World Of Swords

This remark, that I am trying to learn Martial Arts as slowly as I possibly can, actually comes from 1967-1968. I was in a Chinese Kenpo Karate school at the time. Which self defense school I was in doesn't matter, however, as, I found 'slow learning' applied to every martial art in existence.

That doesn't mean I wasn't learning and having an incredibly good time. Heck, Martial Arts brought meaning to life, and the rite of passage is not equaled in other method in existence. But, I was learning oh...so...very...slowly.

The process of learning slowly was described to me as being on a plateau. I would earn a belt, be given new material, and then study that new material for half a year, and be bored with that new material after the first month. The instructors knew what I was going through, and justified it by giving it the label plateau, and telling me it was part of the learning method.

Somebody shows me a move, I practice it a dozen times, and then I can do it. I don't have to think about it, and don't really understand why I am supposed to practice something I know. And pretty much everybody is like this.

Intuitive learning is the method by which a human being learns, and human beings are the fastest learners in the universe. Yet they are asked to memorize random techniques and tricks, and then draw connections that don't, for the most part, exist. No wonder learning is has become arduous; no wonder people quit.

Think of it this way: you are asked to memorize an algebra sequence, a trigonometry formula, learn negative addition, and then you call yourself a mathematician. Doesn't look too smart, does it? Yet that is the way the martial arts are given to people.

Well, of course, they originate in nations which did not have logic, let alone broad public education, let alone an interest in the latest and greatest modern method for learning. Doesn't mean their arts aren't great, they can be phenomenal, but they are slow. The method used to teach is just slow, you see.

There are alternatives to this random memorization of moves...if one is to be willing to admit that the old methods are...old, and that they can learn fast, and that it is okay to learn fast. We are our greatest natural resource, and it is time to undo the straps, throw away the crutches...and get the lead out. After all, you don't want to keep learning the martial arts slow style, do you?

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The odd thing is, when we figure out martial arts styles and systems, we are repeating the errors of those who went before. This is sort of an inarguable fact that nobody seems to come to grips with. It is this fact that is at the heart of the creation of most Martial Arts systems.

The people of yesterday had no technology to draw upon. They didn't have logical methods of thought, or, many times, even any formal education. Thus, their look at martial arts was based on mysticism, and the resulting arts are born of that mysticism.

When some fellow began his study of the martial arts it would be based upon the spirit techniques his father learned in the army of (enter an historical name). His father would be old and crippled, maybe even a little addled, but he would give his son what he remembered. There would be a family bonding, and a secret system of ninjitsu, or kung fu, or whatever, would be born.

As time went on, these methods of art would eventually come to light. Consider the plight of the guy interested in studying martial arts, and he has a version of Gung Fu to draw on, half a system of Emei Wudan, and the stuff the kids at the park were playing with. Out of this razzmatazz, which is the result of previous gobbledegook, he tries to make a system.

The real miracle is that the martial arts worked! And, miracle of miracles, it sometimes worked to incredible degree! But this is a testament to the creativity and ingenuity of humankind.

I was stuck in that place once. I had half a style of derived Parker Kenpo Karate, and a system of one style of Kang Duk Won, a system that had roots in Okinawa, Japan, and even Korea. I also had an Americanized Karate Style, a bastardized version of Chum Kiu (the second form) Wing Chin, a few months of aikido, a version of Ton Toi (Springy Legs) Northern Shaolin, and a few other bits and pieces. And I had some kind of fun trying to make sense out of what I had.

I mean the concepts of some of these systems worked against one another! Even inside a specific national style of art, for instance ton toi and wing chun, there was vast discrepancy, and a disjointment of function that made it impossible to put them together, or even relate them. And, courtesy of the exploding learning potentials I was dealing with books, mags, videos, seminars, and dojos opening on every corner, and learning nothing about how it all fit together.

But it does fit together, and it fits together smooth and slick as if had been planned that way. And, truth, it has been planned that way. Once you get enough data, and a method for joining martial arts into one picture, you'll find that even opposites such as Aikido and boxing, krav maga and tai chi, or whatever, can be joined in a martial arts structure that is easier, and even faster, to learn.

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