Three Things People Don’t Understand About Tai Chi Chuan

[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/AlCase29.jpg]Tai Chi Chuan, the Grand Ultimate Fist, but what makes it so ultimate? What makes Tai Chi ultimate is that it takes intelligence to make work. This is not to insult other arts, but an inspection of the concepts necessary to Tai Chi that will convince most people that this is true.

I’ve selected three of the many principles that a person must understand to get anywhere in the Grand Ultimate Fist. The first concept is simply nothingness. Most arts will take this idea only so far as having the fist loose before impact, focus, but that is where the true art really starts.

To get anywhere in Taiji one must learn that the entire body must become loose and empty. By becoming loose and empty the body can better sense incoming energies, and thus better use them. This is easily understood if one understands that light travels best through nothingness, and in Tai Chi the body must become a vacuum so pure that senses can travel through it, and emanate from it.

The second concept deals with the generation of power. In my first art, Karate, this was established through stancing hard and fast and causing the tan tien to explode with power. This is fine, except that tai chi relies on a slower explosion of power.

To make power in the Grand Ultimate Art one must take the low stance and grind the motion back and forth between the legs, and back and forth through the hips. Power comes up the legs and the tan tien churns out energy slowly and carefully. Thus, there is a fine line between emptiness of the body, and the power generation of the legs, that must be understood.

Third concept, and, again, there are many more concepts, is the idea of moving slowly. Many people move slowly, and they marvel at how much world there is to see. Unfortunately, most people don’t understand that Tai Chi is first and foremost a fighting art.

Thus, when people move slowly in Tai Chi Chuan, they must not just relax and move slowly, they must actively push energy from their tan tien and fill up the body and direct it through their limbs. This is a point many people don’t understand, but which is crucial to the principle of enacting the imagination, and making the imagination actuate the true powers of a student. The feeling should be like swimming and the air should feel like molasses, but the waters are imagination, and the resistance is very real, very worthwhile, and totally related to combat.

There is so much to learn, an infinite to learn, and Matrix Tai Chi is a perfect tool to enable the learning process. The trick is to empty the mind to the possibilities, the trick is to relax and let oneself learn. The trick is to realize that it is not just art we are talking about when we speak of the Grand ultimate, but the very soul of a person.

Al Case has researched martial arts for over 4O+ years. You can inspect his unique method of Matrix Tai Chi Chuan at his Five Army website.

The Effectiveness Of Communist Kung Fu Strategy!

[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/AlCase5.jpg]I’m just ending a book by Clay Blair, entitled The Forgotten War, which is about the Korean Conflict. It is a real surprise, and extremely interesting. It is of particular interest to martial artists who are interested in tales of combat on a grand scale.

The Korean War consisted of a charge by the North Korean People’s Army, which pushed the US almost off the peninsula. A push back by the United States to the Yalu river. And a push back to the 38th parallel by the Chinese Communist Forces which almost worked, but which was countered by the US, expanded by UN, forces.

The Chinese combat strategy consisted of three principles. Charge if the enemy flees, and retreat if they attack. If the enemy is doing nothing, probe for weakness.

This is a wonderful tactic…for lone soldiers. For millions of men, it isn’t very applicable. This strategy doesn’t hold up to the necessities of modern combat.

The communists, you see, in embracing this strategy, were willing to trade bodies for bullets. They would charge, hundreds of thousands of men, and trust that they had more bodies than the US had bullets. They didn’t.

While the communist strategy actually works for personal combat, or very small groups of men, it falls all apart in the face of modern armies. When the NKPA, and later the CCF, headed down the Korean Peninsula, they didn’t stop to think about things like supplies. They couldn’t feed their men, resupply them with ammunition, or even see to the wounded.

What I find most interesting, in light of these lacks, is to apply the strategy of Matrixing to the battlefield. Getting an overview of national geography, specific terrain, freezing winters, muddy springs, and boiling hot summers, it is fascinating to consider whether the Chinese Communist Forces could have won if they had been a little less exuberant and a little more thoughtful in their planning. What if the CCF had established methods of resupply, applied their millions of men in manners that didn’t waste them, had taken the time to think their way through the terrain and opposition?

I recommend this little epistle, it’s a ton of fun, and a real thought maker, if you have a penchant for reliving combat, applying the martial arts to the world, and that sort of thing. I especially recommend considering the matrixing potentials of Matrix Martial Arts, and seeing if you could reign supreme, at least in theory, in one of the great undecided wars of this last century. For myself, this book provided a terrific tool for exploring martial arts strategies on a grand level.

Al Case has practiced martial arts for forty years. You can find out about his Matrixing Strategy by picking up a free ebook at Monster Martial Arts.

The Brain Crash Behind The Martial Arts

[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/AlCase9.jpg]There is a huge problem with the martial arts. This problem, to be plain, is the result of lowered intelligence. And this problem can, if not addressed, result in the lowered intelligence of the practitioners.

