Speed Posers in Martial Arts!

Last newsletter I talked about the basic poser technique,

a technique where the attacker has to wait

while the defender does the technique.

That’s the basic thing you’ll see

that makes a technique useless and unworkable.

A secondary poser would be one where

the defender has unrealistic hand speed.

The attacker throws a punch or two,

and the defender’s hands are a blur,

almost invisible.

But is it realistic to assume

that you will be that much faster than your opponent?

In a fight everything speeds up.

Your attacker is going to speed up.

And that includes doing unorthodox things

that you won’t see on the mat.

So the idea of you being incredibly fast

and the opponent reacting in an exact, prescribed manner,

is false.

So,

solution.

Don’t practice techniques where the other guy waits for you to do the technique.

That was my first advice from the last newsletter.

AND…

practice techniques that are simple and basic,

and rely mostly on basics,

until you go out of your body.

This happened for me

right before I got to black belt

on applications from the form Botsai.

(Bassai, other spellings)

We did the three blocks

right at the beginning of the form,

and I knew I couldn’t keep up with the three attacks.

Month after month I practiced,

Trying to do something I knew I couldn’t do.

With endless practice I started to economize my motion,

and I started to use my body as one unit.

What I call CBM,

or Coordinated body Motion.

All parts of the body begin motion at the same time.

All parts of the body end motion at the same time.

All parts of the body contribute to the motion

according to the various percentages

of muscle, mass, etc.

One day I was doing the technique,

and suddenly it was as if I was behind my head,

not looking through my eyes,

but seeing everything without blinking.

My hands moved,

perfectly CBMed,

and my ‘whole body speed’ was faster than the attack.

That was a major point for me.

My body working as one unit,

being apart from my body,

and my body moving in response to my thought,

and not because of ‘reaction times.’

I often hear people talk about muscle memory,

and that is a silly concept.

Your muscles don’t remember sequences.

They remember pain,

but the real ‘memorization’

is a circuit in your mind.

And that circuit is enacted by you.

The human being.

And if you practice long enough 

the circuits tend to delete

and you move without the need for circuits.

Which is seen as you being apart from your body.

Moving in…’the now.’

So good martial arts is liberating,

imparts a certain freedom of the soul.

And that is why you have to stay away from posers of ALL kinds.

Unfortunately,

most arts are so filled with posers

they rarely impart this freedom of the soul.

But almost any art can work

if you simply get rid of posers,

Focus on techniques that rely on basics

and a true estimation of time and speed of hands and so forth.

I would recommend applying Matrixing to your art

to make this happen.

Matrixing is the only scientific analysis of the martial arts.

Remember this:

Science only measures.

Matrixing provides solutions.

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Incidentally,

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and…

Have a great work out!

Al

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My two yoga books have 9 ratings between them  for 5 stars.

‘The Book of Five Arts’ has 8 ratings for 5 stars.

‘The Science of Government’ has 7 ratings for 5 stars.

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That’s a lot of good ratings

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A Karate Training and Workout Book

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Newsletter 1014

Turning Up the Heat in Martial Arts Class

Good morning!

It’s a perfect Wednesday!

You know,

I have a special deal for any of you guys

who like intense novels.

It’s at the end,

but let’s talk about heat first.

The body is a machine.

And it is a motor.

What is the difference between a machine and a motor?

A machine is a series of motors to accomplish a purpose.

A motor…wait for it…drum roll…

CREATES A HEAT!

The heat can be used for various things.

More action being prime.

When you work out,

when you use the motor that is your body,

what happens?

Your body gets hot.

Sometimes you have to cool it down.

Generally speaking,

what I have told you is totally accurate.

So,

what does this have to do with the price of pickles in Italy?

One of the clever little tricks the body does,

when you pump it up,

is cleanse.

Motion creating heat will purify the body.

Understanding this,

and remembering my days 

sweating in the dojo…

(130 degrees in San Jose)

And remembering how much fun it was,

every once in a while I would turn up the heat in a class.

