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Chinese martial arts getting much love in the Heartland and Harlem.

Sifu Rudy has disabled embedding so you’ll have to go to http://www.youtube.com/user/sifurudycurryj
But these are particularly good:
Sifu Rudy Push Hands
Sifu Rudy Bagua (the end is the best)

This is a great picture showing some pre-duel symbology.
However, that’s just half of the Harlequin sword story.

The Traveler series of novels by John Twelve Hawks is an illuminating and entertaining tale of how the NWO using data-surveillance-matrixes and violence, wealth & manipulation can control this world and eliminate their arch-rival illuminators, these individual prophet/saint/magickians that can travel to other “realms” (a.k.a. really solid astral projection).
These “Travelers” are protected by “Harlequins” – their warrior-protectors whose modern arnesal finds its center in their swords, which they love like samurai.

The gem, mirror and sword are the three sacred symbols of Japan.

The origin of the warrior goes back to the divine age of antiquity when the central ruler of heaven, the Great Goddess Lighting the Sky, made a pact with her august descendant Ninigi-no-Mikoto, saying, “Let the emperor use artful subtlety like the curve of the sacred gem to govern the earthly administration; use clarity like the sacred mirror to oversee the mountains and rivers, seas and plains; and wield the sacred sword to pacify the earth and benefit the populace.”

The sacred gem symbolizes flexibility and accommodation. The government of the earth should be carried out with the warm, rich quality of humaneness represented by this object. Artful subtlety is expressed by its rounded curvature; the path is not a single fixed straight line but adopts what is suitable to the time, in accord with the context. So it is a way of adapting to the time.

The sacred mirror symbolizes honesty. A mirror doesn’t retain anything but reflects everything impartially, so right and wrong and good and bad features all show. Virtue is to respond sensitively to those features. This is the basis of honesty. For a mirror the essential feature is clarity. When the essence of mind is clear, compassion and decisiveness are therein. If observed with honest intelligence clear as a mirror, there will be no one corrupt at court and no savant neglected in the countryside. With the operation of government honest, and good communication between superior and subordinates, all people will find their places.

The sacred sword symbolizes decisiveness. It implies the imperative to take the side of absolute firmness and freedom from greed to destroy the internal mental enemies selfishness and treachery and execute the external bandits crime and violence, being straightforward and uncorrupted in body and mind and government affairs as well, imbued with the commanding presence to overawe the world.

- Izawa Nagahide