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    Pulling No Punches. Inside The Snake Fist Karate Federation
    Pulling No Punches. Inside The Snake Fist Karate Federation
    Pulling No Punches. Inside The Snake Fist Karate Federation
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    Pulling No Punches. Inside The Snake Fist Karate Federation

    By Thomas Daw

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    Pulling no punches is the latest book from Grand Master Daw, President of the Snake Fist Karate Federation. In Pulling No Punches, we learn all about Grand Master Daw and how the SFKF came to be. We learn how to think and act as a top-level martial artist, how to teach Snake Fist Karate and much more. There's a quiz, tons of useful advice and GM Daw teaches you exactly how to train to become one of the best black belts in Snake Fist Karate. We also learn the martial arts history of SFKF's Vice President, Rich Nielsen.

     

    If you are an existing student of Snake Fist Karate, this book is for you. The SFKF is the place to be for anyone wishing to learn one of the world's strongest martial arts, Snake Fist Karate. Existing students in Snake Fist Karate are welcome to join us in the SFKF. The Snake Fist Karate Federation represents the gold standard in Snake Fist Karate; we are global. If you would like to learn Snake Fist Karate from beginner to black belt and beyond, we are on eBay, and have a website online.

     

    Please note: this book does not teach physical Karate techniques. The Pulling No Punches eBook is 100 pages and is in PDF format. Existing knowledge of Snake Fist Karate would help, as would being a member of the SFKF before buying this eBook, but this is not essential. Anyone can buy this eBook and get inside the mind of the Snake Fist Karate Federation. This eBook may contain some bad language.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Daw
    Release dateAug 6, 2022
    ISBN9798201451561
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      Pulling No Punches. Inside The Snake Fist Karate Federation - Thomas Daw

      CONTENTS.

      Introduction.

      Rich Nielsen: Vice President of the Snake

      Fist Karate Federation.

      Why Martial Arts?

      It’s Up to You.

      Beginning Training in Martial Arts.

      Real Life Snake Fist Karate Training.

      The Power Within.

      Teaching Snake Fist Karate.

      Martial Arts? Things You Should Know.

      The Real Snake Fist Karate.

      Hollywood Versus Reality.

      Martial Arts Quiz.

      Understanding.

      Conclusion.

      INTRODUCTION.

      Hello and thank you for buying this book. I am Grand Master Thomas Daw, the President and owner of the Snake Fist Karate Federation, or SFKF for short. This book is going to share with you some of my experiences, attitude and perspectives on martial arts and Snake Fist Karate.

      This book is for any students of Snake Fist Karate, and for anyone wishing to know more. The SFKF is a very real martial arts school and anyone is welcome to join and learn from us if they wish.

      I have been involved in Snake Fist Karate since the beginning of 2008. I got to 1st Dan in about a month, and almost fell in love with Snake Fist Karate: it’s a powerful and yet simple style. I was already black belt in Taekwondo in 1999, assistant instructor and basically star pupil, able to open a Dojo at 16. I also studied Lar Gar, Wing Chun and Tai Chi in real clubs. As if that wasn’t enough, I also studied many other styles from home, like someone looking for treasure; looking for something special. I did train with weapons also- nunchucku, tonfa, knives- stuff like that- all years before my training in Snake Fist.

      Snake Fist Karate was created by Sensei Brett Ernest in California in the late 1980s/early 1990s. I never met or knew Sensei Ernest, but we chatted a few times online and were friendly: our talks were always martial arts. I created basic study guides for Snake Fist Karate in about 2009 and am the only student in the world to have permission to sell my guides from Brett Ernest.

      Brett Ernest used to be the owner of the SKKA Academy, and he created some awesome styles. Anyone can just do Taekwondo for life or follow one style, but those who go further sometimes find joy in eventually creating their own martial arts. Many modern experts of martial arts have deliberately studied different styles to expert levels or Dan ranks, and after decades of training, they start to create their own styles.

      It takes serious skill to create decent martial arts that are strong in the modern world. Anyone can technically put moves together under different belt levels, and call it a style. But not all moves fit together in martial arts, and not all styles blend either. It takes an expert to create styles that flow well, and don’t have any stupid difficulty curve.

      Trust me, I’ve seen many styles that are terrible. It’s common for a home study course to have 600 moves or something stupid for yellow belt, then orange belt is 6 self-defense techniques: amateurs make themselves look silly when trying to be experts. The martial arts expert is not an MMA fighter, in fact I don’t agree with the term ‘mixed martial artist’ being applied to cage fighters who know a dozen moves at best. The modern martial arts Master or Grand Master is the real mixed martial artist, having rank in several styles, and therefore the ability to blend their knowledge on the spot if need be.

      With the SKKA and his styles, Brett Ernest showed his strong background in Karate and other styles. Snake Fist Karate took all the snobbery, pointless emphasis on ceremony and tradition out of Karate and focused on the training. As any decent martial arts expert will tell you, your lineage and who you trained with means nothing to punks on the street after your wallet; it never will. I applied my discipline from training in Taekwondo and Kung Fu years before to Snake Fist Karate, and still go through the style every year. I go through between 6 and 10 martial arts every year: most styles I train in I designed, and I train in other styles like Snake Fist Karate also.

