Monday, May 18, 2009

Kung Fu Learned the Fast Way through the Shaolin Butterfly!

By Al Case

Common opinion is that it takes decades to learn Kung Fu. Some people even say it takes lifetimes. Using western methods of logic, however, kung fu can be learned in a few months. Easily.

It was difficult to learn kung fu back in the seventies. There just werent that many schools available. Even when I found a school, I never knew if it was going to be any good.

I picked up some Wing Chun early in my training. After a while I found a fellow who wanted to share the spear. My most common method of study, however, wasd to try and do kung fu to karate patterns.

Eventually, I began learning whole systems, and I found out something interesting...kung fu is a bit of a mish mash. I dont mean to be insulting, but the whole thing is badly put together. This is because, for thousands of years, the art has been inbreeding.

I began laboriously disassembling arts and figuring out what went where. Sometimes I came across enlightening gems, sometimes I just stirred up the mud. This method that I used to figure out arts I began to call Matrixing.

Using Matrixing, I was analyzing Fut Ga. Fut Ga is one of those basic Shaolin arts with the ancient classical forms, and it had had a long time to get messed up. Inside one fo these ancient forms, however, I came across a unique footwork pattern.

This unique footwork pattern enabled a student to learn how to go forward and backward, and side to side, and introduced the concept of angulation, or angling off to the side during the motion. This was a tremendous breakthrough. This was a basic method which cut through to the heart of the art.

I took this footwork and began matrixing each step and each usage of the hands. Incredibly powerful techniques began leaping out at me. This art, which I called the Shaolin Butterfly, had cut through to the heart of kung fu.

So if you want to learn Kung Fu fast, you need look no further than the Shaolin Butterfly. The Shaolin Butterfly includes the concepts of virtually every kung fu, but it is so logical it literally downloads into the students brain. A student who has decided to learn Shaolin Kung Fu is going to be extremely expert within a few months.

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