The Six Degrees Of Insanity Uncovered Through Real Karate!

You can cure yourself of the sickness of insanity, and the whole planet of being insane, if you can find Real Karate. Now, we are not talking real karate videos on youtube here, nor some other fantasy. We are talking about the type of martial arts studied over the ages that work on all sorts of different levels for everybody.

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 Secret Of Sixth Sense Abilities In The Martial Arts

All my life I wanted to achieve mystical sixth sense abilities. I wanted to be able to see inside minds, know what was going to happen before it happened, always be in the right spot at the right time. I discovered that the martial arts are the perfect vehicle for achieving these abilities.

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.

Supercharging For The Most Powerful Punch Imaginable!

There is a technique that is used to give you the most powerful punch in the world. This is a trick from traditional karate, and students often struggle with it for years. If you understand the physics I give you here, you will be able to do this trick.

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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Intrinsic Power through Six Simple Steps!

Well, it was quite the thing, a couple of thousand years ago, when immortals walked the earth and chi power was common. Of course, things aren’t so glorious these days. Of course, if one understood that one could have chi power in six easy steps, then things might go back to the way they were.

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.

Matrix Martial Arts Understood Through Three Analogies

To understand Matrixing one must understand that Matrix Martial Arts is a technology. It is a logical way of thinking applied to martial disciplines such as kenpo, Tae Kwon Do or whatever. The good news is that the effects of logic on the martial arts are beneficial.

Matrixing is important because the oral tradition of learning the martial arts has resulted in thoroughly mixed up martial disciplines. People spend much time copycatting random strings of data, but this leaves vast areas of unexplored technique. The random strings of data thus become hard to extract for use, and martial intuition takes decades to cultivate, if it ever is.

The first analogy of matrixing was one of numbers. Learning an art, be it karate or kung fu or whatever, was like trying to learn how to count when you had no 2, 3 was upside, 7 is put before 1, which is inverted, and there were no more numbers except…what is that shaved cat doing in there? Matrixing laid out the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9…and then anybody could find 10, and 11, and so on.

The second analogy of Matrixing uses language. Use the Matrix Technology and speed of learning is increased, and this because there is an alphabet, and even phonics. The martial arts can then be generated with techniques as words, forms as sentences, and whole systems as simple textbooks.

The third analogy used to define Matrix Martial Arts is a simple three dimensional form. Using the logic of matrixing you can establish the geometry of each art, and establish that geometry for all potentials of motions, and define each art as separate and unique. One then merely places the layers of art in a three dimensional cube.

Thus, the individual arts are conceptually aligned, and a student can change arts simply by selecting the right layer of art from the cube. This puts all the martial methods in a specific and logical order that is true through all the arts. Depth of art then is not mysterious and difficult to understand, but rather a straightforward process of understanding the ordered and inter-related geometry of all arts.

Several things happen when one understands matrixing science on this level. Intuition becomes obvious and easily tapped. Students learn at a much higher rate of speed, for the mind will not refuse concepts when they are simple correctly ordered.

Of course, students are unique, and how much matrixing technology it is going to take for each is a variable. A high number of practitioners make the breakthrough on the first course or two, a few students need all the courses, and there are going to be one or two students who are going to need all the courses…and a kick in the pants besides. However much matrixing it takes for the martial mind to kick in and start truly functioning, and for the student to enjoy all those fabulous, advanced abilities that students of the True Art have come to know, the journey is well worth it.

Al Case has examined martial arts for 40 years and is a writer for the magazines. If you wish to find out more about Matrix Martial Arts visit Monster Martial Arts and ask for his free ebook, Matrixing: The Primer.

How I Used Karate to Get Out of My Body!

Turn up the mysterious music, burn a mystic for Christ, we are about to get out of our bodies. Oooo, floating motes of intelligence, able to float into bedrooms and bank vaults everywhere! And it is all possible through a common place martial arts drill, common in systems of Karate and Kung Fu, and especially wudan arts.

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.

Al has forty years in the arts, and is a writer for the magazines. You might not get out of your body, but you can get a free ebook if you pop on over to Monster Martial Arts.

I Used Kung Fu to have the Strongest Mind in the World

Try that on for size! The Strongest Mind ever to exist in the Whole Wide World, maybe the whole galaxy! Able to woo any dame and trounce any bad guy, and…sounds a bit too good to be true, doesn\’t it?

