The masters of kalari payat generally live in villages and have followed many followers. After training in the morning with children, are playing important social functions: doctor (Ayurvedic) or osteopath.
And 'costume that a master of martial arts is also a doctor, because those who engage in combat disciplines for a long time may be subject to minor or serious injury. Young students learn first-aid techniques and the most advanced - that have earned the confidence of the teacher - studying how to rebuild bone fractures and internal injuries heal. Many teachers specializing in indigenous medicine that does not provide for the administration of those drugs that are part of Western medicine. Patients of master teachers are not only practitioners Many come from the countryside, others are fishermen, and so on. Often massage is practiced with their feet: the patient is sprinkled oil and teacher, clinging to a rope, walk over there (you will try and pain in the following benefit). The teachers also cultivate and collect plants without a special memorandum precise.
Even today, some martial arts of Kerala and the state of Tamil Nadu are not accompanied by detailed descriptions of training or martial in the community receiving the right care for their serious research and the charm of ancient art. To become master 40/50 takes years of practice and a thorough knowledge of Ayurvedic medicine. The teachers are very selective and sometimes refuse students who have more than 40 years. Few, moreover, girls or women who practice this art. In the strict sense of Secrets martial, the teachers know the sastras, ancient Buddhist texts written on palm leaves and delivered into the hands of deserving students.
I susruta-samhita (sastras doctors) dating from the fourth and second century BC And mention the physical and potions. I susruta contain specific information about 107/108 vital points of the human body, pressed in the right way with the techniques of marma adi, can produce temporary paralysis, extreme pain, loss of consciousness and death. For this play only drawings of vital points, while the secrets of the positions remain well guarded by the master. Some teachers of marma-adi southern India do not practice any form of martial art, but act only on the vital points with extreme rationality and effectiveness.
Stefano Pernatsch
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