It is a splendid exercise for the bowels and if used regularly will correct a sluggish liver.


MAKE YOURSELF HUNGRY
You should at once adopt this training diet, not for a contest, but for life: -- It consists of
Common sense in choosing wholesome food;
Avoiding things that disagree with you;
Temperance in the amount you eat.
The Golden Rule of eating is:
MAKE YOURSELF HUNGRY FOR EACH MEAL.
Practise the Abdominal Control exercise with the same regularity that you wash your teeth.
It creates a better circulation in your digestive track and makes it function more efficiently. It strengthens the muscular tissues of the abdominal organs, and gives them greater power. It massages the intestines and hastens the removal of effete matter.
If you have not recently enjoyed a good appetite this will soon give you one.
This simple rule of making yourself hungry will give you better health, a clearer skin, and a more active brain than the most carefully selected diet would without getting hungry.
If your stomach is soured, drink copiously of water, hot or cold. Practice the Abdominal Control exercise, miss a meal, and your stomach will be washed out, sweet and clean. It will assist if you go for a walk while doing this.
One more caution: Whenever you sit down to a meal for which you have no appetite, eat only half of what you are accustomed to and you will be hungry for the next meal.
The results will be immediate and surprising and will pay you a big dividend in increased "pep" and mental power.


ANOTHER MEANING OF STAHARA
The Great War brought into prominence that ugly but expressive word "Guts." It was particularly popular with the Bayonet Instructors who were always telling their classes to put their "guts" into it.
By this they meant that one should put his whole strength and weight into the thrust or lunge, and put the same strength and weight into the thrust or lunge, and put the same spirit into his effort of "sticking" the dummy that he would into fighting with a real foeman.
In short, they wanted to train, not only the muscular endurance of the soldier, but his morale, or fighting spirit.
Shakespeare said:
He that hath no stomach for the fight
Let him depart.
The bayonet instructors wanted to train our "Stomach for the fight."
The word "guts" then, scientifically analyzed, combines both the idea of putting the strength and weight of your body into any given blow and the idea of putting all your mind and will and soul into any given movement.
The same idea inspired Shakespeare when he wrote the above quotation in classical English, and the bayonet men when they punctuated their instructions with a phrase which many will term vulgar, and which at best is slang.
What Shakespeare and the bayonet instructors dimly visualized this course teaches as a specific principle. The knack of putting your "guts" into it can be learnt, separate and distinct from anything else, and once acquired can be applied to anything.
The Stahara consists of the diaphragm (the large muscle which divides the cavity of the heart and lungs from the cavity of the stomach and intestines) on the top, and the muscular floor of the abdominal region, and all that lies between.
When the body is used properly as by an expert in any branch of sport, the weight of the whole body, the weight of the Stahara, goes into any stroke he may make, as in golf or tennis, thereby distinguishing him from the beginner, who depends largely on the working of his arms and legs.
After a course in Stahara training, with the increased faculty of using the body as a whole, and the automatic realization of the fact that the center of gravity lies in the center of the Stahara, a sportsman will be able to watch an expert play golf, for instance, and will appreciate just how the expert uses his Stahara.
He will then be better able to analyze his own movements and correct them accordingly.
Stahara supplies not only a word that can be used, but also a scientific and complete training for what, up till now, was only a dimly realized, vague idea, not yet developed into a principle.
Stahara simply means "Guts" -- moral and physical.

The Secrets of Jujitsu, A Complete Course in Self Defense, Book II
By Captain Allan Corstorphin Smith, U.S.A.
Winner of the Black Belt, Japan, 1916. Instructor of Hand-to-Hand Fighting, THE INFANTRY SCHOOL, Camp Benning, Columbus, Georgia and at United States Training Camps and Cantonments, 1917 and 1918.
In Seven Books.
BOOK TWO.
STAHARA PUBLISHING COMPANY
Columbus, Georgia, 1920.
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This electronic version is copyright EJMAS © 2000. All rights reserved.
Contributed by Thomas J. Militello, a 15-year member of Astoria, New York's non-profit Horangi Taekwondo Dojang, which is headed by James Robison.
Readers interested in seeing film images should note the following film held by the National Archives and Record Administration:
NWDNM(m)-111-H-1180.
Title: Physical and Bayonet Training, 1918.
Scope and Content: Recruits at Camp Gordon, Georgia receive detailed instruction in boxing and jiu-jitsu. Wrestling and jiu-jitsu holds are used against a foe with a bayonet. Troops do calisthenics and play rough games calculated to make them physically fit.
35mm film, 15 minutes


