Maha Guru
Once one boy tried to punch
him, but he ducked, came up to the side and saw that the bigger boy lost
control, so he could beat him from the back and finish the attack with one
punch. Another incident happened in Indrachowk, a
marketplace in Kathmandu, where big porters were pushing carts. One of
these men started an argument with his son. The boy was maybe just 10 years
old, but in his angriness the father tried to slap him very hard. The son
ducked in fright, the father lost balance, made a complete spin and fell
down motionless. All the people were laughing at the angry father, but the
son was shaking him and trying to make him get up. Blood started oozing from
the father's nose and ears, he was dead on the spot.
That is when Maha Guru started
perfecting his techniques, focusing more on ducking, avoiding, and
striking from the back. He developed moving in circles and half circles
and practiced with his students what he experienced on the street. As the
techniques were perfected there were more injuries during training. In
these times people practiced as real fights, not knowing how to control
and there were less and less students willing to continue as the
techniques grew more efficient.
He saw the need of working on the teaching method and this is why he retired in the jungle. During a period of meditation and practicing alone, he developed his style with the aim of enabling anyone, big or small, strong or weak to be able to defend himself, and a teaching method that allowed intensive training without injuries.
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After his return to Kathmandu,
disaster struck. He got paralyzed by an unknown disease that lasted for 1
and 1/2 years. Many foreign specialists performed extensive tests but never
could anyone find out what was happening. As his condition worsened, his
family brought him to the border of the holy river and left him there to
die. He had full consciousness but couldn't speak or move. Then
suddenly, he managed to crawl up and speak one word, and the next day he
was walking around as if nothing ever happened.
He then started to teach his
new Martial Art all over Kathmandu Valley. It was very hard to teach at
that time because of strict government regulations against Martial Arts,
so he had to switch places all the time and teach underground. For the
same reason, there was also no official training place.
If you compare the techniques of Budokai-do with
other existing styles, one can see that nothing is borrowed but that all
techniques are original and new.
When he
arrived in the 1980's
in Europe he immediately started to teach at very high level. Within a few
years he had trained teachers and schools internationally, as more and
more people asked to learn from him.
