0:12 In this video, we'll discuss what your
0:14 facial features say about your dialogue
0:16 with martial arts and self-defense.
0:18 Enjoy. Welcome back, everyone. For
0:20 today's face rooting tutorial, I'm going
0:21 to be addressing a question that a
0:22 subscriber asked, and it was actually
0:25 two questions that sort of linked in a
0:27 roundabout way, and it was around
0:29 martial arts. So, what I like to say
0:30 with this kind of question is that we
0:32 have to remember that face reading at
0:35 its core, part of what I really like
0:36 about it is that it's a form of self-defense.
0:37 self-defense.
0:39 When you understand face reading, you're
0:40 going to understand your strengths and
0:43 aptitudes and in turn your weaknesses.
0:45 And unfortunately, we do live in a
0:47 predatory world. There are predatory
0:49 people who will attempt to take
0:50 advantage of you physically,
0:52 emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
0:54 So if you understand these principles a
0:57 bit better, face reading can act as a
0:58 form of defense. You understand yourself
1:00 better and you understand your strengths
1:02 and your weaknesses and this is going to
1:04 definitely apply in the context of
1:07 martial arts. So I come from a martial
1:09 art background. So I trained judo and
1:11 shakon as a kid kind of informally with
1:14 my dad because he held state titles in
1:17 those things. And then as I got older I
1:19 studied kuksul do which was a Korean
1:21 martial art. got my black belt in that
1:23 and no that does not mean I'm a master
1:25 the black getting a black belt in my
1:27 system that system meant that you have
1:30 the foundational principles to really
1:32 begin learning so you kind of have a a
1:35 solid you know borderline expertise in
1:37 the foundations and that's the way I
1:38 like to think about black belts so I
1:39 don't want to get it twisted that I'm
1:42 you know some master I'm not that being
1:44 said I have a background in martial arts
1:46 and I've used face reading principles
1:48 definitely in martial arts especially in
1:50 the context of sparring which I did when
1:52 I was in the North American Tangawa
1:56 Association for about 5 years. So, I've
1:57 got this background and we're going to
1:58 jump into this and how face reading kind
2:00 of relates to martial arts and
2:04 self-defense. So, first and foremost,
2:06 the first question that was kind of
2:08 asked was, well, based off of my facial
2:11 features, what styles of fighting or
2:13 mixed martial arts should I do? And
2:15 while that's a relevant and I think
2:17 viable and good question, what I would
2:20 say to that question is the same answer
2:22 that a lot of my teachers gave to me is
2:24 that's not the best way to think about
2:25 it. Doesn't mean it's a dumb question at
2:27 all. It just means there are better ways
2:29 to look at it because if you go down
2:31 that road, it sort of pigeon holes you
2:34 in not the best ways. So what I'll say
2:37 is this very quickly. If we look at fire
2:40 features, okay, fire features are where
2:41 things are pointy and wrinkly and we
2:43 have a lot of sharp points and things
2:45 kind of crinkle up on a person. That
2:46 person is going to have an aptitude in
2:48 the quick explosive and adaptive
2:50 movements. Okay, so keep that in mind
2:52 and I'm going to connect this all at the
2:55 end. Earth people who have earthy
2:57 features, plump features, full lips,
2:59 round cheeks, you know, everything is
3:01 the temples are full, everything is kind
3:04 of plump and full. Then we're looking at
3:06 someone who is going to be usually have
3:07 a strength in the musculature system.
3:09 They're going to have endurance. So
3:10 they're going to be sort of a muscle-based
3:12 muscle-based
3:14 aptitude person, strength and raw power.
3:15 That's usually where you're going to
3:19 find those things. Now with metal pe
3:21 person who has sharp metal features who
3:23 has big open spaces with not a lot of
3:25 interruption typically not always but
3:26 they're kind of attractive male or
3:30 female and they will have sort of a
3:33 squarish jaw and big clean open
3:35 features. If that's the case usually
3:37 they're going to have an aptitude with
3:39 technique precision things like joint
3:41 locking and specifically weapon training
3:43 things like nunchucks or bow staff
3:46 training or whatever other weapons you
3:47 want to think about. But a lot of weapon
3:49 training falls into the metal element.
