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The principle of ISAII have created ISAI after a long period of studying and practicing Hatha Yoga, Kung Fu, Tai Chi and other martial arts and spent years in research and analysis of the relations between different martial arts, their internal and external aspects, and the connection of martial arts to our natural body movements like walking, running, stretching, breathing, etc. Finally I discovered that all these things are just different appearances of the same fundamental phenomena. I named this fenomena the fish play. The fish play is actually an ancient Semitic symbol of two opposite directed fish and I believe that this symbol evolved into the famous Yin-Yang in China and later passed to the Christianity. Babies and animals apply this principle naturally and spontaneously. But, with the growing up and getting more conscious and reasonable, people tend to get more and more distant from this natural basis of our existence. This results in numerous diseases and abnormalities which appear in our body, mind and spirit, weakness and deficiency in our physical movements and in our self defense possibilities. No animal in the wild will try to imitate any another animal. It is impossible to find the cat that will try to imitate in fight a snake or an elephant, and no snake will try to fight in the style of bird or horse. Only the man tries to reconstruct his lost natural qualities by imitating other beings during fighting – externally and spiritually. Wouldn’t it be much better if humans were behaving like humans and not like snakes or horses? The implementation of the above principle of fish play allows the man to fully recover and use his natural abilities. This principle constitutes the very basis, the heart of ISAI. When practicing ISAI, the movements turn out light, effortless, graceful and dancing-like, pleasant for both the performer and the observer. The movements appear to be nice, soft and not threatening, but every touch, punch, blow or kick will discover the steel concealed in cotton. Every movement in ISAI performed as a continuation of the previous movement and as a pass to the next movement, doesn’t matter if these movements are kicks, punches, steps etc.. Because all the movements in ISAI are variations of the same principle movement, any movement can be harmoniously combined with any other movement. It is like Lego, where every single part can produce combination with every other single part, doesn’t matter how we choose the parts. As a result all movements will appear fluent, continuous, startles and endless, like eagle circling or like clouds moving in the sky. The start-and –stop movements of other martial arts are never seen in ISAI. Even a fight looks like a flowing and harmonious dance, differing totally from the strenuous and stiff movements of any other well known martial arts, even of so-called ‘soft’ martial arts. Performer will feel and be a part of the world, he or she will see and feel the One with all things. The understanding of movements of other people will come and self defense possibilities will increase greatly together with a peaceful mode of the mind. No brutal force, not the knowledge of numerous artificial human-constructed drills, nor mastering of ancient, uncommon and exotic weapons are needed for self defense to these, who mastered ISAI. The natural fish play principle which represents the Universe itself is the only thing to be mastered. |
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