
One lunchtime, one of my coworkers asked me to show him some martial arts. We went into a room at the rear of the factory. It was hard to see and quite noisy, and we had to really concentrate to hear each other.
I was showing him basic suburito sword exercises, which are Aikido sword fighting drills. I was showing him how to stand the right way, and how to hold the sword straight up in a ready position. Suddenly, I felt a huge force take hold of my body; it was like I had been grabbed by the hand of a 100 foot tall giant.
I couldn’t stop the sword, and it sliced down behind me. A guy named Eddie had been sneaking up, and the sword cut through his shirt and into his chest. It was a ragged slice, blood poured out, and he staggered back against a stack of pallets and grabbed at his chest.
It was time for first aid, and Eddie was going to have to go to the hospital and get his chest sewn back together. While we were standing there, trying to stop the blood, I asked Eddie, “What were you doing?” He looked up at me and said, “I was going to get you, man.
I was going to grab you. It was just a joke, I thought it would be funny.” Sensing something under his words, I asked him, “What were you thinking, right when it happened?”
He said, “I thought I was going to get you. Right when I was jumping I thought, ‘Aha…got him!’ And then you cut me!”
The flesh is nothing but a fence, and the eyes and ears are like searchlights that observe what goes on outside the fence. With the martial arts you start moving energy inside the fence, and you start to become more aware as to what is going on around you. Eventually you see outside the fence of your flesh. You learn how to see without even using the eyes and ears.
And, you learn that you are more than just a body, you are a spiritual being more than 100 feet tall. What I am saying here is that whether you study tae kwon do or Aikido, Gung Fu like Wing Chun, or something else, the answers are there, the martial arts can help you find the real you. You just need to dedicate yourself to working out, and in an art that is logical and efficient.
This really happened, and the method Al used is called Matrix Martial Arts. You can find out about it at Monster Martial Arts. Al has forty+ years martial arts experience.