3:51 Water. People who have water features,
3:53 which are soft features, not necessarily
3:55 plump and more fleshy, but sort of soft
3:58 and rounded. They usually have kind of a
4:00 a look of like knowingness sometimes of
4:02 wisdom. So, my teacher used to always
4:04 tell me I have sort of water features.
4:05 Now, I don't think I look like a sage,
4:07 but people have told me like I there's
4:09 kind of a knowingness in my face,
4:11 whatever that means, you know, and
4:13 that's that's water dominance. So that
4:14 person is going to have an aptitude
4:17 usually in fluidity, grace, and softness
4:19 using the more slightly defensive
4:21 movements, but being soft in their
4:23 approach. And then wood is about being
4:26 aggressive, dominant, and vigorous. Now,
4:28 with the wood features, we're looking at
4:31 a sharp, clean jaw, big bushy eyebrows,
4:33 dominant brow bone. Now, as I've gone
4:35 through those any of those things I've
4:37 said, okay, if you carry these features
4:39 on your face, what I want you to think
4:40 about, the better way to think about
4:42 that question is like, well, what style
4:44 of martial art or mixed martial arts
4:46 should I go into? The better way to
4:49 think about it is it's not so much about
4:52 the style. It's more about identifying
4:53 those little points, those tenants that
4:56 I just pointed out. If you have fire
4:59 features and you're studying a style,
5:01 find out where in the context of that
5:03 style where quick explosive and adaptive
5:06 movements are in that system and really
5:08 focus on those things within that
5:10 system. If you have earthy features,
5:12 right, plump mouth, fullness in the
5:15 face, muscle ba based strength and raw
5:16 power, you're probably going to be good
5:19 at throwing. So when you get to that
5:20 aspect of the fighting art and there's
5:21 throwing involved where you have to use
5:24 kind of some brute strength, think about
5:25 that's probably where I should focus and
5:27 really dive into those techniques. If
5:30 you're a metal person, right, big open
5:32 features with not a lot of interruption,
5:33 find out within the context of the style
5:35 you're studying where the technique and
5:37 the precision and the joint locking and
5:39 if there's weapons training, lean into
5:42 those things. Water features, right?
5:43 That deep knowingness kind of soft
5:46 rounded features that that soft wisdom
5:48 look in the face. Then we're looking at
5:49 fluidity, grace, and softness. Things
5:51 like if you happen to be studying, yes,
5:54 like Taichi, like I do, then the whole
5:55 system is kind of based off of that. But
5:58 you want to look at the the areas where
6:00 you can circumn
6:02 softness rather than force within the
6:04 context of the art you're studying. And
6:05 if you have those wood features, the
6:07 jawline, the eyebrows, and all of that,
6:08 you're looking at the aggressive,
6:10 dominant, and vigorous aspects of the
6:12 art and finding out within the context
6:14 of your art where those are and diving
6:16 into that. So, think of your features as
6:18 like you're going to have aptitudes and
6:20 then find those aptitudes, those
6:22 aptitude strengths within the style that
6:23 you're studying. I I don't like to
6:25 pigeon hole people into styles and say,
6:27 you know, if you have wood features, you
6:29 should be doing this. While there's
6:30 going to be some leanings, I think a
6:34 much broader, safer, and more
6:35 well-rounded approaches to think about
6:38 it the way I'm talking here. Now, the
6:39 other question was about the three
6:41 sectors. We've talked about this in the
6:43 past. the height of these sectors. Okay,
6:45 from the hairline to the eyebrows, this
6:47 is the mental. From the eyebrows to the
6:48 bottom of the nose, this is the
6:49 practical. And then from the bottom of
6:51 the nose to the bottom of the chin is
6:53 the emotional and instinctual. The
6:56 height of these areas, the proportions,
6:58 how high or how short or how small these
7:01 are dictate how much energy you have
7:03 running in these sectors in your life. So
7:05 So
7:07 the baseline idea I want you to think
7:12 about is is that if a person is
7:15 dominant in an area, you want to play to
7:18 their weakest area, not the dominant
7:21 one. So, say if a person had a big
7:23 mental sphere and a big emotional
7:25 instinctual sphere, but a smaller
7:27 practical sphere in the context of
7:29 martial arts and doing that kind of
7:30 thing, you're going to want to approach
7:33 from the place of practicality and
7:35 really honing in on that practicality
7:36 because they're likely not carrying a
7:39 ton of energy in that thing. So, in the
7:41 broadest sense, attack the weakest link
7:44 in the facial sectors rather than going
7:46 after the dominant one. So, what does
7:48 this look like in real time? If a person
7:50 is mentally dominant, okay, they say
7:52 they've got like a big space from the
7:53 eyebrows to the forehead. They've got
7:56 this big space here. You don't want to
7:58 be overthinking your game plan, you
8:01 don't want to be playing chess, per se.
