The Six Degrees Of Insanity Uncovered Through Real Karate!
There was a goju ryu karate club in my hometown when I grew up, but knowing about something didn’t immune me from the chaos of the educational institutions. I was treated to the teacher father figures, bullying school kids, and an education that didn’t have much to do with anything. So I needed Goju, or another art of similar value, but didn’t know it.
As I traveled through the educational experience people began taking drugs, lots of drugs. Man, a good fighting discipline really would have worked to protect me from people who were intent on going unconscious and crazy, which is the real purpose of drugs. A good karate club would have helped me to retain my natural worth and sense of self at a time when I needed it the most.
Eventually, society turned to the Viet Nam War, and this war had to be the craziest thing on the planet. The bumper sticker used to read, ‘Journey to strange, exotic lands, meet interesting, wonderful people, and kill them.’ Fortunately, at about that time I was rescued from the chaos of society…I happened across the Ed Parker Chinese American kenpo karate system.
I worked out ruthlessly, doing karate kumite by the hour, but, eventually, I was to be disillusioned by the martial arts techniques I was learning. I was learning hundreds of fighting techniques, but they didn’t have to much to do with the real world. Kenpo, though it was wonderful, was based on combat fantasy scenarios.
I went to the Kang Duk Won for my next step in evolution towards a rational world, and it was to prove the ultimate answer for all my problems. Here the training was rigorous and deep reaching, and the energy we created was all consuming. I learned that all my sweat and bruises could be focused on one single item: the handling of the incoming fist.
One, single incoming missile, and I had to handle it, but that one incoming missile represented rage and anger and chaos. Thus, in handling the fist, I was handling the rage and anger and chaos of a world that believed in war and drugs and misinformation. As I understood this I began to develop my matrixing methods.
Through this science of Matrixing I ordered all my martial arts techniques, put them in a logical arrangement so that they represented a whole science, and not an out of sequence something. The art became a science, and through the combative sciences I made my final break with the gods of insanity, So for me there were six degrees of insanity: school, drugs, war, kenpo, classical karate, and matrixing…and this is the path I chose, this is the path I discovered when I discovered Real Karate.
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The Truth About The Karate Yell!
First, practice of Karate yells is real, and taught in most karate kata in existence. The karate yell (hihap, or ki Hap, in Korean) is learned by the new student to help focus the techniques of the karate kata into precise moments of time. This increases the mental abilities, and eventually moves the student slightly out of his body.
Don’t get freaky with me on this. To be removed form the body means merely to assume a slightly different viewpoint of the body, to have the spiritual ‘I am’ that runs the body maybe a few inches above or back of the body. It is a gentle thing that happens to everybody as they live, but can be encouraged to greater degree, with a variety of effects, through the study of the martial arts.
Now, the body is not shouting, the spirit is shouting. As I said, the ‘I am’ that operates the body is shouting, and the body seems to actually get out of the way of the spirit shout. A shout directed by spirit and not body is infinitely more powerful than a shout powered by just the body.
With a shout by the body all that moves is the air. When the spirit is involved emotion will move, and not just massed air molecules, and this can be testified to by any good artist who knows the value of emotion when performing. Eventually, a martial artist will move intention, which is far above simple air, or even emotion, this is the stuff of legends and great abilities.
Thus far we have been discussing kiai from the viewpoint of being slightly outside of the body, but now we must discuss the effects of a spirit shout on another body. Yes, there is probably measurable impact by waves of massed air, which can put out candles and that sort of thing, but only at short distances. These usually depend on body movement, a fist, for instance, to help propel the mass of air.
But there is also the fact that a being can grow his size, when outside his body, and actually touch the body of another human being, and this is a direct touch that can wither and blast an attacker. The body is made up of liquid, and air is molecules, but spirit is intangible. Spirit is a perception of reality from beyond reality that can stretch through the apparent space filled by air particles and cause that liquid to wave, to ripple, to vibrate…to shatter.
