How to Be a Master of Speed Through Your Study of Karate!
I don't care how much muscle the other guy has, if you have speed, then you are going to win.
If he throws a punch, you are fast enough to block or step out of the way.
If you throw a punch, it is faster than his block.
Do you know how important speed can be in the martial arts? Yet, the sad fact is that nobody ever teaches people the techniques of how to have speed.
Nobody ever teaches you the specialized knowledge that result in your becoming able to move your body fast enough to handle absolutely anything.
To be honest, to took me nearly seven years of dedicated discipline and practice in a couple of different disciplines to become fast in the martial arts.
That's almost seven years of forms and techniques and freestyle and bruises and work and exhaustion and lot of dues.
And I knew there had to be a better way to get to where I was going.
I first became cognizant of the speed available through martial arts through the first sequence of motions in the form Botsai.
That is the move where you do a three blocks quick, and the body protests because you are trying to make it do wide arm motions to handle simple punches.
And that concept, doing much to handle little is one of the keys if you want to attain more speed.
Simply, if you absolutely and positively have to do something...
then you will.
So in Bot Sai somebody is firing three simply punches at me, and I have to respond with three large circles of the body, complete with hip twisting.
I have to do it, and, practice enough, and I am able to do it.
So to get faster the old way, I had to set up a problem to be solved, then train my body over a number of years.
And I saw similar methods in other arts.
And I saw some arts which went simple, but then they lost out on the hips and generation of power.
But I did realize something through my experience and observations, and that something is called visualization.
Stand in one position, be there, and forget about being anywhere else.
When you have forgotten what you are doing enough, be in another position.
The idea here is to eliminate ideas of weight and movement that are inherent in the way you move your body.
Be here...
then be there, and eliminate everything between.
It's a zen approach to the practice of the martial arts, and it still takes some hard discipline, but by backing up your Karate sweat with a bit of mental intention, it is possible to speed up your hands in seven months instead of seven years.
If he throws a punch, you are fast enough to block or step out of the way.
If you throw a punch, it is faster than his block.
Do you know how important speed can be in the martial arts? Yet, the sad fact is that nobody ever teaches people the techniques of how to have speed.
Nobody ever teaches you the specialized knowledge that result in your becoming able to move your body fast enough to handle absolutely anything.
To be honest, to took me nearly seven years of dedicated discipline and practice in a couple of different disciplines to become fast in the martial arts.
That's almost seven years of forms and techniques and freestyle and bruises and work and exhaustion and lot of dues.
And I knew there had to be a better way to get to where I was going.
I first became cognizant of the speed available through martial arts through the first sequence of motions in the form Botsai.
That is the move where you do a three blocks quick, and the body protests because you are trying to make it do wide arm motions to handle simple punches.
And that concept, doing much to handle little is one of the keys if you want to attain more speed.
Simply, if you absolutely and positively have to do something...
then you will.
So in Bot Sai somebody is firing three simply punches at me, and I have to respond with three large circles of the body, complete with hip twisting.
I have to do it, and, practice enough, and I am able to do it.
So to get faster the old way, I had to set up a problem to be solved, then train my body over a number of years.
And I saw similar methods in other arts.
And I saw some arts which went simple, but then they lost out on the hips and generation of power.
But I did realize something through my experience and observations, and that something is called visualization.
Stand in one position, be there, and forget about being anywhere else.
When you have forgotten what you are doing enough, be in another position.
The idea here is to eliminate ideas of weight and movement that are inherent in the way you move your body.
Be here...
then be there, and eliminate everything between.
It's a zen approach to the practice of the martial arts, and it still takes some hard discipline, but by backing up your Karate sweat with a bit of mental intention, it is possible to speed up your hands in seven months instead of seven years.