‘Outlaw Karate: The Secret of the One Year Black Belt,’ was one of the first books on Matrixing. Actually, it was written before matrixing became ‘officialize.’
This is the first book to put forth the concept that people could actually earn a real Black Belt in Karate in a year of less.
This new edition includes a glossy cover. The original material, five star rated on Amazon, is intact.
The glory of this book is that it goes belt by belt, describing all the experiences, detailing what the student should be going through, and showing all the forms and applications. Thus, the reader has a much better chance of getting through the material without error; it is actually possible to get to a Black Belt within one year.
The book is based on the author’s synthesis of two martial arts, ‘Kang Duk Won’ and ‘Kwon Bup.’ All duplicate material has been discarded, along with fluff material such as poser techniques, unworkable techniques, and so on.
The result is an extremely hard core, street workable system.
The book includes detailed instructions on such items as:
how to create power
six ways to translate a block into totally different techniques
promotional requirements for every belt
what a student goes through on each belt level and why
the actual written tests for each belt
and TONS more.
The book is 166 pages with 212 images. In includes the complete system, with all the forms, applications, and methods of freestyle.
To find out more about Outlaw Karate: The Secret of the One Year Black Belt, click on this cover…
Click on the cover to go to Amazon and find out more…
This book is a complete system. It includes all the forms and form applications, along with methods of freestyle.
A complete Martial Arts System! ~ Click on the cover!
Hey,
one of the biggest,
most frequent questions I get,
when I’m teaching,
is where do you look
when you are free styling.
OR,
and this is really bad,
I get kids who freestyle
while unconscious.
Would you like to fight while unconscious?
Let me explain.
If you were in the middle of a street
and a car came barreling towards you,
would you look at the car?
Or would you look at the driver?
Kids and beginners always say,
‘I’d look at the car.’
I make the noise of somebody being smunched,
run over by a car.
Crunched.
Here’s the thing,
the car has no mind.
It is a piece of metal and machinery.
The car has no direction,
except that which is fed into it by the driver.
So you look at the driver.
You look at the person behind the wheel,
you read his intentions.
Read his intentions.
A car has no intention.
Only a human being has intention.
So you must look at the driver of the car.
AND,
that means,
when you are fighting,
you must look at the eyes.
The eyes are the windows to a man’s soul.
Look at the eyes,
and you can see the intention.
You can see the thoughts.
You can see the intention.
Not at first.
At first you see eyes.
You see flesh and tissue.
But,
with practice,
with dedicated dedication,
you will,
at last,
see the thought behind the body.
The spirit behind the flesh.
The ‘I am’ directing the action.
I know,
I’ve heard all the theories,
even been told to do them,
and even believed them for a while.
Look at the chest.
Use peripheral vision.
See the whole body by unfocusing.
But you’re still looking at the vehicle,
and not seeing who’s driving.
Oh,
eventually,
even without eyes,
you’ll start to perceive
things happening,
but it will be slow and faulty.
Who do you think is looking through those eyes?
Here’s the funny thing,
I was teaching a kid the other day,
and I made him look at me,
really look at me,
the ‘I am,’
and not the body,
and he broke down.
Went into the giggling hysterics.
Couldn’t look at me.
When I was a child and in trouble,
parents lecturing me,
I’d look down,
and immediately got the:
‘Look at me when I’m talking to you!’
They didn’t want me going unconscious.
I had to stay there and take my punishment.
Funny thing,
after a little of that,
I didn’t want to get in trouble.
It was just too hard looking them in the eyes.
This video clip is how you use the blinding steel material…
So that’s the key,
it will help your martial arts tremendously,
it will help your matrixing fantastically.
Because,
here’s something simple,
if you can’t look at it,
you can’t fight it.
And that means you can’t fight.
Why?
Because if you’re not looking,
then you’re unconscious.
Okey dokey.
Thanks to all who have purchased
Tiger and Butterfly Martial Arts,
it’s on Amazon.
the system I do,
right after Tiger and Butterfly
is the Blinding Steel course.
