Multiply the Number of Martial Techniques You Know by Six Times!
This is a simple concept that works for all martial arts techniques. Quite honestly, when I figured this out the door just busted open and I could see all sorts of applications. If knowledge is power…then I truly became powerful!
Take a basic karate block, let’s say a middle block. Stand in a posture and extend the block. It just sits there, right? Got to have some motion in it.
Now most systems show you a technique, maybe a punch or kick, after you do the block, and they are missing the whole thing!
Examine at that block. Yes, you can move it right or left, and now you have two blocks. You can move it to the front, which creates an uppercut, or you can move it up, which is either an uppercut, of, if you move it up far enough, is an elbow. And, you can also move it down, which makes it a rather nasty elbow block. Somebody punches at your body and you simply lower the middle block on their arm. The last direction would be to the rear. Well, you’d have to open your hand, maybe twist it, and move your whole body, but there’s the graband you now have six times the martial defense at your fingertips.
Six directions, do you understand? Six different and unique martial moves.
You simply take any block and hold it in one place in space, and ask yourself what it can become if you were to move it:
left
right
up
down
forward
back
Now, if you’re a smart fellow (or gal), you’ll see that this is only the start. You can do the same thing, apply the six directions, to any move, to any body part (fist, foot, knee, etc) to your whole body.
Man, you are going to end up with thousands of techniques, so many things you can do that you are going to be overwhelmed.
And, when you are thoroughly overwhelmed and enlightened by all the new information that you are handling, remember one thing: you’re going to have to do that through all your kata, all your techniques, everything!
The trick I give you here I realized back in the 70s, and I have plenty more just like it, but this one should open your mind, multiply the number of martial techniques you know instantly, and set you loose as a martial artist.
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