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[I:http://www.media-cn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/AlCase31.jpg]In this article I am going to tell you the three steps to building ki power through karate kata. This type of intrinsic energy is actually easy to generate, but I have never met an instructor who knew the secret of how to unlock the power. I don’t care if you study Japanese Karate kata, Korean Karate kata, Okinawan Karate kata, or whatever, the power can be built–you just have to know the three easy steps.

This method is actually known in Chinese arts, used in ‘Kung fu katas’ if you wish to mix terminology. I take a more scientific bent, I call it Flux Theory, which is just a fancy way of saying you are going to get the flow of energy moving and tap into it. So here are the three steps.

First, you have to push from the earth. Most people consider this muscle building, or think of it as efficient motion, but it is far more than that. When you push from the earth you must focus on feeling the sensation of weight inside the leg doing the pushing.

Second, as you start to move the body through space with the push of the leg, you must start turning the hips. This is core to many systems, you will find it in karate kata forms, hapkido forms, even (and maybe especially) the taekwondo white belt forms. The trick is to, again, feel the sensation of mass moving through the frame, up the leg and through the hips up the body through to the arms.

Third, and this is crucial, when you execute a hard punch you must get the feeling of shaking water off your fist. The core of this is to get used to relaxing your arm as much as possible, then getting the feeling pulsing the arm so that the energy that went up your leg, turned with your hip, is translated down and through your arm. You focus, but having a tight fist is not so important, can even be a hindrance, to having the feeling that energy is snapping off the end of your fist much the same as water would be shaken off your fist.

You must have good karate stance to make this work, and this means you are going to have to examine every stance in every form and make sure the legs are bent properly, not overly straightened, and so on. And, to make this power work in karate fights, you are going to have to set the hips properly, have them align with the legs and turn with the motion at exactly the right time. Do these two things, pay proper attention to detail, and you are going to find that the ki power you are developing is the ultimate karate weapon.

Now, the problem is that most instructors don’t know this, and the forms are being altered for some odd idea of what karate combat is. If you have a fellow who is changing his karate forms to kickboxing stances, or some other MMA concept, then you are in trouble. Without the ground connection, the ki power won’t build, and certainly won’t go through the body.

The point here is that you must stay with the classical kata. You must analyze all the kata from the different karate styles, no matter if it is Shotokan Karate forms, goju karate forms, shito ryu forms or isshin ryu forms or whatever, and make sure they are sound and workable. This is the method I utilized on when I came up with Flux Theory, and this is how you are going to discover the true ki power that is inherent in karate kata

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