How To Absorb Real Shaolin Real Fast!

One of the things I happened to notice during my inspection of Shaolin, is that everything is random. If you analyze the forms you will see that the techniques flow one to another without any real logic. The techniques are just strings of random data, and freestyle drills do not always relate to the forms. The whole system, you see, is a put together.

Now there is nothing wrong with a put together martial art if the system works, and we all know that Shaolin does work. I am concerned with another factor entirely, however. I am concerned with how long it takes for a student to learn Shaolin, and how long it takes for Shaolin to become an effective mode of self-defense.

The reason a art is put together is because everybody who does it adds to it. They add favorite techniques, forms they love, and they try to keep the whole thing. After a while, the thing becomes too top heavy, the system becomes huge and unwieldy, and the art becomes too much to absorb. Then it takes a long time to learn, and when you do use it, it is not always practical for real combat.

After all, out of the thousands of things you know, how do you access only the exact correct technique for a situation?

So, how do we rework the Shaolin method so that it has its original spirit, but is ten times easier and faster to learn? The method, which I happen to call Matrixing, is very simple. You simply use lots of logic. Lots of logic.

The way to illustrate this concept of Matrixing is to take one of the random factors of the art and make it logical. In this article I will concentrate on the concept of footwork. Inside one of the older Shaolin forms I found an example of footwork which is quick, logical, only six steps, and yet covers virtually every potential of motion. This footwork illustrates diagonal, forward, back, and side to side.

Then I began looking at all of the potentials of arm motion in the martial arts. Either arm, up, down, forward, back, left right. I then put the footwork pattern together with the various arm potentials and, zingo bingo, I had a fast and easy–and true to the temple–Shaolin.

Now, it was not as easy to make this art work as it is to read these words . Go through the various arts that you know and look for the magic combination of footwork and logic that I have described. When you understand how difficult this task is, you will start to realize how valuable Matrixing is, and how effective it is at de-mystifying the martial arts.

After much thought, I named this art the Shaolin Butterfly. It is easy to learn, and it is powerful to use. The motions are incredibly light and flitting and they are good Butterfly Gung Fu, and, of course–big grin–one has to understand that the butterfly is the deadliest of all kung fu animals.

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