’re in a house like mine when I was growing up where someone installed a chinning bar, but there was NEVER any push for the kids to actually hang on them. If anything, all that happened on that bar was my Dad hanging there once to “show us how it was done” and flopping down with a huge “aaaah!” after a second or so.

And that was that.

The only usage that happened after that was after I grew up, and got into fitness myself.

Parents can really, really screw up a kids development. We all know about toxic relationships and just how demoralizing and demotivating that can be, but what I’ve mentioned about parents is even worse.

Anyway, that’s a topic this list is well versed with, and one I’ve written about a lot, so I’m not going to get into that here. Suffice it to say though that my own daughter has the exact opposite example to follow in terms of fitness!

But, again.

Always a bad idea just to have ONE option in that kitty!

If you’re like I was back in the day, and count upon that hill climb to get into and stay in shape – GREAT.

I cannot recommend hills highly enough.

But what if you’re forced to move to an area where you can neither climb hills regularly, or worse, don’t even have enough room to SPRINT?

It’s then that pushups and squats will save your ass from lard ass’dom, my friend, and on that note, I’m out.

Just remember.

Always good to have more options at your beck and call – and that holds true for any and ALL endavors!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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Was chatting with my buddy, him from the Marines and as he said “Good morning” to me, I was fixing to reply “Good afternoon!”

Hey, yours truly is the sort that prefers to rise at 12 noon (sometimes later) . . . hehe.

Of course, he DID rise at 530 AM this morning, and then again 630. But that’s a different story!

Anyway, as I replied to him, I said this.

Another day, another dollar.

Which is one of my favorite sayings, and indeed what I have on my tagline on my WeChat account and many others.

And then . . .

“Damn! I should say another day, another rescue act, the way things are now!”

And it’s true my friend.

I’ve written about 2020 being the year of the survivor, haven’t I?

YES.

And it’s damn true.

2018 was one of those years for me where just about everything that could go wrong apparently DID from many angles, and I’ve written about that before.

And 2020 is another one of those years it seems . . .

. . . Plenty going on, and “if it can go wrong, it seems to be” is the mantra these days around here.

From crashed computers (twice) (which shouldn’t crash at all given this laptop was bought brand new in 2018) to water machines that mysteriously stop working, to coffee machines where kettles end up cracking at the most inopportune moments . . . UGH.

Anyway, I digress.

Charless Mitchell, a long term customer wrote back to me a while ago, and said this (amongst other things).

“I know the way you train, and it’s anything BUT easy! I’m glad to buy your new book, and any others you put out. Lots of people think they don’t need to be in shape because “it will never be needed”, but trust me, it WILL be needed, and when that time comes, they better be ready and most aren’t!”

Now, mea culpa in that I haven’t a) included the entire quote verbatim (computer crashed, and so did email, and given I did not have a backup . . . ) and b) I paraphrased.

But (and he had more to say on this, of course) the point stands.

When you’re called upon to execute your version of a rescue act, WHAT and HOW will you able to do it?

If the world erupts in conflict and basic necessities become luxuries as they are in many nations, HOW will you react?

When it’s “man to man”, one trying to take the others lives . . . and not necessarily with “el weapono” – ARE you going to be in shape and fit enough to do what is needed and get her done?

These, and many other questions are things I’ve always thought about, and most haven’t. Most have also called me an idiot (and many more lovely names as well) for repeating this sort of “forward” thought.

But given what is going on globally, SURVIVAL is a skill you better bone up on my friend, an FAST.

And physical fitness, and being in SHAPE is an absolute pre-requisite to SURVIVING, and how!

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And that’s that for me. Back later!

Best

Rahul Mookerjee

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Was a great, great workout today; the first part of it more so than the other!

Actually, not really.

The second part consisted of a GRIP workout with pull-ups, done on an extra thick bar, and by the time I was done, the blood was roaring in my forearms, and I could barely even move my fingers.

And it felt GREAT. Just GREAT!

I can’t type properly even now, but that second part of the workout is something I do quite often, almost daily, and these days I’m using an extra thick (and extra high) bar.

I’ll often do my regular pull-ups on the regular chinning bar out there, and then go on to the thick ones for monkey bar moves and TIMED holds.

All very simple, with one subtle change from what I do normally, and given the impact its having on them forearms, wow. Just WOW!

Tip right there for you by the way! ?

