The first step of the martial arts is the level of the body. This is nothing more than making sure you have all the necessary body parts to do the martial arts, and that they are in relative working condition. To get started on the first level one need merely know that, on a body level, the martial arts are nothing more than excellent calisthenics.
To make if from the first level to the second level, but, one needs to accomplish something called CBM. In the past masters would refer to this as using the body as one unit, which was right, but lacking in working description. CBM means Coordinated Body Motion, and it is when you use all the body parts together.
With CBM all body motion starts at the same time. And, all motion stops at the same time. And, all motion from start to stop must take into account and relate the size, mass, length, arc, and so on of individual parts and motions.
When one accomplishes CBM, especially through the classical forms of most classical systems, one\’s intention is released. Intention is your will, your desire to achieve something, the working part of the essential thought of whatever it is you are striving for. This is commonly, and with varying degree of error, called Chi. That chi, or intention, can be viewed from many different viewpoint on any level of the arts is what makes it so confusing.
When one has achieved Coordinated Body Motion with one\’s body, the next level is to CBM one\’s art. This is the process which I call Matrixing, and Matrixing is an actual science of motion. When one starts to apply matrixing concepts to their martial art they must examine all techniques and kata and follow certain scientific principles to align their art. Like CBM on the earlier level, one must take into account the relativity of all movements and align them to the concept of the form.
One could say that CBM is for inside the body, and Matrixing is for outside the body, and while they wouldn\’t be entirely right, there is a sizable amount of truth in the statement. The Martial Arts, you see, while they work, could work a lot better. There has been so much intermingling of cultures and vested interests and viewpoints and so on, that the martial arts are a bit mixed up.
When one accomplishes the second step of the martial arts, and matrixes what he is doing, the right grandeur of the arts is revealed. Senses expand and take in a whole new world, people see what they were unable to see before, and the blind awake. CBM, Matrixing, human desire to undertake and succeed, these are at the heart of the martial arts, and these are what the right martial artist must seek to know and use on his journey to the truth of his soul.
Having studied the martial arts for 4O+ years, Al has written for the magazines and had his own column in Inside Karate. If you want to find out about Coordinated Body Motion, or how to Matrix the Martial Arts, Al has written a book which you can get for free at Monster Martial Arts.
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Originally posted 2010-02-09 11:58:42. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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