To stand on the Way
The philosophy of horting is a philosophy of goodness. The stronger a person is, the kinder he is. A strong person, a successful athlete of combat horting, cannot be evil. He is in control of himself, he is balanced, and nothing can ever upset him. The path of combat horting is the path of a warrior, and it is incompatible with anger and pettiness. Good thoughts, a beautiful goal adorn the athlete's path. Only by adhering to this philosophy can one achieve truly great success in this combat sport. The ascent to the top begins with the first step. To create conditions suitable for the formation of personal qualities of a strong character, a person needs to mature within himself, start fighting not only for external successes - the ability to perform techniques, to pump up a strong and beautiful body, but also to fight against his moral shortcomings and weaknesses. An athlete who has decided to make combat horting not just his hobby, which has a positive effect on vital indicators, but to give it all his strength, to devote his life to the path of searching for truth, to completely and finally choose combat horting as his life path, must be aware of what guidelines he should adhere to. Start with elementary self-control and simple exercises of self-discipline, force yourself to work and not be lazy. Look at everything simply and confidently. Do not run away from fear. Analyze it and perceive fear only as a physical feeling.
The fear that we are afraid to look into the eyes can kill us, but step through it directly. Observe your fears and understand that you should not succumb to them. Think of them as a film that you saw in the cinema. What you see on the screen does not really exist. Fear will come and go just like the frames on the screen, if you do not persistently hold on to it. Do not live in the past.
Combat horting teaches not to fight, but to win. Combat horting training and competitions are not aimed at developing aggression. The release of energy that occurs during a contact duel reduces a person’s irritability, strengthening his spirit. The school of combat horting is based on wisdom: it is wisdom that makes a combat horting athlete stronger, anger, on the contrary, weakens him. The most important victory in combat horting is considered to be victory over oneself: finding and eliminating one’s own shortcomings, fighting negative reactions and habits, the ability to accept defeat with dignity.
So, now you are on the path of combat horting, with you is a team of people, your like-minded people. It is never too late to start all over again. But in order to start changing, you need to let go of the past. Do not live with the burden of past training in other types of martial arts, defeats, losses and failures. It is all gone. Live today, embark on the path of combat horting. Build your life on new foundations, letting go of everything negative forever, let it become the legacy of past unsuccessful lessons. Having chosen your path, be careful not to turn away from it. Do not waste your strength on feelings of self-pity. Understand that this is an absolutely useless waste of energy. Self-pity, resentments make you move in a circle, returning again and again to the same bitter thoughts about defeats. A feeling of resentment stored in your soul for years can even lead to illness. Do not punish yourself now if someone offended you in the past. Let go of the past through a sense of forgiveness. Having chosen your path, everyone must be imbued with a sense of responsibility for their choice, because leaving creates a difficult memory; in this case, it would be better not to approach at all. Find out how all schools of combat horting view leaving a teacher and replacing him with another. The thread of separation is severed, no one can connect it. Only the apostate disciple himself, having gone through many trials and realizing the gravity of his act, after a whole series of efforts aimed at self-improvement and positive development, can again ask the Teacher to come closer, but no one else can do this on his own. Therefore, it is necessary to very clearly warn suitable disciples about their devotion to the school and their striving for spiritual advancement, which is absolutely necessary to irrevocably decide in the depths of their hearts whether they give themselves completely and unconditionally to the Path of martial horting, without condemning or offending anyone.
Often, in his desire for immediate advancement and greater knowledge, a person rushes in search of other teachings and leaders and in his split, and sometimes even mood, loses the step on which he stood. Do not betray the Teacher and do not betray the Path. Forgiveness is a farewell. Farewell to feelings of bitterness and resentment, a feeling of pain. A combat horting athlete must be able to quickly say goodbye to a negative situation in general. Conversely, a state of unforgiveness actually leads to the beginning of destructive activity in ourselves - bad thoughts accumulated over the years eventually turn against their owner. Do not dwell on thoughts about bad performances at competitions, you have a long path of success ahead of you. It was a past experience that led you to a new step forward. Think and talk about what is good in your life, good performances, sports achievements, even the most insignificant ones. Turn your thoughts in a positive direction.