I know there will be people who scoff at what I have said here, but they are people who have not done the martial arts for over forty years. The fact is that the martial arts don’t just forge the body, they cause a person to realize who is doing the forging,–oneself–and therefore to assume a removed viewpoint from the body. In summation, the martial arts take long years and intense effort to reach the stage I am talking about, but if you understand what I am saying here, and are willing to dedicate yourself to endless practice and a higher ethic of life, then you can achieve the Karate ki-ai of which I am speaking.
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Doing Sanchin Kata And The Liberation Of Energy Through Circular Flux
The form was originally brought to Okinawan from China, where it was part of a system called Pan Gai Noon. While PGN is no longer taught, that first kata is taught in such arts as Goju Ryu and Uechi ryu. It has also been altered and presented in Shotokan as Hangetsu.
The original Chinese pattern, as simple as it is, was taught over the course of years. Students would spend hours a night just stancing, learning how to sink their weight, before they were shown even the most basic of hand motions. This fact, of being taught to sink the weight and stabilize the stance, should give even a slow karate student a significant clue as to the correct way to execute the pattern and create the energy.
In Uechi Ryu Sanchin, which is the first manifestation of this form beyond Pan Gai Noon, the emphasis is on muscular tension. Thus, the intent of the sanchin stance is translated from the creation (and sinking) of energy to the creation of muscle. Muscle is temporary compared to energy, and thus the form is diluted and made less.
In Goju ryu Sanchin the intent of the form is proper breathing. Thus, the purpose of the form is to create the sensation of karate energy in the body, but without the emphasis on sinking the weight the reality of usable energy is forsaken. At this point one can see that the Sanchin form has been altered sufficient to make it but a shadow of what it should be…the story gets worse, however.
In Shotokan, and like systems of traditional karate, the actual structure of the form has been rendered into common self defense moves. Mind, there is nothing wrong with this type of structure, except that it has nothing to so with the generation of serious internal chi energy of the usable variety. The form in this type of school is called Hangetsu.
To be done correctly. this incredible form must be taught in simple fashion, and with simple concepts. One must throw out complex notions of breathing and muscularity and self defense except as they are drawn along by the fact of chi energy generation. Thus, the simple instruction, “sink the weight, and ‘swirl’ the motion so that it creates a wave of energy which circles the body and shoots out the arm,” is the only instruction a student should be given.
Done with this easy bit of teaching, for months and years, the generation of internal energy becomes real, and the internal energy becomes usable. Though this writer would not propose combat as a solution, it must be remembered that Kanbun Uechi, the founder of Uechi ryu and a man who had studied the actual Sanchin in the ancient manner recommended in this bit of writing, killed a man with one strike. No, don’t kill people, but do realize the true power of the ancient arts by practicing sanchin kata by sinking the weight and swirling the body energy so that it may be shot out the arm.
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The Secret Of Sixth Sense Abilities In The Martial Arts
Unfortunately, not all martial arts work in this manner. There are some arts that are incredible, and they open the spirit up and enhance abilities like nobody’s business. But then there are arts that are just thuggish cockfights, backroom brawls so low they make animals look high.
This difference, the difference between low and high martial arts, can easily be understood. It is very simple to discern why some arts excel when it comes to creating magnitude and finery in the human soul, and some don’t. This is actually not just a matter of philosophy, but a mechanistic condition relating to the nature of a human being.
Consider the human spirit a light bulb. There is the grungy, dingy one, maybe filters the world through red glass, that hangs in the basement of some dungeon. Then there is the light that is sharp and shiny, a laser, able to illuminate anything for a million miles around.
A dirty light bulb stops the light, and we are talking about dirt as in anger and rage and the desire to hurt people. A laser light is not covered with filth, and the very waves of light have been aligned to make that light brilliant and infinite. So the first thing in this matter of gaining heightened sixth senses is to clean off the light bulb that you are, get rid of the rage and anger, and make all the parts of the body work together.
To coordinate the parts of the body so they work together, and are not possessed and filtered by anger, is something the human being does. The spirit, the real person, the actual being, must endeavor to accomplish this. Thus, to be a spirit, to ‘use’ the soul, in the simple act of coordinating the body parts, will cause the human being to shine brightly and put him on the road of increased abilities.