In otherwords,
I teach the hard stuff with the Tiger/Butterfly,
then I do the weapons,
which is Monkey Boxing,
then I finally go through the Matrix Kung Fu.
Funny when you look at it that way,
goes to show how advanced some of those
four original matrixing courses are.
The Secret of Two Directions in the Martial Arts Drills
Thank you to everyone who has purchased the Tiger and Butterfly Martial Arts System.
A complete Martial Arts System! ~ Click on the cover!
If you want videos of the forms, if you want to expand your understanding of the two systems from which this system came, check out the Matrix Karate and Shaolin Butterfly courses.
Don’t forget to leave a good review on Amazon.
Okay, here’s some stuff about martial arts drills.
When somebody is training a person, maybe to close distance, they might set them up a few feet from a bag/wall/whatever, and have them practice shuffling forward.
You shuffle and shuffle, people get tired and go do some boxing.
Hey, it’s true. People don’t understand the classical, get tired of the grind, they want to fight, so they go somewhere where people do more fighting and less drilling.
But the drilling is crucial. The martial arts are like a wall, the bottom bricks need to be firmly in place before a student can build the wall higher. So you have to practice these basic drills, and build the basic building blocks.
So, you are drilling, practicing closing with the wall, trying to get the time from launch to impact to disappear. And you are making a crucial error.
There are two directions to a line, and no matter which direction you are going, both directions are important.
Watch a person start to walk from a standing still position. chances are they lean backward so they can push a foot out. It’s true, they unbalance themselves, so they can fall forward. They go in two directions to go in one. A most inefficient method for starting the motion of walking. But, if you watch the martial arts, you will see the most amazing examples of similar inefficiency. People just don’t know how to get started.
The correct method is to bend the legs slightly, and cause yourself to lean forward, into the motion, by thinking about it.
And, if you are going to close distance in the martial arts, you need to set your stance so the ‘wave’ of your legs can be properly unleashed, and every part of the body can contribute to the forward motion.
CBM, Coordinated Body Motion, put to work in the simple act of walking.
Now, if you are not guilty of unbalancing yourself to walk, if you are already engaged in CBMing to walk, then let me give you a further example.
Do both the hard and the soft!
I had a group of students attempt to close distance. They would shuffle and punch, and they were abysmally slow. And they didn’t even like it.
So after a few minutes of springing forward, I had them play a game. I had them move forward, extend a forearm for the grabbing, and spring back when their opponent grabbed.
This put a whole new excitement into the drilling. This made the student think backwards, even as he was going forwards.
Then I had them do the original exercise, and they were shocked at how they had improved at closing distance.
Try it for yourself. Drill one way, then set up the opposite direction, then go back to the original direction, it won’t be long before you are faster.
And, the drill can be used quite gloriously when it comes to freestyle. You can set up different targets, move them into range, retreat with verve, and, here’s a kicker, set up a counter to attack. And you will be most excellent at the counter, because you are adept at moving in both directions. You haven’t gotten bored with going only in one direction, which breaks the concept of yin and yang, of opposites in the universe, and have become adept at the whole motion.
This drilling, incidentally, is the product of neutronics.
Matrixing provides logic. Gives understanding to the whole picture. But who is doing the martial art? You. That is what neutronics is about. And in this case, you are taking advantage of the two directions of a line, and training in both directions, to fully understand one direction.
Most people only train in one direction.
Here’s a neutronic datum for you:
The purpose of the martial arts is to deliver a force or flow while avoiding a force or flow.
How are you going to accomplish that purpose if you don’t understand the martial arts in, at least, two directions? How are you going to master the hard, if you don’t understand the context of soft from which it comes? And how are you going to master the soft, if you don’t understand the contact of hard from which it comes?
So, I say it again, if you know Karate, or TKD or Kenpo, or some other hard art, then you need to learn Aikido, or TCC, or some other soft art. Only if you understand two directions, will you master one.
