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There are Martial Artists and potential practitioners that believe who advanced techniques exist. This idea is almost born out of mysticism. There seems to be this �air of mystery� that surrounds some of the techniques in the Martial Arts. The idea that advanced techniques are complex or because it seems to be a mystery, unusual or cannot be learned is a fallacy that should be disabused. The long mysterious ideas of yesteryear will be revealed and the shroud of unknowingness will thereby melt away with the simplicity of truth.

The relationship of a technique to the Martial Arts is that it is a technology from which one can derive knowledge and exact application. We are dealing with a system of self-defense that is a science and an art. In any true science there is a body of knowledge that delineates axioms (statements of natural law). Axioms should be able to produce future end phenomena; thus, a practitioner can predict future results. Every self-defense system must have an axiomatic structure that make it valid as a science. If it does not, then you can count on it being ineffective.

Techniques are not complex things. The only things that are complex are untruths. Truth is simplicity because it �IS.� There are no additives or alterations. Truth is truth as long as it remains an �isness.� When one alters a characteristic of a truth, it then becomes an untruth to the degree that something was changed. For example, If my name is John, but I�m calling myself Joe it is an alteration of truth. Therefore, it becomes a lie. It only sticks when a lie is introduced. A lie can only exist as long as the alteration continues to exist or further alterations occur. A technique will work if it really is a technique based on an axiom. Lack of an axiom produces the opposite result. The technique would have been put together with �paper and cloth.� In other words, it is built on nothing more than some person�s misunderstandings of the laws of the universe and the physical sciences. An axiom will always prove itself in application.

The Martial Artist and potential practitioner will always be in mystery when there is something not quite understood. There is no special technique that all of the human race could not understand and apply if they thoroughly knew the basic fundamentals of how to do something. Unfortunately, there are Martial Artists who like to keep people in the dark and perpetuate this shroud of mystery. It is irresponsibility when technology that can help many is kept in secret. I am not a monk living in an ivory tower writing my tomes of knowledge never to be shared with the human race. Knowledge should be shared with everyone so long as the individuals can be ethical with its use.

There are techniques that have to do with you as a spiritual being. This is no mystery as we know it today, because there is knowledge on the subject. There is a proper gradient of study and training to eventually arrive at that state and condition. It would become too overwhelming to begin with advanced techniques because other fundamentals and basics would not be known well enough to understand. The truth is within �you� as a being because you are �truth.�

Techniques follow a very definite and finite course. There are gradients to learning and application. Fundamentals and mechanics of the Martial Arts must with each step be taught with 100% assimilation and application. This is where knowingness, certainty, and competence reside. It is a simplicity. Really it is.