The second time I slow walked I was putting on a karate demonstration for a couple of hundred kids in Willits, California. At the end of the seminar I noticed a fellow standing at the far end of the gymnasium. He was big and, at a distance, rather ominous.
He didn't have a kid, so what was he doing at a demo for kids? I began slow walking towards him. I walked slower and slower, and time began to stretch and stretch. It seemed to take forever for me to walk the hundred feet to him.
He was sweating and starting to shake by the time I reached him. I threw out a big grin, introduced myself and offered my hand. Relief bubbled from him as he shook my hand.
The fellow, a lumberjack named Andy, turned out to be one of the nicest fellows I had ever met. He wanted to see Karate, and that was why he had come to the demonstration. He had never seen karate before because he lived out in the woods.
The Slow Walking when we had met was the thing that really perked his interest. The whole world had felt like it was caving in on him, he later told me. He almost lost control of his bladder, he later told me.
If you practice a classical karate that has been made true you can learn how to slow walk. This means you must make sure you know the actual usage of the moves in the forms, and you must align the shape and time of your form. If you can do this then you will experience the bubble of your perceptions, your bubble of perceptions is what your true body is.
Time is a measurement of the universe. Time is a perception. To the degree that you can control the universe, you can control time.
Of course the trick is to enter The True Art by perfecting your art, and then to increase the size of yourself. For if you can control your body, then you can control another's body, and you can influence his perception of time. This requires immense dedication to form and detail and such, but it is, in the end, a simple trick.
He didn't have a kid, so what was he doing at a demo for kids? I began slow walking towards him. I walked slower and slower, and time began to stretch and stretch. It seemed to take forever for me to walk the hundred feet to him.
He was sweating and starting to shake by the time I reached him. I threw out a big grin, introduced myself and offered my hand. Relief bubbled from him as he shook my hand.
The fellow, a lumberjack named Andy, turned out to be one of the nicest fellows I had ever met. He wanted to see Karate, and that was why he had come to the demonstration. He had never seen karate before because he lived out in the woods.
The Slow Walking when we had met was the thing that really perked his interest. The whole world had felt like it was caving in on him, he later told me. He almost lost control of his bladder, he later told me.
If you practice a classical karate that has been made true you can learn how to slow walk. This means you must make sure you know the actual usage of the moves in the forms, and you must align the shape and time of your form. If you can do this then you will experience the bubble of your perceptions, your bubble of perceptions is what your true body is.
Time is a measurement of the universe. Time is a perception. To the degree that you can control the universe, you can control time.
Of course the trick is to enter The True Art by perfecting your art, and then to increase the size of yourself. For if you can control your body, then you can control another's body, and you can influence his perception of time. This requires immense dedication to form and detail and such, but it is, in the end, a simple trick.
About the Author:
Al Case has practiced the martial arts for forty plus years. You should Slow Walk on over to Monster Martial Arts and see him.
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