The laws of physics

I recently found a line in a Jeep brochure that said " No system, no matter how sophisticated, can repeal the laws of physics or overcome careless driving actions." This immediately brought to mind some memories of my first kenpo instructor who invented his own anatomy and revised the laws of physics.
     It seems that people sometimes think that because they do martial arts that it's magic and that the laws of physics don't apply to them. I thought the line in the brochure was brilliant. All it needs is to delete the word "driving" and it applies to the arts.
    My first instructor told me about extra (non-existent) bones in the body, how Asians were born to be more flexible than Americans and how when you hit a person in the head how the head would actually move in the direction opposite the force applied instead of with it. I was 18 at the time and I knew that wasn't right. This stuff contributed to my deciding to leave the school. He also told me that if you gave a guy a concussion by hitting the head on one side you could fix it by hitting equally hard on the other. There's some pretty grim repercussions to that.
    I my travels I have met many people who really don't have much of a clue how the laws of physics apply and they invent things that simply go against them. And they teach it. That's very scary.
   Like the brochure said; no system, regardless of how good it it, can overcome those laws. You need to have a basic idea of the laws that are taught by competent instructors who take the time to give you the rudiments needed. You have to because you work in the physical environment. Try not to fall into the trap that you know karate and the other guy doesn't and all this "magic" will work to make you victorious. It takes mindful practice and a lot of work.