Good afternoon! Man, is it good! Go on, work out, you’ll find out!
Hey, I received an interesting win. Here you go…
Click on Cover to find the secret of Matrixing the martial arts.
Last night I arrested a thug at work. I lost count of how many times I have done this over 25 years, but get this… We use Aiki-jitsu (the late Bob Koga brought this to us and other law enforcement) as our tactics base. Very watered down it works OK at best. Last night I used a straight arm bar take down. Usually a distraction technique, shuffle pivot hands on and gravity is how the magic starts. Unfortunately some of these thugs learn through misadventures how to counter what we do. To make a long story shorter. I found myself doing a Buddha palm from a natural indexed stance and moved to the side. My end position happened very fluid and I found his wrist and elbow on the transition of arm positions (during BP), reverse it with a modified arm bar take down stepping back and it was something else. Not sure what the percentage of luck was but I think all my hours practicing clicked. Pretty awesome! My partner was in awe! ~ KB Thank you KB! I love a good win!
Here’s an interesting little tidbit. In Karate, or other martial arts, I sometimes talk about the space between the techniques. I talk about this space as being crucial. This win highlights why.
Put your hands together in front of your face as if praying. Now circle one hand around until it scoops and is basically palm up pointing at the elbow of the still praying hand. That is the Buddha Palm position. Now, as you go back and forth, circling the hands so that first one hand is praying, then the other, you find the ‘hidden’ technique. But it’s not hidden, it is one of those ‘spaces’ that you will find simply by doing the form.
Interestingly there are A LOT of these ‘hidden’ techniques in classical Karate. You just pick two moves and go forward and back forward and back, until you see what the motion is trying to do.
Unfortunately, a lot of these ‘secrets’ are garbage. They are just motion nothing to be found in them. But, there are also the little gems that you will find here and there.
Unfortunately, most people only do the forms one way. Straight forward, they never look at the other side, or going backward from move to move, and look at what the motions really have in them.
And, it is really fun to go through these with a partner, and look for ‘secrets.’
But, no partner? Just do the form forward and back, forward and back, move by move, and you will find them. Or, as in the win that started this newsletter off, they will, if you throw yourself into the practice, pop up when you need them.
It’s true. And this is one of those things I refer to when I say that the art will do you.
Thanks again, KB,
And for everybody, start looking, there aren’t any secrets, there are just people who don’t look at the forms, who don’t throw themselves into the art, until the art does them.
Sort of interesting, but the martial arts usually travel through a filter; somebody tells you what a good technique and a bad martial arts technique is.
But, most times, the person doing the filtering, passing on the bad news, simply doesn’t understand the move.
I’ve written a thorough paper on a specific Karate move, out of the classical kata, and described why it is thought of as a bad technique, but is really a phenomenal technique.
If, of course, you are looking past the idea of karate as simply fighting, and are looking for the deeper truths of Karate.
Anyway, the technique should on Academia at this link.
It’s hot here in LA, and you can really sweat those toxins out. The best way to sweat? Work out!
I was driving down the street the other day, and I saw all sorts of martial arts studios. MMA, Muay Thai, Boxing, Karate, Kung fu, Kenpo, Judo, Aikido, Taekwondo, and on and on and on.
When I began, in 1967, which is near 50 years ago, there was judo, which was taught in a few places, and there was Karate. Interestingly, Karate was undergoing a boom. This was just before Bruce Lee, and the Tracy Brothers had breathed fire into marketing, and Karate schools were opening every where.
I began Kenpo, went every day, became an instructor, and so on, and I had a lot of questions, and nowhere to get the answers. The only magazine was Black Belt, and they sort of circled the arts, talking about, but never delving in.
And there weren’t many books. There was the outlandish Super Karate Made Easy, Ed Parker had a book out, Robert Smith wrote his book on Shaolin Temple boxing. But these books were either techniques books, or they talked in mysteries, and there was no way to understand what the heck the martial arts were all about.