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!

Hey! Al has been having fun with you, but if you want to get in on the real smarts of the arts, order his free book at Monster Martial Arts.com. He has forty years experience and is a writer for the magazines.

Zen Karate and The Point of It All!

[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/AlCase29.jpg]What do you get out of doing the Martial Arts? What strange abilities can you really discover and awaken? Is there a reality that could be called Zen Karate…or zen aikido, or zen whatever other martial art you might study?

There is a discipline called zen, and the best book for describing it is Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. Past that, zen is how you experience yourself, as discovered through specific discipline. My specific discipline and experience was through the martial art of karate.

The discipline is through the repetition of kata and bunkai, and through this discipline you learn to control your body. People who fight just to fight, as in MMA, never experience this discipline. They might know martial, but they don’t know art.

And, if you can learn to control the fact of your body, you realize that it took control of mind. The struggle to make your body do exactly as you want comes from you making your mind do exactly what you want. And now we come to the point of it all.

Why doesn’t life do what you want it to? Why can’t you get that great car, have the cheerleader, get that great job? The reason, for most people, is that they can’t control themselves.

I am not talking about controlling your body, nor even your mind, now. I am talking about controlling you, the person who controls your body and mind. You.

You want to be as snazzy as Bruce Lee, as rapid as Jet Lee, able to jump through hoops better than Jackie Chan? Learn to control your body, then learn to control your mind, and, ultimately, learn the secrets of controlling yourself. Learn to control that person who is controlling your body and mind.

I recommend the martial arts as the valid path for learning to control yourself. Karate, kung fu, wudan, they are all valid paths for learning how to control yourself, and to see yourself as separate from body and mind. Learn to do this, dedicate yourself to the discipline that will make you have zen karate, or zen kung fu or zen whatever, and you will be able to control the universe, and all the cars and cheerleaders therein.

You can find out about the modern approach to Zen Karate by picking up a free ebook at Monster Martial Arts. The author, Al Case, has 4O years experience.

Intrinsic Power through Six Simple Steps!

[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AlCase8.jpg]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.

How Wudan Masters Enter the Cosmic Mind!

[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AlCase18.jpg] There is an ancient martial arts concept, that when the student is ready the master will appear. Sounds like a great deal, eh? You get so good that some ancient master pops out of the woodwork and reveals the Secrets of the Golden Scroll!

The truth of the matter, however is not quite as it sounds. In fact, the truth of the matter is nothing but odd. Let me tell you how this thing really works.

In the mid seventies I was sitting on a cinder block in my backyard, tapping a length of rebar on the patio and listening to music. Donk, donk…and the world glowed golden and I couldn’t tell where the music was coming from. Everything I knew suddenly became irrelevant, and I realized that I had had a moment of enlightenment.

And, about that time, my instructor closed up shop. So, here I was, an enlightened bit of humanity, and I didn’t know where to go to get my next lesson. Hey, the student was ready, so when was this doggoned master gonna come along?

Then a bizarre thing happened. People started coming along and telling me what to do. Whenever I was in a quandary, some fellow, not necessarily a martial artist, would come out of some alleyway and tell me the exact thing I needed to know to understand my next step.

I was teaching a class in Karate one day, and I looked out the window, and a guy was doing in the parking lot doing gung fu. I went out, introduced myself, and he turned out to be a master, and he taught me his style. And, in a bizarre circumstance, he taught me the exact thing that had been next to learn in my system before my instructor retired.

And this thing, of people telling me what to do entered all aspects of my life, giving me a life that was entirely bizarre but totally golden. I would go to a buy an auto, know that the salesman was full of cow chips, and suddenly some other customer would draw my attention to another car, or tell me about another dealer, and, suddenly, everything in the universe seemed balanced and right. The master had appeared, and he was humanity, and humanity never led me wrong.

So this thing of when the student is ready the master will appear works, but not the way you expect it. People, as a race, are a more pure and magnitudious rendition of consciousness, and, when taken together, and a person who has been enlightened will tend to take them, they are the master. All of us, we are connected by a consciousness that we do not usually understand, and even reject outright, and yet this is the secret of where we are going, We are part of a Cosmic Mind, a Godlike consciousness, and when the martial arts are done right, and this can be ascertained by whether they lead to enlightenment, humanity knows what you need, and when, and it delivers.

Al Case has 4O+ years experience in the martial arts. If you wish to enter the Cosmic Mind, visit either Church of the Martial Arts, or pick upa free ebook at Monster Martial Arts.

Matrix Martial Arts Understood Through Three Analogies

[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AlCase26.jpg]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.

Why Students Drop Out of the Martial Arts!

[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AlCase20.jpg]This is sort of an interesting question. Nobody has ever come up with a good answer for it, and yet people have tried virtually everything in the world to keep those errant students. I mean, they were doing good, they were blown out and excited, and then they disappeared.