Anyway . . . .

What was the 5 x 500 you ask?

Well, it was rope jumps.

5 sets of 500, and believe it or not, I got ALL the sets done in 3 minutes each, give or take.

I’ve got no idea if that’s good going, but I bet it is!

15 minutes, maybe 17 with some rest.

And 2500 jumps done, bang bang.

And lest you think that is the only sort of thing you can do in terms of 500, think again.

Years ago, I had a goal to bang out 500 pushups per day, or damn near for the year.

I’ve often said that you should try and get 500 Hindu squats done without stopping (or very brief pauses if even that) in LESS than 15 minutes.

12, 13 minutes . . . you’re doing GREAT!

And if you’re talking rope jumping, well, then it’s about the same time frame for 5 times the reps. Not because jumping rope is “easier” but because the thighs are taxed mucho heavily in the squat, and therefore (along with the shoulders and upper body), you’ll need to keep the reps “lower” on that one.

As if 500 is low! Hehe.

Anyway, I tell you all this not to toot my own horn, but to tell you this: what may seem daunting to you at the outset really ain’t.

LOTS of people, including folks that workout regularly write back and tell me “the mere thought of 500 scares ‘em”.

And if we get to 1000 – 1500 – or 2500?

Holy moly!

Well, I’m here to tell you it ain’t that scary.

And I’m here to tell you something I’ve said many times before.

Eat a bear, but a bite at a time.

2500 can break down into 5 sets of 500 with a minute rest in between each set (or less).

500 squats can break down into 100 each done in less than 3 minutes. Or 250 x 2 as I like to do!

100 pushups can (when you’re starting out) break down into 10x 10.

Get the picture?

You focus on the overall goal, sure, but when you start to actually DO, you’re in the here and now, and in the REP you’re doing NOW.

Not the 500^th rep.

The rep NOW.

And if you segment your workouts this way, you’ll be nigh amazed at the progress you make within a very short while!

Anyway, that’s it for me. I’m out. Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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The kids out there in the park this afternoon were looking at me with THAT look in their eyes.

Eyes as round as saucers, and they weren’t even that young.

Young enough. Perhaps 10 or so but not that young not to “know”, and yet . . .

I was the only one crazy enough to workout in the outdoors today apparently (well, one of the crazy ones I’d say) in the blazing heat and humidity and I was doing thick bar work.

And pull-ups, and dips.

A fantastic combo, and a lot of that has been mentioned in the books on pull-ups.

And of course the Gorilla Grip series.

Thick bars are one of the keys and hidden secrets to getting a CRUSHING grip VERY FAST and those massive, SHREDDED forearms you’re after.

Not to mention the “unnatural pull to your grip”.

And as I worked out today, the kids were shaking their heads as if to say “what the heck is he up to!”

I was looking like I was in agony, and from a certain angle, I probably was!

As if I was straining.

About to bust an aneurysm (or whatever they call it!).

And all of this while hanging on to a THICK, thick bar with legs fully extended, inches off the ground.

And what was I doing?

Well, pull-ups for one, but I was doing something that will REALLY fry the grip and get your pull-up numbers shooting through the roof in very little time at all.

No pun intended!

That being, to CRUSH the bar.

Or try to.

And it’s something you too should do in every workout, or any workout where you do pull-ups, or grip work.

Remember, I’ve always told you to do pull-ups on thick bars.

Not the regular pull-up bars.

Those are great to start with and get good at pull-ups, but while you work on those, incorporate thick bar work into your training as  well on the side.

And keep at it.

And really, really try and SQUEEZE the THICK bars as you train.

Imagine the bar is an orange or plasticine or whatever gets it done that you’re CRUSHING.

Squeeze accordingly.

Obviously the bar won’t break or even bend, but you’ll be getting a heck of an isometric workout as you do these!

And that, my friends, for those that want it, is just ONE of the exercises I’ll mention in Isometric workouts – – when I finally do get going on it again. For those in the know, my computer crashed and along with it so did the half done book, so in true Shantaram style, I’ll have to start all over again.

That’s for another day tho.

For now, I’m back to watching a re-run of the Expendables.

Stallone sure does look good in that movie, and those forearms – – and traps – – well – – enough said!

As Stallone famously once said and as I keep saying.

If you really want to look huge, work the forearms and traps – and legs – HARD, HARD, HARD!

