subject: The Six Degrees Of Insanity Discovered Through Real Karate! [print this page] You can cure yourself of the sickness of insanity, and the whole world of being insane, if you can discover Real Karate. Now, we are not talking real karate videos on youtube or some other TV here, nor some other fantasy. We are talking about the type of martial arts studied over the ages that work on different levels for everybody.
There was a goju ryu karate club in my town when I grew up, but knowing about something didn't save me from the chaos of school. I was treated to the teacher father figures, bullying classmates, and an education that didn't relate to the world. So I needed Goju, or something like it, but didn't know it.
As school progressed people began taking drugs, lots of drugs. Man, a good fighting discipline really would have worked to protect me from people who were intent on going unconscious and crazy, which is what pills do to you. A good karate club would have helped me to retain my natural dignity and integrity at a time when I needed it the most.
Eventually, society turned to the Viet Nam War, and this was the craziest thing in the world. The bumper sticker used to read, 'Travel to exotic lands, meet wonderful people, and kill them.' Fortunately, at about that time I was rescued from this chaos...I did discover the Ed Parker Chinese American kenpo karate system.
I worked out ruthlessly, doing karate kumite and practicing my kenpo moves by the hour, but, eventually, I was to be disillusioned by the martial arts techniques I was practicing so hard. I was learning hundreds of fighting techniques and all the variations, but they didn't have to much to do with how things happened in real life. Kenpo, though it was wonderful, was based on combat fantasy scenarios that happened only in the dojo.
I went to the Kang Duk Won for my next step in evolution towards a rational world, and it was to prove a blessing. Here the discipline was rigorous and encompassing, and the energy we created was all consuming. I learned that all my sweat and bruises could be focused on one factor: the handling of the incoming fist.
One, single incoming missile, and I had to handle it, but that one incoming missile represented rage and anger and chaos. Thus, in handling the fist, I was handling the rage and anger and chaos of a world that believed in war and drugs and misinformation. As I understood this I began to develop my matrixing methods.
Through this science of Matrixing I ordered all my martial arts techniques, put them in a logical arrangement so that they represented a whole science, and not an out of sequence something. The art became a science, and through the combative sciences I made my final break with the gods of insanity, So for me there were six degrees of insanity: school, drugs, war, kenpo, classical karate, and matrixing...and this is the path I chose, this is the path I discovered when I discovered Real Karate.
