In this article I am going to reveal the three steps to making ki power through karate kata. This intrinsic energy is actually easy to make, but I have never met a sensei who knew the secret of how to release the power. I don’t care if you study Japanese Karate kata, Korean Karate kata, Okinawan Karate kata, or whatever, the ki can be made–you just have to do 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 ground. Most people think this is muscle building, or equate it to efficient motion, but it is far more than that. When you push from the ground you must concentrate on building and feeling the sensation of weight inside your push leg.

Second, as you start to move the body with the push of the leg, you must start rotating the hips. This is important to many martial art styles, you will find it in karate kata forms, hapkido forms, even (and maybe especially) the taekwondo white belt forms. The concept here is to, again, focus on the sensation of mass moving through the leg, through the hips, up the body, and out the arms.

Third, and this is the very important last step, when you throw a hard punch it should feel like you are shaking water off your hands. The notion here is to relax your arm as much as possible, then get the sensation pulsing the arm so that the energy that went through the leg and the hip, is pushed down and through your arm. You focus, but having a tight fist is not so important, can even work against you, to the feeling that energy is snapping off the end of your hand just like water is snapped off the 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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