The second thing is to matrix the martial arts one is engaged in studying. This, again, is the act of alignment, but now one aligns the pieces of the art, and makes the arts into one unit. Again, the spirit must be clean, unfettered, and used to create this alignment of art.
Interestingly, alignment is nothing more than the fact of organizing, and it is a cleansing process. But in aligning body and art, one aligns the very spirit that one is, and when the soul is aligned the sixth sense abilities will come to the fore. Alignment of body and organization of art, this is how you Matrix Martial Arts and achieve greatness and magnitude and sixth sense abilities.
Al Case has 4O++ years analyzing martial arts. You can find out how to Matrix Martial Arts at his website, Monster Martial Arts. Make sure you pick up a free ebook when you are there.
Finding The True Art in the Kang Duk Won
Kang Duk Won Korean Karate was born of a classmate of Gichin Funakoshi’s, Toyama Kanken, and therefore it is one of the purest representations of Karate in existence. It took root in Korea, and was tempered in that countries harsh winters and boiling summers, all of which made it an art for men to study. Eventually it came to the United States, and I studied it in San Jose under the guidance of Bob Babich.
Next to the Kang Duk Won was the Towne Theater, which immoral cinema had the everlasting honor of showing a movie starring a gal name of Linda Lovelace for over two years. Other businesses included sweat shops and bars and nothing yuppie at all. In front of the Kang Duk Won, like as not, you would see a score of Harley Davidsons, courtesy of the Hells Angels, Gypsy Jokers, and just about any other Outlaw Biker gang who wanted to put aside war to learn the real art.
The front window was cracked and the pieces held together with duc tape. Visitors sat on a picnic bench placed under the window to watch classes. Bob’s office was a telephone booth just big enough for a desk and two chairs, just don’t try to open the chairs.
The mat was made out of sailboat canvas, and a big seam ran up the left side of the mat. It was a dirty, filthy thing, and where forms turned you could see strips of duc tape. And it was small, maybe 15 by 25, but classes of 20 and more would work full bore in their pursuit of the art.
In the back hung the bag, and Bob filled it himself, made it extra heavy. He was always taking it down to get it sewn back together, the darned thing looked like Frankenstein’s manhood. We used to kick that thing till it bounced, and the whole building would throb and shake.
Now, you might wonder why such a place deserves my infinite admiration, and the answer is simple. No excuses, no whining, no bottles of designer water standing at the sides of the mat. Just men working, sweating, giving everything they had, and building an energy indescribable.
I look at modern schools today, with all their amenities, and I shudder, for I don’t feel the manic energy, I don’t feel the intensity and the comradeship. I don’t think I am being old, I am just terrified that when I die, when I come back in another body, I won’t find a group of people that are willing to suffer for the True Art. I won’t find something, dirty, ragged, gasping for breath, and yet willing to suffuse my soul with the true spirit of the martial arts, I won’t find something like the Kang Duk Won.
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The Greatest Training Device In The Martial Arts Doesn’t Always Work!
Weird, eh? But it’s a fact. Back a hundred years ago, especially in some of the third world countries that the martial arts had their beginnings in, they didn’t have mirrors.
Nowadays we walk into dojos with mirrors covering the walls. We do our kata, and we inspect our movements, and we know what we look like. Sometimes this is good, sometimes this is bad, but at least we can see what we look like.
The good is that we can correct our forms. We can see our postural mistakes and fix them. The bad…well, let me get into that.
There is this overblown thing called narcissism. Falling in love with yourself…and the way you look to the world. But image often doesn’t have anything to do with how things work.
The martial arts rely on energy that is not always visible to the spectator, and in using mirrors we start looking at our glorious form, and don’t always to create the energy that the form, without obsessing on one’s self image, can create. We are not always able to see the degree to which we should sink our weight into the ground. We are not always able to perceive whether the tan tien is glowing and growing, and being used in an appropriate martial manner.
A punch should not be a polite line of turning fist, it should be a belly busting explosion of weight and emotion and the hell with the world! A block should not be a wave of flesh and bone, it should be a staunch stance with world shaking focus! A kick should not be the ability to do the splits vertical, it should be a sinking of the weight, a balance while tremendous energies are coursed through the leg and into the foot and…beyond.
