07 June 2009

How to Learn the Slowest Martial Art in Existence!

By Al Case

Okay, here's something that will really ring your bell--you are learning the martial arts using the slowest method of education in existence in the world. This is absolutely true. And it is propagated through the mysticism and awe of attaining something that, should you use a method of learning a bit more modern in scope and design, would speed your progress up by a factor of ten.

The martial arts utilize a method that has worked for the history of the world, for monkeys. This is the monkey see monkey do method. Using the monkey see monkey do method, you are trained to memorize random strings of data.

That's correct, random strings of data. As a matter of fact, to be sure, it is random strings strings of random data, and everything is held together through mystical concept. Not logical concept that makes sense, but mystical concept that makes you go, Oooo!

That system of kung fu, the one based on an animal--I have never heard of an animal being able to think logically. Oh, you fight like an animal, and with an animal's...logic. What you're telling me is that the movements that look like an animal have been gathered together so you could copycat them.

Copycatting is not a concept, and it is not logical. Copycatting is doing what you're told...or, in the martial arts world, sold. Lots of money in selling copycat methods, because you can just keep rearranging the strings of data and fool people into thinking they are getting something scientific.

Now, you might think that I am down on the martial arts because of what I have said here. The opposite is true, I am so in love with the martial arts it is unbelievable. I don't, however, subscribe to antiquated methods of learning.

My particular method is to take the mysticism of the martial arts, use logic to align it, and learn ten times faster than the next guy. This method, which is almost in direction opposition to any method you have ever seen, is called Matrixing. Matrixing is an actual scientific process--it is not the latest psuedo-science-jargon (cybermind, cranial digitation, neural brain logging, and that sort of made up so on) that internet marketers use to sell their tricks.

The question I sometimes get is...how does it work? Consider: if you had 6, 5, 1, 9 and a shaved dog, you wouldn't know how to count. If you had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 6 and so on...you would know how to count.

What I do is line up the martial concepts in a counting manner, so there are no missing numbers, no out of sequence numbers, and no ridiculous concepts thrown in. When people learn in this fashion it is possible to learn, as I said, as much as ten times faster. Of course it depends on the person doing the learning, and whether they have a basic education, and so on.

Having said the above, it was not easy to develop Matrixing. In fact, it took me a trio of decades, as there was no precedent for what I was doing. The work is done, however, and martial artists the world over can now escape from...the slowest method of learning in existence.

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