This is one of those secrets that the old masters knew, but didn't know how to talk about.
The secret concerns how to fight from outside the body, and though I learned it through Karate, it can be learned through any art.
The secret won't work, of course, unless your art is perfectly aligned.
One of the first things one learns in Karate is how to explode from the tan tien.
This is part of the forms, and it becomes obvious by continued practice of the forms.
Too many students think the secret of the forms is in the techniques, but they are totally wrong.
The secret of the forms has to do with the proper generation of energy, and, again, one has to have a completely aligned, totally matrixed form for the energy generation to work.
Unfortunately, most students think their form is just fine, and so they never look into what alignment actually is, let alone what matrixing is.
That their forms are not aligned, and that their systems are not matrixed is proven by the one simple fact that people are generally not getting out of their bodies to fight through the practice of the martial arts.
The second thing one learns in Karate happens after about three years in the normal, classical system.
One will be fighting, or practicing kata, and suddenly they are a couple of feet behind their head.
Or maybe slightly above, or anywhere but in their skulls.
One stops being aware of eyeballs at this point and starts concentrating on who one is fighting.
It is a very interesting and heady experience, but one is actually not looking with the physical senses.
Perception is more like a golden tube, a tube which can be focused on the person one is fighting.
At this point movement stops being the constriction of muscles, and it feels, and is, like one is shoving the body forward as a single unit.
This is a quite unique, and totally devastating, as there is not much a person who is still using his eyeballs can do to fend off the attack.
Reaction time has disappeared, there is no 'leaning' or telegraphic intent to move the body, it just moves, and the opponent is sheep before the onslaught.
The third thing is one of confusion, for how does one train when one is no longer working from inside the body? Muscles are not necessary except slightly, and the student must become accustomed to moving the body with energy.
One uses less and less energy and becomes intimate with such ideas as 'moving without moving.
' This is the secret of the ancient martial arts, an aligned body, a matrixed art, and intense practice that literally drives a student out of his body.
It is a secret that is ignored in today's body driven, muscle enhanced, physique toting society, and it is sad.
For if you align your body the proper way, and align your art, through concepts of Matrixing, then it is possible for anybody to reach a heightened state of existence.
This can be done with Karate, or Kung fu, or any art.