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Shaolin Butterfly:

Combat Strategies!

Here is the lie: Kung fu is a physical art based on mythology, and it has no modern combat applications. The point is that Kung Fu is based upon five animals, and that these animals do not relate to combat. This idea, that the animals don’t relate to combat, is, as we shall see, is so ridiculous it is...ridiculous!

In the Shaolin Butterfly the five kung fu animals are not the classical. The five animals are the butterfly, the crane, the monkey, the tiger, and the dragon. Using these five animals we will illuminate the unique battle strategies of Shaolin.

The first animal is the butterfly, and the stance utilized by this animal is the back stance. This stance is used because the butterfly must flit and flee to avoid damage, and the back stance is a step backward. Thus, the direction of the Butterfly is to the rear.

Have you ever tried to catch a butterfly?

The second animal is the Crane, and the stance used by this animal is a one legged stance. This stance requires that a person achieve balance, use kicks, all while standing on one leg. Thus, the direction of the crane is upwards.

Perfect Balance!

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The third animal is the monkey, and the stance used by this animal is the horse stance. This stance requires that a person drive their weight downward and hold their position. Thus, the direction of the horse is straight down.

Strength and Agility!

The fourth animal is the tiger, and the stance used by this animal is the front stance. This is an aggressive stance, designed for charging an opponent. Thus, the direction of the tiger is forward.

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The fifth animal is the dragon, and the stance used by this animal is a twisted stance, the body turned over the feet. This stance is good for catching oneself in awkward positions, spinning to catch an opponent unawares, and so on. Thus, the direction of the Dragon is in a spin or a circle.

Absolutely Clever!

If you examine the five animals and the direction they take, you will find the points of the compass, and a strategy to match any any incoming force and direction. The Butterfly goes back and the tiger goes forward, the crane goes up and the Monkey goes down, and the dragon circles, which illuminates the potential for side to side motion. These five animals, and their directions, create a strategy with no weak points, and this is one of the secrets of the Shaolin Butterfly.

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I’m doing the journal less than I wanted because of changes on the internet.

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LETTERS

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MATRIXING:

How to Download Martial Arts

Directly into Your Brain!

Zow powie and Kazam! The data streams directly into your brain, and you are suddenly as powerful as superman! And you, silly person, thought it only happened in the movies!

Of course, since we don’t have the mainframe on line, and are not currently, cross your fingers, trapped in a matrix, we have to use other methods to accomplish the download. Let’s see, how about a magic potion, or maybe if you put the end of that firewire under your tongue. That didn’t seem to work, so let’s try this thing called Matrixing!

I know you’ve heard about Matrixing, and that it does allow people to download whole martial arts into their cranium, but what is the secret behind it? I mean, as I said, we don’t have the mainframe on line, so what’s the secret? How does this stuff work so fast?

The trick is easy, it is called logic. You simply have to take a martial art and put logical order into the thing. Of course, since the martial arts look pretty much like a Chinese fire drill, this is sometimes hard to do.

The first thing you should understand, when rendering your art for matrixing, is that the martial arts are taught by monkey see monkey do, which is the slowest and most inefficient method of instruction on the planet. The tricks of the martial arts, you see, are random strings of data, they don’t have any relationship to one another, and it takes decades to memorize enough strings of data so that they can start to relate to each other and make sense. And we all know that decades of instruction won’t cut it when the mugger is at your door.

So, you make lists of your basics, put them all in order, simplest to most difficult, then the data is like a stream. Of course, the fact that the data is all mixed up, big, old conglomerations of multiple different arts all smushed together, doesn’t help. Obviously, we need a better solution.

What we need is a method for separating the data and putting in order according to art. If we can do that, then we can not only resolve our individual art, but start to mix and match all the arts, and still retain sense of what it is all about. Really, it’s just a big software problem, which, unfortunately, hasn’t been done before.

So, now you know what needs to be done if you wish to download data directly into your brain. And now you know the theory behind the Matrixing software that can download the martial arts, and a lot of other stuff besides, directly into your brain.

Matrix Karate has the core principles of all Matrixing.

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CAPTION CONTEST!

Man, this contest was incredible. Honorable mentions go to a truckload of people.