Everyone is free to choose their own path. It often happens that some people easily get carried away by various teachings, martial arts, etc. Without having time to deeply understand and understand the essence of one teaching, they immediately find another and so on endlessly. It is similar to how a person, wanting to climb a mountain peak, constantly runs from one path to another, without ever taking the direction upwards. So he will go around the mountain faster than he will get even a step closer to the peak. Having chosen the Path of Combat Horting, go straight, you can look around, but the main thing is to keep your chosen direction, and only then, walking straight along the chosen Path, you can achieve maximum results. If you are not going to your goal, then someone else is going to it. Plan as many things as possible for each day that could bring you pleasure. Leave time to train more, communicate with masters of combat horting, or read a useful book to gain deep knowledge needed on the path. Go to birthdays of friends and relatives, visit anniversaries, exhibitions and other entertainment events. Do not force yourself to have fun until you drop, just be in harmony, be on the path. Help other people, and you will feel that it becomes more pleasant for you to live. You should know that the path to understanding the spirit is slower than to mastering energy or strengthening the body. In fact, this is a lifelong path, because life is a process, in it you cannot stop at one place. But maintaining an altered state of the psyche is also a process, so, of course, a teacher is needed in this area.
The real Path of combat horting is very multifaceted. Only by understanding this can you gain solid knowledge and discover the secrets of traditions that go back centuries. Masters of combat horting, brought up in traditional manners and rigor, carry within themselves the echoes of the old ritual, which, as it were, spiritually strengthens combat horting from within. They embodied and embody combat horting as a martial art and as a method of spiritual improvement, the upbringing of a moral person. Therefore, today's youth strive not only to join the secrets of the martial art technique, but also to touch the traditional past with its customs and forms of communication, to rest their souls from immoral reality. After all, comprehending the basics of combat horting, students transfer the whole mass of knowledge into their everyday lives. They gradually develop respect for life, for health, for themselves, for the teacher and those older than them, the opponent, for all the people around them. Combat horting classes involve not only the separate development of each element, but also deepen the process of their fusion and harmony. The psychological and physical exercises used for this purpose complement each other. At the same time, mastering the basics of combat horting is impossible without the student's internal self-discipline, his readiness to embark on the difficult Path of knowledge. Regardless of how you perform in competitions, what sporting successes you have, hold your head high and behave as if you are a happy person. If you are truly armed with the will and desire to overcome your troubles - believe me, luck will not keep you waiting long. Most people believe that they have a Path in life or are following it. Even among those who are engaged in various spiritual systems, this turns out to be a deceptive thought or even a mistake. Blindly following certain traditions or standards does not mean having your own Path or following it. The external form is not so important here as the internal state of a person. Sometimes you meet people who have lived on this earth for quite a few years or have practiced martial arts for several decades, but have never understood how they lived, what they did and what they aspired to, and there are others who seem to be still young in years, but are already firmly on the Path, know what to strive for and know the values of life.
The Path, if considered as a structure, includes stages of awareness, cognition, improvement, self-control. As a term, it came to us with an understanding of our original national culture and way of life. If a person or student gets acquainted with something new, progressive, sometimes unknown, but very useful for life, while becoming stronger, healthier and happier, then this is good - there are no moral contradictions. If we take the ideology of religions, we can see that, having different names and directions, they are essentially the same. Universal human values are the main thing that unites and that any path should include. The truth of life is always one, and there are many paths to it, it is important to find your own Path in your life and follow it all your life. One realizes this and strives for it, while the other lives life, understanding in the end that it is as if you did not live, but simply served your time. In order not to regret your life, you should try to realize this as early as possible, either on your own or with the help of other people. It is always better to live than to exist, it is better to breathe deeply and strive forward, living every day of your life, than to waste time, hoping for tomorrow or for someone other than yourself, while plunging into weakness, confusion and darkness. A person is a weak creature by nature and only work on oneself can make him stronger, put him on a real life Path and make him happier and spiritually richer. To follow one's own path means to live in harmony with the world around him and with oneself. Martial horting athletes have chosen the path of martial arts and never regret it, because this is a real Path that can teach you a lot about life, make you stronger and nobler. The ability to respect and love people will give you yourself.
