There are many methods one can use to learn fighting disciplines, 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 Kung videos, learn taekwondo online, or whatever. The first method, though it is still of the monkey see monkey do variety, is to learn a form (kata). The learning curve starts to take off, however, when one realizes that they can practice the form facing in any of the four directions of the compass.
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 forms and self defense techniques is to simply practice them on both sides of the body. Most martial arts students figure this one out pretty quickly in their training. To do kung fu forms, or taekwondo techniques on both the right side and the left side of the body tends to 'wake up the mind,' and the student quickly views martial arts moves in new ways.
The third way of studying martial arts forms is to perform them backwards. Do your Karate kata backwards-not just the sequence of blocks and strikes in reverse order, but to reverse motion the moves themselves-and you will find the mental capacity expanding geometrically. Not many people have seen this method, it is difficult to do, but man...does it work!
Now, we have actually left most martial artists behind with the last thing we did, and that's too bad, because things are about to come undone. Once one learns how to write a matrix on a martial art-be it karate or kung fu or whatever martial art they practice-they think they have opened up wide new horizons of martial arts. They have only scratched the hide of the monster, however, for there are two other things that one can do that are simple and yet have profound results.
First, one can put matrixes together; just as the matrixes use basic techniques to open up other techniques, one can use whole matrixes to open up other matrixes. Second, one can actually flip, or reverse, matrixes, and this one opens up the mind and causes massive amounts of data to unfold. 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 reverse the matrix and learn martial arts faster; they will be able to learn Kung Fu or taekwondo or any martial art they want faster than Neo can play hop scotch.
Learn Kung Fu, learn Karate or taekwondo or whatever, by using the best and most efficient training method in history. Head to Monster Martial Arts.
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