Alex Harrison~Jesus Christ!!!!! He's teaching the kids karate

Matt Anderson~Fight with a love for your enemy.

Victor burns~from the heavenly matrix God created the martial arts

David Hayes~I don't know Cain, Able has a good defense. You'll probably need to use the jaw bone of an ass if you ever really wanted to

hurt him

Also with some great captions were: Arnold Kelly, Peter Dwan, Howard Jai, Nicholas Phillips.

Thanks to everybody.

The winner of the contest and the Ten Master Books is…(drumroll)…

Matthew Fountain!

If you have a a pic that deserves a caption, send it to me. If you have a pic that gets used, I’ll send you ‘The Master Books.’

That’s right, you can win the contest just by sending in an over the top pic that says something, but we’re not sure what.

Send photos or entries to

aganzul@gmail.com

Send me a pic of your promotion!

Or of any significant step in your journey!

Even Jesus Christ knows that in all things we should be "as iron sharpens iron.”

As soon as I saw this caption I knew Matthew was a serious contender. I did a quick search and came up with the complete quote…

As iron sharpens iron,

so a friend sharpens a friend

I think that really sums up the true spirit of the Martial Arts. Kudos to Matthew for knowing his scripture, and his Ten Master Books (on CD)

will be in the mail.

If you have graphics which represent the art,

please submit.

The depth of your soul

will enlighten your fellow man.

The Story of

Willy ‘Two Knife’ Altierri!

Recently, in the newsletter, I asked for a little help in research as to the story of Willy ‘Two Knife’ Altierri. Willy was a contemporary of Al Capone, and he had the nasty habit of sticking his knives in people, then snapping off the handles so the blades couldn’t be removed...ain’t that funny?

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At any rate, Master Instructor Shawn Nagano helped me get the facts straight.

But, I also received the following email from Rafael Kosche.

Al,

Not likely to be true. Most any knife, even the cheapest of the cheap, will not snap off like that. Try it for yourself. Get a cheap knife, wrap a rag around the blade (so you can get a good hold on it) and do your best to break it. You will find that you have to bend the metal back-and-forth repeatedly to get it to finally break.

However, if you prep a knife -- where the blade ends at the handle -- made to break off. Now that is a different story.

Rafael runs the Valley Martial Arts Supply on Lankershim in N. Hollywood. He specializes in swords and exotic weaponry.

So, was the story of Willy Two Knife an urban legend? Or did he prepare the handles of his knives so they would snap off?

Think about it, and if you’re in Los Angeles drop by Valley Martial arts and say hi to Rafael.

Valley Martial Arts Supply

5638 Lankershim Blvd.

N. Hollywood, California

91601

MATRIX KARATE!

He was picked on in school!

The bullies thought he was easy meat.

But when they turned up the heat,

he was doing the cooking!

They specialize in ‘tease and torment’ classes, and nobody, not even the teachers, are able to stop them.

Ernie was an easy going kid, got his homework done, had pretty good grades, and was liked by most everybody, which, of course, made him a target for Sam and Tom. But what really made him a target was when they were slapping Sally Rogers’ books out of her hand and laughing.

Sally was in tears. She was a freshman, and had no idea how to protect herself against these two upperclass toughs.

“Go away,” said Ernie, stepping between the two overgrown, brain-dead louts.

At first the two laughed at skinny, little Ernie.

“You’re a dweeb,” sneered Tom,

Then Sam, who was short and squat and the meaner of the two, swaggered up and went to push Ernie.

Big mistake.

Ernie put up his hands and brushed Tom’s arms outward, then he kicked him in the groin, and punch him in the nose with a left fist, and then buried his right fist in Tom’s gut.

Tom went back and down. He wasn’t hurt too bad in the groin, he didn’t know that Ernie had pulled his kick, but he had tears coming out of his eyes, and he was having a hard time breathing.

“Get him,” Tom gasped at Sam.

Sam, who had sort of a dopey face, put a grimace on his face and went forward.

“Sally just dropped her books and Sam tripped on them,” said Ernie.

Mr. Jergens’ gaze swept over the now silent crowd.

Tom was frightened, Sam--who was just a loud-mouthed bully-had apparently had his head handed to him.

And Ernie was picking up Sally’s books.