Then I came across a book called Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. I had left kenpo by then, and was in the Kang Duk Won, and this book was a Godsend.
Not a book about technique, not a dissertation of mental tricks, rather questions and tales that made you blink, and look for the real you.
One of my favorites was the old question, ‘Who were you before you were born.’
Now you might be wondering, how can an art built of physical routines answer that question?
The answer to that wonderment lies in the simple fact that we were not distracted. Karate was not infected by boxing, throws weren’t an active part. And so on.
On the surface, looking back, reading these words as I write them, I can understand why people might wonder, how can you call that an art? How can you think of that stripped down sapling as a wondrous forest of spirit?
Easy. We weren’t distracted, and we practiced those few techniques we knew until we could make them work.
Enlightenment is when you do one thing without distraction, until you see the truth of that one thing.
You have heard people like Bruce Lee say, in the end, a punch is just a punch, a kick is just a kick.
But, here’s the bad news, if you haven’t found that out through doing a simple kick, or punch, without distraction, for tens of thousands of times, then the truth of the statement evades you.
You know about water, but you’ve never been wet.
That is why, except for a few logical changes, and the nudging of matrixing, the karate I do now, is virtually the same as the karate I did way back when.
Pinan one through pinan five, the iron horse, a few others, I do them almost the same as I learned them. And, here’s the interesting thing, the way I learned them was only a couple of generations removed from the way they were taught before Funakoshi.
I go into modern schools and I don’t see what I learned. I see forms infected by boxing, distracted by MMA, slanted by tournaments and kick boxing. I see techniques discarded because people can’t make them work. I see people fighting, instead of painstakingly being taught the drills that lead to…not fighting, to scientifically assessing an opponent and shredding him without waste.
Most of all, I don’t see the calm of mind, the calm that comes not from knowing about lots of arts, but from knowing one thing well. And, in these modern times, if people do know one thing well, it has been slanted by ‘reality fighting,’ by the desire to beat up your fellow man, not to calm yourself, and find the truth of yourself.
Not to find out who you were before you were born.
Here’s the art that I was taught, unchanged except for a few logical tweaks, and the ‘de-slanting’ of matrixing.
Newsletter 789 The Martial Arts Night Before Christmas
Man o man!
What a perfect HanaKwanMass eve!
Perfect for a work out
for all mankind.
And,
a bit of poetry
from yours truly.
But,
before I offend you with my poetry,
let me give you a thought.
Please forgive.
I ask this every year,
twice a year,
in fact.
My birthday,
and HanaKwanMass.
Specifically,
please forgive me.
If I have said your name wrong,
messed up your order,
neglected to mention you,
said something,
anything,
that offended,
please forgive.
Forgiving cleans me out,
and it cleans you out.
You lose an element of wrong thinking
by forgiving.
So forgive.
Forgive me,
or forgive somebody else.
Remember,
positive energy creates positive energy,
and negative energy creates negative energy.
So be positive,
forgive,
and make the world a better place.
Thanks.
Now,
I hope you don’t have to forgive me this,
but here’s the official Monster Martial Arts
rendition of
The Night Before Christmas.
TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS!
Twas the night before Christmas
I was in my shack
primed and ready
for the red fat attack.
my weapons were loaded
the windows were barred
all would be safe
while I was on guard
The chimney was decked
with concertina wire
I crouched by the couch
ready to fire.
I had an M60
with ammo to feed
I didn’t care
if the red fat did bleed.
A loaded shotgun
and grenades to spare
when red fat came down
I’d blow him out of there.
Throwing stars and knives
and a really long sword
and if that didn’t work
I knew a bad word.
Sitting there late
my eyes started to close
when suddenly I heard
a bunch of ho hos.
Off with the lights
safety off, too
I watched the fire close
and heard a sound from the flu.
‘Ouch and gosh darn it
who put the wire here
those are my undies
starting to tear!’
Then a shower of soot
and a grunt and a groan
he landed in the fire
and gave out a moan.
