Permit me to bow in and introduce myself.
I began studying chi as the first “closed-door” student of Robert W. Smith, author of the first book in English about tai chi chuan. Bob had become the first white student of China’s last undefeatable “soft boxer,” Professor Chen Man Ching. Along with studying Bob and the Professor’s texts, I also took up a focused breathing and chi-circulation medical regimen based on the teachings of Dr Yang Jwing-Ming.
Over the years, these martial and medical uses provided ample evidence as to the truth of chi theory, but, for all my sincerity, my explorations were subjective and based only on personal experiences as a martial artist. So, when Dragon Society International Grandmaster Rick Moneymaker revealed to me the existence of martial science based on acupuncture, I was amazed.
How could everyday Western fighting men possibly organize, interrelate and quantify these mythic Eastern energies? Not to mention successfully applying their discoveries to Torite Jutsu, a system whose seemingly effortless attacks border on sheer magic.
Today Dragon Society International proudly offers us this global triumph, a fighting science so advanced it even baffles Western medicine, which freely admits it cannot explain Torite Jutsu’s undeniable successes. Grandmasters Tom Muncy, Rick Moneymaker, Michael Patrick and their certified DSI instructors ought to be celebrated among America’s all-time greatest amateur scientists – scientists who are also this planet’s first new martial heroes since Funakoshi.
Herb Borkland
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