I mean,

REALLY

turn up the heat.

Half hour before class I would close the doors and windows

and turn the heat as high as it would go.

Man,

these guys would come in 

and sweat just from standing there,

and then the fun would start.

That would be a day 

when I ran them through basics half the class,

then ran them through forms the next half,

and then the third half we would freestyle.

Oh, it was fun.

They would be dragging.

Exhausted.

I would let them drink as much water as they wanted,

This was sort of unusual.

I don’t usually let students take breaks for any reason.

What? 

You’re going to take a break in the middle of a fight?

Now,

I was careful in pairing students,

and I watched them closely.

Exhaustion leads to mistakes,

and I didn’t want anybody to get hurt.

But they would sweat,

and if their uniform wasn’t TOTALLY soaked

by the time class was ended,

I knew I had failed.

And,

a short aside,

when I first moved to Los Angeles,

taught my first class,

we met in an attic.

Heat rises,

and one fellow told me

he actually lost 15 pounds in 2 weeks.

Yowza!

Now,

the point here is this:

Karate is a pure art.

And it must be made pure.

And to have a pure art,

you must have a pure body,

so I would turn up the heat,

they would sweat,

and the machines that were their bodies

sweated out toxins,

and what was left was the pure body,

and it made it easier to guide them to the pure art.

Now,

the original inspiration for this method

came from reading about summer classes in Japanese dojos,

reading about how students

would go to the front door and wring out their gis.

Later inspiration came from reading about Yoga classes.

Now,

the obligatory advertisement…

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Butterfly Pa Kua Chang.

The reason is that when I did that

the purification process

really seemed to kick into high gear.

And the sweat was different,

it was ‘silver.’

Really amazed me,

I mean,

sweat can have different colors?

But that’s what I perceived,

and I recommend you find out for yourself. 

Here’s the link.

http://monstermartialarts.com/martial-arts/butterfly-pa-kua-chang/

Now,

have yourself a great and sweaty work out!

Al

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And, the special deal for people who like to read novels.

I recently republished ‘Monkeyland,’

and I am looking for reviews.

If any of you guys want to read,

then give me a review on Amazon,

I’ll send you a free copy of Monkeyland (Digital).

Email me at:

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Subject line: Monkeyland review.

I will send you a copy of the book.

And,

before you send the email,

check out the book,

see if it fits your reading preferences,

and make sure you glance at the reviews.

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How to Translate Karate into Tai Chi Chuan

Newsletter 922

RELEASE OF A NEW MARTIAL ART VIDEO COURSE!

I haven’t released a martial arts video course for a while,
but it is worth the wait.
This is going to be one heck of a state of the art course!

The title is

How to Translate Karate into Tai Chi Chuan

The course is on 6 DVDs.
That’s over 5 hours of video instruction.
Plus,
if you wish,
you can order the book (PDF) along with the course.
I haven’t even published the book!
But you can get it,
and it will be cheaper than it you buy it separately.
The offer is on this page…

How to Translate Karate into Tai Chi Chuan

Now,
here’s something incredible,
this course is three in one.

First, there is:

How to Translate Karate into Tai Chi Chuan

Second, there is:

my attempts to resurrect the original form
from which all karate grew.
Didn’t even know there was an original form, eh?
The story of this form is on the web page.

Third, there is:

the secret bunkai of karate.
And, yes, they are secret.
The old masters of Okinawa,
when karate began to be exported,
held a meeting and made a secret pact
that they would never reveal the real forms,
that they would never reveal the real techniques.
Sheesh!
What a bunch of boneheads!
Can’t tell you how much damage they have done to Karate.
So this is a look at what those techniques would be.

In writing this book,
I used matrixing,
my experiences in karate,
my experiences in kung fu,
my experiences in separating and making pure
a variety of different martial arts.