He was rubbing the place
where the wire did tear
so I held down the trigger
and lead filled the air.
belt after belt
did I deal the red fat
he danced and he jumped
I knew he felt that!
then quicker than spit
I ran out of lead
but enough was enough
he had to be dead.
Boy was I shocked
to see him stand tall
stepping out of the fireplace
not bothered at all.
So I grabbed up the 16
to mow him down
he had to be hurting
cause I saw his big frown.
Then I was empty
and he came straight for me
I pulled out my knives
and sliced him with glee
He jumped to the side
moving real quick
disarmed my knives
with a well placed kick
then he dropped the big bag
he had on his shoulder
reached forth his arms
and his anger did smolder
He grabbed hard my neck
and held me up high
I tried kicks and punches
but I was like a fly
Not karate nor judo
no art did work
and he grinned a mean grin
and called me a jerk
‘Don’t you know
you stupid little man
Christmas is forever
in spite of your plan.’
Then he threw me aside
and proceeded to work
giving presents to all
and to me a great smirk
And when he left
the great big red fat
he left me a lump of coal
the big red fat rat!
Happy New Year!
And happy work out…
every day for the next 365 days.
You deserve it.
Here’s something I realized,
which helped me,
hope it helps you.
I was reading a forum the other day,
it was some offbeat subject
on some martial arts forum,
and this guy did a rant on old movie musicals.
We’re talking people like Fred Astair, Gene Kelly, and so on.
This fellow said something like,
“These old black and white movies are gay!
How could anybody watch a guy and a girl,
dance for five minutes!
And there’s even movies where two guys are dancing!
how gay!”
How interesting.
Art is gay.
And he was holding himself up as a martial artist.
Maybe he was too much martial?
And not enough artist?
To be sure, dancing is not martial arts,
there is not much in the way of fist and defense.
But dancing is motion,
and martial arts have motion,
so the two have common ground.
Further,
I have seen many martial artists who were good,
but could have been better,
had they a bit of the poise and grace.
And,
here’s an interesting tidbit,
before I discovered martial arts,
when I was going to high school,
and then college,
I used to be a thespian.
That’s right,
an actor.
And I was in all the plays and musicals
that my schools had to offer.
Loved it.
Good looking girls there, too.
But,
good looking girls aside
(can’t believe I said that!)
one time I was in the play
West Side Story.
I was one of the Sharks.
And we were choreographing the big rumble
between the Sharks and Jets,
and I picked out the biggest guy I could,
and I went to him with an idea.
I hit you,
you hit me,
then I hit and you duck,
and you pick me up and throw me over your shoulder.
Man,
it was great!
We rehearsed it,
went to the director and showed her what we had.
She loved it!
So the night of the play
the rumble started.
I swung and he acted like I had hit him,
then he swung,
and hit me.
Bingo…right on the jaw,
and I was out like a light.
In front of 500 people,
The audience didn’t realize what had happened,
but the director did,
and my partner did,
and somehow,
I don’t know how,
I managed to come to enough to stagger off stage.
But I was knocked out.
So much for dancing being non-violent.
Anyway,
the big hint I wanted to give you has to do with this.
During the holidays they sometimes play old movies on TV.
Find the ones with Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly,
look for some other names,
check out how the masters move.
There was a fellow name of Baryshnikov,
considered the best in the world at ballet,
and he said his favorite dancer was Fred Astaire,
wished he could move like him.
Fred would do things like dance with a standing lamp.
He would roll that thing around,
tilt it and catch it
until you thought the standing lamp was alive!
There is never a hesitation,
never a hint of a stall,
it is actually one of the ONLY examples
of perfection in motion
on this planet.
Now if only a standing lamp was a martial arts weapon, eh?
We’d all be practicing the Fred Astaire Kata.
And,
not to leave out the gals,
Fred had a partner name of Ginger Rogers,
and one time some reporter asked her
if it was difficult to dance with Fred.
