Big fan of Houdini. As a magician, his tricks on stage were pretty mundane. His gift was in promotion and creating drama, mostly outside, gathering crowds. Later in life, he spent a good deal of time debunking spiritualists, exposing them as frauds. As a student of physical culture he was exceptional. He did spend a lot of effort to learn how to control his autonomic systems. And he knew the secret of all great magic...unrelenting practice. I always thought of The Mighty Atom as the world's first real life superhero. But Houdini would fit in there nicely too.
Muscle control was not invented by maxick.. his book may have got a lot of popularity but muscle control was invented in east and not all but a major part of it comes from Hatha Yoga of which stomach vacuum is a good example ..what happened was west was good at patenting stuff and lot of eastern knowledge coming from many different disciplines was patented by west.
Yeah fair point! And tbh others had described it like Alois Swoboda (though he seems to have been a bit of a snake oil salesman). Still, I think the Maxalding method is what most people think of when it comes to muscle control. I’ll be looking at this much more deeply in future 😊
I would venture to say that muscle control is as old as physical culture, andMaxick just had his own paticular system and brand for it, relying on subtly tensing the muscles instead of performing complex exercises like gymnastics or yoga. his book "Great Strength by Muscle Control" though, I think was years ahead of its time. Maxick described the proper muscular tension to support heavy compound lifts in detail akin to a modern powerlifting coach. With Swoboda, I would be very careful as to who I believe when reading about him. There's a group online trying to paint him as the inspiration for Charles Atlas, when there's absolutely no evidence to that effect - and Atlas' exercises are likely derivative of the work of Bernarr MacFadden. Swoboda's workouts were basically push ups and holding your limbs super rigid and moving them in the air - which exists in karate's Sanchin kata and John McSweeney's "tiger moves" workout, though McSweeney mistakenly thought it was to build muscular strength. Sanchin kata is also just way cooler than the fitness guru arm tensing exercises
The Bioneer he was also said to have trained Perception. He could walk fast past a shop window full of items and then recall with photographic like memory EVERY detail. From location to shadows, reflection and small print or number of items. i have done this type of training myself. Do this Get out of the house for a 10-15min calm walk. Try to notice everything. Reflections in the car mirrors, maybe you can see the drivers window inside the car what reflected in it, what is in the car, any scratches, how many, any special shade of colour, full detail of peoples faces, small dirt on the pavement behind the cars tyre, as you look ahead on the street normally notice the sky in your vision, what are the clouds like? -youre in holiday having a great time but canmot recall the shape of the clouds above you, on that magick moment? disgraceful ! - joking :) Also, COUNT, number of cars you see, number of trees, if you look down at some flowers how many flower or how many petals? it sounds like a waste of time but believe me, your brain will pick this up sooo fast from your first session you notice improvememts ! the habits like counting objects, ie cars, will be learned asap as well you can turn yoir head to look at people and you need sooo little time to do it, that from their vision youre literally lookimg past them or had a nervous twitch and quickly stretched your neck bit in that time youve seen everything on them with photographic recall ! Yes this spills into peripheral vision training naturally which is a nice bonus and Yes this is called VISUAL PERCEPTION William Watker Atkinson has a book on this stuff. I picked up years ago from one of his books randomly. You can also train mind/imagination perception etc. Actually visual perception should be last to train because youre increasing Input with it bit can you perceive everything on your mind so as to accomodate more input which requires more analysis to work = more thoughts! but like...natural subconsciouss processes that happen unconsciously or 'abstratically' and yes this can act as a form of concentration / samatha or meditation training...actually, it is martial meditation indeed. Can help with self control, etc etc etc
Big fan of Houdini. As a magician, his tricks on stage were pretty mundane. His gift was in promotion and creating drama, mostly outside, gathering crowds. Later in life, he spent a good deal of time debunking spiritualists, exposing them as frauds. As a student of physical culture he was exceptional. He did spend a lot of effort to learn how to control his autonomic systems. And he knew the secret of all great magic...unrelenting practice. I always thought of The Mighty Atom as the world's first real life superhero. But Houdini would fit in there nicely too.
Yeah he was fascinating to learn about. And I’ll definitely be looking at The Mighty Atom in more detail in a future post :-D
Video suggestion about bare knuckle boxing and also Fedor Emelianenko’s calmness for fighting.
I truly hope one of your videos will eventually go viral so you can get the attention you deserve.
Thanks! My first Bruce Lee one kind of did... I need another one though lol!
Extremely informative, as a fan of Houdini, it was great to see all the different facts about his life put together in one video, thankyou
I love your videos because not only is it a strong opener to a new person or topic but genuinely gets me interested in exploring them more.
Loving this series! Keep up the GREAT work! :)
Thanks a lot! Really enjoy making these ones :-D
Why tf is this channel so underrated we need to protest guys
Cool video brother!! Fascinating topics!!