So,
that’s the skinny.
Check out the web page,

How to Translate Karate into Tai Chi Chuan

let me know what you think,
and…

Have a great work out!
Al

How to Translate Karate into Tai Chi Chuan

Here’s how to Create the Real Golden Age of Martial Arts

Newsletter 903

The Coming Golden Age of Martial Arts…

Let’s talk about Matrixing,
and how it works.
Before I do,
However,
let me put forth a shameless ad…

Almost here!
I call it HanaKwanMass,
so I can offend the most people.
But,
whether you are offended or not,
you will probably give gifts,
and the best gift you can give
is a course in Matrix Martial Arts,
it not only gives now, but over the years,
for the course of an entire lifetime.

Okay,
the ad officially over,
I noticed something very interesting,
back when I figured matrixing out.

Take a carburetor apart.
Clean it.
Put it back together.
If you have no experience,
you’re going to mess it up.
At the least,
it is going to take you a lo-o-ong time.
It often takes a lot of mistakes
to figure things out.
That’s the story with the martial arts.
You learn forms with no meaning,
nobody shows you the tricks
to make the techniques work.
Higher belts beat the crud out of you,
and don’t tell you what they know.

The problem is that people don’t know how to explain
what they know.
They earned it over time,
by making a lot of mistakes,
and they can’t explain it to you.

What if somebody could explain the mistakes to you,
could give you the knowledge to make it work,
without all the time and mistakes?
And that is the essence of matrixing.

Instead of spending four to five years,
grinding through bruises and even breaks,
figuring it out one step at a time,
what if you could just get the data,
learn the martial arts,
and do them?

So when I started teaching matrixing,
I would show somebody the real reason behind a punch,
I would show them how the lines of energy align in the human body.
Suddenly,
virtually instantly,
their blocks became solid…
and they caused pain.

It didn’t take years of lessons
on how to build the mysterious ‘chi power,’
it didn’t take dozens of forms
and hundreds of techniques,
it just took the actual and real reasons
behind what and how you do the martial arts.

If you understand something you can do it.

If you don’t understand something
you have to suffer through mistakes.
And nobody tells you what the mistakes are,
you just keep doing them
until you accumulate enough bonks on the nose
to figure out you’re doing something wrong.

So why lead with your face?
Why not lead with your mind,
with logic,
with the real reasons behind the martial arts?

I know
(sigh)
I’m an internet scamster,
tricking people for their money.
EXCEPT…
I’ve been on the internet since 2002.
Check the Time Machine if you don’t believe.
And before that I was doing mail order since 1984.
In that time I have received FOUR complaints.
Two of the complaints people didn’t even open their orders,
just sent them back.
One of the guys I have no idea why he wanted his money back.
One guy was highly upset
that I didn’t give him the classical art he wanted.
He apparently didn’t read the ad,
didn’t figure out that I was doing things differently,
that I was fixing the classical.

Look,
here’s something to think about.
People say that the Golden Age of Martial Arts
was back in the sixties.
They are wrong.
That was a period of discovery,
of growth and expansion,
of categorizing various arts into packages.
We have stars exploding,
arts become franchises,
and every week it seemed like something new was happening.

That’s not a golden age,
that’s just discovering something.

A REAL Golden Age is coming,
and it depends not on advertising and movies,
on stars and franchises.
It depends on knowledge.
Look,
before 1970 there were hundreds of people in China
who could too the ‘one finger’ trick.
Stick their finger through a board and leave a hole.
There were people who could break bricks from ten feet away,
just a blast of ‘chi power.’
I even have a photo of one fellow
placing a piece of bamboo across two slices of watermelon
and breaking the stick with a chop,
and not denting the watermelon slices.

Most of you have never heard of this stuff.
Have certainly never seen it.
And,
you won’t learn it in today’s schools.

BUT,
study the knowledge behind the martial arts
and you will not only understand tricks like these,
you will be able to do them.