She replied,
“Heck, I did everything he did,
backwards,
and in high heels.”
Now that is perfection of motion.
So drive safe tonight,
or just stay home and do your imbibing,
and check out some of these masters of motion
and see if you can pick up anything about balance,
grace and poise,
or anything else
that will help make your kata perfect.
Happy New Year
and have 365 great work outs!
Al
Last day of the Two for One Special!
Read about it here!
Old Time Karate Training Drill to Increase Speed in the Martial Arts
Good morning and great work out! Now give me an extra ten just because you’re handsome! And if you’re not handsome, give me twenty!
Okay, all fooling aside, let’s talk about speed in the martial arts.
We used to have this exercise back at the Kang Duk Won it was called ‘Speed of speed.’ And, it was brutal. You faced your partner, and there was only one attack: a chop to the neck, you turn the hand so the flat of the hand strikes the shoulder. What made it brutal was the times when you collided with your partner. Neither of you was faster, and you both ended up hurting.
Believe me, as stupid as it sounds, you won’t see this exercise anywhere in the martial arts. It just hurts too much.
Yet, here’s the thing, after a few months of doing this, of suffering bone bruises to the forearms you found that you were faster. Some lower belt would come in and he’d just start to twitch and…WHAM! you were hitting his shoulder so hard his head near fell off!
Now, I tried teaching that, and people didn’t want to learn it. Man,the groans and moans. So I persisted, and had small classes of REALLY tough martial artists, but I kept thinking about speed.
I thought about the kenpo circularity of motion theories and drills, but hitting somebody ten times in a second didn’t allow one to get the body behind any of the strikes. Hmmm. So you have to be fast in the intuitive sense, in the sense that Speed of Speed built up, of seeing when somebody was starting to move, and moving before him. THAT was when you could get the whole body behind the strike.
So, have you ever watched the Magnificent Seven? The scene where Yul Brynner claps his hands?
I started out with the hands apart, standing in a back stance, and the partner has to close the distance and punch the chest before the hands clap. Worked like a charm. Easy to do, not so brutal, and directly applied to increasing power through weight.
And, there were variations I tried, one of them, of unusual interest, is standing to the side with a stop watch. Tell somebody to punch when they hear the stop watch click, and click the stop watch a second time when the punch touches the target. Interestingly, times were being measured in a full second. Yes. That long. No chance at all of the punch being fast enough to work. But what turned the trick was to stand behind the person being punched, and let the person watch you click the stop watch. Man, then they sped up, and that was because you got rid of all reaction time, and the puncher could see and anticipate.
But isn’t that what it is all about? When somebody is about to punch you don’t wait for the punch, you look, you examine, you analyze, you predict when it is coming.
Usually it starts with some kind of emotional set up, but with the stop watch there was no emotion and guys could get past the idea of emotion, get past fooling each other with twitches and tells, and directly view the factors of the strike. People got fast real fast, and we could tailor the strikes, increase speed in everything from blocks to kicks to whatever.
Now, you can use this data, do the exercises, make your own exercises, have some real fun, and get past a lot of stuff, and increase speed in the one area that really matters, putting weight behind a real strike.
And, if you have a little extra hair on your chest, you can always try speed of speed. To this day I know that that exercise, as crude and brutal as it was, was the one that made the real difference in me.
Okay, if you want to increase speed because you have perfect alignment in your body, and perfect alignment WILL increase your speed, then check out the Master Instructor Course.
It’s aimed at explaining things about matrixing and neutronics, and how they apply to the martial arts. It’s not for everybody, and I’m not done with it, I’ll be working on it as time goes by, but it’s at a point where I thought people would appreciate it, maybe even have some insight as to what they would like on it. Feel free to leave comments on the site, what you think, any advice, whatever. It actually gets to me faster than an email.
Okay, it’s the middle of summer so act like it! Work out till you sweat COPIOUSLY, and enjoy an occasional beverage.