I love your content! Super interesting and very useful for keeping your training regime fresh! All aboard the gains train 🚂 💪🏻
Thanks man!
Love everything you do. Absolutely everything. Looking forward to those videos! They sound amazing
Thanks :-D I really appreciate it!
Hey, Adam! Great video, but where’s content from Grant?
He is busy with other stuff these days, but I hope he’ll return in the not too distant future 😊
It's Christmas! Thank you for this!
You are most welcome!
Excellent video!! Most of this stuff I didn't know!
Schweet!
COOL!!
please do a video on the mighty atom!!
Absolutely!
You had my attention at "Houdini".
I was delighted to find this video, and impressed by the content! I'll be subscribing for more, thanks!
Adam u are a living legend by just breathing
Back at you Alex! ✊
Amazing video as always, would really like to see you cover wimhof in this manner
I’ve read he was an agent for Scotland Yard too.
Never been this early!!!!
Muscle control was not invented by maxick.. his book may have got a lot of popularity but muscle control was invented in east and not all but a major part of it comes from Hatha Yoga of which stomach vacuum is a good example ..what happened was west was good at patenting stuff and lot of eastern knowledge coming from many different disciplines was patented by west.
Yeah fair point! And tbh others had described it like Alois Swoboda (though he seems to have been a bit of a snake oil salesman). Still, I think the Maxalding method is what most people think of when it comes to muscle control. I’ll be looking at this much more deeply in future 😊
As opposed to now when the East infringes on inventions created in the west
I would venture to say that muscle control is as old as physical culture, andMaxick just had his own paticular system and brand for it, relying on subtly tensing the muscles instead of performing complex exercises like gymnastics or yoga.
his book "Great Strength by Muscle Control" though, I think was years ahead of its time. Maxick described the proper muscular tension to support heavy compound lifts in detail akin to a modern powerlifting coach.
With Swoboda, I would be very careful as to who I believe when reading about him. There's a group online trying to paint him as the inspiration for Charles Atlas, when there's absolutely no evidence to that effect - and Atlas' exercises are likely derivative of the work of Bernarr MacFadden. Swoboda's workouts were basically push ups and holding your limbs super rigid and moving them in the air - which exists in karate's Sanchin kata and John McSweeney's "tiger moves" workout, though McSweeney mistakenly thought it was to build muscular strength.
Sanchin kata is also just way cooler than the fitness guru arm tensing exercises
Great video. Thanks again
Informative video 👍from Northern 🇬🇧
Woooow
Fascinating!
Great video !Houdini and I are birthday twins.
What did he say at 0:34? Just asking
"The brain is the key that sets me free"
The Bioneer he was also said to have trained Perception. He could walk fast past a shop window full of items and then recall with photographic like memory EVERY detail. From location to shadows, reflection and small print or number of items.
i have done this type of training myself. Do this
Get out of the house for a 10-15min calm walk. Try to notice everything. Reflections in the car mirrors, maybe you can see the drivers window inside the car what reflected in it, what is in the car, any scratches, how many, any special shade of colour, full detail of peoples faces, small dirt on the pavement behind the cars tyre, as you look ahead on the street normally notice the sky in your vision, what are the clouds like? -youre in holiday having a great time but canmot recall the shape of the clouds above you, on that magick moment? disgraceful ! - joking :)
Also, COUNT, number of cars you see, number of trees, if you look down at some flowers how many flower or how many petals?
it sounds like a waste of time but believe me, your brain will pick this up sooo fast from your first session you notice improvememts !
the habits like counting objects, ie cars, will be learned asap as well
you can turn yoir head to look at people and you need sooo little time to do it, that from their vision youre literally lookimg past them or had a nervous twitch and quickly stretched your neck bit in that time youve seen everything on them with photographic recall !
Yes this spills into peripheral vision training naturally which is a nice bonus
and Yes this is called VISUAL PERCEPTION
William Watker Atkinson has a book on this stuff. I picked up years ago from one of his books randomly. You can also train mind/imagination perception etc. Actually visual perception should be last to train because youre increasing Input with it bit can you perceive everything on your mind so as to accomodate more input which requires more analysis to work = more thoughts! but like...natural subconsciouss processes that happen unconsciously or 'abstratically'
and yes this can act as a form of concentration / samatha or meditation training...actually, it is martial meditation indeed. Can help with self control, etc etc etc
His silent movie serial are fun to watch
Hey im a new suscriber i wanna propose and idea for a video and is about the karate kid movie training /protagonized jaden smith and jackie chan.
Any idea how he developed his amazingly strong stomache?
Do ghosts exist?
It's "Budapest", not "Budapest" .
Recently came across body builders using viagra while they lift, maybe you can look into that and make a video about that
Real life Batman.