SheepishLord

I just purchased a copy of this $81 book because I am proud and honored to support someone who devotes himself to cultivation. Really, quite a few of you here DISGUST me. All talking about your principles but you can't cough up money to someone who translates a cultivation text!!! You should all be ashamed! If he does rip you off then a curse is on him for cheating people in terms of cultivation and at least you demonstrated in a concrete manner your committment to achievement. -Plato

I never bought his fish oil! Pharmaceutical-grade fish oil is cheap and common, yet Dr. Dave claims his is the only real one or some shit and then wants to charge $80/bottle of whatever the hell he is charging these days. Cod liver oil is the bomb: it has got everything that fish oil has PLUS vitamins A & D and a massive bottle of the best stuff is $6!!! The things in life that are most important are often cheap and neglected it seems... But in all seriousness, the principles behind Matt Furey's "Long Life System" are solid: they resonate with that Doctor in Shanghai who tells people to go to sleep with the sunset every day (something I have been preaching for years) and then slap the gall bladder meridian upon awakening from the liver on down for several minutes without stopping in order to cure cancer. She has an incredible cure rate! Ah, how I yearn for the days that boasted such incredible products as "Combat Conditioning" and "Magnetic Mind Power!" These days there is a $300 DVD set that teaches you how to be a failure in the bedroom, and another $300 DVD set that teaches you how to hang from one arm like a chimp in order to impress girls, which we all know is impossible since a gorilla has different tendon placement and tensile strength which accounts for its power.

Dude, you are sooooooooooo fucking gay...

Lozen, What Max is trying to communicate to you is that a person needs to take responsibility for what happens in their life. You may believe you are taking responsibility for your own protection by toting knives, obsessing on redundant combat training protocols, etc., but in fact you are in the process of creating a potentially very ugly reality for yourself. Looking back on the people who passed through my life, every single person who made it a habit of packing a gun or knife drew trouble to them like a magnet. This is why I never carry weapons. Plus, I don't need them to take someone out. Nobody does. The important thing to keep in mind is that since neither of us are in law enforcement nor part of a military operation, when a real situation demanding real violence comes our way, we will never have the time to get our guns and knives out. Anyway, what are you doing in a bar where you have to pull a knife on a guy? Why are strange men getting confrontational with a woman in a bar is also an important question? Look, if you tell us here that you are standing in a bar with a knife against your leg while some unaware guy yells at you there is a serious problem with your comprehension of the reality that you are baiting to come your way. Your behavior is that of someone suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. No human being behaves like you do unless something really fucked up happened at one time. The problem is that you are subconsciously attracting THE EXACT SAME EXPERIENCE in the vain hope that another crisis will allow you the opportunity to release the traumatic experiences stored in your tissues. Such a path is most unskillfull. Go to www.centerIMT.com and spend some of that training money getting your traumas released. They are the best in the world IMO, and when you release your bullshit you'll finally have a choice not to set up your life to get raped by some guy on the outside of by a correctional officer on the inside. As a matter of fact, getting your traumas released will make you an even deadlier adversary if you want a "lozen" reason to do it. All the dealiest fighters are totally slack and smiling.

Lozen, Here are my 3 favorite links on self-OFFENSE: http://www.tftgroup.com/ (expensive route but these guys don't fuck around) http://www.trsdirect.com/product.php?sku=FJ-77 (very cheap--like a budget TFT but totally awesome) http://www.trsdirect.com/product.php?sku=BC-77 (best handgun training DVDs you can get--other pachages leave this out.) This stuff is so good. It is really all you need to "train." Too bad I live in the city where handguns are too expensive and the laws too strict about gun ownership. I am a professional marksman and experienced with revolvers, pistols and shotguns, but I wish I could do more training with automatics because my jam-clearing and mag-changing skills are shit. The Ben Cooley videos taught me so much, especially the stuff about reactionary gaps which I thought I understood, but when dealing with guns there is simply no margin at all. The whole problem, which is pointed out very clearly by the guys at TFT is the problem of intent. You have to have the intent to harm (offense) in order to "defend" yourself because "self-defense" is flat-out impossible. So the question is, "Where does one get intent?" Other questions would be, "Did your friend really do the wrong thing?" Sometimes there is an underlying wisdom. Some guy threw a bottle at my head some time ago and I did nothing about it because I knew it would go no further, and nobody saw it anyway. However, Saturday night some guy disrespected me on the street and I hit him without even thinking about it. Everything is a decision.

