Thyroid Remedies 411

[I:http://thyroidremedies411.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AlCase25.jpg]I don’t care how much muscle the other guy has, if you have speed, then you are going to win. If he throws a punch, you are fast enough to block or step out of the way. If you throw a punch, it is faster than his block.

Do you understand how important speed is? Yet, the sad fact is that nobody ever teaches speed. Nobody ever teaches you the specialized techniques or drills that result in your becoming able to move your body faster and faster.

To be honest, to took me nearly seven years of dedicated discipline and practice in a couple of different disciplines to become fast in the martial arts. That’s almost seven years of forms and techniques and freestyle and bruises and work and exhaustion and lot of dues. And I knew there had to be a better way to get to where I was going.

I first became fast through the first move of the form Botsai. That is the move where you do a triple block, and the body protests because you are trying to make it do large movements to handle simple movements. And that concept is one of the keys to becoming faster.

Simply, if you absolutely and positively have to do something…then, with practice, you become able to do so. In Bot Sai somebody is firing three simply attacks at me, and I have to respond with three large circles of the arms, complete with hip twisting and stance changing. I have to do it, and, because I have to do it, I am able to do it.

So to get faster the old way, I had to set up a problem to be solved, then train my body over a number of years. And I saw similar methods in other arts. And I saw some arts which went simple, but then they lost out on the hips and generation of power.

But I did realize something crucial in this matter of speed through my experience and observations in the traditional arts, and that something is commonly termed visualization. Assume a posture, be there and only there, and forget about being anywhere else. When you have forgotten the posture you are in enough, be in another position, and don’t have any thought or effort in between the two postures.

The idea here is to eliminate ideas of weight and movement that are inherent in the way you move your body. Be here…then be there, and eliminate everything between. It’s a zen approach to the practice of the martial arts, and it still takes some hard discipline, but by backing up your Karate sweat with a bit of mental intention, it is possible to speed up your hands in seven months instead of seven years.

Al Case has studied martial arts for 4O++ years. You can find out about Mastering Speed and other theories he has developed over the years by picking up a free ebook at Monster Martial Arts.

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