He Was Crazy…And He Studied Korean Karate With Me.
[I:http://www.aikido-judo-karate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/AlCase7.gif]I doubt whether most schools, be they Kung Fu or Wudan or Aikido or whatever, have ever had a crazy guy in their school like Mud Car. We called him Mud Car because that’s what it said on the license plate on his car.That car, more than anything else, summed up Mud Car.
He had tied parachute webbing across the insides of his car because he felt that that material was best for holding his car together on the inside. He had fire extinguishers fastened to every surface on the inside of his car. He had a dial on his dashboard to give extra power to his tail lights, and he turned it whenever he faced away from the sun so that drivers behind him could see when he braked.
This was just the surface of Mud Car, though. The most impressive thing that Mud Car did was commit to memory the times of all the stop lights in the whole town of San Jose. He could travel across that large town without ever having to stop for a light.
Unfortunately, when it came to the karate, he was just as crazy. He couldn’t stretch his limbs, couldn’t control what his body was going to do, and, because of this lack of control, it hurt to work out with him. Just being in his presence you could feel the firecrackers in his mind exploding into the universe.
One day he interrupted the instructor to complain about a pain in his leg. “It doesn’t hurt me that much, but it keeps nagging at me, do you know how to make the pain in my leg go away?” My instructor looked at me with murder in his eyes, I suppose he didn’t want to look at Mud Car because he would kill him, and he blurted, “Hit your leg with a lead pipe…that’ll make the pain go away.”
I suppose the ability to drive other people insane is the deciding point in this matter of whether a person is goofy or not. Because of this Mud Car never made it to Black Belt. He just didn’t have the mental maturity that is the mark of a black belt.
One day, however, a new instructor came to the school, and Mud Car was promoted to Black Belt within a month…and then he left the school. He had achieved his goal, and that was all he wanted, and the new instructor knew that was the best and most efficient way to get rid of Mud Car. Yet, I missed Mud Car.
He was crazy, but so is the guy who attacks you on the street, so if you could last a session with Mud Car without getting injured, you knew your art was effective. Furthermore, there was a shift of standard here, for Mud Car was promoted because he could drive people nuts, not because he was good. Finally, I think that is where the True Art started disappearing…schools, even schools like Tae Kwon Do or Kenpo or classical karate, did not administer soothing discipline to the insane, they just promoted them to get rid of them.
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Supercharging For The Most Powerful Punch Imaginable!
[I:http://www.aikido-judo-karate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/AlCase31.jpg]There is a trick that is used to give you the most powerful punch in the world. This is a trick from classical karate, and students frequently struggle with it for years. I think if you understand the physics I give you here, you will be able to do this trick.
This trick is from the third move in the classical form called Pinan One. It is called Heian One in various other styles of karate. This is the move where you kick and block simultaneously, then stomp your foot as you block in the opposite direction.
To understand the what is happening here you have to understand that bending your leg makes you create more energy. The deeper you stand, the more you bend your legs, the more your legs work, the more energy you have to create. This energy comes from the Tan tien, which is an energy generator located below the navel.
When you stomp your foot in precisely the right manner, you have a sudden increase in weight. A sudden increase in weight is going to trigger a sudden increase in the energy produced by the tan tien. This energy can be channeled out to you kick, block or punch.
To make this work you must not stomp the foot excessively hard. Stomping the foot too hard can cause damage to the foot. It can also cause long term damage up the leg and actually effect the spinal column.
To make this work, then, does not require excessive strength, it requires exquisite timing. The arms must come back at the same time the leg comes back. The hips must turn at the correct rate of speed so that the body is moving as one unit.
Moving the hips is crucial, they must turn with the whole body, and support the alignment of the legs and arms. The hips must be able to stop at the right time. Stopping is done by emphasizing, gently, the stomp of the foot.
Don’t use too much strength, use perfect timing, make the body work as one unit. This is the key to supercharging your punch, kick or block and giving them a lot of extra power. Guaranteed, if you can do these things, and especially with the move from Pinan One, then you are going to have the most powerful punch imaginable.
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Intrinsic Power through Six Simple Steps!
[I:http://www.aikido-judo-karate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AlCase8.jpg]Well, it was quite the thing, a couple of thousand years ago, when immortals walked the earth and chi power was common. Of course, things aren’t so glorious these days. Of course, if one understood that one could have chi power in six easy steps, then things might go back to the way they were.
The first step in this sequence isn’t a step at all, it is a lack of knowledge. This is when a person doesn’t use his hips at all in a technique. Oddly, one can see the lack of knowledge because the student has a bad case of butt wiggle when he lunges forward and does a front punch.
When I found the traditional karate of Kang Duk Won I found out how to slam the hips into a strike. We would stand in place and pivot front stances, slamming the hips, at the beginning of every class. This put the weight of the body into the technique, and created vast amounts of power.
The third step came when I realized that I could just move the hips into the technique without the slam. This was a subtle motion, sometimes just an in and out of alignment motion, but it worked, was efficient, and was my first step into what we call internal power. This motion, developed in classical karate such as shotokan, is often called hip vibration.
The fourth step in my learning curve was when I realized that you could roll the whole body like a pipe half filled with sand. The purpose was to make all the sand on the inside of the pipe collide with the side or end of the pipe at the same moment one struck an opponent. I was heavily involved in building internal power now, and one can see this type of movement in properly done forms such as seisan.
The fifth step I came to understand after I had played Tai Chi for a number of years. Instead of slamming the hips, or rolling the arm or body like a pipe filled with sand, I simply moved the body or body part in a small motion so that the tan tien was like a cup of fluid, and the intrinsic energy was sloshing on the inside of the cup. This caused energy to swell up inside the body, and this energy was easy to use in the martial arts.
The power of the fifth step is when one learns to release themselves. People always hold themselves back a little, obviously not wanting to hurt somebody, but, not so obviously, stopping their intrinsic power. The sixth step is to learn to relax enough that you don’t withhold yourself, and then the energy you have generated by the previous methods becomes real and can be used in martial technique.
In conclusion, the path seems long, but once you understand the pieces, it is short. The problem is that arts don’t present all the pieces, and one must study a variety of arts to get everything, and this sometimes leads to seeming contradictions. Still, it is possible to learn how to develop and use internal power quickly and easily if one can find the right technology.
Al Case has practiced martial arts for 4O+ years. The correct technology is called Matrix Martial Arts, and you can get a free ebook describing this correct technology at Monster Martial Arts.