Martial Arts: a Destructive Method as Opposed to a Real Method
What you are really trying to do, in martial arts such as Karate and Aikido, and the various types of Kung Fu, is to increase observation while decreasing distance. This is not an exactitude of martial arts practice, but it is the accurate analysis of what we are trying to do.
So you have a beginning martial arts student from one of these classical disciplines, and you launch a slow attack from six feet away. And, as a the months go on, you speed up the attack, and the student gets better and better, faster and faster, and once he reaches a certain point of comfort – that it is comfort is very important, you shorten the distance.
So you launch the attack from three feet away, and you do it slowly, and again, you speed it up over the months. The student gets ‘comfortable’ – remember that word – and you shorten the distance again.
And, you keep shortening the distances until the student is able to stand and observe, not flinch back, and see what is happening, and he is simply becoming more aware.
It’s funny, the martial arts, such as aikido, kung fu, karate, especially the classical ones, are one of the few methods for increasing awareness on this planet. Things like school actually decrease awareness. They jam facts and figures into the head, and it is a rare student, probably a non-existent student, who comes out smarter than when he went in.
But that’s because education doesn’t deal in the real world, except for the sciences, which most people shy away from, and which schools, to remain viable, allow them to. Poor, little darlings (keep writing the check Mommie!) we’ll get them through something tough, like music appreciation.
Anyway, sorry for that aside, but it is important that you understand the importance of the martial arts on this planet and in your life, so let’s get back to time and distance and awareness.
Awareness is how much of the world you see. And in the martial arts you present a motion, make the student look at it until he is comfortable, then cut the time and make him see more. Cutting the time will enable him to see more.
Now, here is the trick, some of the more modern martial arts, arts based on reality training and so forth, don’t take the time to go through this method, or any other similar working method for increasing awareness.
What they do is increase reaction time.
Now, the student may become more aware in a certain realm, but it is out of his control, he is not able to summon awareness at will, and his body and senses are at risk.
It is the procedure of going to war and depending upon the fact that you are in deathly danger to raise your awareness. It is not a tried and true and scientific method.
It works, but how are you going to teach it without hurting people?
And this method, of forcing increased awareness, of a sort that can be erroneously compared to a real discipline, by putting people in harm’s way usually relies on such terms ‘adrenaline dumping,’ or builds a terminology that is scientific in nature, but psychological in fact. And, the sad thing, psychology is not a science, but merely a voodoo accumulation of whimsical tricks and that sometimes work, if you blunder along long enough. The simple fact of the matter is that psychology, while it has enabled some people under mental stress to go on with their lives, it has never gotten to the bottom of why they weere under stress int he first place, except in the most superficial manner, i.e., some bizarre explanation of wanting to have sex with their mother or father, it’s some one else’s fault, and so on.
The real key here is in the concept of ‘comfort’ under stress.
If your martial art, if your karate or aikido or kung fu, or even your eclectic discipline, is causing you to relax, to be ‘comfortable,’ when the fist flies towards your face, it is a true art.
And, if you are relying on adrenaline dumping, or touting the fact that you must, simply must try it all out in reality, in a real situation or real fight, to make sure it works, then you are practicing one more savage method, thought up by savages, to retain their savagery.
Savage methods, voodoo training theory, they are a poor excuse for increasing awareness by relaxing, for seeing more of the world simply by applying yourself and making yourself grow through hard work and forcing yourself, I say ‘forcing yourself,’ to see more of the world by learning how to relax under stress.
While the martial arts theory presented here is pure, it is not practical to apply except in specific exercises; the process of matrixing is the accumulation of many of these specific, and scientific, methods. Further, by being an actual science, and by addressing the actual fact of increasing awareness through such theory as described above, matrixing increases speed of learning by up to ten times, and this in ANY martial art, be it karate, kung fu, aikido, or whatever.
You can find specific Matrix theory and methods at Monster Martial Arts. This includes exact matrixing courses such as Matrix Karate, Matrix Kung Fu, Matrix Aikido, Matrixing weapons, and so on.
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