Let me ask you a question. Why can a child simply bend his knees and run under a table and not have to grunt and groan? There is a reason, you know, and this reason infects the martial arts…and all of life.

There are only eight techniques in the martial arts. This sort of flies in the face of people who study arts with a thousand self defense techniques, but that is not its intent. In fact, one should learn those thousand techniques before they actually consider something like the club catcher technique I’m going to give you here.

You know, Karate sometimes gets a bad rap these days. You see all the MMA guys trashing their opponents, and you wonder why, if Karate is so good, you don’t see it in the octagon. The reason, of course, is the problem with Classical Karate training methods.

The Secret of the Martial Arts is how to achieve Awareness. The Secret of All Life is how to achieve Awareness. Thus, the Secret of Life is within you, and all you have to do is figure out how to grow awareness.

When it comes down to save your bacon self defense, a hard fist is what is needed. Of course, what training method does one follow to make a fist hard enough to create a powerful punch? The answer is through the use of good, solid, sweat your fanny off, Karate training.

If you think the martial arts are about fighting, you have the wrong idea. They are about discovering the truth of you, they are about sculpting the energy of your body, they are about exploring your true potential. This bit of writing is a simple breakdown of how chi energy progresses in the Martial Arts.

The only thing that stays the same is that everything changes. That is the truth of this universe. That this is true in Karate (and other martial arts) is shown in the words of Gichin Funakoshi, the father of Modern Karate.

Goju Ryu Karate is the martial art of Chojun Miyagi. That’s right, all you Karate Kid fans, there really was a Mr. Miyagi. Interestingly, however, the real Mr. Miyagi did not study just Karate.

It is sometimes held that the Aikido Techniques of Morihei Ueshiba are not always usable in real combat. Such a statement merely shows that a person doesn’t know the nasty history of this fascinating art. One should take note, however, that this martial art is derived from Aikijujitsu, which art was put together by Japanese warlords thousands years ago.

The Ho’oponopono Book I am referring to is Zero Limits by Joe Vitale. One would not think that words written on paper could result in such a thing as an increase in the ability to meditate, but this book does. Indeed, this book is better than a decade of sitting and contemplating.

Somebody breaking into your home, pulling you out of a car, threatening your family…this is a worst case scenario. Mind you, I am not telling you how to commit mayhem here, I just want you to live. Before I continue, I recommend you look into a serious martial arts school to pursue this subject.

In these days of punch a bunch MMA fighting, many people lose out on the secret of Classical Karate Forms. And, not to be discriminatory, on the secrets of Gung Fu patterns, and taekwondo and…so on. Mind you, I find nothing wrong with effective self defense, as offered by a regimen in MMA training, but I think Martial knowledge is of more value in the long run.

Four centuries ago Kung Fu practitioners drilled the quick, pouncing movements of a Leopard. A century ago Okinawan Karate Masters altered these movements to protect their ruler. Today, students know they have arrived at the heart of True Karate when they dig into the secrets of Passai Kata.

The Great Mystery of the Martial Arts is Secret Chi Energy. While some fighting disciplines are more concerned with how to beat people up, the advanced martial artist is always concerned with how to develop chi energy. This is the province of Tai Chi, Pa Kua, Aikido, and other such arts.

This remark, that I am learning Martial Arts slowly, actually comes from 1967-1968. I was in a kenpo school at the time. What martial style I was studying doesn’t matter, however for I found ‘slow learning’ applied to every martial art being taught.