The essence of the martial arts is in the knowledge
that is not currently being taught.
That knowledge is in the matrixing courses.
The matrixing courses are the real reasons,
the actual physics behind the martial arts.
All it takes is you,
to understand it,
to study it,
to make it work.
And that’s when we’ll have the true Golden Age of Martial Arts.

Okay,
I talk,
blue in the face,
here’s the link,
and for God’s sake,
I hope you understand the difference between mindlessly practicing techniques,
and understanding the real reasons for those techniques.

1d Master Instructor Course

Now,
excuse me for being overly passionate,
I just love the martial arts so much,
and I so want you to have them,
the real martial arts for the real you.
Have a great work out!
And…
HANAKWANMASS!
Al

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Publication of Matrixing Karate: White Belt

The Reasons Behind Matrixing Karate: White Belt

I should explain about Matrixing Karate, now that it has shown up on the Amazon bookshelves.
First, it is a real book. Not a digital thing. Not a PDF.
Second, it is based on Matrix Karate (the course).
The reason I wrote it is that it has been some seven years since I wrote the original course, and it was time to address a few things.
Things I said that could have been taken two ways.
Or things that had several versions. Even though there was very little difference in the variations, it was time to give the reasons for evolution.
Or, things I noticed that readers had difficulty with.
And, I wanted to put in writing (and graphics) more complete instructions for matrixing, for techniques.
And, I wanted to give reasons for certain thigns that people would understand them better.

The first book deals with basics. I know a lot of people will think they don’t need basics.
Silly them.
There is no such thing as an advanced technique, there are only more polished basics.

Later books deal with how to make matrixes. Matrixes for forms, for techniques.
Matrixes that will increase understanding quickly.

Now, the thing that got me started was that this was supposed to be a reworking aimed at the site ‘LearnKarateOnline.net.’ I simply wanted to present the most efficient method for learning karate. I didn’t understand how this project was going to morph and get out of control

So that’s it. Not a lot more.
Just a desire to rewrite and present in the highest possible fashion Matrixing and Karate.

So if you want to prop up your own personal martial arts library with the moist important breakthrough in Martial Arts history, and you want the latest and greatest in Matrixing, and if you simply want to REALLY understand the martial arts, here’s Matrixing Karate: White Belt.

 

Matrixing Karate: The Series!

The Release of Matrixing Karate

Good week!
It’s only Monday,
and I have already had a work out
and
released a five volume encyclopedia.
Not bad for a Monday morning,
eh?

Well, maybe I haven’t completely released it.
But I have started.
And this is not
The Ultimate Karate Encyclopedia,
which came out last month.
This is…

MATRIXING KARATE: THE SERIES

Yep.
I rewrote Matrix Karate,
expanded the single volume on the course,
into five books.
Put more complete instructions in them,
detailed all the techniques of the matrixes,
and all sorts of other stuff.

Now,
if you have been a long time student of Matrixing,
you might not need it.
But,
if you have been wondering,
scared you’ll get taken advantage of
by an internet charletan…grin.
Then here you go.
Easy,
bite sized pieces.
More complete descriptions.
More details.
A whole new media to spread the word.

First book is out,
Matrixing Karate: White Belt.
But it’ll probably be a few hours till it shows up on Amazon.
If you know your way around createspace,
you might be able to find it,
but…probably Tuesday morning
it’ll be somewhere on Amazon.

And,
of course,
as soon as it shows up
I’ll have links to it
from my websites.

And,
over the next couple of weeks I’ll release the remaining books.

Now,
Matrixing Karate: White Belt,
deals with basics.
Some people think they know their basics,
good for them.
But I’ll tell you this,
after almost fifty years in the martial arts
I don’t worry about learning new techniques,
I just work on polishing my basics,
and this book should change the way
a lot of people look at basics.
I mean,
there’s a lot of poorly understood information out there,
and this book will fix it.

The fact of the matter is,
there are no new and better techniques,
there are only better basics.
Heck,
techniques won’t work
without better basics.
That’s the total truth.

