subject: Increase The Martial Techniques You Know Six Times By Using This Simple Trick! [print this page] This is an easy process that works for all martial arts techniques. To be truthful, when I discovered this the door just busted open and I could see all sorts of self defense applications. If knowledge really is power...then I became instantly powerful!
Do a basic karate block, maybe a middle block. Stand in a position and hold the block. It just sits there, right? Got to introduce some motion in it.
Now most arts show you a trick, maybe a punch or kick, after you do the block, and they are missing the whole point!
Take a look at that block. Yes, you can move it right or left and there are going to be two blocks. You can move it to the front, which makes an uppercut, or you can move it up, which is either going to be an uppercut, of, if you move it up far enough, is an elbow strike in there. And, you can also move it downwards, which makes it a rather vicious elbow block. Somebody strikes at your ribs and you simply lower the middle block on their arm. The last direction is to move the block to the rear. Well, youd have to open your hand, maybe configure it into a claw, and move your whole body, but theres the grab and you now have six times the martial defense at your fingertips.
Six directions, do you see how it works? Six unique ways of doing basic martial moves.
You simply take any block and hold it still, and ask yourself what it can do if you were to move it in the six directions:
up
down
forward
back
left
right
Now, if youre a smart fellow (or gal), youll see that this is only the start of things. You can do the same trick, do the six directions, to any move, to any body part (fist, foot, knee, etc), or to your entire body.
Man, you are going to come face to face with thousands of techniques, so many things you can do that you are going to be near overwhelmed.
And, when you are near overwhelmed--and enlightened--by all the new information that is shooting through your brain, remember one thing: youre going to have to do that through all your kata, all your techniques, everything you know!
The trick I give you here I came up with some time in the 70s, and I have plenty more just like it, but this one should open your mind up, multiply the number of martial techniques you know instantly, and expand you as a martial artist.
