‘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…
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This book is a complete system. It includes all the forms and form applications, along with methods of freestyle.
Here’s one of the Monkey Boxing newsletters, there’s a video clip link half way down. Enjoy…
More vids up.
The thing one has to remember is that the martial arts are founded on workability. Not how pretty you look. Not how many forms you can sail through. Rather… how quickly and efficiently you can take somebody out.
I remember doing Kenpo forms, back in the 1960s, and it was how graceful we could make the form look. Then classical karate in the 1970s, and how powerful we could look. But it wasn’t ‘looks’ that were important. It wasn’t looking graceful, or looking powerful.
As time went on I kept trying to find the shortest distance, the least effort.
I needed to take people out before they took me out, I needed to do it effortlessly.
I always remember telling a class about fighting ten people.
If you fight ten people, are you going to fight ten times as hard? You’re going to run out of energy real quick. No, the solution is to fight one tenth as hard.
Hence, I started working on effortless takedowns.
Mind you, I had very violent and efficient takedowns from Karate. I had amazing technical data on takedowns from Aikido. So I was blending. How do I put the technical into the violent?
If you look at the Head Catcher vid, Monkey Boxing Video 37, you will see a vast economy. And, you will see an efficiency in the grab.
There is nothing wrong with a rear choke, hands locked, forearm under the chin, like they do on TV. But, remember, these are pros, and do you want to go to the street and struggle looking for that perfect choke?
When I do it in the vid, I just grab the whole body by the head, and I tweak.
This is much more efficient. You can look for the beautiful choke later, nothing wrong with it. But for Jihad’s sake, close the distance, grab the whole body, and…CRACK!
Fast as you can.
What I run into, the problem with teaching this technique, is that you have to warn students, drill students, to be gentle, it is that strong.
AND, students are afraid to grab other students in so impolite a manner.
It is that political correctness thing, you know. People have been trained to respect others. You actually have to overcome that bull stuff, that ‘be nice’ crap that parents and teachers hand out.
So I grab a student, throw him half to the floor, let him feel the total loss of his body, how helpless he is… I tell him that his body is now mine… then I lay him out. Gentle. I just grab him like a gorilla, and lay him down like a baby.
And if he doesn’t grab his partner like a gorilla, then I show him how again and again.
‘Your partner is here to learn how to fight how to survive, and if you don’t show him the truth of brutality you are cheating him.’
GRRR I grab him like a gorilla, spin him down so he knows I could slap him on the floor like a fly on a windshield… than I lay him down gentle.
Again and again, until he does it.
No more political correctness. Instead… brutality with a gentle ending, until the student understands.
Survival doesn’t come with a pillow. And neither does effortlessness.
Anyway, I hope I have ranted and raved enough. Be gentle with those guys, but make sure they know what reality is.
Enjoy the vids. We’re starting to get into the real stuff now, the basics are pretty much laid out, make sure you practice them enough so you can absorb the real meat.
Any questions or clarifications send them to: aganzul@gmail.com
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.
People think that to learn karate has to be hard and long. Actually, you do have to work hard, but if you really want to learn karate, and learn it fast, you have to work smart.
Learning Martial Arts doesn't have to be hard!
The majority of Classical Karate systems teach Karate through the Heian forms. They were originally called Pinan forms, but Gichin Funakoshi changed them.
These were the forms taught the to Okinawan Imperial Bodyguards. They were also taught to the Japanese Imperial Bodyguards, and to the Korean Bodyguards. These forms really worked to bring out the true spirit of Karate.
The fact is that the forms are filled with karate movements that can be used to disarm samurai. And, they can be worked in this day and age to take out the street thug with the greatest of ease.
Originally, these forms were taught right out of the box. A new bodyguard would start with the first Pinan, and then proceed through the entire five. When the art of Karate was introduced to the school children of Okinawa, however, a more gentle gradietn was needed. It was difficult for the children to remember the moves without a little more work on the basics. The solution was in the forms known as Kebons, or basic forms.
There are varying numbers of Kebons, depending on what art you are studying. Some versions of classical karate have three beginning kata, some have five, and the number, and even the content of these karate kata changes from art to art.
Isn’t it interesting that basics can change? They shouldn’t be able to change, and arts that are taught effectively and lose fewer students tend to stick to a basic set of basic forms.
To move to a later form of Karate, Kenpo Karate, they have one form, and it is taught the same in all Kenpo schools.
With this in mind, I decided that there shoujld only be one basic beginning form in Karate, and I developed the ‘House’ form.
Interestingly, the ‘House’ kata is being picked up by a vast number of schools and styles. Not just Karate, these schools teach House, and they don’t deviate. House is always taught the same, and there is a reason for this: you can’t argue with the simple arrangement and logic of the thing.
What is also interesting is that as students spend a little time on this beginning form, they start extracting advanced techniques out of it. Defenses for two strikes, pressure point strikes, even grab arts, are contained in the simple form that, on the surface, looks like just a better arrangement of basics.
I know some people want to hold to the old, classical karate methods, but if they tried the House Kata they would find a better way of teaching students, a better way of retaining students, and a better way of moving their students into advanced material. House Kata is simply the best method if you want to learn karate the right way.
You can learn more about Mouse Kata and how to learn karate the right way if you pop over to Monster Martial Arts.
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