FORM A SELF-DEFENSE CLUB
It does not matter what sort of a partner you first practice with. Keep a record of your progress by making a check mark against a trick each day you practice it. The first day a trick may take five or ten minutes, and after that only one or two minutes.
Let your opponent try all the tricks on you, you will learn a great deal from this.
Get at least one friend enthused to the point where he will procure a set of textbooks for his private study and will keep a record of his progress.
After four such practices with one opponent, you should try to practice each trick with as many different opponents as you can get.
Each man has a different style of physique and you have not mastered the course till you can do the tricks effectively on any style of opponent.
Popularize this practice amongst your circle of friends to provide yourself with opponents. Some one of your friends may develop a better style of doing a certain trick than you, and it will be to your advantage to practice it with him.
All this practice must be formal and not competitive. Once you start wrestling in a haphazard way you will hinder the orderly study of the course.
To attack one another with "any old trick" will result in severe falls, and should only be done on a mat after you have learned how to fall. This will be taught in the second course.
It is quite unnecessary to so in this course which is a complete and adequate system of self-defense and can be learnt without such strenuous practice.


LESSON 6
This lesson teaches you --
How to clasp hands when taking hold.
An interesting variation of the waisthold.
The chin shove.
Correct leverage in the chin shove.
Advanced practice in the chin shove.
Name of Partner Date Practice Commenced Waisthold Chin Shove
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10.
Make a check mark against each trick each day you practice it.
In clasping hands behind opponent's back always take the grip shown in fig. 23.
Unless he is a much smaller man, in which case clasp your left wrist with your right hand.
Never use the grip shown in fig. 25.

If your opponent falls on your fingers when they are clasped this way they may be broken.
Again, if he lies beneath you his weight may jam your fingers so that you would have difficulty in freeing your arms while his arms would be free to attack.
These instructions as to correct methods of clasping hands are chiefly for the man who acts in the role of Assailant in this waisthold series, and in the "Seized from Behind Series" in Book 4.


AN INTERESTING VARIATION OF THE WAISTHOLD
There is a peculiarly sensitive spot about two inches long up and down each side of the backbone halfway between the waistline and shoulders.
Press the big third knuckle joint of your first finger into your first finger into your own back till you discover the spot.
Apply pressure here with the knuckle simultaneously with the pressure of your chin on his chest and the pain will cause him to quit.
As soon as he quits, let go and allow him to practice on you.

Some men are not sensitive to pressure here, but many people are so susceptible to pain at this spot that the trick will cause them to quit, and may even knock them out. Therefore when applying it to anyone, go slowly at first.
Experiment on each other a few times that you may acquire a moderation and temperance and so avoid injuring a less robust companion.


NOTES ON THE WAISTHOLD
Before practicing the chin shove given on the following page you and your partner should execute the waisthold as taught in Book 1, three times each.
The waisthold is not much use against a heavier man and is not taught in this course for its fighting value.
It is taught in order to provide an Assailant for the man who wants to learn the chin shove. It is the first link in the chain of dovetailed tricks.
It is taught because by means of it you learn the correct method of practice before proceeding to the more advanced tricks which might be dangerous unless practiced properly.
It takes away the beginner's nervousness before he comes to the more advanced tricks.


CHIN SHOVE

"ONE"
Assailant steps forward with left foot as if trying to secure the waisthold.
Step forward and slip your left hand inside Assailant's right arm and place it halfway around his waist.
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