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Once the technique can be utilized correctly under stressful conditions, remember that “feel.” Take this “feel” or “frame of mind” back to your home training regimen, and train with that specific mental state. The combination of the two “feelings,” the physical skill and the mental state of mind, is the “true feel” one should be striving for when doing home training.

This is the feel one should be looking for when one is home training! This I “feel” is true Rock & Roll.

Keep on Rocking!

—Mike Young

CHAPTER 1

THE NEED FOR TRAINING AND TESTING

I’ve had a fascination with the martial arts ever since I can remember. Growing up in Hawaii on the island of Oahu, I was constantly exposed to martial arts at a very young age. I can still remember going to Japanese samurai movies when I was four or five years old and dreaming of one day practicing martial arts like “the samurais.” At age nine or ten, my friends and I would never miss the Chinese Kung Fu movies that played in several theaters in old downtown Chinatown. We would catch the bus every weekend and savor the experience of a “bloody Kung Fu movie.” I would later go home and practice whatever moves I saw in the movie and try to build some of the fascinating Chinese martial arts weaponry.