World Of Swords

Learning Martial Arts should be easy, but some martial art teachers would have you believe that it takes years and years, decades. And, here is the unfortunate truth, it is these same martial arts teachers that are making it difficult to learn. Most people, you see, teach by the most inefficient method possible.

This article is going to be about the three methods of human thought and how those methods impact on the instruction of such arts as karate or kung fu. Just understanding the four methods of thought changes the way people think. This can make learning martial arts as simple as falling off a log.

The first thing to be understood int his subject is that people try to learn by viewing the whole picture. They look at the world, try to see the whole thing, and this method of thought is called Mosaic. This is the method utilized by savages, people who need a science of chipping flint spearheads, but no higher abstract.

As mankind develops linear thought begins to be seen, and this is the sequencing of bits of information. This includes numbers, different arrangements of data so as to make easy the absorption method that we call learning. This is a much more efficient way of absorbing information, and of dealing with the abstracts of information which are necessary to create a civilization, and a functioning human being in that civilization.

The martial artist is somewhere between the mosaic and the linear methods. He is learning sequences of techniques, but they are random, muddled, don't always make sense. Consider a technology described by the sequencing of concepts such as of 3, X, 2, %, 5, dog, 6, re, watermelon...that is how the martial arts are taught.

When one begins 'Matrixing' a martial art, however, the techniques and all the information necessary to learning martial arts have been arranged in the correct sequence. The result is a better way of learning, which I call 'matrixing.' With matrixing one absorbs completed mosaics fast enough to absorb whole strings of pictures...not single items, but whole and completed pictures.

The only difficulty in this method is that people are often caught and muddled by other methods that they can't put aside those methods for matrixing. A martial arts master who has learned by the linear method might not be able to put aside that linear method for the matrixing method. It doesn't happen a lot, but when it does happen the martial artist should probably just continue with his methods and stay away from matrixing.

With matrixing the mind becomes intuitive, gets used to working in a more efficient way, and all sorts of other subjects are quickly and easily learned. People have been using Matrixing to learn school subjects like other languages, how to work computers, how to film movies, how to coach sports teams, and so on, with fantastic results. The best way to get these results, however, is through first learning martial arts with matrixing.

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The wins students get from true Shaolin Kung Fu training are absolutely unbelievable. The key to these wins is to train correctly. After all, you could have the nicest cut of ribs in the world, but cook it incorrectly and you'll have a charcoal mess.

When one is studying Kung Fu one should always move the body as a single unit. Six Harmonies Boxing preaches that one should move the hand at the same time as the foot, the knee with the elbow, and the hips with the shoulders. This is a technical viewpoint, which tends to separate body parts even as it unifies them.

As for the hands and feet, one should step or twist into a stance in conjunction with the starting and stopping of the hand movement. For the knees and elbows, one should properly align the body when doing any movement. For the hips and shoulders, move them together and you will be putting all your body weight into whatever motion you are doing.

The second of the three secrets of Shaolin Kung Fu training is to use the waist when turning the body. This is something that people begin to learn naturally after understanding the points about moving the body as one unit. The advice here is to use the waist to make the body turn, don't turn the arms first and expect the body to follow.

If you move the arms to initiate an action the body weight is going to be trying to catch up, instead of projecting weight and energy, and this tends to take weight out of a movement. Taking weight out of motion will take real power out of a move. If one studies this principle they will end up building the true chi power inherent in Shaolin Kung Fu.

Last of the three advices has to do with proper breathing. There is a general rule that one should breath in when the body contracts, and out when the body expands, but there is more to it than just that. One must breath, and use that breath to guide awareness into the body part being used.

To make this occur one should 'swim with awareness' when doing the motions of kung fu forms. One should push the hands through the air as if they are moving great weights, this can give one the appearance of swimming through molasses. This tends to be truer in the internal forms and styles of Shaolin Kung Fu training, but that is fine.

In conclusion, these are three very important items that many people neglect, or simply just don't understand. Yet they are key to ones real progress in the martial arts disciplines. Harmonize the body parts, use the whole body, and put breath awareness into your movements, that is the simple and obvious secret of true Shaolin Kung Fu Training.

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The Bruce Lee Work out Routine was an unbelievable phenomenon, and it resulted in Bruce being able to do acts of strength that are far beyond the ability of the average man. (See part two of this article if you wish to see a list of some of the things he could do.) That Bruce Lee did it eek after week, month after month, year after year, describes a human toughness that is truly astounding.

Before one even thinks about doing a Bruce Lee work out, one should understand that the Bruce Lee Workout Routine depended upon one simple principle. The mind is stronger than the body, and can make the body go through anything. In spite of doctor's words, Bruce pushed himself through his regular work outs with beyond human intensity.

From 7 to 9 every morning Bruce would train in abdominal exercises, flexibility, and running. From 11 to 12 he would weight train and cycle. This was the base of his training, and he would spend odd times throughout the day training in specialized techniques.

For basic weight lifting Bruce would do reps of things like push ups, squats, reverse curls, concentration curls, reverse wrist curls, wrist curls and French presses. He believed in working on both fast twitch and slow twitch muscle movement. In the beginning Bruce was of a mind that bigger muscles were stronger muscles, but later on in his career, towards Bruce Lee's death, he came to believe that this wasn't so.

He was a true believer when it came to ab exercises. He focused on the abdominals every work out, but he also did them at odd times throughout the entire day. People would often come to see him and find him doing sit ups, crunches, Roman Chair exercises, V ups and leg raises.

Another favorite exercise Bruce had was running and cycling. His normal run would be from two to five miles, usually in fifteen to forty-five minutes. He would also ride a standing bike for 10 miles (45 minutes).

Some of Bruce Lee's secondary exercises were totally beyond belief. He loved jump roping, and after doing the stationary bike he would do as many as 800 jumps. He also loved to thrust his bare mitts into buckets of sand, and he would do as many as 500 repetitions of this ancient toughening drill.

To conclude, one should be careful when trying to do a physical regimen of this sort. Remember that even Bruce Lee started out at a lower level, he didn't just blast it and risk his body. Once you have worked up to the Bruce Lee Workout Routine, however, maybe you'll be ready to be a superstar, too.

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