This content explores how facial features and facial sector proportions, interpreted through face reading, can offer insights into an individual's aptitudes for different martial arts styles and strategic approaches in self-defense or sparring.
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In this video, we'll discuss what your
facial features say about your dialogue
with martial arts and self-defense.
Enjoy. Welcome back, everyone. For
today's face rooting tutorial, I'm going
to be addressing a question that a
subscriber asked, and it was actually
two questions that sort of linked in a
roundabout way, and it was around
martial arts. So, what I like to say
with this kind of question is that we
have to remember that face reading at
its core, part of what I really like
about it is that it's a form of self-defense.
self-defense.
When you understand face reading, you're
going to understand your strengths and
aptitudes and in turn your weaknesses.
And unfortunately, we do live in a
predatory world. There are predatory
people who will attempt to take
advantage of you physically,
emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
So if you understand these principles a
bit better, face reading can act as a
form of defense. You understand yourself
better and you understand your strengths
and your weaknesses and this is going to
definitely apply in the context of
martial arts. So I come from a martial
art background. So I trained judo and
shakon as a kid kind of informally with
my dad because he held state titles in
those things. And then as I got older I
studied kuksul do which was a Korean
martial art. got my black belt in that
and no that does not mean I'm a master
the black getting a black belt in my
system that system meant that you have
the foundational principles to really
begin learning so you kind of have a a
solid you know borderline expertise in
the foundations and that's the way I
like to think about black belts so I
don't want to get it twisted that I'm
you know some master I'm not that being
said I have a background in martial arts
and I've used face reading principles
definitely in martial arts especially in
the context of sparring which I did when
I was in the North American Tangawa
Association for about 5 years. So, I've
got this background and we're going to
jump into this and how face reading kind
of relates to martial arts and
self-defense. So, first and foremost,
the first question that was kind of
asked was, well, based off of my facial
features, what styles of fighting or
mixed martial arts should I do? And
while that's a relevant and I think
viable and good question, what I would
say to that question is the same answer
that a lot of my teachers gave to me is
that's not the best way to think about
it. Doesn't mean it's a dumb question at
all. It just means there are better ways
to look at it because if you go down
that road, it sort of pigeon holes you
in not the best ways. So what I'll say
is this very quickly. If we look at fire
features, okay, fire features are where
things are pointy and wrinkly and we
have a lot of sharp points and things
kind of crinkle up on a person. That
person is going to have an aptitude in
the quick explosive and adaptive
movements. Okay, so keep that in mind
and I'm going to connect this all at the
end. Earth people who have earthy
features, plump features, full lips,
round cheeks, you know, everything is
the temples are full, everything is kind
of plump and full. Then we're looking at
someone who is going to be usually have
a strength in the musculature system.
They're going to have endurance. So
they're going to be sort of a muscle-based
muscle-based
aptitude person, strength and raw power.
That's usually where you're going to
find those things. Now with metal pe
person who has sharp metal features who
has big open spaces with not a lot of
interruption typically not always but
they're kind of attractive male or
female and they will have sort of a
squarish jaw and big clean open
features. If that's the case usually
they're going to have an aptitude with
technique precision things like joint
locking and specifically weapon training
things like nunchucks or bow staff
training or whatever other weapons you
want to think about. But a lot of weapon
training falls into the metal element.
Water. People who have water features,
which are soft features, not necessarily
plump and more fleshy, but sort of soft
and rounded. They usually have kind of a
a look of like knowingness sometimes of
wisdom. So, my teacher used to always
tell me I have sort of water features.
Now, I don't think I look like a sage,
but people have told me like I there's
kind of a knowingness in my face,
whatever that means, you know, and
that's that's water dominance. So that
person is going to have an aptitude
usually in fluidity, grace, and softness
using the more slightly defensive
movements, but being soft in their
approach. And then wood is about being
aggressive, dominant, and vigorous. Now,
with the wood features, we're looking at
a sharp, clean jaw, big bushy eyebrows,
dominant brow bone. Now, as I've gone
through those any of those things I've
said, okay, if you carry these features
on your face, what I want you to think
about, the better way to think about
that question is like, well, what style
of martial art or mixed martial arts
should I go into? The better way to
think about it is it's not so much about
the style. It's more about identifying
those little points, those tenants that
I just pointed out. If you have fire
features and you're studying a style,
find out where in the context of that
style where quick explosive and adaptive
movements are in that system and really
focus on those things within that
system. If you have earthy features,
right, plump mouth, fullness in the
face, muscle ba based strength and raw
power, you're probably going to be good
at throwing. So when you get to that
aspect of the fighting art and there's
throwing involved where you have to use
kind of some brute strength, think about
that's probably where I should focus and
really dive into those techniques. If
you're a metal person, right, big open
features with not a lot of interruption,
find out within the context of the style
you're studying where the technique and
the precision and the joint locking and
if there's weapons training, lean into
those things. Water features, right?
