Russian path of samurai: pseudoscience and Stalinism inside the Karate sect

Eastern martial arts involve work not only on the body, but also on the spirit. To educate a warrior, you need to change, and the vector of changes is determined by the teacher. A graduate of samizdat courses spent seven years in the Karate section, where the cult of the teacher’s personality flourished, and lived to live until the sunset of this small empire. For ethical reasons, the author does not disclose the name of the teacher, but the editors of Samizdat checked all the facts described, confirmed the history of the teacher’s biography, the recordings of television programs and his interview in the media, including the departmental newspaper of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 2020, the teacher died. Dodzjo, Kendzo, many hours of blows with bare hands and legs on the iron pillar, Vaksashi, Cossack checker, scramasax, kama, authorized Nagayka. The bizarre ideological transformations of the warrior path under the influence of anti -Semitism, conspiracy theories, General Kvachkov and pseudoscience and preparation for the creation of Chop for raiding are in the new issue of our cult section “Inside the sect” .

Hands and day of the legs

Building strictly in terms of training. Greetings:

- Karate Rei!
- Rei! - Black as a sign of respect for military art.
- Dodzo Rei!
- Rei! - Black as a sign of respect to the place where they comprehend the truth.
- Shihan Rey!
- Rei! - Black as a sign of respect for the teacher for the granted knowledge.
- Hajim! - Signal to start training.

The lesson begins with a 45-minute warm-up: running, rotation of the neck, wrists, elbows, shoulders, lower back, hips, knees, feet, push-ups, squats, press, stretching. Then an hour of racks, leaving the line of attack and movement.

There is a day of the arms and day of the legs. If the day of the legs, then the next one and a half hours I beat the iron pole with my legs wrapped in polyurethane foam. The emphasis on the blows in the knee and the lower leg - fumikiri. To work out the blow in the groin, pull the rubber tourniquet. I do not beat high blows: they explain to me that it will not come in handy for a fight.

If the day of the hands, then an hour and a half I beat the home -made makivar - a projectile for working out strokes. Makivara made of old skis, the place for impact is wrapped in a stump rope. For lateral blows, I tie with tape the same piece of polyurethane foam to a table tennis racket. On the day of the hands, an additional load: strokes with a sledgehammer on the tire, stretching rubber, studying the forearm with rotation of the scrap. I stuff my fists on the concrete wall from the Po-2 plates. Then half an hour Kata and a hitch. At the end, construction and bow. And so seven years.

Violence is the basis of relations between people. On a physically weak non -socialized guy, such a statement of the question normally presses this. A friend with the same cockroaches offers to go on karate. More precisely, it is not he offers, but a family friend, a security official Uncle Seryozha, which adds weight.

With karate I have my own story. Father was engaged in him while Jodan-Mavashi-Haisoku-Geri (a blow to the head of a pillow of the foot) naturally led to the trepanation of the skull. Hence the confidence that they really kill on karate. In confirmation, the ban on karate in the USSR as “not related to the sport of hand -to -hand combat, cultivating cruelty and violence that causes severe injuries to the participants”, sparring on bare fists, Tamesivari - breaking hard objects with his bare hands, video with the “Orthodox sensit ” Andrei Kochergin , who, on indicative performances, cuts himself with a knife, without anesthesia. He sews his wounds and yells obscenities on students in the bloodied kimono.

Despite all this, I agree to go on karate. I can imagine a low, dry convict in the black "Adidas", which will definitely beat me on the very first day of classes. In fact, a gray -haired coach with a weightlifting figure and a haircut of Morpeh gives an impression: a criminal investigation veteran, an academician of the unofficial wound. He hides a tattoo under the commanding clock "Vostok". It is not peppy for years, it does not require to die at sparring. We die from a physical therapy, but with a sense of euphoria: we will become fighters.

It is worth considering when Sampai (senior student) in the locker room immediately explains that the coach, even for the eyes, is now a teacher, that everything is unofficial, you need to pay a fake and that the teacher himself will not take money in the hands. Strange, but I write off on traditional etiquette. Further "etiquette" will be a lot.

After a month, of all the brand new I am left alone. Training on the street, all year round, five hours. It is necessary to come in advance, before the lesson of the Dodzo - a place for training - you need to prepare: in the summer, make up from sand, in the fall, remove the leaves, spread the snow in winter and split the ice. I develop Kenjo (will in overcoming difficulties). I get tired that I fall asleep, untie the laces. In winter, in a special frost, they are launched for a short time to warm up in the room. In the cold, polyurethane foam hardens. The question is why not to purchase normal inventory appears immediately. In the summer we train barefoot. I do not pay attention to passers -by. They do not understand, they are not warriors.