When it is on Amazon write kick-ass reviews for it! BTW, Could someone post this news on RMAX forum? My login no longer works. Guess I haven't been there in that long.

I don't think so. Do you have a link? Can't seem to get that clip to work.

Yeah, I wuz watching 30 UFC fights with Max the other day (a rather gay thing to do) and one of the fights was very interesting: Jeremy Horn, who is a fantastic fighter and a real bad-ass was fighting Chuck Liddell, who is an internal martial artist. Chuck has never claimed to be nor did anyone ever suggest it, but if you ever watch his breathing you will see his "bell." You may also notice that he is hardly ever taken to the ground, and when he hits, his hands always move slow until just before impact when they accelerate. In addition, he knocks people out by hitting them in the side of the head which is really difficult (can you say brain damage?) Anyway, Jeremy Horn was putting up an awesome defense and Chuck Liddell was smarter then to follow a grappling genius like Jeremy Horn to the ground so the stand-up went on forever.... Suddenly, Jeremy got popped in his eye socket and surrendered the fight almost instantly. Like, you hear all this bullshit about how much "heart" these guys have in order to take beatings but once they get it in the eye socket the look on their faces says everything and ALL the heart is out of them. This is not to diss Jeremy Horn because that guy LOVES to fight and can take a beating and a half and I am a big fan of his, but it goes to show you something about the human condition: unless you are some Buddha with no attachment to your body, when the body thinks it is going to be destroyed, everything usually goes out the window.

Yo--what were you doing in a JD camp? HAHAHA!!! Also, I am not dissing your culture or saying wrestlers are ALL gay. Obviously you and Sean are not gay. But seriously, that video clip from "Emily's Reasons..." had me laughing and laughing. It is a joke, but with quite some truth behind it and since it bugged you the situation sort of begged for me to step in and start shit. I watch MMA all the time with Max and my fav fighter is Fedor's brother Alex. I watch the UFC reality show and will probably fly out with Max to see the next big Las Vegas fight so maybe you want to drop by and hang when we work out the details? -P

I have no interest in fights with Cameron as I have nothing but good feelings for him. Besides, next to me he is like The Great Gama with all his kettlebells, Aikido, and BJJ. I have zero chance against him. True story: last night my gf's son was telling me about how his friend got stabbed this week 6 times in his kidney. He was a BJJ guy who watched two many MMA shows when some smaller guy with no training bumped him in a pool hall. Mr. BJJ immediately went off about "saying excuse me." One thing led to another and Mr. BJJ took him to the ground. One of Mr. Small Untrained's friends threw him a knife and he put it in Mr. BJJ's kidney 6 times, got up and walked away. Bullshido is the very thing it crusades against. Those guys are so busy arguing yet when you watch their private grudge matches it is always bullshit until suddenly the violence turns from SOCIAL to ASOCIAL due to ego and then you see how a jab in the throat shuts down the best fighter's game in 2 seconds. All you guys study martial arts to protect yourself from criminals yet criminals always have the upper hand like in the story of the guy getting his kidney popped even though they have no martial arts training. What they do have is no illusion about violence. They have intent to take you down and respect no rules. Incidentally Mr. Momeni, it is for the very reason that homosexuality is punishable by death that wrestling is so popular in Iran. What other outlet is there for those strong, strong men?

There will be no showdown between us because I will lose. See, as much as I say grappling is gay, I love it--yet I do not train it. I suck at grappling. I lose to grapplers all the time. So why don't I train it? In a real fight, fights are over in about 3-5 seconds. In a real fight, you never know when it starts. You don't have the luxury of being in a ring with a bell going off. When a REAL fight starts (I am talking about ASOCIAL violence), someone will hit first. If they hit accurately the fight is over. Will you hit first or will you be a bitch? Probably the latter. When a 220 pound guy surprises you in East Williamsburg with a knife you will be fucking scared. You'll have a girl with you so you won't be able to run--and he will have 1 or 2 boys as backup. Guess you should have been more alert, ay? UFC and Pride are FULL of rules for a reason, and the intent of the fighters is never to maim or kill another. It is sport, and as a sport it is pretty gay. Just 'cause you or Gracie or Fedor will kick my ass doesn't change a thing. Imagine Mike Tyson bit off Holyfield's nose instead of a piece of his ear. You don't think people punched out each other's eyes while grappling in a WW1 trench? Take the toughest UFC fighter and punch his eyeball out. Doesn't take much if you've got the intention. When that eyeball comes out it will be over with him in hysterics. Ask any prison convict, military commando, or bouncer how many times he has ever gone to the ground and grappled. When a fight is ASOCIAL, you will always be confronted with more, stronger opponents and you better hope they have poor hitting mechanics and bad targeting because otherwise you will be dead. The thing is, you've got to have intention, and most don't. So they train these "soft" SOCIAL violence modalities hoping that it will get them through an ASOCIAL situation by "blessing" them with intention. It never does. So why practice grappling? It's fun! It's a good workout! I love it myself. But it's also kinda' gay. Better to face the realities of real violence (the only situation you will have NO CHOICE about entering into) and devote that grappling practice time to making $$$ and fucking bitches.