The Path is life in all its manifestations, when you are strong in spirit and are able to go to the end. This is the ability to believe in yourself and in the good, to work with full dedication, not to be afraid of difficulties, to overcome them and win. A happy life, love and health are the main attributes on the Path of Combat Horting, this is what you want to strive for every day. It is impossible to buy it for any money, but can only be acquired through work and faith, and most importantly, to understand that everything depends only on you.
The first steps on the path of horting. If you have decided where to go and how, you should remember that "climbing to the top begins with the first step", sometimes even a very difficult one. As a rule, the motives of interest in combat horting are divided into two directions: technical (a beginner likes the wide arsenal of combat horting techniques) and philosophical (a beginner likes the rich philosophy of combat horting). The first direction is mainly interested in children, young people and youth, and the second - adults of more mature and even elderly age. Find what interests you the most and where you can truly improve. It can be anything, the main thing is that it suits you and you like it. For many, this has become the martial art of combat horting, which can adequately guide a person throughout his life. For a combat horting athlete, this is not a hobby or a hobby, it is his whole life in all its manifestations - it is his Path. Real combat horting classes are the only way to understand its meaning and get any explicit or implicit benefits. For most of those who practice combat horting, the following process is characteristic: starting with doubts and questions, but starting practical classes, they gradually immerse themselves in the methods and essence of combat horting. Then they begin to feel its irresistible attraction and, finally, to some extent, they learn its bottomless depth. Anyone who has gone through this process learns some aspects of combat horting as a unique martial art. A person begins to understand that this is a very difficult, but very interesting way to test a person's character.
To achieve any results in life, you need to be a strong person and, above all, a strong spirit. When a beginner comes to combat horting, he immediately receives a lot of information of the most diverse directions. The deepest mistake of beginners in learning the Path is reasoning about what combat horting is and what it is not. This understanding comes to a combat horting athlete over time, for this, daily classes and close people give energy. Physical training is not everything, it is only a small part of the Path. You can often meet people in life who are very strong physically, but weak in spirit. They always strive to do for someone, demonstrating their external indicators, so that others envy or admire them. And vice versa, there are people who seem to be outwardly unpresentable, but who possess enormous strength of spirit and nobility of soul. Such people do not show off and do not show off their skills for show. Their life is only their life. They always work hard and achieve great results in everything, because they have a personal Path. The first step must be prepared, it is necessary to choose a direction, look around, study examples of successful people. Now it will be easy to take the first step, but it must be done and not be afraid, to cast aside doubts. Life is given to a person to live and rejoice, and true joy is only in victories over oneself, that is, having learned a different experience, having chosen a direction - so make efforts over yourself - set foot on the Path. If you have got rid of human weaknesses or bad habits - this is victory and joy, if you have achieved results in work - this is also a state, the main thing is to go forward and not look back. This is the true Path of combat horting and real life. Our civilization has done a lot to create comfortable conditions for human existence. As always in life, you cannot get something without giving up something.
The sedentary lifestyle of the majority of the population with an excess of food has led to a sharp decrease in the loads on the human body. The problem of excess weight and the associated deterioration of health is all the more acute, the more affluent a person is. There are people who look strong and purposeful, who have achieved great results in their field of activity or on their path. But over time you understand that with all their achievements they do not possess human happiness. The problem here is not in the work or the correctness of the Path, the problem is in the person himself and his approaches to life. A wise person is, first of all, a person, not with one-sided development, but with comprehensive. You can chase after the result, achieve it, and then realize that all efforts are in vain. Now such examples can be observed everywhere, especially among business people, when the material surpasses the spiritual, and then emptiness comes. This was not the Path, this is just an occupation for something. Having chosen the Path and walking along it, remember that the main thing on your path is yourself, your life and the lives of loved ones. It is easiest to learn something, even to achieve some external attributes and indicators, but to know yourself, to find yourself is always difficult, some people do not have enough for this even their whole life. Only harmony from the first steps can truly make the Path correct and bring joy, show you your place in life.