8:03 Um, you want to stick to checkers in
8:04 your strategy. You want to keep things
8:06 relatively simple because chances are if
8:08 the person is mentally dominant, they
8:10 probably think in chess and play a lot
8:11 of strategy in their head and they think
8:14 broadly and big. And if that's the case,
8:16 you want to do the opposite. Okay? Okay.
8:17 So, you want to again kind of do the
8:19 opposite of what their where their
8:21 strength is because they're likely not
8:23 carrying a ton of it there. Now, if a
8:26 person is mentally deficient, and I
8:28 don't mean, you know, mentally disabled
8:29 or anything like that. I just mean that
8:31 in that sectors, okay? If there is less
8:34 energy there, the height is shorter,
8:36 then you're playing chess. Think strategy.
8:38 strategy.
8:41 Think ahead. Be a bit broader and more
8:44 moves, not less. That's the way to to
8:47 think about that. Now, if a person is
8:49 pragmatic dominant, okay, this middle
8:50 sector is really big. They're a very
8:52 practical person according to face
8:53 reading standards, then you're going to
8:56 be you want to avoid being innovative,
8:59 sporadic, and creative. You want to
9:00 steer clear of that because they're
9:01 going to cut through that with that
9:02 practicality. They're going to be like,
9:03 I don't want to hear all that noise.
9:05 They're going to be very practical in
9:06 their approach. I'm talking about your
9:08 opponent here. Now, if they are
9:10 practical or pragmatic deficient, this
9:13 area is small. Be innovative, sporadic,
9:16 and creative. be unpredictable because
9:18 that's where their wink link is likely
9:21 going to be. And if a person is
9:23 emotional and instinctual dominant,
9:26 okay, this area from here to here is
9:28 very large. Don't talk to this
9:31 person or attempt to emotionally rile
9:33 them because it won't work. Usually,
9:34 people that have a lot of emotional and
9:37 instinctual capacity process that stuff
9:38 pretty well. So, you do not want to play
9:41 to that. Now, if they are emotionally
9:43 and instinctually deficient, this area
9:46 is smaller. Yeah, be the Conor McGregor.
9:49 Talk Be the Muhammad Ali. Get into
9:50 their head. Arnold Schwarzenegger and
9:52 pumping iron talking to Lou Furno and
9:54 Frank Colomo. getting in people's ears
9:56 and chatting and in, you know, in
9:58 sparring and whatnot and like getting
10:00 into their head, that is going to play
10:03 to your favor because people that are
10:07 emotionally and instinctually deficient,
10:09 you know, emotions typically relate to
10:13 chaos and that's where like that's where
10:14 they're strong. So, if they have very
10:16 low in this area, they don't do well
10:18 with chaos. They don't do well with that
10:22 emotionally riing energy. So, this is a
10:24 big question and again, I try to keep my
10:27 videos reasonably timed for the YouTube
10:29 algorithm. If I'm teaching privately,
10:31 this conversation would be a lot more
10:33 nuanced. But for the face reading
10:35 tutorial, I at least want to put this
10:37 out. And you probably have more
10:39 questions than answers, and that's okay.
10:42 But feel free to ask them in the comment
10:43 section. But again, I just wanted to
10:45 open this door. Hopefully, this question
10:48 at least gets at some of what my
10:49 subscriber was asking. Hopefully
10:50 scratches some of the itch. But if it
10:53 doesn't, please, anyone, everyone, ask
10:55 more. I'm always happy to extrapolate
10:57 and explore these ideas more. All right,
