Sports Realm

[I:http://sportsrealm.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/AlCase8.jpg]There are the tales: young bully tries to beat an old man, old man gives a Karate Ki-ai, young man falls to the earth. And, people want to know if these are real stories, or just the old bushwah being repeated for fun. Surprisingly, there are truths to these incredible legends, and some interesting scientific theories.

First, practice of Karate yells is real, and taught in most karate kata in existence. The karate yell (hihap, or ki Hap, in Korean) is learned by the new student to help focus the techniques of the karate kata into precise moments of time. This increases the mental abilities, and eventually moves the student slightly out of his body.

Don’t get freaky with me on this. To be removed form the body means merely to assume a slightly different viewpoint of the body, to have the spiritual ‘I am’ that runs the body maybe a few inches above or back of the body. It is a gentle thing that happens to everybody as they live, but can be encouraged to greater degree, with a variety of effects, through the study of the martial arts.

Now, the body is not shouting, the spirit is shouting. As I said, the ‘I am’ that operates the body is shouting, and the body seems to actually get out of the way of the spirit shout. A shout directed by spirit and not body is infinitely more powerful than a shout powered by just the body.

With a shout generated by the body all that moves is the air particles. When the spirit gets involved emotion will generate and move, and not just massed air molecules, and this can be testified to by any good artist who knows the value of emotion when performing. Eventually, a martial artist will use just intention, which is more powerful than air, or even emotion, this is the stuff of legends and the property of great masters.

Thus far we have been examining kiai from the perspective of the ‘I am’ which runs the body, but now we must discuss the effects of a spirit shout on another person. Yes, there is impact by waves of massed air particles, which can extinguish candles and that sort of thing, but usually only at short distances. These usually depend on body movement, a strike of the fist, for example to help shift the mass of air to the target.

But there is also the fact that a person can expand himself in size, when liberated from the body, and actually touch the body of the other person, and this is a direct touch that can wither and blast the opponent. The body is water, and air is air, but spirit is intangible. Spirit is a perception that can reach across the apparent reality of air and cause that water to wave, to ripple, to vibrate…to explode.

I know there will be people who are going to ridicule what I say here, but they are people who have not done the martial arts for over 4 decades. The fact is that the martial arts don’t just strengthen the body, they cause a person to realize who is doing the stengthening,–oneself–and therefore to take a removed position from the body. In conclusion, the martial arts take long years and intense work toascend to the level I am referring to in this article, but if you understand what I am saying, and are willing to dedicate yourself to endless hours of practice and a higher code of life, then you can achieve the Karate shout of which I am speaking.

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