Oddly, the thing that I did worked, but not in the way I had anticipated. So let me tell you method I utilized, for free, and see how you do. Are you ready to have the Strongest Mind in the World, maybe in the universe?

I once read that a man who can concentrate on one thing for three minutes can rule the world. The point was that to stay focused on one thing, to put it simply, blows up the brain power. Having read this, and wanting to have the most fully functional brain allowed, I decided to do it.

I was doing doing Karate at the time, and exploring side avenues of Sticky Hands from Wing Chun Gung Fu, and various other martial things, and I really thought that I had the mental horsepower to pull anything off. I did my forms, I could remain calm during combat, and I had the discipline. Now all I had to do was apply that discipline to seeking enlightenment, pursuing Nirvana, or whatever you want to call it.

I decided to use a simple, little rock to shape the ultimate concentration and the resulting explosion of pure mentality which, I hoped, wouldn\’t shatter the universe too badly. A rock, after all, was what the earth was, and the shape of the thing was round, like the whole darned universe, and it seemed so neat and appropriate. So I went into a nearby field and chose a well shaped rock, and prepared to turn on my enlightenment.

I sat down under a tree, placed the rock before me, and focused on it. I tried not to think, I tried to just be aware of the rock, and to ignore all those silly little surface thoughts, like what was for lunch and what the latest movie was, or what I was going to do that weekend. I was, after all, going to shatter down the doors to heaven, so what use could such mundane thoughts have for me, right?

After three minutes I tossed the rock aside, got to my feet, and started walking away, totally disgusted with how boring the whole thing was. I mean, to think that I was going to enter Nirvana just by being able to think at a rock, how stupid, how boring! Suddenly, I was jerked to a stop as a sudden thought overwhelmed me.

It wasn\’t the rock that was boring, it was me. All that boredom was being generated by me, and I realized something…I would never be bored again. And I suddenly realized, in this moment of self revelation, the thing had worked, but not at all how I thought it would.

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Real Karate Does Not Look Like Karate!

This concept, that working Karate does not resemble the Karate that people are taught in schools, is actually true throughout the martial arts. Shaolin done in combat does not look like wu shu taught in the kwoon. Forms Kung fu doesn\’t resemble fighting kung fu, and so on.

The reason for this is that there is nice to look at, and then there is functional. A fellow teaches, or learns a martial art, and the instructor gives him something that looks good. Once one starts applying real world potentials to the technique, however, the technique must sometimes change to work.

Take a look at the traditional kung fu back stance. The stance is so bent on the back leg that the ankle is unable to support the weight of most attacks. Thus, one must change the shape of the posture in order to really make it work.

Or, take a look at the basic middle block in Karate. It swings sideways, and there is no real weight behind it. The correct way to do this block is to shoot it out from the tan tien, which would put structure behind the move.

The examples I have just given you, incidentally, represent the reasons why many classical arts fall apart in the Mixed Martial Arts ring. The artists have been trained to look good, and not to make it work. To make something like Karate work in the MMA, or the UFC, one is going to have to change the whole structure of the thing.

Changing the structure of a martial art is not bad, if it makes the art work. Unfortunately, many teachers will scream, and one has to wonder why this is. After all, the fact that an art now works should be proof and satisfaction all in one.

I suppose what is at the heart of some teacher\’s inability to change is the love of the mystery. What is happening in their minds is that they don\’t understand what they are doing, but they have become convinced that if they just keep doing what they are doing, they will, eventually, understand it. Thus, they become blind to change, to what works, and, sadly, the potential of the true art.

The good news is that most martial artists I have encountered are not so blind. I show them basic matrixing principles, for instance, and they embrace the change. Thus, hold to the old only so long as it works, change to the new when the old fails, and watch the True Martial Arts explode across the face of this planet.

Al has forty++ years experience and his website is Monster Martial Arts. Go there and pick up a free book on Matrixing, Find Out if Matrixing is for you.

The Truth About the Failure of Classical Karate!

Karate, as it is practiced in modern times, is absolutely nothing like the Karate invented centuries ago. There are many reasons for this phenomena, cultural, historical, vested interest, and on and on. This article will pin point the exact reasons the art of Karate has changed, and why it is considered a failure in the eyes of many people.

Karate was developed to defend the emperor of Okinawa. The techniques gathered together were specific in their intent, and that intent was shaped by having to deal with a variety of different weapons and soldiers. Interestingly, Karate was not specifically designed for blocking and striking, though that can be considered as workable, and more to do with disarming and maiming.