That deep knowingness kind of soft
rounded features that that soft wisdom
look in the face. Then we're looking at
fluidity, grace, and softness. Things
like if you happen to be studying, yes,
like Taichi, like I do, then the whole
system is kind of based off of that. But
you want to look at the the areas where
you can circumn
softness rather than force within the
context of the art you're studying. And
if you have those wood features, the
jawline, the eyebrows, and all of that,
you're looking at the aggressive,
dominant, and vigorous aspects of the
art and finding out within the context
of your art where those are and diving
into that. So, think of your features as
like you're going to have aptitudes and
then find those aptitudes, those
aptitude strengths within the style that
you're studying. I I don't like to
pigeon hole people into styles and say,
you know, if you have wood features, you
should be doing this. While there's
going to be some leanings, I think a
much broader, safer, and more
well-rounded approaches to think about
it the way I'm talking here. Now, the
other question was about the three
sectors. We've talked about this in the
past. the height of these sectors. Okay,
from the hairline to the eyebrows, this
is the mental. From the eyebrows to the
bottom of the nose, this is the
practical. And then from the bottom of
the nose to the bottom of the chin is
the emotional and instinctual. The
height of these areas, the proportions,
how high or how short or how small these
are dictate how much energy you have
running in these sectors in your life. So
So
the baseline idea I want you to think
about is is that if a person is
dominant in an area, you want to play to
their weakest area, not the dominant
one. So, say if a person had a big
mental sphere and a big emotional
instinctual sphere, but a smaller
practical sphere in the context of
martial arts and doing that kind of
thing, you're going to want to approach
from the place of practicality and
really honing in on that practicality
because they're likely not carrying a
ton of energy in that thing. So, in the
broadest sense, attack the weakest link
in the facial sectors rather than going
after the dominant one. So, what does
this look like in real time? If a person
is mentally dominant, okay, they say
they've got like a big space from the
eyebrows to the forehead. They've got
this big space here. You don't want to
be overthinking your game plan, you
don't want to be playing chess, per se.
Um, you want to stick to checkers in
your strategy. You want to keep things
relatively simple because chances are if
the person is mentally dominant, they
probably think in chess and play a lot
of strategy in their head and they think
broadly and big. And if that's the case,
you want to do the opposite. Okay? Okay.
So, you want to again kind of do the
opposite of what their where their
strength is because they're likely not
carrying a ton of it there. Now, if a
person is mentally deficient, and I
don't mean, you know, mentally disabled
or anything like that. I just mean that
in that sectors, okay? If there is less
energy there, the height is shorter,
then you're playing chess. Think strategy.
strategy.
Think ahead. Be a bit broader and more
moves, not less. That's the way to to
think about that. Now, if a person is
pragmatic dominant, okay, this middle
sector is really big. They're a very
practical person according to face
reading standards, then you're going to
be you want to avoid being innovative,
sporadic, and creative. You want to
steer clear of that because they're
going to cut through that with that
practicality. They're going to be like,
I don't want to hear all that noise.
They're going to be very practical in
their approach. I'm talking about your
opponent here. Now, if they are
practical or pragmatic deficient, this
area is small. Be innovative, sporadic,
and creative. be unpredictable because
that's where their wink link is likely
going to be. And if a person is
emotional and instinctual dominant,
okay, this area from here to here is
very large. Don't talk to this
person or attempt to emotionally rile
them because it won't work. Usually,
people that have a lot of emotional and
instinctual capacity process that stuff
pretty well. So, you do not want to play
to that. Now, if they are emotionally
and instinctually deficient, this area
is smaller. Yeah, be the Conor McGregor.
Talk Be the Muhammad Ali. Get into
their head. Arnold Schwarzenegger and
pumping iron talking to Lou Furno and
Frank Colomo. getting in people's ears
and chatting and in, you know, in
sparring and whatnot and like getting
into their head, that is going to play
to your favor because people that are
emotionally and instinctually deficient,
you know, emotions typically relate to
chaos and that's where like that's where
they're strong. So, if they have very
low in this area, they don't do well
with chaos. They don't do well with that
emotionally riing energy. So, this is a
big question and again, I try to keep my
videos reasonably timed for the YouTube
algorithm. If I'm teaching privately,
this conversation would be a lot more
nuanced. But for the face reading
tutorial, I at least want to put this
out. And you probably have more
questions than answers, and that's okay.
But feel free to ask them in the comment
section. But again, I just wanted to
open this door. Hopefully, this question
at least gets at some of what my
subscriber was asking. Hopefully
scratches some of the itch. But if it
doesn't, please, anyone, everyone, ask
more. I'm always happy to extrapolate
and explore these ideas more. All right,
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