It is going to be in print in a week or two. Right now only in eBook form. In a month or two--bookstores.

BTW, you are the official DRAMA QUEEN of online Taoist circles Pietro is the official "belt-holder" as far as drama goes. I'm just controversial.

Cameron, Heather Graham is 100% on the money. BJJ IS gay. As a matter of fact, the only thing gayer then BJJ is a guy who keep posting about guys grappling around. Hell, my own father (who is a manly motherfucker--former boxer and kettlebell champion) thinks MMA is gay. Historically, wrestling clubs were filled with homosexuals and bisexuals. These guys were tough bastards who went with women on the outside and would crack your skull for looking at them cock-eyed, but they loved the dick when nobody was around. Anyone who is old-school (like my dad born 1930) knows grappling is all about the cock. Seb Cox even has a great article on it on his site. These days you go to any school where grappling is going on and you will see the repressed homo vibes all over the place. Unless, of course, you are repressed yourself. I've grappled with a lot of guys here and there and the homosexual undertones are hilarious. Half these guys need to take out an ad on craigslist.org under "str8t man seeks other str8t man." Joe Rogan, the MMA male spokesmodel, is a typical in-the-closet cocksucker, hanging around the "big boys" with his mouth half open. Sure, he'll kick my ass for saying so, but so will Peter North, and we all know he used to take it in the ass. We've got the films. Wake up! Why else would you study grappling? Would you grapple in a street fight? I hope not! Even your friend Wanderlie Silva just beats the hell out of his opponents. He knows what to do in a street-fight: hit first and be a steam-roller. Now I love watching MMA and I don't care that it is gay. Then again, I just wrote a book on anal orgasms. But if you want to pick up hot chicks like Heather Graham (and I do it frequently despite my amorphous sexuality), don't tell them you do grappling because they will think you've got some gay shit going on and they will be right. Oh, and please don't tell me this shit about how "I'm gonna' taste balls at the hand of a BJJ guy" for saying this (typical shit I've heard on MA discussion boards) because that is gay also. -Sheep

Okay CAMERON, but "Shieky" was so cool! Thanks for nominating me for a #3 ranking. It feels good to be appreciated. That BJJ champ you linked to who was doing the alligator walks is really cool. What style of BJJ does he represent? You may want to Google g5 Silica which may help your knee but you've got to write away to order it. _SheepishLLL BTW, you know why Parkour is taking off in Russia? 'Cause there ain't nothing else to do in that broke-ass nation!

Shieky--ever wonder why the craters are all so shallow despite being so large in diameter? The way I see it, the crazy shit talked about on the Internet is better then any stupid movie. Who cares if it is true or not? The way I see it, if you are wrong, you look like a fool. If you are right, you are a winner. Either way, you expand your mind. Think about it.

Hey, I wasn't dissing Yoda. He's got MAD respect from me. Don't make trouble Shieky--I was just calling you a fag because it felt so right at the moment. BTW Shieky, do they have "Gay Games" for xBox 360 yet? Anyway, I have recovered full strength in my right shoulder. Turns out the nasty fall my ribs took on the hard floor (after flying 15 feet through the air) during a paintball competition hit my liver so hard I created a micro-tear in it. My body siezed up to protect it so the tendons all bound up and I thought I got a rotator cuff tear but it was really okay. Surprised me since I did so many Body-Flow things that I would fuck up my R.C. Anyway, a Russian healer fixed my liver and now I am working out again so when you come to town for the gay parade I can fireman-carry you down the street! HAR HAR HAR

Hey everyone, you may want to bookmark my new blog, www.nyctaoist.com because I will be dumping all my stories, travels and discoveries in one place. My old info page on taobum.com is no more, but all relevant information (and then some) will be reincarnated on this blog-o'-mine.

