English Translation from Google Translate:
KUNG-FU O VOO DA ÁGUIA
(by MOUTHINHO PEREIRA/CARLOS OIL)
There are those who want to see in the so-called Martial Arts only self-defense techniques, or worse than that. There are "masters" who boast of having removed "all that mysticism" from what they teach, leaving themselves alone and only for the physical part. There are those who openly talk about the existence of a "mafia" controlling this sector. And there is a man of goodwill caught unwillingly in the midst of all this turmoil and dozens of deeply frustrated teenagers.
A young man from Iran, Shahram Kasiri, 26, brought to Portugal as a refugee, forced to flee Tehran by Khomeiny because he was a member of the Baha'i faith. He has lived for over a year installed in a campaign legend, in Parque de Monsanto. He is a man of small stature, sweet and deep eyes, dark, with no other particular signs than the profound calm he radiates. Anyone who passes by it, on the street, will not believe that it holds the secrets of an ancient technique of expanding consciousness and self-knowledge, transformed by third-rate films and by some "masters" of bringing home, Bruce Lee, in an art of killing quickly, with clean hands. Shahram Kasiri is a Kung-Fu master. He practiced it for thirteen years at the school of a man of power and will, Mirzai, in Tehran. Mirzai is not with known in Portugal. But he did some demonstrations in the United States. where they want his disciple now, whatever the cost. Meanwhile, the CDAM, an eternal Commission of Martial Arts appointed by the Secretary of State for Sports of the Ministry of Quality of Life, engaged in a campaign of "moralization", prohibited him from teaching, to dozens of teenagers. the main of the 515 techniques of the first phase of a total "of 23 thousand, maybe more..."
"Strength is in Thought" the most frequent maxim of this "little" Iranian who fled to Portugal after Khomeiny began the pursuit of the "B" Aha!". In fact, he spreads calm around him.
THE GEAR
Sharam Kasiri opened classes of Kung-Fu initiation about a year and a half ago at Clube Atlético de Al valade and at the Olivais pool. The inscriptions, despite the high price, rained down. And the results obtained and revealed in demonstrations and on RTP's "Troféu" program were amazing. So much so that the "structure" shook. The letter of denunciation of a "master" reaches the entities considered competent. The bureaucratic gear starts to move and Shahram Kasiri receives a letter forbidding him to teach. The ban would then be softened: he could continue with "gymnastics", but not, anyway.
To none, with the techniques. That's how things are, for a month and a half now, with CDAM members attending, in recent weeks, complete classes, accompanied by experts, to in the words of their responsible
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Beautiful to look at, no doubt. More importantly, however, what is not possible to capture in a photographic sequence. And that even looking at it with great attention, it gets lost... It is necessary to "feel" it.
know if this interests Portugal...".
-We are studying the matter and we will give an answer, he advanced us. When?
-We'll give you an answer. The care given by the CDAM to the moralization of the so-called Martial Airs is to be commended, it is evident. You don't want to pronounce it before listening to the most varied opinions as well. It is also true that the bureaucratic process of "legalization" (1) of the teaching of Kung-Fu in Portugal did not follow the established rules, but Master Shahram is not directly responsible for that.
There is, however, an underlying truth to all these aspects. That, in one year, the little Iranian proved to be better master, much better, than the vast majority of the "masters" existing today in Portugal. Demonstrated to be above level. And one, one more, of the "men to be slaughtered" by the "mafia" that, it is said, dominates the "Martial Arts" in this country?
And finally and above all, who can be a competent judge in this case?
IT'S DIFFERENT
The more advanced students of Shahram Kasiri are "different". The father of one of them, an ex-practitioner of Judo in Federal Germany, where he worked for more than ten years, and familiar with other ways, from Aiki to Karate-do, said it without having to ask him:
- My boy never had any good points. not me now bring other notes. And it's different, different for the better, much better. It only annoys me when he tells me that if the master leaves, he will too.
How then? It is evident that Kung-Fu is based on a physical basis, exercises the body, teaches the practitioner to control it, to know it. But this is the least important. What is really important is what happens on a spiritual level. As Master Shahram says, in his run-down Portuguese. "Kung Fu is to elevate the human spirit and thought, achieving mental and spiritual balance. It does not serve to exalt brutality and aggressiveness. We fight to discover ourselves, that's the fight. people and we consider enmity the result of ignorance,
Ignorance, which is the only obstacle to the consummation of malor, comes from everything in this world, friendship between all men. To the ignorant we say: "Lose fear, because it is based on your ignorance. Strength of character leads to peace."
This is the difference, the one that is noticed in most of Master Shahram Kasiri's students: they are at peace. with them and with the world.
Does this serve Portugal? The misfortunes of a war brought to us a mighty flying eagle. An initiator, in the truest sense of the word. It stayed because yes. "Many things we can only feel, not speak"-he explains. But there are already a number of people, with poles in the air, wanting to scare her away, she who flies high, they don't even dream how much... lén