      I was heavily influenced by Taekwondo, Kung Fu, Karate and other styles, before I started creating my own. In 2013, Sensei Ernest asked me to join him and start something online- I jumped at the chance. And so, the MFMA was born. Almost immediately after MFMA was established, Brett found another job and gave up on martial arts, leaving me alone with the MFMA. I had an opportunity here to do something special with a view to martial arts, and the MFMA is living proof. I couldn’t drop the ball and spend the rest of my life wondering what could have happened, had I made a go of the MFMA; it would have killed me mentally.

      I kept on with MFMA, working ridiculously hard, filming my courses and designing rock-hard martial arts; fun, but not easy. I had no encouragement, no motivation and no big bags of cash as an incentive for all my creativity: my efforts have been purely out of the love of martial arts training. In short, I did all of the things I have accomplished because I could. My logic was, I’m training at home all the time, and few know half of what I know anyway, so why not create new styles and give back to the martial arts world? Any martial arts expert in any style will tell you, if we were in this for the money we wouldn’t bother, would we?

      Years went by and I slowly gained students online. I am very glad to have any students in all honesty. I am the sort of martial artist who is all about the training- I’m not bothered about looking cool or being Mr. Popularity. Where I come from, martial arts were the opposite of popularity. When I was a kid, I made a ton of people laugh, but I chose martial arts over popularity. I had to have something for me, not for a grade on a piece of paper, for street cred or the respect of my peers. I wanted the skills and the ability to learn martial arts. Being more patient and determined than most human beings alive, I got what I wanted and much more. I gave up some styles and tried many more, but I never gave up martial arts altogether.

      I don’t claim any ranks I haven’t earned 100 times over. I have more black belts given to me by students than most people have earned. But my point is that if you focus on the snobbery, the belt and the image of martial arts, you miss the focus on training. The belt won’t matter to thugs trying to attack you, will it? If you’ve trained hard for years like I have, nobody will kick your ass and nobody can control you: you can’t be intimidated by pretenders. If you’ve trained hard your skills will reflect that, and if you have done nothing, yet hide behind a high Dan rank, it will show in real combat.

      Snake Fist Karate is one of my favourite styles, outside of the styles I have personally created, and there are many of them. In some ways Snake Fist Karate is no different than any other martial art: you either train hard or you don’t. In martial arts you get out what you put into it personally: there’s no reliance on ‘the team’ or bluffing your way out.

      I know Snake Fist is a home study martial art, and those who can’t be bothered will never appreciate it. But often those who train hard end up loving Snake Fist, as do I. Watching a DVD won’t make you a black belt- you have to follow the course and train at least twice a week. Some people watch a martial arts DVD, realise it’s going to be hard training and say it’s rubbish, instead of bothering to train. The people who give up before they’ve even started are rubbish, not the styles.

      After Sensei Ernest sold the SKKA in 2011, the new guy took over and I think he was all about the money. The new owner of the SKKA packed in because he had no enthusiasm, I think. As I wrote before, martial arts are a hobby, not a money- maker, for most of us. If you run martial arts clubs and you don’t give a hoot, who else is going to care? If you don’t give a damn about your products, nobody else will, will they?

      After Sensei Ernest sold the SKKA, I had very little to do with the club: I thought I would write this because many think all kinds of bullshit, but my story is true. I was merely a student of the SKKA, I never ran it or had any part in the new ownership.

      In 2020 Covid struck and my brother told me to give up my job to protect my family, so I did; then I had more time on my hands. I was incredibly ill almost as soon as I gave up my job, and almost died, but here I am, still ticking. It’s very possible that I could have had Covid, as I didn’t stop coughing for months, and I think only my fitness and common sense saved my life. Despite being very ill, I kept on with the martial arts.

      Kept on with the martial arts is the understatement of the year. I created the SFKF, the GSA and all that goes with a decent martial arts club online. Websites, study guides, member’s only areas, video programs, the whole thing. And, I wrote a ton of eBooks between 2020 and 2022. Martial arts teaching is not all physical- I believe you have to have at least a couple of books behind you. Books from your perspective, not just writing about techniques; plagiarising other’s work. Whatever I say I have done in relation to martial arts, far from boasting, I have in actual fact always done far more than I say I have. For those who want the ins and outs of everything I have done, my books are available on the MFMA website, and in stores globally.

      The SFKF was created to unite all students of Snake Fist Karate. I have a lesson program that serves as a companion to the official Snake Fist Karate Syllabus. I have also written the SFKF guide book, essentially the Snake Fist Karate Bible. And to be honest, I cannot believe that nobody expanded on the style of Snake Fist Karate before me. Somebody had to do it. I worked my nuts off and many times I went the extra mile because I wanted to, with Snake Fist Karate

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