I tend to agree with Craig here, and wish to offer some thoughts: While cutting the tendon may result in quick results, if your heart opens up the tendon may naturally expand allowing your tongue (extension of your heart) to reach up there naturally? I also have this thought that cutting that tendon may have consequences. I saw a yogi years ago who had done it and been stretching his tongue and he could hang this thing out of this mouth like a necktie. I didn't find it very attractive. Nonetheless, you innate wisdom should tell you what to do. Of course, wisdom is earned via failure life-after-life so be careful--the modification you are undertaking is permanent! First staring into the sun, now this. Time for me to retire as I've become to boring. I'm going to be 35 this April. Anyway, my face and skull is changing along with my posture thanks to NCR (thanks to "BS!" *props*). I have another series in November, and by April there should be serious change afoot. Hey, check this out BTW: www.invisiblemaster.com I am thinking of dropping into Australia on my next Far East trip. Take a 2-week course then head to Bangkok so I can get ball massages all day and fuck 2 superstars at the same time every night in the ass in a giant jacuzzi (with condoms of course so I don't get the AIDS like Sheiky has) . Anybody want to come along?

While Luke's last battle was the best fight of the season so far and he knocked out his opponent with a knee to the chin, had time not ran out when it did at the end of the 2nd round there is a good chance that Luke would have had to submit to an arm bar. I know he got out of a strong choke in each fight, but an arm bar like that one is a different story! Still, time was on his side and in round 3 there was one hell of a slug-fest ending in KO.

Luke Cummo is a Taoist MMA guy on Spike TV's "Ultimate Fighter" and he was the LAST pick as no coach wanted him. He defeated 2 other guys and is going to be in the finals in front of 1,000s of people. He does internal training and eats raw stuff on the show, as well as talk about sex a lot. Max and I root for him every episode.

Yes, Lozen--as long as she doesn't drink his semen from the spent condom afterwards.

GT, What you are experiencing is a sign of correct cultivation. Guess what? Most women are filthy. So are most men, for that matter. It has nothing to do with taking a shower either. Their chi is like a swamp. Ever been with a girl and she is so hot yet you can't get erect? There is nothing wrong with you. Your penis has intelligence and is trying to protect you from the woman. A penis is an energy communication instrument. Since most women are filthy and inherently egomaniacal, they get pissed off at your enlightened statement (as opposed to men who could care less if they are called filthy). When your nose starts to open up, you will be amazed at how many people's internal organs stink of sickness. Some people even smell like the dead because they are, yet remain too stubborn to lie down. There are 3 main ways that women get so dirty: 1. Poor Diet 2. Bad Thoughts 3. Undigested Semen (vaginas are NOT self-cleaning) #3 will of course create the biggest uproar, but the fact is that virgin girls are so pure because they have not become a sperm toilet for men. As they say "it is easier to clean a pole then it is a hole." Contrast a farm girl from Fujian with bar girl in Pataya. The purity of some girls is amazing! Jealous females will say all sorts of shit to invalidate their purity, but those with some cultivation know what the deal is! Don't get me wrong, I love dirty whores but my hellish tastes do not invalidate your heavenly observations--on my sexual menu spoiled meat simply has the best taste. When I was 18 and still a virgin (I think I lost it as 20) somebody was making fun of me because I hadn't gotten laid. This old, grizzled man was hanging out in the area and said "He's just scared--and rightfully so. Maybe he instinctively knows women?" How right that old man was. I can tell you that when the Taoists declared the bedroom a battlefield they weren't joking. Sexual relationships are a deadly war for energy and anyone who thinks otherwise is already a dead man or else a female covering her twisted (albeit perfectly natural) agenda. There is nothing wrong with fucking anything, as long as you are aware of what it is that you are fucking. Listen to your cock. If you aren't naturally hard without thought then don't fuck that girl. If you think her chi is dirty then it is. If you even have the thought to use a condom use it. Of course, Spyrelx has a good point. Don't use judgement of another to rationalize not being able to close a set. Try downloading the Mystery Method ebook if you want to up your game. -P

Well toots, like they say, "Once you go Plato and Max, you never go bax!" Unless you are Polish, of course!