The naval officer held that it was impossible to avoid a well swung sword, and O Sensei held that it was possible. The two faced each other, argument became reality, and O Sensei succeeded in avoiding a sword that was well swung. After the match, Master Uyeshiba stepped to a well and poured water over his head, and had a moment of profound realization that was to shape the martial arts forever.
The core of this realization was that all men are spiritual brothers, and all should live in harmony. Undoubtedly, other martial artists over the ages have experienced similar moments of enlightenment, but Uyeshiba's realization was unique to his times, and central to the founding of a specific method. Aikido is a method which results in people realizing harmony within their spirit.
The essence of this method is that one should duplicate the motion of an attacker, and join to it. The reality is that if you do this in the physical, the mind starts to go along with it, and you achieve a Uyeshiba Moment of Enlightenment. This has become a proven method, with Aikido spreading across the world and providing moments and levels of spiritual peace and harmony.
This universe is made up of objects that travel through space. Unfortunately, most people, and this means most arts, tend to collide. Thus, Aikido allowed a method of no collision, but of control of the flight of objects to the benefit of all.
Ultimately, I realized that this method can be done more scientifically, and I created Matrix Aikido towards that end. The idea behind Matrix Aikido is not a reduction of the analysis of the trajectory of bodies in the universe, it is a concentration of that method through scientific intent.
In classical Aikido it can take decades, to achieve sufficient flow in one's thought to enable one to have an Aiki moment of enlightenment. This is because it takes a certain amount of real time to be able to do the stylized movements of Aikido. To negate this I began teaching Aiki from concepts, and the result is that the student doesn't memorize techniques, but rather creates them within the moment.
The martial arts are taught through methods that are arrangements of strings of random data. Matrixing puts aside those stylistic arrangements and thus enables the student of achieve a scientific rendering. There is no disservice to O Sensei in a method that enables one to achieve his moment of enlightenment sooner, there is only the call to teachers of the art to augment their instructional methods with my discoveries. - 31497
About the Author:
Al Case has practiced the martial arts 4O+ years, he took his first class in Aikido in 1974. A writer for the magazines, he had his own column in Inside Karate. You can find out more about Matrix Aikido, and his Matrixing concepts, by reading his free ebook, which is available at Monster Martial Arts.