Now,
the real matrixing starts with the next books in the series.
Green, brown and black belt matrixing levels
deal with making matrixes and applying them.
This will enable you to analyze techniques
so that you thoroughly understand them,
and know all techniques,
so there are no missing pieces
in your martial arts education.

Now,
I have missed the last newsletter,
that is because I was knee deep in this stuff.
There is a TREMENDOUS amount of work
that goes into publishing a book,
let alone five of them.

So,
sorry about that,
but I think you’ll understand.

So,
that’s it,
check it out on Amazon
probably tuesday morning,
and I’ll let you know
whent he other books come out.

Now,
Got to run,
I’m still knee deep here,
but I knew I had to write a newsletter
and let people know
I hadn’t dropped off the face of the earth,
and that good things were really happening.

Have yourself a GREAT work out!

Al

The Ultimate Karate Encyclopedia!

From Gung Fu to Matrixing

Thanks to all who have ordered Kwon Bup!

I appreciate the support.
And, let me explain about the books I am coming out with.
I mentioned it last week,
an encyclopedia for the faithful.
Five books of Karate,
from Kung Fu to Matrixing.

Pan Gai Noon
Kang Duk Won
Kwon Bup
Outlaw Karate
Buddha Crane Karate,

Now,
a warning,
these books have not been available in kindle,
as Kindle can’t handle large numbers of photographs.
BUT,
they have been part of the courses I have offered.
Kang Duk Won, Kwon Bup, and Pan Gai Noon
are available in digital format
on the evolution of an art course.
Buddha Crane Karate,
because it has to do with Matrixing,
has been available on the
Create Your Own Art course.
Outlaw Karate has been available
on the outlaw karate course.

But,
these books have only been available digital,
so I was pretty happy to start putting them in paperback form.

The warning is that if you have these courses,
you may have the books,
so make sure before you buy twice.

And,
if you want the video that goes along with each book,
email me at aganzul.
They’re only $10 each
for the instant download.

Now,
I spent a good couple of decades researching and practicing,
and over the years I would write books
describing the system and techniques,
so these books were written over time.

You aren’t going to get a lot of philosophy,
except for the hard core matrix explanations.
You are going to get the forms and techniques.
This is an encyclopedia of actual practice.

Pan Gai Noon
deals with the Chinese influence,
the forms sanchin and seisan.
There isn’t much known about this system,
but Matrixing shows that sanchin (for instance) is not about
technique (Hangetsu version Japanese)
breathing (Goju version)
dynamic tension (Uechi version)
It is about building energy,
and while it taps into the subjects of the various versions,
it is not what those systems are teaching.
Those are taught so conceptually different,
that even when they coincide with my version,
they might as well not be considered sanchin.
And Seisan is the technique form.

Kang Duk Won has the least amount of theory.
It is a version from before Funakoshi,
possibly influenced by the gung fu of the fellow
who brought it to Korea
(Byung in Joon)

Kwon Bup is a very powerful and linear Karate.
It was designed by Robert Babich,
who is, I believe,
the only America to be able to do
the one finger trick,
which is to thrust a finger through a board,
and not break it,
but leave a hole.

Outlaw Karate is my attempt
to take KDW and KB
and put them together into one system.
I took the techniques that worked best,
aligned them in more logical and easy to learn forms.

Then I made my breakthroughs in Matrixing,
which brings us to Buddha Crane Karate.
My first attempt to matrix a system.
You can see the obvious matrixing concepts
and I write about them,
so it is a unique look into matrixing,
and the development of that science.

Now,
a couple of things.
The graphics are different from book to book,
because computer technology was changing.
On one book I would use a poser program,
on another you’ll see photos,
on still another
you’ll see the figures drawn out with an appleworks program,
thousands and thousands of sticks and curves,
compiled into human shapes
doing martial arts forms and techniques.

