| While MMA is popular, there are problems with it. | | | | here, because we don't want a grab bag of sample |
| Let's be honest, while some fellow is using Jujitsu, he | | | | all and take what works. What we want are the |
| is rolling around and vulnerable to an attack from his | | | | actual core concepts behind this thing called the |
| opponents friends. Not to mention that it is not | | | | classical martial arts. We want the truth of arts such |
| always the most intelligent thing to roll around on the | | | | as the Shaolin styles of Hung Gar or Choy Li Fut, or |
| ground with some fellow who has a knife or broken | | | | other classical styles. |
| bottle. | | | | The best way to do this is to learn how to apply the |
| I know I have offended some stylists out there, but | | | | concepts of matrixing to what you are studying. |
| these are questions that you cannot run away from. | | | | When you matrix your martial art, be it classical |
| After all, the ring looks ferocious, but biting is a | | | | karate like Wado or Israeli survival like Krav Maga, it |
| problem on the street. And getting your fingers | | | | will suddenly become logical and easy to understand. |
| broken or your eyes gouged is always a possibility if | | | | And, being logical, a martial art will suddenly be ten |
| you are trying to do some Brazilian Jujitsu on some | | | | times easier to understand. |
| fool. | | | | And here's something most people don't understand, |
| No, it is better to keep a distance, be able to evade, | | | | logic leads to prediction to intuition. Those sixth sense |
| manipulate, and even, in the extreme, run. Yes, you | | | | abilities of the martial arts are hard to find, but they |
| have to watch what kind of a surface you are on, | | | | don't need to be. Once you start matrixing your |
| but mobility in warfare is a crucial matter. And talking | | | | martial arts, and I don't care if it is tae kwon do or |
| about the ability to move around, we are talking | | | | one of the Korean Kwans, your sixth sense abilities, |
| something like Shotokan, or Shorin Ryu, or Kenpo. | | | | your ability to understand and produce such things as |
| The problem is that people have bought into the idea | | | | chi kung, sometimes called gi gong, will start to |
| that ia person needs a life time, even several | | | | blossom. |
| lifetimes, to learn good Kung Fu, like Shaolin or Mantis. | | | | Really, what we are talking about here is bringing the |
| But it doesn't require vast amounts of time. All you | | | | martial arts into modern times. We are talking about |
| have to do is find a system which is built upon the | | | | evolution when we are talking about matrix martial |
| core principles of the martial arts and then | | | | arts. So, you can flog that mule, or you can ride the |
| concentrate on those principles. | | | | race horse that is Matrixing. |
| We are not talking about Jeet Kune Do of Bruce Lee | | | | |