The phone call that changed
my life!
My name is Jack Lannom and
it was about 20 years ago that I received the most
life changing phone call that totally transformed
my mind as a martial artist. I had been practicing
and teaching the Chinese martial arts for over two
decades before I had received that phone call and
I thought I had seen the best of the best in all
the combat arts. Little did I know that up until
that time I had never been exposed to Gonka? The
word Gonka means the real lethal, combat energy;
the explosive projection that every wild animal
possesses and uses to defend itself and attack its
prey. I had heard stories about superhuman feats
of men fighting ten or more attackers at one time
and how they utterly had crushed their opponents
like a vicious animal. But I had always thought
that they were myths and that no one could really
develop that kind of animalistic power. Well, I
want you to know that I was absolutely wrong!
Now, let me bring you back to that life-altering
phone call. The phone call was from my Kung-Fu teacher.
He invited me to participate in what was called
by the Grandmaster, the Walu project. He informed
me that the head of our Kung-Fu, Kai Sai clan wanted
to share a new Chinese system of lethal combat with
a special group of people in the U.S. I was one
of 5 people that would be the first to ever learn
Walu Gonka Kung-Fu in America. The Grandmaster had
learned 13 different Chinese systems of martial
arts and he said that Walu was the best and quickest
combat system to teach a student the lethal projection
of energy that he had ever seen in his martial arts
career.
1 of 5 people to be the first
to learn Walu in the U.S.A.
I felt very honored to be
chosen to be one of five people in all of the U.S.
to learn Walu Gonka, however I was skeptical. I
must admit I was very prideful and I thought what
could Walu Gonka teach me? A lot of my skepticism
came from the idea that I had not heard anything
about the Walu system, until that phone call. I
thought I was very accomplished in the Chinese martial
arts, because I had 20 years of experience, I was
the founder of several Kung-Fu schools in Tennessee
and had turned out many accomplished fighters. However,
I needed to be humbled. I did not know that I did
not know.
I guess the one thing that
logically spiked my interest was that my Kung-Fu
instructor was the best fighter I had ever seen
in my life and if he said that Walu is a great combat
system and that it would help me with my pursuit
of energy projection, then I immediately became
sold on Walu Gonka.
You see, my teacher knew
me very well and when he used the special words
“energy projection” those would be the
words that captured my attention. He knew that I
had always been consumed with the insatiable desire
to project more energy out of my mind and body for
both health and combat purposes.
My first mind-blowing
Walu Gonka lesson!
I will never forget
my first lesson in Walu Gonka. Every thing that I
had ever learned up until that time in the martial
arts was completely different from what my Kung- Fu
master instructor began to unfold for me in Walu Gonka.
It didn’t look like anything I had ever seen
in my martial arts career. The art was the freest
expression of explosive energy that I had ever witnessed.
It looked like an angry gorilla on steroids. It was
the most vicious and violent combat movements that
I had ever felt on my body.
Immediately, I
said to my teacher, this is what I have wanted to
learn all my life! I told my teacher that I am not
going to pursue any other art. I stopped training
in the Kung-Fu system I was learning. At that moment
I made a decision to master Walu Gonka. I wanted to
become the most powerful expression of the art in
America. In addition, I had a great desire to teach
this art to others, like myself, who are looking for
the ultimate expression of energy projection for physical
health and self-defense benefits.
Walu Gonka
the best Combat art I have seen!
Please
don’t miss what I am about to say, now
at 58 years old, I am more powerful and I am healthier
today, since I have been practicing Walu Gonka for
20 years, than I was in my prime as a fighter in my
early twenties. I am not saying this is the best martial
arts on the planet, simply because I have not seen
all martial arts on this planet. However,
what I am saying is that Walu Gonka is the best and
most powerful, energy projection, combat system that
I have ever seen in my 40 plus years of Chinese
martial arts.
My first impressions
of Walu Gonka
When I
first saw my teacher demonstrate Walu the movements
of his arms looked like that of a gorilla.
The gorilla moves his arms like clubs. The focus of
the gorillas’ movements is not on the independent
movement of the arms. The arms are simply conduits
for the whole body to express the explosive energy
through the arms. In other words, the arms are used
in a unitary manner and not in an isolated state.
The next thing
that was so fascinating to me was the amazing heaviness
of the limbs. As my teacher would strike me with his
arms they felt like they weighted two hundred pounds
a piece. I asked him how ‘in the world do you
make your arms so heavy. He said that in Walu you
learn to slosh all of your body weight into the limb
that you are using to attack your opponent.
Another thing
that I observed concerning the uniqueness of Walu
was that every time my teacher would strike me, the
blow would violently shock my body internally. I had
felt push force many times in my martial arts career,
however I had not experienced such violent shock force.
When you are performing Walu Gonka properly every
strike, block, and kick creates a mind-hit shock to
the attacker. Consequently, when you combine the powerful
two elements of heaviness and shock force the result
is like being hit with a two hundred pound anvil traveling
at two hundred miles an hour and when it hits you
it electrocutes you also. That’s Walu Gonka!
I believe the
thing that really blew my mind about Walu was that
the only way you can create that violent shock force
was to achieve a totally relaxed, fluid body state.
I had always been taught in my Kung-Fu training that
you are supposed to remain relaxed until the moment
of impact. However, Walu Gonka teaches you to relax
even on impact and never, ever tense your body for
an instant during an attack.
Another way that
I like to express this in my Walu training is to say
that our hand strikes are called armless striking
and our kicks are called legless kicking. The emphasis
in this terminology is to focus the mind on the relaxed
unitary nature of the limbs and not to think of your
arms or legs in a tense segmented fashion.
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