Really,
I look at that one
(Buddha Crane)
and I feel like I am studying hieroglyphics
on the wall of some Egyptian pyramid.

And,
as one reader has correctly observed,
there is some need of editing.
The sad fact is that
it is difficult for a person to see his own mistakes.
Double sad,
since I am the one that says
‘Man learns best from his mistakes.’
But if there is a mistake in the artwork,
too bad,
that software is long gone.
If the problem is with the writing,
I can correct it,
but,
it takes a lot for me to recall a book, do the reuploading,
and so on.
So,
a few mistakes,
but not as bad as one might think.
I was a professional writer,
I did do my own photography
when I worked for the mags,
so,
not bad.

And,
the main point,
even if you do come across an error,
it does not stop the understanding.

You might blink when I spell reality railty,
or something stupid like that,
but it won’t stop you,
or obscure the understanding.

Now,
all the books are not in print…yet.
Over the next month or two they will be.
And,
I will probably be fixing the covers
so they say ‘encyclopedia on them somewhere.
It’s just a matter of time
and having enough gigabytes.
Up here at Monkeyland,
while there is no shortage of…cow stuff,
there is a shortage of gigabytes.

Don’t get me started,
but did you know verizon charges $50 for 5 gigabytes?
And dish charges $25 for 10 gigabytes?
I am sitting right between two verizon cell towers,
so that means,
it costs twice as much to pick up a cell signal
as it does to bounce data off the moon.

Scream. Pull my hair.
Rant about corporate unfairness and gouging.

Anyway,
you didn’t come here to hear me rant,
but to get your mind wrapped
all around the martial arts.

So,
five books,
not all out yet,
but
‘The Ultimate Karate Encyclopedia:
from Gung Fu to Matrixing.’
A true encyclopedia for the faithful.

Heck,
get them before I have a chance to correct the covers,
and make them say encyclopedia,
and you might have a collector’s edition
in your white knuckled and gnarly martial arts mitts.

Okay,
I wanted to give you this update,
give you the whole picture.

And thanks to Sandra for mentioning the editing.

Now,
I want you guys and gals
to have the most AWESOME workout
imaginable!

Talk to you later…
Al

you can also find the books on Amazon, but here are the ‘createspace’ addresses.

Pan Gai Noon ~ https://www.createspace.com/4579584

Kwon Bup ~ https://www.createspace.com/4617449

Buddha Crane ~ https://www.createspace.com/4577595

New Kwon Bup Karate Book

Karate Encyclopedia Going Great Guns!

Got a new martial arts book out.
Actually,
it was available in Evolution of an Art,
but I couldn’t get it on Kindle,
and I finally managed to get a real, live paperback version!
So
click on the side bar cover image on the Monster, or just go to

Now,
a few words about what Kwon Bup is.

When I went to the Kang Duk Won
it was pretty unique.
The owner,
Bob Babich,
had walked on on tournaments,
caused a ruckus that did,
everybody wanted to push the tournament,
a lot of community spirit,
and Bob just stood up and walked out,
and all his students followed him.
Why?
Because it was bogus.
Not real.
Decisions made by favoritism,
decisions made by people
who wouldn’t know a real technique if they saw it.

And,
because of this and other things,
such as the fact that Bob taught outlaw bikers,
gave him a ‘bad’ rep.

And outlaw school.
a rogue school.
Only bad people go there.
Yet,
on any good day,
you would see people from other martial arts schools
come down to see the class.
I was shocked,
one day,
when Ralphie Vallederez (sp, sorry)
the guy who had won the California Karate Tournament one year,
and who happened to be the big gun at my Kenpo school,
showed up to watch a class.

And,
for those who think we were crazies,
unwashed and disrespectful,
Bob studied with Don Buck,
who happened to be Mas Oyama’s favorite American student.
And when you walked into the dojo,
you bowed,
you were polite,
and you never lost your temper,
period.

