WEKJ/CUNNINGHAME JU-JITSU LEKWAA THEORY
The White Eagle Kempo Ju-Jitsu System is an Alaskan system based off practical laws of nature as well as my professional experience in law enforcement and military service-in conjunction to my historical Cunninghame foundations.
UNDERSTANDING OF ANIMAL STRENGTHS
FOUR GENERAL ANIMAL TEACHINGS
1. Your “will” must be tempered.
To become strong like the xóots (brown bear), you need to strengthen your body, and you must foster an indomitable spirit, a spirit that will neither hesitate or crumble regardless of the hardships. The xóots stands supreme in its environment and every other animal respects this greatness for it exudes in all the xóots says and does. Yet, the xóots usually walks alone with the intent to live life to the fullest and to respect all other animals it comes in contact with. To have true strength like the xóots, you must create a reliable trust in your self.
2. All physical prowess is the gateway to the self.
The practice of WHITE EAGLE KEMPO JU-JITSU is to become strong physically (yéi jiné latseen), mentally (tundatáan), and spiritually (kaa yakgwahéiyágu) like the wolverine (nóoskw). You must never forget this teaching, do not train yourself solely to mastering technical applications or in becoming physically strong to the exclusion of your other natural gifts, or in achieving gratification in conquering others. The nóoskw’s prowess is known to all animals in the forest and they understand. When the nóoskw is near all other animals yield, even the xóots. The nóoskw, however, cannot defeat the xóots in battle. If defeating opponents was nóoskw only goal, then it would always lose if facing xóots. Remember this: you have no need for unarmed combat skills if you seek for the overthrow of a threat as your goal; it would be far easier to use some kind of man-made weapon. The point of mastering the techniques of WHITE EAGLE is to be like nóoskw in order to bring the kind of confidence that comes from knowing you can physically defend yourself with only your gifted tools of nature; without resorting to the stiffling tools made by mankind.
3. Positive Mental Attitude (Nóoskw Tundatáan) must permeate all you do.
It is an abiration for an animal of one species to kill another animal within its own species. All animals live their life as nature dictates within their various niches. When territories overlap all animals find a way to get along. They tolerate each other in close proximity, yet they still walk alone. In WHITE EAGLE, we foster the nóoskw tundatáan (wolverine mind).
It is an abiration for an animal of one species to kill another animal within its own species. All animals live their life as nature dictates within their various niches. When territories overlap all animals find a way to get along. They tolerate each other in close proximity, yet they still walk alone. In WHITE EAGLE, we foster the nóoskw tundatáan (wolverine mind).
Even within the same species, most battles over territory, food, and mating do not end in death, even though conflicts do occur. Yet, both sides realize that they are both formitable opponents....Both victors! Ultimately, all animals wish only to live, to persevere another day in the great cycle of life. No matter what, their body is alive, their mind is undefeated, and their spirit cannot be conquered. This is nóoskw tundatáan!
You to are faced with conflicts of many kinds. By developing nóoskw tundatáan, you will remain alive in your conflicts (mistakes, discouragements, etc) because you have the right mind. Never must you think of yourself as having been defeated, the nóoskw never loses to the xóots. Sometimes the xóots leaves, and sometimes the nóoskw. As discouraging as it my be to either, they walk away with their heads held high knowing that they are true to themselves. Yet, if they go to battle over their differences the nóoskw will always lose physically to the xóots.
Similarly, in the course of your life you might have conflicts, but your quality or respect as a human being is not determined by whether you have conflicts or not, rather, by whether you can walk away like xóots or nóoskw with your head held high, always pick yourself up again. The only thing that can defeat nóoskw tundatáan is you. If at any point you think you have lost....you have! This will be your only real defeat: the one you create in your own mind. To carry on always with nóoskw tundatáan, living your own life, you will always be the victor.
4. Always rely on yourself and have confidence that you will succeed
You are alive now in this world, you have only one life to live, and you must appreciate it to the fullest. Animals live their life to the fullest making no excuses for who the are. They each have a feeling of self-worth that comes from the courage to take responsibility for their own lives. You must also take responsibility for living well, no matter what your circumstances are. You must stand up and be recognized like the eagle (ch'áak') soaring high above all other animals. You must speak the truth as the marten (k'óox)when the hawk (shaayáal) lands on a branch next to its lair. The k'óox persuasively objects saying that it dislikes shaayáal being so close to their home. When you see something that is not right or is bothersome to you or you see something as a wrong to you or others, you must, like the k'óox, have the strength to put these things right; it involves a conscious initiative, and a belief in your own potential to achieve the fullest measure of your creation, just as the ch'áak' soars to its high places.
You are alive now in this world, you have only one life to live, and you must appreciate it to the fullest. Animals live their life to the fullest making no excuses for who the are. They each have a feeling of self-worth that comes from the courage to take responsibility for their own lives. You must also take responsibility for living well, no matter what your circumstances are. You must stand up and be recognized like the eagle (ch'áak') soaring high above all other animals. You must speak the truth as the marten (k'óox)when the hawk (shaayáal) lands on a branch next to its lair. The k'óox persuasively objects saying that it dislikes shaayáal being so close to their home. When you see something that is not right or is bothersome to you or you see something as a wrong to you or others, you must, like the k'óox, have the strength to put these things right; it involves a conscious initiative, and a belief in your own potential to achieve the fullest measure of your creation, just as the ch'áak' soars to its high places.
All this can be achieved through a sure, soft spoken, grounded confidence. With animals nothing is accomplished or achieved by doing no work. Each animal must work for what it gets. The ch'áak' cannot sit in the nest high above the earth and expect a mountain hawk (gijook) to bring fish to their nest. Nor would the eagle accept this offering if it was done. The ch'áak' expects nothing for free from others, yet it will help the other animals by catching fish and leaving some for other bird and animal species that cannot fish as the ch'áak' can. Each animal living its natural course contributes to the overall life of other animals around them.
For you and I, true personal power and strength means possessing a quiet confidence and courage as the mountain lion (haadaa goojí) which cannot be persuaded or taken by corporeal significance of any kind (money, authority, etc.), and you must establish yourself as someone who will always respond in time of need to that which is right and true. Haadaa goojí is ever watching its environment vary aware of all that move within. Significantly, it means being proactive, with concern not merely for yourself, but for the wellbeing of everyone.
CLAN CUNNINGHAM JU-JITSU ACADEMY
WHITE EAGLE SCHOOL
OF MARTIAL ARTS
