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In this article I am going to tell you the three steps to building ki power through karate kata. This type of intrinsic energy is actually easy to generate, but I have never met an instructor who knew the secret of how to unlock the power. I don't care if you study Japanese Karate kata, Korean Karate kata, Okinawan Karate kata, or whatever, the power can be built--you just have to know the three easy steps.

This method is actually known in Chinese arts, used in 'Kung fu katas' if you wish to mix terminology. I take a more scientific bent, I call it Flux Theory, which is just a fancy way of saying you are going to get the flow of energy moving and tap into it. So here are the three steps.

First, you have to push from the planet. Most people consider this muscle building, or just efficient motion, but it is far more. When you push from the planet you must focus on feeling the sensation of weight building in the leg doing the pushing.

Second, as you start to move the body through space with the push of the leg, you must start turning the hips. This is core to many systems, you will find it in karate kata forms, hapkido forms, even (and maybe especially) the taekwondo white belt forms. The trick is to, again, feel the sensation of mass moving through the frame, up the leg and through the hips up the body through to the arms.

Third, and this is the very important last step, when you throw a hard punch it should feel like you are shaking water off your hands. The notion here is to relax your arm as much as possible, then get the sensation pulsing the arm so that the energy that went through the leg and the hip, is pushed down and through your arm. You focus, but having a tight fist is not so important, can even work against you, to the feeling that energy is snapping off the end of your hand just like water is snapped off the fist.

Make sure you have have good karate stance if you want to really build energy, and this means you are going to have to critique every posture in every kata and make sure the legs are bent properly, not overly rigid, and so on. And, to make this ki work in karate fights, you are going to have to line up the hips and turn them at exactly the right time. Do these things, with strict attention to detail, and you are going to find that the ki power you are making will be the ultimate karate weapon.

Now, most instructors don't know what I have told you here, and the forms are being altered for some odd idea of what karate combat is. If you have a sensei who is changing his karate forms to kickboxing stances, or some other mixed martial art method, then you are in trouble. Without the connection to the planet, the ki power won't build, and certainly won't go through the body.

The point here is that you must stay with the classical kata. You must analyze all the kata from the different karate styles, no matter if it is Shotokan Karate forms, goju karate forms, shito ryu forms or isshin ryu forms or whatever, and make sure they are sound and workable. This is the method I utilized on when I came up with Flux Theory, and this is how you are going to discover the true ki power that is inherent in karate kata

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