It was quite the sight,
to see all these Hell’s Angeles,
standing so polite,
talking to Bob.

Not because he was a brutal a-hole who would knock the crap out of you.
But because when he started getting more polite,
you perked up,
something was wrong.
When Bob was upset
(almost never)
he would speak softer and softer,
almost whispering,
could’t hear him,
but you suddenly felt like your bowels were going to loose.

I remember one time
I was on the left side of Bob
during a class,
and Mud Car was ont he right.
Mud Car was our resident crazy.
He was just loopy,
looney tunes.
I’ll tell you about what a wacko he was some time,
but
during that class,
Bob really into it,
pushing,
and every feeling the push,
getting the pure art
worked into their bones,
really in heaven,
and suddenly Mud Car says,
“Hey Bob,
I have a pain right here,
on my shin.
Doesn’t hurt a lot,
but it comes and goes,
pinches,
really.
Do you know what I can do about that?”

POOF!
The magic evaporated,
everything went.
The plug was pulled and the intensity disappeared.

And,
believe me,
this really was a spiritual moment crushed.

And Bob turns to me and snarls,
“You could hit it with a lead pipe!”

He didn’t say it to Mud Car,
because it would have been wasted,
and maybe because Mud Car deserved to be knocked down,
and Bob wasn’t that kind of guy.

But I,
feeling the rage of that moment,
was absolutely frozen.
Couldn’t move.
Not terrified,
just so stunned I was incapable.

Bob continued,
and I managed to somehow move,
after everybody,
not even knowing what I was doing,
just copying somebody,
stunned and brain dead.

I never wanted to see him mad,
ever.

And,
that was the only time I ever saw the tip of that iceberg.
I saw him talk soft,
and that wasn’t so bad.

One time I used poor control,
after class he came up and spoke softly to me,
“Your control wasn’t good.”

Man,
I turned into a blithering idiot,
I could feel the weight of the world on me.
“I’m sorry,
I got excited, I–”
He stopped me with,
“Don’t worry. Just watch yourself.”

I have watched myself for forty years because of that whisper.

Anyway,
I could go on and on,
really golden times,
but…

After I left the Kang Duk Won
I started a project
of recording the art.
But,
after teaching for a while,
and realizing certain things,
and coming across variations of the Kang Duk Won,
I realized that I had been learning two arts.
One was the Kang Duk Won.
The other I called Kwon Bup.
It was the art practiced by Bob,
developed by Bob,
and put into the Kang Duk Won.

Now,
it is said that only a person with several decades experience
can hope to make an art.
And then,
that person has to be of rare quality.

Bingo and bingo.
Aside from a politeness
that made gentlemen out of Hell’s Angels,
Bob had the most immaculate technique I have ever seen
and I have seen a lot in nearly fifty years of studying
every martial art I could.

So I wrote the Kwon Bup book.
It is the forms and techniques
of the best martial artist I have ever seen.
This is a guy who could thrust his finger through a board,
and not break it,
but leave a hole.

Very few people have ever done that,
and I don’t know of any in America.

So,
now you know what I am pushing,
higher abilities,
politeness,
a very rarified realm of Martial Arts.

And,
I’ve got a few more books coming out
in the next couple of months.
The ones I’m working on right now,
however,
are in the vein of evolution of an art.

Pan Gai Noon for the china to Okinawan connection
Kang Duk Won for the pure Karate pre-Funakoshi
Kwon Bup for the American translation
Outlaw Karate for work I did on synthesizing KDW and KB,
and Buddha Crane for the Matrixing breakthrough.

A complete history,
not in talk,
but in technique.
An encyclopedia for the faithful.

Okily donkey,
there you go,
hope you like it…

Now,
while you’re looking at that,
I’m getting back to work.
Have a great work out!

Al

Good Karate Instruction Offends Idiots!

How to Handle Idiots with Good Karate Instruction

Speaking of good karate instruction, there are two types of people in this world: those who get it, and those who don’t.