The first steps and further Path are always work and perseverance, you should not hope for a quick result, make your Path become your life, not by external signs, but by its inner essence. At the beginning of the Path, you may be amazed to learn how difficult, even at the beginner level, it is to master the basic techniques and movements of combat horting, such as fall protection, correct distance determination, entry into the throw and other movements of the torso and limbs. In fact, the whole body, not just the arms or legs, must move continuously in a coordinated manner, and the movements must have speed, range and power. In order to perform movements quickly and smoothly, a very high degree of concentration and freedom of consciousness, balance and reflexivity of movements are required. These steps can be very difficult and contradictory, but do not give up and move forward. Rejoice in each new victory, rejoice in the victories of the people around you, fight difficulties and overcome them, move forward. Never stop halfway along the Path you once chose, and if something does not work out, then start over, do not be afraid to make a mistake, because you have a whole life ahead of you and this is your Path. The one who walks will master the road. The whole simple secret of moving forward is to move from the place. To do this, you need to break the stereotypes of your thinking, turn an impossible task into a sequence of small and completely feasible steps, and then take the first step and set foot on the Path!
The structure of the path. Any Path is life, but not just any life is the Path. You realize this axiom not immediately, but over time you begin to come to it. Each of us wants to live a worthy and interesting life, which in reality turns out to be not so simple, and not everyone can do it. Faith in yourself and hard work on yourself will help not only to understand yourself and find your place in life, but also to achieve results in personal aspirations. On the true Path there is never a place for weakness and insecurity, betrayal and lies, but there are stages, knowing which, a person becomes stronger and nobler. Real life is always very harsh, sometimes, in order to withstand the difficulties and adversities that befall a person, he needs great physical and spiritual strength, but with all this it is still necessary to remain a decent person, without losing his honor and dignity.
Moral categories in society are now very blurred, especially among the younger generation, life carries them with the flow, making them weak, weak-willed and selfish. Young people cease to respect others, and they no longer remember sincere gratitude. Someone perceives their absence as a normal phenomenon, and for someone it is a whole tragedy. First of all, this concerns family relationships between parents and children, between teachers and students, and simply between ordinary people in society. Everything in our world has begun to be measured by material categories, they govern society, influence the upbringing of the younger generation. Everything has a price - it is scary to think about, but it is a fact. Everything is sold and everything can be bought for money. Very often, money and material goods act as respect and gratitude. Scientific and technological progress has greatly changed human life. The simple and good that was once its spiritual value has disappeared from it. Therefore, it is necessary to always teach students to respect people and treat them with nobility. This is a spiritual process of a lifetime and it is in no way intertwined with the material, this is what a combat horting trainer as a real person carries in his family, students and people. From the first classes in the combat horting hall, the trainer tells his students about the main values on the Path of combat horting, namely respect, nobility, reverence and gratitude. Without this, there is no Path, without this there will be no result and this is where the Path of combat horting should begin, leading to the truth of life. Strength is always in truth and nobility, therefore, to be strong in combat horting, you must first learn to respect people, love them and always be grateful. You can say the right words to students and just people, but if they diverge from real actions, then it is bad. The philosophy of combat horting should come from life, not vice versa. Many people say very correct words, even call for good deeds, but in their lives they are inconsistent, and hence the failures. A combat horting trainer must do what he teaches his students. This may mean that someone changes their views, changes their main place of work, gives up a business career and follows the path of martial arts - the path of self-knowledge. You cannot say what you yourself do not know, you cannot demand what you yourself cannot, you cannot force someone to go through what you yourself have not gone through. A person achieves his goal in life because he does not deceive himself in that he respects people and knows what gratitude is not in words, but in deeds, and sincerely follows the Path of nobility and justice. This is what children are taught by their parents, this is what combat horting athletes are taught by the Path they once embarked on and to which they dedicated their entire lives.
Respect and gratitude are the basis of the Way of Combat Horting, without this it is impossible to understand the essence of the school, without this it is impossible to understand oneself, and life in general. A person can complain that others do not respect them, and in the family everything is not as good as we would like. But how can it be otherwise, if she herself rarely respected anyone in life, and remembered her parents and children last. The truth of the true Way is to live meaningfully, to do good to people. The material will never surpass the spiritual, there must be an idea in everything. This is the great idea of the Way of Combat Horting, and this is the true Way.
"Horting Encyclopedia"
Eduard Yeromenko
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