There are many methods one can use to learn martial arts, to learn Kung Fu or Karate, or to learn any martial art. Unfortunately, most of these methods have limited workability. There is one method, however, that can be used in any art, and improves the learning curve drastically.
Most training methods, you see, depend on monkey see monkey do, which is pretty much the oldest, and most inefficient, martial arts method in existence. The best and most up to date method for learning a martial art is matrixing. No offense, but if you live in some backwoods place and haven't come across matrixing, you could probably do a quick google search on matrix karate, or matrix kung fu, and find out what it is.
At any rate, there are some rather simple methods one can use if one decides to learn by Karate videos, learn Aikido online, or whatever. The first method, though it is basically monkey see monkey do, is to learn a form or martial arts kata. The real learning procedure starts, however, when one realizes that they can practice the form facing in any of the four cardinal directions.
One faces in a certain direction when learning a form, gets used to the direction, even uses key things in the environment to orient oneself. So to start facing east instead of west is actually a good thing. One quickly outgrows the need for environmental cues and starts inputting the form without need for external reference.
A second way to learn self defense forms is to simply do them on both the right and the left side. Everybody comes across this one pretty quickly. To do the Kung Fu forms, or the karate techniques on both the right side and the left side tends to 'wake up the brain,' and to make the student consider martial arts moves in new lights.
The third way of studying martial arts forms is to do the moves in reverse. Do your Karate kata backwards-not just the order of blocks and kicks and such in reverse order, but reverse motion the moves themselves-and the martial arts are quickly going to open up. Not many people have experienced this little trick, it is hard to do, but man...does it work!
Now, we have actually left most people behind with the last method, and that's too bad, because it is about to get juicy. Once one learns how to write a matrix on any fighting discipline, be it kung fu, karate, or whatever, they think they have opened up wide new vistas of martial arts techniques. They have only scratched the surface, however, for there are two other things one can do that are simple and easy and yet have profound impact.
First, one can combine matrixes, just as the matrixes use basic techniques, one can use a whole matrix as a base technique, and attach it to another matrix. Second, one can actually flip, or reverse matrixes, and this one uncorks the brain and causes stellar explosions of knowledge. Of course, one has to learn how to write a matrix first, and then do a few of them, but once they have done this they will be able to flip the matrix and learn martial arts faster; they will definitely be able to learn Kung Fu faster than Neo downloads comic books.
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