A mirror is a great thing, it can impart a myriad of detail, and make us look incredibly pretty, but it doesn’t always generate the energy it takes to win a fight. Looking good might be great for evolution into video and hollywood, but it has limited value when it comes to the true martial arts. In the martial arts one must give up the image of self to find The True Art.
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Supercharging For The Most Powerful Punch Imaginable!
This trick is from the third move in the classical form called Pinan One. It is called Heian One in various other styles of karate. This is the move where you kick and block simultaneously, then stomp your foot as you block in the opposite direction.
To understand the what is happening in this technique you have to understand that bending your leg makes you create more energy. The deeper the posture you assume, the more you bend your legs, the more your legs work, the more energy you are going to have to create. This energy comes from the Tan tien, which is actually nothing more than an energy generator which is located below the navel.
When you stomp your foot in precisely the right manner, you have a sudden increase in weight. A sudden increase in weight is going to trigger a sudden increase in the energy produced by the tan tien. This energy can be channeled out to you kick, block or punch.
To make this technique really workable you must not stomp the foot overly hard. Stomping the foot too hard can cause your foot to become damaged. It can also cause long term damage up the leg and actually effect the hip bones and the spinal column.
To make this work, then, does not require that you use the strength of maniac, it requires perfect timing. The arms must return to the body at the same time the leg comes back. The hips must spin at the correct rate of speed so that the body is being used as a single and whole unit.
Moving the hips is very important, they must turn with the whole body, and support the proper alignment of the legs and arms. The hips must be able to stop at exactly the right instant. Stopping is done by emphasizing, gently, the downward thrust of the foot.
Don’t use too much strength, use perfect timing, make the body work as one unit. This is the key to supercharging your punch, kick or block and giving them a lot of extra power. Guaranteed, if you can do these things, and especially with the move from Pinan One, then you are going to have the most powerful punch imaginable.
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The Brain Crash Behind The Martial Arts
Having stepped in front of the firing squad, let me say that I believe that the martial arts are the greatest invention since anything. Done with the right disposition, they result in high levels of discipline, increased morality, and a calm viewpoint of life that reassures society across the board. And, not to be less than truthful, they kick butt!
Now, having properly protected myself against the occasionally rabid practitioner, let me describe that huge problem. The problem is one of power and hard headedness. Simply, once one becomes an authority in the martial arts, one tends to squash anyone who threatens that power.
You’ve all heard the fellow in the ring who threatens to knock the head off the other fighter with a ax kick…just because he really dont like him. This is the heart of spectacle, this is the gladiator with too tight pants, creating his own ratings, causing the crowd to cheer for him, inciting to riot all in the interests of a corporate deal. This is the lesson of venues such as the WCW, yet brought into all other sports where a dollar is to be made.
Now, once the ignorant brute becomes ‘champeen of the wurld,’ he continues his career through seminars, and even his own chain of schools. And in this career he continues his world class example with bad English, morals and manners. Any student who asks a question is apt to receive his answer in headlocks and armbars, and not through the scientific reasoning of pulleys and wedges.
Now, thank the stars, not all instructors are like this, many instructors are intelligent, joyous fellows, who thrive on the interchange of information. But, what do we do about the, for lack of a more descriptive word, dopes? I mean, I don’t think the various athletic commissions will require a seventh grade diploma as necessary for a fellow who has dynamite in his punches.
Well, the answer lies in education, but not necessarily of the world champion. The answer lies in educating the masses. And this answer is possible through the education of the school systems.
Yes, it is about time to lay the smack down on, apply a head popping leg scissors to, wrench the arm right out of the socket of…boards of education everywhere. Time to take them teachers out and bash them in the heads with their own books. You want to fix the martial arts, start earlier, and pick the right target, next time your kid comes home with an F, head down to the local teacher store, and take a good dose of knuckle knocking, slobber knocking common sense, and convince them idiots that they better not to fail yer kid, or else!
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Intrinsic Power through Six Simple Steps!