Now, I always try to be polite, especially when teaching Karate, or gung fu, or the various other martial arts, for the simple reason that people are more willing to listen to you when you are polite.

However, there are the idiots. The people who don’t get it. Which is, unfortunately, everybody, until they get it.

So, I teach martial arts softly, explaining slowly with words of few syllables, until they get it. Then I don’t have to call them idiots, right?

However, I must admit that I do tend to get intense while teaching, and every once in a while I’ll snap when somebody gets too slow for me. It’s quick, it’s hard, and people blink.

I am teaching, pouring out pearls of wisdom, and they just won’t open their head up and let me pour a little martial arts wisdom into it, and I just can’t take it any longer.

Students who have managed to stay with me more than a month understand this frustration of mine. They get it. They grin. Bad hair day for Al. Then I grin. Al was an idiot. He got too intense, too excited.

Then there are the ones who don’t get it. As soon as I snap, I feel it, the whimper within, the hurt.

At this point you expect an apology, ‘oh, please,’ ‘I’m sorry,’ that sort of garbage.

Not on your friggin’ life.

If somebody gets offended in class, then they will get offended on the street, and then they are going to be in a fight, and then…so when I snap and crackle a little too much, and the person takes offense, I snap and crackle a lot.

Now, pardon my French, but I am going to say some nasty words here. You aren’t my students (yet), so if you don’t like dirty words, stop reading right here.

I had a girl in one of my classes, and she was proving recalcitrant to the learning process, and I snapped.

Oh, a sweet, innocent girl. Old enough to beat people up, but easily offended. A bad combination of factors.

And I got a big grin inside.

And I grinned openly, and got a look in my eye, as I stepped back and said, “Don’t be a stupid c—.”

Shock in her eyes.

“An idiot could understand this. What’s wrong with you?”

“But, but…” she whined.

And then she looked around at the rest of the class, who had all stopped to listen, and who all had big grins on their silly faces.

And she looked at me. And she got it.

“Cow tits,” I called her. “Fat ass bitch.”

And then I started to warm up.

Soon the whole class was laughing at my ludicrous nastiness, and poor, confused, sweet, little, innocent girl was grinning.

She understood that words mean nothing, action means everything; it’s not what you say, it’s what you do.

Now, I don’t recommend this teaching method to everybody, but it sure is handy if you want people to grow up, get a thick skin, and start to understand that they are there to learn.

And it will go a long way towards teaching people how to handle situations that include name calling and other sorts of nastiness.

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Internet Karate Course Fantastic Self Defense!

The Best Internet Karate Course Works Like a Charm!

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Hi sensei
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Will

Now, this is no ordinary course. Most martial arts internet courses are monkey see monkey do, the teacher talks for a while then does the form without any explanation other than…‘put your foot here…do this block.’

The Best Internet Karate course has a checklist which tells you how to structure your work outs.

It has comprehensive instructions not as to how to do the movements…but what the movements really mean!

There is a written manual with step by step instructions. This manual is a total of 267 pages with 658 graphics. The instructions are easy to understand as the author is a professional writer who used to write for the magazines articles and a column (Case Histories’ in Inside Karate).

There is a video section on this course in which the form is presented, each move clearly so that no motion can be misunderstood.

Then there is another video section going through each movement of the form and showing how the applications really work. As the author studied Karate back in 1967, in a system that had not been tainted by tournament or compromised for children or otherwise messed up, the applications are VERY interesting, and VERY usable on the street.

Then, if all that isn’t enough…there is ANOTHER video section on this course, this one on the original meanings of the kata. This is the bonus that people are stunned by, as they never realized what karate was designed for, what the original techniques were before they were tainted by tournament and other vested interests, and how it had become so incredibly messed up.

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Well, enough said, check out the Kang Duk Won website. Examine the ‘Best Internet Karate Course in the World’ for yourself…and don’t forget to read the wins on the right hand side of the pages.