Life changes produce surprising results

Life changes produce surprising results

Something really scary happened to my martial arts because of the Silva techniques. And I had no clue it was happening until after it happened. Let me tell you about it.

I'd taken the Silva method originally to learn psychic skills and had never used them specifically to enhance my martial arts, except for general programming. Things like, Every day in every day I'm going to get better and better at sparring.”

Then one day I entered a tournament in Pocatello, Idaho.

I attacked my opponent, whomped on him, then broke away. He seemed slower than slow molasses.

Now here comes the scary part:

Not one of the four judges, nor the ref had seen me score a point!

So I did it again. And again. And again.

I did it four different times and they had no clue what I was doing.

By this time I was getting a bit pissed off so I blitzed my poor opponent, actually penetrating his mouth twice and his body once with a three shot combination.

As I retreated, the "tortoise” counterattacked with a reverse punch that I easily saw incoming and deflected with my elbow.

The judges did not see my three punches.

The judges did not see my block.

But the judges did see the "tortoise's” weak punch and he was awarded a point.

After he was awarded the point, then the ref saw the blood dripping down from his lower lip where I'd rammed two teeth through it. The bright red blood was running down his chin onto his clean, white uniform.

In a karate tournament, you are not supposed to draw blood, so I was disqualified. And what was I disqualified for? The judges disqualified me for drawing blood with a blow that they never saw!

That night I went to level and asked for an explanation of what had really happened. Here's the answer that came through:

"You are now so fast that no one trained in normal’ karate can see what you are doing. If they see anything at all, they are seeing only a blur.”

After that, I made up four tournament fighting drills that were visual enough so that the "tortoise” slow judges and refs could actually see them, but the actual opponent, from his different head-to-head perspective, couldn't see them. Then my team went out and kicked butt!

It was so easy it was also pathetic. If we went to a tournament with nine students, we'd come back with sixteen trophies. One time I took a team of thirteen people (none of them special in any way except for the four "secret” sparring drills) to one of the biggest tournaments on the West Coast. We came back with twenty-seven trophies.

My own Grand Master was there and he made the comment to me, "Your student's are doing everything wrong.”

So I asked him how many trophies his students had won.

His reply, "We took a total of eight, and three of those eight are mine!”

I then asked, "How many students did you take?” His reply, "Sixteen students.”

I then told him, "When I take a team, I don't fight. I go to teach and support my team. My thirteen guys (two were women) took twenty-seven trophies. Your sixteen guys only took five trophies. It seems to me that we are doing something that you're not.” I then turned around and walked away.

He didn't talk to me for the next fifteen years. At least until I got famous enough that his ego was boosted by telling folks that he was one of my original trainers, therefore taking credit along with me, for the books, videos and manuals that I've produced since 1978. And that's okay because only by standing on the shoulders of great trainers like him could I have advanced as far as I have. Thank you.

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