Transformation in Samurai

The first noticeable change is the hands. Thin long fingers cease to be feminine, broken joints bend with a wet creak, hands become "male".

A few months later, the first time I hear from the teacher about Atlantis, ancestors, Hyperborea, “Protocols of the Zion sages” and “Dulles plan”. Allows you to read the anti -Semitic novel by Grigory Klimov "Prince of this world."

The teacher has a library dedicated to the theories of a conspiracy and pseudo -nause. Stalinism and neopaganism. Ideological preparation has been set: AUTO-CONCLUSIONS (recognized as an extremist movement and prohibited in Russia) are growing up with military ethics, if at least they have ever been something separate. “The elder is always right”, “School for you is a family, teacher - father, comrade - brother”, “If you meet the snake and traitor, first kill the traitor, then snake”, “Help the school, and the school will help you.” The reference example is the text "I am grateful to the Chechens as teachers for the taught lesson." Lieutenant Colonel Karpov as an icon of behavior in any situation. A student from a senior group, recently demobilized after the end, a former fighter of the hooligan “company”, calls Karpova a scumbag. The teacher explains to the student that he simply does not have life experience. The teacher says: "We need to listen, you can leave your opinion with you."

Karate is long, boring and monotonous. Each technical action, for example, Jodan-May-Zski (straight blow with a fist in the head), is divided into several separate summarizing exercises. Until you master the boot reversal well, you will not go to the supply and rotation of the pelvis to include body weight in the blow, and only then - the trajectory of hand movement. In order for the reception to work, it must become a conditional reflex. To do this, it must be very slowly repeated at least 10,000 times. Then, when the drawing of the blow becomes acceptable, you can slowly increase the speed of execution. Only then they are allowed to work out on the shells.

In theory, then you need to work out on the "paws" and in pairs, but the teacher does not want to spend his time on it. It works separately, behind the wall, on which we stuff fists. He is assisted by the senior group. You can’t look at their training: a secret technique. The teacher often tells how one of the students believed in himself and said that he was worthy to go to the older group. The teacher says that he took him by the thyroid cartilage that the student was wet for himself.

The teacher asks to sign the requirement to release Colonel Kvachkov, convicted of attempts on Chubais. One of the students, a weightlifter that rotates the reinforcement between the fingers, does not know and asks for more details. The teacher says that asking questions is the position of a coward. We are removed for the REN TV “Military Secret” program, where they say that the teacher suggested starting research on the creation of a “universal soldier”.

For violation of discipline, they put on fists. In each training session, I work out blows in the throat, in the groin, in the eyes, in the joints. From the passage to the legs, it is ordered to stretch and punch vertically from top to bottom into the spine. The blow to the groin of a woman is no less effective than a man. They teach how to make a Millulole brick from the newspaper. At very rare sparring - kickboxing in jackets without blows to the head. There is no struggle from the word at all. We do not participate in the competition: karate is not sport, but military art. The teacher does not want to report to official sports organizations and pay contributions. The emblem of the school - the fist of the teacher against the backdrop of Yin and Yan - was ordered to sew on a tracksuit. The teacher argues that it would be good to make tattoos with the emblem. A student from the older group, who called Karpov a scumbag, sharply against.

The teacher says he is not worthy. The hair must be cut short so that you cannot grab it. I get the brasset, for sure, Ikken Hisatsu (from one blow). According to Part 4 of Article 20.8 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation for wearing a caste only administrative. In addition to the brand, I wear a knife. If you need to go through the frame of the metal detector, I take the knife polymer. I smoke the money for the trauma. I want a converted from combat pm-t. Until July 1, 2011, to remake military weapons to the traumatic, replacing the barrel, was allowed.

Serve the teacher

Two years later, I become Uti-Desi (a student who serves the teacher’s servant). There is no particular rite of initiation, everything, as in karate, is in stages. He began to help convey the inventory to the apartment, finished a full -fledged work, comparable to training. The work consists in transferring furniture, things from the store, courierity, buying gifts to the teacher for holidays. How much a gift costs, it doesn’t matter, you need to raise money and buy. If the teacher does not like the gift, you are returned. Do with him what you want, the gift should like. I work for hours at the teacher’s computer in his office.

The background image of the desktop is a picture of Leo Hao “Svyatoslav. I'm going to you. " There are books with books at the computer. The “Best Karate” is the Podkayama (master and popularizer Karate, a student of Funakoshi, founder of the Setokan style) and “From street hooligan to 10th Dana” Buering (master karate, student of Oyama, founder of the Kyokushinkai style) next to the “chronological and esoteric analysis of the development of modern civilization” of Sidorov (pseudo-eating, anti-Semitic, racers).

