Aikido Enlightenment Can Be Realized Ten Times Faster!
Posted: Monday, February 08, 2010
by Al Case
http://www.alcasebooks.com/
Morihei Uyeshiba, in 1925, was 42 years old. Many people came to call upon him, for everybody knew he was one of the top martial artists of the times. One day a naval officer was visiting, and the discussion between the two men escalated into an argument.
The naval officer held that no one could avoid a well swung sword, and O Sensei held that it was possible. The two squared off, argument became reality, and O Sensei succeeded in dodging a well swung sword. After the match, Morihei stepped to a well doused his head with water, and had a moment of profound realization that was to shape the martial arts forever.
The essence of this method is that one must understand the motion of an attacker, and harmonize with it. The reality is that if you do this with the body, the mind starts to go along with it, and the result is an Aikido Moment of Enlightenment. This has become a proven method, with the Aiki Arts spreading across the world and providing moments and levels of spiritual peace and harmony.
This universe is made up of objects that travel through space. Unfortunately, most people, and this means most arts, tend to collide. Thus, Aikido allowed a method of no collision, but of control of the flight of objects to the benefit of all.
Ultimately, I realized that this method can be done more efficiently, logically, and I created Matrix Aikido towards that end. The idea behind Matrix Aikido is not a reduction of the analysis of the flow of objects, or bodies, in the universe, it is a concentration of the method through scientific intent.
In classical Aikido it takes years, decades, to achieve sufficient flow in one's thought to enable one to have a Uyeshiba moment. This is because it takes time to learn the stylized movements of Aikido. To negate this I began teaching my method from concepts, and the result is that the student doesn't memorize techniques, but rather creates them as he goes along.
The martial arts are taught through methods that are arrangements of strings of random data. Matrixing puts aside those stylistic arrangements and thus enables the student of achieve a scientific rendering. There is no disservice to O Sensei in a method that enables one to achieve his moment of enlightenment sooner, there is only the call to teachers of the art to augment their instructional methods with my discoveries.
Al Case has practiced the martial arts 4O++ years, he took his first class in Aikido in 1974. A writer for the magazines, he had his own column in Inside Karate. You can find out more about Matrix Aikido , and his Matrixing concepts, by reading his free ebook, which is available at Monster Martial Arts .
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