The first step in this sequence can hardly be considered a step at all, it is a lack of knowledge. This is when a person doesn’t use his hips at all when doing the martial arts. Oddly, one can see the lack of knowledge because the student has a bad case of butt wiggle when he steps forward and executes a front punch.
When I found the traditional karate of Kwon Bop I found out how to slam the hips into a strike. We would stand in place and pivot front stances, slamming the hips, as a regular part of our training. This put the weight of the body into the technique, and built really usable power.
The third step came when I realized that I could just move the hips without slamming them. This was a small motion, sometimes nothing more than an in and out jerk of alignment, but it worked, was efficient, and was my first step into what we call internal power. This motion, developed in traditional karate such as shito ryu, is often called hip vibration.
The fourth step was when I came to understand that you could roll the whole body like a pipe half filled with sand. The purpose was to make all the sand on the inside of the pipe collide with the end or side of the pipe at the same moment one struck an opponent. I was heavily involved in generating internal power now, and one can see this type of movement in properly done forms such as hangetsu.
The fifth step I realized after I had played Tai Chi for a number of years. Instead of slamming the hips, or rolling the arm or body like a pipe, I simply moved the body or body part in a subtle motion so that the tan tien was like a cup of liquid, and the internal energy was sloshing on the inside of the cup. This caused energy to swell up inside the body, and this energy could be used in martial techniques.
The power of the fifth step is when one learns to release themselves. People always hold themselves back a little, obviously not wanting to hurt somebody, but, not so obviously, stopping their intrinsic power. The sixth step is to learn to relax enough that you don’t withhold yourself, and then the energy you have generated by the previous methods becomes real and can be used in martial technique.
The path I have outlined may sometimes appear lengthy, but once you understand the pieces, it can become quite short. The problem is that many martial arts don’t present all the pieces, and one must study a variety of martial arts to learn all the steps, and this sometimes leads to seeming contradictions. Still, it is possible to learn how to develop and manifest intrinsic power if one chooses the right technology.
Al Case has studied martial arts for 4O+ years. The correct technology is called Matrix Martial Arts, and you can get a free ebook describing this correct technology at Monster Martial Arts.
How I Used Karate to Get Out of My Body!
March 5, 2010 by Al Case
Filed under Weight Loss Diet
If you can turn down the Outer Limits music for a moment, I\’ll explain. The out of body experience I am talking about is possible through Kima Chasie, or, Horse meditation. In this article I am going to tell you exactly what that exercise is, which will include exactly how to do it.
Back in the early seventies I was working on my black belt, and I was frustrated with this horse meditation thing. We would stand in the horse stance, one hand in a high block, the other hand in a horizontal, hooked back beak hand. We would concentrate out awareness on our clenched fingertips until our legs shook and sweat burst forth upon our innocent foreheads.
Yet, I knew the two minutes we were doing was insufficient. I had heard the stories of guys who would stand in the stance for two hours, and how they became superhuman. And, not to reveal my adolescent dreams, I wanted to be superhuman.
The way to immortality, to be honest, is just to go ahead and do it. So I began doing Horse Meditation with a desire and will uncommon. I would hold the horse stance until the ache became too great too bear, and then break, and know that I had not made it, again.
I decided that I had had enough, I was going to do the big breakthrough. I was going to become the most immortal martial artist in the world…uh, other than Bruce Lee. I mean, I would be more than a God, but…Bruce is Bruce, you know?
So I assumed the deep horse stance, and when the pain started, I told myself one thing…it isn\’t going to kill me. Sweat, shakes, dire thoughts of having my legs fill with blood and burst. But, having made the decision that I was going to do or die…POP…I did it.
I floated in space over my body, disembodied, the world brilliant and forever, the source of immortality revealed. I had succeeded in using the martial arts, and this would work whether you studied karate or kung fu or whatever, in realizing that I was a spirit, and that I was immortal, and that bodies were temporary things that you put on or take off as simply as one puts on a coat, or takes it off, or pants, they go on or off, too, and shoes, and socks, and…I was myself. Then, after a few eternal minutes, I decided to get back into my body, so I did, and I lost control, my stance fell forward, and I couldn\’t figure out how to move my body quickly enough, and I fell right, smack dab, square…on my face.
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