Behind the classic red-black carpet with attached weapons: Sa, Finnish NKVD, VAKAROSASI, Cossack checker SK-TKV, Tonfa, Scramasax, Kama, the authorized Nagayka. The teacher works with weapons for 30–40 minutes at the end of the lesson, the rest is strictly prohibited. It works with everything except swords. The teacher is practical: it is useless if you can’t carry it with you.

We feverishly remove from the carpet everything that according to GOST R 51215-98 is a cold weapon, before the arrival of a new district police officer, with which the contact has not yet been established. The teacher is always with knives. At meetings, speeches and conferences too. If the security for the metal detector has questions, a veteran certificate is included in the work. If it does not work, then threats.

I do not accompany the teacher’s conference and meetings - there is not a high status enough - but when with him on the street outside the training, the likelihood is annoying that an endless stream of ranks, positions and regalia will unexpectedly demolish random people (cashiers, guards, passers -by) who said or did not do what the teacher wants.

The teacher communicates (read: thumps) with very strange people: real and false veterans of existing and non -existent special units, Cossacks, pseudo -scientists. Cossacks are always without shape, their faces are shaved. On the right pocket of the clip from a folding knife. Like skinheads in the early 2000s, they moved away from Militari to Kejuel so as not to attract excess attention. The worst of all pseudo -scientists - costumes are sitting monstrously. It’s hard, with shortness of breath, shoes are removed in the hallway, next to the Bo and Jo walls located along the wall - combat poles of different lengths. They usually come by public transport: there is no money for a taxi.

My task at this moment is to get alcohol. Those who are on good cars come for a short while while the teacher is training. The process of assigning non -existent awards and titles does not stop. I’m not sure that in Oxford aware that they are assigning the title of a professor in the field of military arts. One of the goals of the assembly (read: drunken) is to find an administrative resource, with its help, create a folk squad (read: Chop) on the basis of the school for a small and not very racket and raiding. They bring under this ideological base: social justice, deprivation. Unable to come to terms that the period of the initial accumulation of capital in Russia (read: assigning the means of production by any available methods) passed without their participation.

All projects go to dust, people continue to live in the 1980-1990s. And not in the real 1980s, but invented by them. They cannot agree, they are languidly mastering the funds of sponsors, grants from the municipal budget, drink, scold power and borrow money without the intention of returning. This leads to conflicts, threats from “breaking fucked” to “arrange“ masks-shows ”, but never ends with anything. And so in a circle. In parallel, they dream of using school (read: sect) to promote merchants in the form of a sports form, books, simulators and in general any products, the production of which will be able to establish, according to the network marketing scheme.

At sunset

Four years later, we are losing a dojo. The teacher uses municipal property as his personal. A student who can cost this whim is categorically against, he is declared a traitor. This is a weightlifter that did not want to subscribe to Kvachkov. Now it is forbidden to communicate with him. The school remains literally on the street, during the execution of Kata you must be careful so as not to fit into the shit or used condom. Kenjo - the morale - is strengthened in exponent. A few older students appear less and less.

After a few months, we stay with the teacher together. At that time, I already heard enough from the teacher about the earlier students who threw and betrayed the school for the sake of receiving Dan - high workshops of degrees. I understand that the matter is not only and not so much in this. I’m trying to save the situation: I invite a colleague, a former boxer to classes. He needs to recover after the injury. After a few classes, the teacher transparently hints that he does not want to deal with him, since he is insolvent.

We work out shocks on the trunks of trees. The police call us. The district police officer presses the teacher’s hand and leaves after a few minutes. We become the object of attention of local freaks. A woman, looks twice as older than her own age, explains that she hugs the trees on which we work out blows for treatment and energies. The alcoholic, cooks food at the stake on the balcony and burns his own apartment, comes to communicate, but disappears closer to winter.

Karate ends when the teacher’s heart, unable to withstand five-year training in the cold and alkomarathons fails. He goes to the hospital, the operation is successful. I continue to pay money, as if classes are still going, but this is not enough. Extortion begins. Our last conversation on the phone ends on the phrase: “I don’t care where, get the money!” Two contacts. Now it’s my turn to be a traitor. Os-s! (Bow.)

There are objective advantages in living a traitor. You can not wear a knife. So, however, it’s easier. You can run a half marathon, spitting that this does not help faster and more accurately beat. I try to remember how to breathe, lying on the mat after the rear step. I understand that the struggle works. But I am not a fighter or a fighter and never was them. When I understand that you can not be a fighter and that it is normal, that people are much more complicated, it becomes really easier.

There is only one problem: I dream that I returned to the teacher. That I am very ashamed. The teacher is unhappy, but forgives me. I missed so much, in vain spent so much time, without training. But nothing, now I can get better. It will not work to improve - I always wake up.

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