The Japanese eventually forced the King of Okinawa to leave Okinawa and reside in Japan, where he was treated like a guest, but was still nothing but a prisoner. With the king gone, what reason did the Imperial Bodyguards have to pursue their martial art? Thus, lessons were taught to children to give strength and good health, but the maiming and butchery that was part of the original art was left out.

Eventually, Karate migrated to Japan, where it proved more than comparable to the arts of the Japanese. One must take into account, however, that the Japanese had stolen the imperial king. Thus, if the teachers of Karate even knew the truth behind their art, would they be willing to teach the people who had stolen their king?

The next step in the growth of Karate came when the Americans conquered Japan. They did this by dropping an atomic bomb on two different cities, and now we have the same scene as described in the last paragraph. One has to ask whether the Japanese, if they even knew the true art, would teach the people who had destroyed their cities with atomic weaponry.

Finally. the art reaches America. It is commercialized, made less deadly for children, and geared around tournaments. People are more concerned about getting promoted and the latest fight night than they are about the potential for knowledge through the art.

Finally, the art starts to fail as a system of valid self-defense. People laugh about MacDojos on every corner, and the brutality of MMA, at least workable, is held up as a new standard. Yet, the question must be asked at this point…what was the original art?

What is that art that was invented to all manner of warriors and weaponry in defense of king and country? What is that art that explores the human soul and reveals the depths of the true artist? I say it is still present…the true student just has to be willing to look for it and work for it.

Al Case has examined martial arts for over 4O years, and has been a writer for the magazines since 1982. If you want to explore his theories concerning what has been to Karate, and what to do about it, visit him at MonsterMartialArts.com. A free ebook is offered on the homepage of the site.

The Three Essential Levels of Karate

If you are into the Martial Arts just to fight, to beat people up, to beer over the latest UFC results, this article is not for you. If, however, you think the martial arts are a vehicle to become not just physically stronger and mentally more awake, but maybe even enable you to evolve as a human being, then this is the article for you. This is a straightforward and logical look at the three major steps of the martial arts.

The first step of the martial arts is the body level. This is nothing more than making sure you have all the necessary body parts to do the martial arts, and that they are in working condition, or close to it. To get started on the first level one need merely understand that, on a base level, the martial arts are nothing more than calisthenics.

To make if from the first level to the second level, however, one needs to accomplish something called CBM. In the past masters would refer to this as using the body as one unit, which was correct, but lacking in working description. CBM means Coordinated Body Motion, and it is when you use all the body parts together.

With CBM all body motion must intiate at the same time. And, all motion must halt at the same time. And, all in between motion must coordinate the size, mass, length, arc, and so on of individual motions and parts.

When one accomplishes CBM, especially through a classical martial art, one\’s intention is realized. Intention is your desire to achieve something, the working part of the essential idea of whatever end goal you are aiming for. This is the thing that is commonly, and with varying degree of error, described as Chi. That chi, or intention, can be described from so many different viewpoints and experiences is what makes it so confusing.

Having CBMed one\’s body, the next step is to CBM one\’s art. I call this process Matrixing, and it involves an actual science. When one starts to matrix their martial art they must examine all moves, all forms, and follow certain scientific principles to align that art. Like CBM before, one must take into account all motions and align them to the concept of the form.

One could make the broad generalization that Coordinated Body Motion is for inside the body, and Matrixing is for outside the body, and while this isn\’t entirely accurate, there is a sizable amount of truth to the statement. The Martial Arts, you see, while they have achieved a high degree of functionality, could work a whole heck of a lot better. There has been so much interbreeding of cultures and interests and viewpoints and so on, that the martial arts are fair well banged up.

When one finally succeeds in matrixing his martial arts, the true grandeur of the arts is revealed. Senses go outward and take in a whole new world, people see what they weren\’t able to see before, and the blind awake. Coordinated Body Motion, Matrixing, human desire to undertake and succeed, these are at the heart of the martial arts, and these are what the true martial artist must seek to understand and employ on his journey to the truth of his soul.

Having studied the martial arts for 4O+ years, Al has written for the magazines and had his own column in Inside Karate. If you want to find out about Coordinated Body Motion, or how to Matrix the Martial Arts, Al has written a book which you can get for free at Monster Martial Arts.

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