The answer for this problem, and a way to keep enrollment high, and to even better it, is possible through something called Matrix Martial Arts. Matrixing is a technology that was designed for the martial arts. The fact of discovering why students drop out became known almost by accident.

To understand why students drop out we must recognize that there is something wrong with the martial arts. I don\’t care what art you are in, be it karate or kung fu or wudang or that rare form of Uechi Ryu, the fact of the matter is that you are teaching by having students memorize random strings of data. Not to offend, I offer that this is the most inefficient method for learning that there is.

Memorizing random strings of data is an oral tradition that worked when people couldn\’t read nor write. Now, how ever, the written word has come into its own, and people can avail themselves of such things as mind mapping, computers, and good, solid logic. This thing of logic is extremely important when one uses Matrix Martial Arts.

Matrixing is the analysis and handling of flow and force. It is a method for laying out a gridwork of martial arts techniques, and being able to quickly and efficiently sort through the techniques until you have the exact and only answer. It is so efficient that people who learn matrixing achieve intuition with their art within months, not years, as is common with the traditional arts.

When matrixing methods were first released, when students were enabled to view all the martial arts in logical fashion, one thing became obvious, there were a lot of blank spots in the martial arts. No matter how many arts one knows, no matter the number of random strings of data one memorizes, it can\’t compare with being able to see all the data. Students who can see the whole picture are always able to progress much faster.

And, students who left early in their training were found to be confused by the blank spots they had encountered in their studies. Learning the martial arts were like learning languages with half the consonants gone. The data ceased to make sense, so they departed.

The truth of the matter is that people don\’t want to be around what doesn\’t make sense. No matter how fun the game is, the brain rejects the data, the hardware ejects the software, the student refuses the martial arts, simply because it is confusing, and has not been made logical and simple. In a word, no matter whether you teach karate or kung fu or that rare and esoteric style of Hung Gar, you will not be able to keep students unless you matrix your art, and matrix your students, and, the fact of the matter is…you , too, may someday feel like hanging up your gi.

Al has forty years experience in a variety of arts, and is a writer for the magazines. You can find out about matrixing, ow to keep your students, and lots of other things by getting his free ebook at Monster Martial Arts.

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

[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AlCase7.gif]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.

Want to have the most powerful Kung Fu? Pick up a free ebook written by Al at Monster Kung Fus.

The Secret of Using Matrix Martial Arts to Read Minds!

[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/AlCase7.gif]There are times in life when it seems as if you have actually looked into someones mind. Maybe you just blurt out the phrase at the same time, or have the same thought on a hamburger stand. Sometimes, however, it is as if you have looked into somebodys mental process and know exactly what they are thinking.

The martial arts enhance this ability, and a good martial art does it in a quite speedy manner. Indeed, if you aren\’t effectively reading minds after a couple of years, there is probably something wrong with your martial art. If this is so, you should look into applying some principles from Matrix Martial Arts and fixing your art.

The first time you realize that you can look into somebody elses mind is usually during freestyle. You intuitively know what technique your opponent is considering using, and, as time goes on, you begin fitting intuitive responses to whatever he does. Many people think this is because of the freestyle, but it is really because of the forms that you have been perfecting in your martial arts.

Yes, freestyle provides the situation where you can realize your abilities, but forms provides the energy and context for developing those abilities. Without forms, you won\’t be able to read minds in the martial arts, except on the lowest level. Give up doing your forms, and you are left with fighting, and fighting does not lead to reading minds.

When doing a form one learns how to control their body so that it can do things that one couldn\’t make it do before. Then, one learns that it is the control of the mind that is really enabling him to make his body do things. Lastly, one starts to understand that before there can be motion in this universe, there must be a thought.

The universe is nothing but a space filled with objects that float around. Being able to read minds, you see, is being able to predict the path of objects. Predicting the path of objects just means that you start looking further out in space to see them coming.

What the matrixing procedure does, as practiced in Matrix Martial Arts, is organize the data so that one can see beyond the confusion. Matrixing analyzes and handles force and direction, and thus, one can take in more space, and analyze and handle more force and direction. Once one can do this through the practice of the martial arts, one can begin doing it to the rest of life.

Want to get a better deal when you trade in your vehicle, or maybe get the girl of your dreams? You can do so if you use matrixing to analyze and handle the forces and directions involved. And whether you study a form of kung fu, be it fut ga or tong long or monkey boxing, or whether you study karate, such as wado ryu or kyokushnkai or whatever, you can use Matrix Martial Arts to align it, and to align life itself.

Al Case has studied martial arts for 4O plus plus years. A writer for the magazines, he had his own column in Inside Karate. You can read about him, and get a free ebook on Matrix Martial Arts at Monster Martial Arts. Make sure you watch the video and see him put out a candle from over a foot away.

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