He didn’t know what had happened, but whatever it was, he was glad. “

You and you,” he pointed at Tom and Sam. “Get to my office right now!”

He looked at Ernie.

“I’ll carry Sally’s books home for her,” Ernie said.

Mr. Jergens smiled as the two youngsters walked away.

You know that the scene just described is true. Bullies pick on younger kids all the time, and...Well, you know...IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

Then he went back.

Ernie had kicked him in the shins, both of them, and then snapped a kick to within inches of his groin.

Sam wasn’t quite so eager; this new kid was fast!

“I don’t want any trouble,” Sam held his palms outward, seeking peace.

“Tough luck, you little s___!”

Tom stood up, bounced a little, acting like he might actually know something, and moved to the right. He nodded to Sam to move the other way. Slowly, the two bullies circled Ernie, tried to set him up for a rush.

Sally, forgotten by the bullies, ran for a teacher.“You’re gonna learn, you little fart, who you been messing with,” muttered Sam.

“Yeah,” agreed Tom.

Finally, they thought they had him, and they rushed.

Now Ernie knew there was no holding back. He had to protect himself.

Sam tried a kick, and it felt like he had kicked a two by four. Then a buzzsaw began cutting through him. He couldn’t follow the lefts and the rights, and suddenly a foot tripped him. He was down and bleeding...and crying.

Tom was confused. He had been trying to get close to the new kid, and the new kid had just rushed at Sam, and now Tom was all alone.

Tom blinked and looked around. For so long, he and Sam had been cock of the walk, and now a couple of dozen kids were gaping, and a few were laughing.

“What’s going on!” Mr. Jergens’ voice was strong.

“No-nothing,” stumbled Tom, aware that he was no longer a force to be reckoned with.

THE TRUTH ABOUT

MATRIX KARATE

Matrixing is the logical breakdown and analysis of the martial arts. With matrixing one can examine an entire art, one can see exactly what pieces are missing, what has been altered or corrupted, and, in short, correct that art.

The reason Karate is perfect for introducing Matrixing is that Karate is a short and simple art.

Many people think that Karate takes a lifetime.

There are over fifty forms to learn,

It takes decades to become a master, and so on and on and on.

The truth, however, is different.

One of the originators of Karate, a fellow by the name of Yatsusune Itosu, said that it only took three or four years to master Karate. That’s right...master. And that means it only takes about a quarter of the time to become a black belt, and that's all!

So what has happened to Karate since it was originally created, to make it so large and top heavy and difficult to learn?

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What has happened is that every teacher has introduced something new.

Every teacher has injected pieces of other arts, forms he has created himself, even entire arts!

On one hand, this is understandable. After all, we are talking about an art, and art is the fact of creation.

But instructors should not add to a system without letting the student know what has been added!

In the system I originally learned, Kang Duk Won (House of Espousing Virtue) Korean Karate, my instructor learned ten forms. But I had to learn twenty-one.

My instructor had added one Chinese form, seven forms he had created, two additional basics forms, and a two man set.

It took him two and a half years to become a black belt, it took me near seven.

So now comes the question: how do you separate the data?

If you've got five teachers between you and the source of the karate you were instructed in, how do you get rid of the extra data, the unnecessary data, the data that is unique to them, but merely extra work for you, and not necessary to mastering the art!

The answer is that you need to learn how to matrix.

Not only do you learn an entire system on this course, but you learn how to apply matrixing to that system, and that will enable you to apply matrixing to any other martial art in the world!

I am telling you right now, you will be able to go through entire systems, picking out moves and techniques, whole forms, and saying, ‘This isn't right, that doesn't fit, uh oh, somebody went stupid on this one.'

Furthermore, you will have the ability to logically take apart whole arts...and fix them!

Do you understand what an authority that makes you?

The ability to look at an art and fix it?

Nobody has ever been able to do that before!

But, then, nobody has ever had matrixing before.

HERE IS WHAT YOU GET ON THIS COURSE!

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The Mechanics of Power.

Three perfectly aligned forms .

Perfectly aligned techniques from the forms.

A complete matrix of all karate techniques.

A completely matrixed technique (The Infinite Technique)

A bonus section on kicking.

You get two CDs, a 180 page booklet, and the only perfect (fully matrixed) Karate in the world.

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