Rec and Sports

How to Slow Walk Part Two

[I:http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/extras/pics/bowzerimage24.jpg]I was in Willits, California putting on a karate demonstration for a couple of hundred kids the second time I ever slow walked. As I finished the showing the kids what karate was I noticed a fellow standing at the far end of the gymnasium. Standing alone, he was big and rather ominous.

What was he doing at a demo for kids if he didn’t have a kid? Making up my mind, I began to walk slowly towards him. Time began to stretch and stretch as I walked slower and slower. It was only a hundred feet to him, but it seemed to take forever to reach him.

I reached him, and he was sweating and starting to shake. I introduced myself and threw out a big grin and a hand. He was so relieved that he almost fell over when he took my hand.

The fellow was a tree faller, and turned out to be one of the nicest fellows I had ever met. The reason he was at the demonstration was because he wanted to see karate. Living out in the woods, he had never actually seen it.

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 slow walking is easy to do. This means you must make sure you know what the moves mean when you translate them into actual usage, and you must align the time and shape of your form. If you learn how to do this then you can experience the true bubble of your perceptions, which 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.