How to Slow Walk Part Two
The second time I ever slow walked I was in Willits, California putting on a karate demonstration for a couple of hundred kids. As I finished the presentation I noticed a fellow standing at the far end of the gymnasium. At a distance, he was big and rather ominous.
What was he doing at a demo for kids if he didn't have a kid? Making up my mind, I began to walk slowly towards him. Time began to stretch and stretch as I walked slower and slower. It was only a hundred feet to him, but it seemed to take forever to reach him.
He was sweating and starting to shake by the time I reached him. I threw out a big grin, introduced myself and offered my hand. Relief bubbled from him as he shook my hand.
He was a lumberjack named Andy, and he turned out to be one heck of a nice fellow. He was very curious about Karate, and that was why he had shown up at a kid's demonstration. He lived far out in the woods, and so he had never actually seen karate before.
The Slow Walking when we had met was the thing that really perked his interest. The whole world had felt like it was caving in on him, he later told me. He almost lost control of his bladder, he later told me.
If you practice a classical karate that has been made true slow walking is easy to do. This means you must make sure you know what the moves mean when you translate them into actual usage, and you must align the time and shape of your form. If you learn how to do this then you can experience the true bubble of your perceptions, which is what your true body is.
Time is a method for measuring the universe. Time is something that we perceive. If you can control the universe, and it starts with controlling your body, then you can control time.
Of course the trick is to perfect your art, and enter The True Art, and then to increase your magnitude. For if you can control your body, and your time, then you can control another's body, and you can influence his perception of time. A simple trick, but it require immense dedication to form and detail and such.
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