And on that note, I’m out. Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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As the pressure starts to mount big time on the Chinese Communist Party with the USA really stepping up the heat now (as it should!) the implosion I’ve been talking about has started to happen.

And people are FINALLY starting to buy into the September “watershed month” that I have been going on about for months now.

Make no mistake about it folks.

September will be a MONTH OF RECKONING in many regards globally, for MANY countries, if not the GLOBE.

This was nigh on obvious to me when China first started spreading the COVID-19 globally. Of course, the China tom tommers and liberals and even people whose opinion I respect didn’t believe me, branding me a loony.

And now, as events race on by until the “deadline”, I have people messaging me on Facebook and commenting on my Twitter posts etc saying the same damned thing.

HA!

I still remember Charles once telling me (NOT the customer Charles, the other one!) “there are no prizes for being right”.

Well, my dear Charles, are there any for being WRONG?

It’s amazing the length the China tom tommers will go to stick their heads in the sand and pretend “all is well” when it obviously isn’t!

But that ain’t the point of me saying this.

The point is, that the ONE Leader in China who I greatly admired, and who I’ve written about before had this to say about China in the 1980’s.

Hide your strength, bide your time.

And if ole Deng (Deng Xiaoping a famously astute and PRAGMATIC leader!) were alive today he’d be DISGUSTED at what has been going on in China even since Xi Jinping took power.

Not just disgusted.

I believe the old man would call for a purge, and rightly so.

Deng was NEVER an advocate of wars etc between nations. Or bullying others. Or . . .

(And YES, the man wasn’t perfect. NO, I don’t support Tinamen! But these things have to be looked at in the overall perspective).

Deng’s real vision was to build China into a REAL first world country – – but IN TIME.

And by rushing the process as the Chinese are doing in a haphaward and chaotic manner, they’ve just shot themselves in the foot.

The world was willing to work with china for years, and indeed DID (unfortunately).

And NOW??

If they had simply continued down Deng’s path, reforming themselves and becoming even more of an economic giant, then believe me, we wouldn’t HAVE conflict.

Democracy, human rights etc all would have come in good time – IF The country was developing (truly) along the lines that Deng intended it to be, as opposed to the gap between the rich and poor being wider than the Pacific right about now in China . . .

If some people get rich, it’s a good thing, said ole Deng (NOT the “to get rich is glorious” that is often attributed to him).

As things teeter on a precipice, and the world look ever more ready to erupt in full scale conflict, either economically or militarily, and as the COVID-19 rages on, I cannot help but think of China . . .

. . . A country I first went to in 2004, and a country that I REALLY HOPED all through the years would change.

A country with good people, and yet, people that are too scared to say anything against the repression of the CCP.

A country where I’ve made money, and continue to do so.

A country where . . . I’ve had more good experiences than many other places in the world.

And yet, a country I call out routinely, because at the end of the day, what is right is RIGHT, and what is wrong is WRONG.

And what China is or has been doing for the past 5 or 6 years (and especially post 2018) is just plain damn wrong.

It must be stopped.

And it WILL BE VERY SOON.

And the point again, is this.

Don’t rush things, my friend.

Let things happen.

Live in the flow.

In terms of fitness, don’t “rush” to lose that weight all at once, as it won’t happen.

Build a good fitness regimen. Do something daily. Everyday.

If you’re looking to get to 100 pull-ups per workout, get there, but gradually. NOT “all at once!”

Everything needs to take a natural course, and such is the case with life – and fitness as well!

And that’s that for now. Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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Tai Chi Fai Chi. Kung Fu Hung Hoo.

Hoo! Haaa! Hung!

My little girl loves to say these things while doing her version of the above two, and it’s so cute!

But cuteness aside (and the kung FU aside, which is anything but hilarious to be honest) lets talk fighting now.

Or self defense.

Or martial arts.

And let me tell you, while yours truly once believed that there was something to these “mystical oriental arts of fighting” that the so called gurus and champs promote, I quickly found out I was very wrong.

I thought that a good kung fu guy, for one, could take apart a boxer pretty quickly. After all, a REAL martial artist probably could (but yeah, we’re not getting into if boxing and wrestling are forms of martials arts themselves, and I believe they are to an extent!).

Anyway . . . I was WRONG.

And since this myth seems to be all prevalent across the Internet and even some otherwise smart dudes I talk to, let me clear it up once and for all.

