World Of Swords

While MMA is one of the most popular sports in the world, there are problems with it. Let's be honest, while some fellow is using that Gracie Jujitsu to apply a lock or hold, he is rolling around and vulnerable to an attack from his opponents friends. Not to mention that it is not always the most intelligent thing to roll around on the ground while some fellow is trying to penetrate your body with a knife or broken bottle.

I know I have offended some MMA stylists out there, but these are questions that people should not hide from. After all, the ring looks like the final statement on fighting, but biting is a problem in a real fight. And getting your fingers broken or your eyes gouged is always a possibility when you fall on the ground and wrestle around.

No, it is better to keep a distance, be able to evade, manipulate, and even, in the extreme, run. Yes, you have to watch what kind of a surface you are on, but mobility in warfare is a crucial matter. And talking about the ability to move around, we are talking something like Shotokan, or Shorin Ryu, or Kenpo.

The problem is that people have bought into the idea that it takes decades, a life time, to learn good Kung Fu, like Shaolin or Mantis. But it doesn't. All you have to do is find a system which understands the most important principles and concentrates on those principles.

We are not talking Jeet Kune Do here, because we don't want a grab bag of sample all and take what you need. What we want are the actual core concepts of the art. We want the truth of such arts as Hung Gar or Choy Li Fut.

The best way to do this is to learn how to apply the concepts of matrixing to what you are studying. When you matrix your martial art, be it classical karate like Wado or Israeli survival like Krav Maga, it will suddenly become logical and easy to understand. And, being logical, a martial art will suddenly be ten times easier to understand.

And here's something most people have not really come to grips with, logic leads to prediction to intuition. Those sixth sense abilities of the martial arts are sometimes difficult to grasp, but they don't need to be. Once you start matrixing your martial arts, and I don't care if it is tae kwon do or one of the Korean Kwans, your sixth sense abilities, your ability to understand and generate chi kung, sometimes called gi gong, will start to come to the fore.

Really, what we are talking about here is dragging the martial arts into modern times. We are talking about evolution when we are talking about learning how to Matrix. So, you walk behind that ox, or you can ride the race horse by learning the fundamentals of Matrix Martial Arts.

Al Case has studied martial arts for 4O years. He began developing Matrixing in the 1970s, and he began writing for the magazines in the 1980s. He has written a manual on Matrixing, which is available for free at Monster Martial Arts.

There are a lot of people teaching the martial arts these days, and a lot of them call themselves Master, or give themselves other presumptuous titles. Of course, there is a big difference between talking the talk and walking the walk. Many of these so called masters are, quite simply, not.

Master is a word that has come to signify that one has power and authority over something. It is a term that is common to the English culture, and it has such meaning in other and ancient cultures. Heck, seems like somebody is always trying to have power and authority and be a master over something...somebody...whatever.

So lets consider our modern society and these people who call themselves masters. Lets take a look at whether they really have what it takes, or whether they are just a load of...hot air. Lets consider what a Master needs to know to be called a Master.

First, a Master needs to know something about what he is doing. Doesnt matter if it is the technology of making spitballs or the technology of the martial arts. They have to have technical knowledge of the field if they are going to call themselves master of it.

Unfortunately, the technology of the martial arts has never really been developed and codified. All those kids in the schools, all those military men, all those housewives and UFC watchers studying their hearts out, they dont know the technology because, quite honestly, the technology has never been actually put down on paper. And it has to be able to be scribed on sheets of paper because, as the master musician once said, if it cant be written on paper, it isnt really music.

Yes, we know what a triangle choke is, and the spinning rear kick, and all those other terms. We know they relate to certain tangled up body positions and various movements of destruction, and we know what they can do. But...why do they work the way they work?

What are the physics that are actually involved in the successful technique? What are the physics of the entry into the technique? What are the physics of the mental state necessary to enable a person to make the technique work?

It is not enough to say push on that or give a twist there, there has got to be a description able to be written in physics, and, unless the master knows these physics, he isnt a master. Whats worse, is that this is only one of two things that need to be known if a person is going to make it to actually being a master. Ill tell you what that other thing is in the second part of this article.

The martial arts, to be truthful, were developed in third world countries. Of course, a hundred years ago, let alone a thousand or two, every country was a third world country. The unfortunate truth this leads to, however, is that the martial arts are taught using old, ancient and outdated methods.

The budding student is told to practice the horse stance if he wants to make it. He is given forms with horse stances in them. And, after a few years or a decade or two, he becomes able to grip the ground pert good.

But...why wasn't he just given the data necessary to create an energy beam? Yeah, breath to the center and make the energy grow. Now, shoot beams down your legs and make a real connection with the ground.

And, if he does not get it, give him more data and create more understanding. Show him methods for twisting the legs so that he can make energy reach the ground. Show him him methods so he can push the legs so so that he can make energy come from the ground.

oh, I forgot, the old Chinese didn't have the knowledge of modern physics necessary to describe what an energy beam was and how to build it with the body. Uh, I guess we should tell the truth, they didn't have any physics at all. They had some pretty good mysticism, though, they did have that!

The truth is that mysticism is nothing more than made up reasons for things you don't understand. Mysticism is based on mystery. And the methods of the ancients, transfigured through well meaning instructors, are based on what they didn't understand.

Oh, people still get the teachings of the martial arts, in a manner of speaking. But it takes a lifetime or two or three. It takes a lifetime, but if the student doesn't have the ability to differentiate the tricks of language, he is going to pass on the same old tricks that enlighten a few of the fortunate, and befuddle the many that aren't fortunate.

So, new methods of passing on the martial arts are needed. Real understanding is the goal if you are going to master this mysterious beast called the martial arts, and move on through the mystical realms described by the ancients. Sup to you, do you think you can find me?

Al Case has analyzed martial arts for 4O years. You can inspect his free ebook concerning his modern methods at Monster Martial Arts.