Tai Chi, Fai Chi, and Kung Fu are not only some of the useless fighting arts out there, but also DANGEROUS to rely upon in a real fight, either in the ring or on the street.

Why?

Well, tons of reasons. But I’ll give you a few.

One being the airy fairy “open nature” of these movements, especially in terms of the upper body.

“Elbows in” is what you hear al the time from boxers, wrestlers and REAL martial artists, and rightfully so my friend. Not only does this give you great punching power for one, it also makes it far easier for you to bring your elbows down for instance, to protect them kidneys, ribs, and your sides in general.

Compare that to the seemingly “loose” punches thrown in the above two martial arts.

Second, the feet.

I don’t know why, but MOST of what I see in tai chi etc seems to be “exploding from a base” as opposed to being on your toes, and the latter to me is absolutely VITAL to any form of real self defense against a trained fighter.

My buddy Vincent once caught me on this while we were shadow boxing.

“On the toes, Rahul!” I can still hear him say. “Come on!”

(And this is a REAL fighter we’re talking here, from the Marines no less!)

And third?

Well, there are so many reasons again, but the third is that those kicks, for one are very easy to GRAB and take down.

And as my buddy from the Marines sagely and rightly told me, “Once you take him down, you’ve got him, especially with that GRIP of yours!”

(Unless he’s trained ji jitsu, or a wrestler, or . . . you get my drift!)

Want more reasons?

Well, the FOURTH reason I’ll give you is Google, and  guy named “Xu Xiaodong”

Lots of you reading this won’t believe me anyway, which is fine.

But the fact is that a Chinese mid level MMA guy (which probably makes him a little lower than that is American MMA) publicly once came out and debunked this myth as well (a few years back).

And he didn’t just talk.

He BACKED his talk up action.

IN the ring

He not only challenged the myth I am, but he issued an open challenge to all the Tai Chi masters (high level dudes at that) in his country (the mainland, of course, so you that claim “I’m a China hater” – well – think again!).

And he took them ALL on, and defeated them so easily it was like watching a baby fight him.

Literally.

In fact, the videos show him literally with his hands down, letting the tai chi morons beat upon him for ages, and then . . . POW!

Out of the blue, he’d just knock ‘em out.

(some of these guys actually called the cops on him before the fight. So much for their fighting skills!)

(Don’t believe me? https://www.scmp.com/sport/martial-arts/mixed-martial-arts/article/3085218/chinese-mma-fighter-xu-xiaodong-mocks-tai-chi – go here!).

And this is a low level MMA guy (still a bad ass though!).

And a guy that regretfully, but not entirely unexpectedly got death threats from a lot of Chinese for “denigrating their culture”.

Got his websites etc blocked by the CCP.

Had to go into hiding, quite literally!

All for saying it is like it is . . . . anyway, but as you on this list know, that’s the CCP for ya!

I don’t know about you, but I’ll take a level 4 boxers against a level 7 or 8 tai chi guy ANYDAY my friend.

Or a level 2 ji jitsu guy against a level 9 “kung fu shung hu” dude.

Sure, at the highest levels anything is dangerous and against an entirely untrained guy, these arts have merit. If he can’t box at all, for instance!

But in most cases, if the guy knows even a little something about fighting, then he’ll take the tai chi guy to the cleaners pronto and then some.

Tai Chi, although the Chinese wont admit it came from an ancient Indian (South Indian) martial art, and THAT was effective, especially when done with weapons as they still do in Kerala.

But the bastardized version of it? Nah. No way, Jose.

Now, the other side of the equation you ask  . . .

In terms of exercise . . .

. . . it’s not bad at all.

Especially not for a change.

And it’s great for overall flexibility etc, especially the kicks and that. I did Tae Kwon do in high school, and while even THAT is better than Tai Chi (but yet NOT a really effective fighting art unless at the very highest levels) the kicks and exercises are GREAT.

Not just for beginners, but you advanced guys out there as well!

And ditto for boxers, wrasslers etc (for a change especially!).

But is it better than a regular pushup – pull-up workout system?

Or a regular rope jumping routine?

Hell no my friend.

And it certainly isn’t better than the 0 Excuses Fitness System either, which taxes your body in so many ways you can’t even begin to imagine right now.

Wanna know more on that?

Well, click on over HERE my friend.

I’ll be waiting . . . to welcome ya aboard!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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