To come to grips with Matrixing one must understand that Matrix Martial Arts is an actual technology. It is a logical way of thinking applied to martial disciplines such as Hung Gar Kung Fu, Uechi Ryu Karate or whatever. The good news is that the effects of logic on the martial arts are of extremely high value.

Matrixing is important because the oral tradition of learning the martial arts has resulted in thoroughly mixed up martial disciplines. People spend much time copycatting random strings of data, but this leaves vast areas of unexplored technique. The random strings of data thus become hard to extract for use, and martial intuition takes decades to cultivate, if it ever is.

The first analogy of matrixing is a numerical one. Learning an art, be it aikido or kung fu or whatever, was like trying to learn how to count when you had no 2, 4 was upside, 7 is put before 1, which is inverted, and there were no more numbers except...what is that shaved dog doing in there? Matrixing presents the numerical system as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9...and then anybody can find 10, and 11, and so on.

The second analogy of Matrixing was of a language. Use the Matrix Technology and you could learn an art quickly and easily, and this because there was an alphabet, and even a set of phonics. The martial arts could then be constructed with techniques as words, forms as sentences, and whole systems as simple books.

The third analogy used to define Matrix Martial Arts is a simple three dimensional model of all the arts. Using Matrix logic you can establish the geometry of each art, and matrix that geometry for all potentials of motions, and define each art as separate and unique. One then merely places the sheets of paper in a mental three dimensional cube.

Thus, the individual arts are conceptually aligned, and a student can change arts simply by selecting the right layer of art from the cube. This puts all the martial methods in a specific and logical order that is true through all the arts. Depth of art then is not mysterious and difficult to understand, but rather a straightforward process of understanding the ordered and inter-related geometry of all arts.

Several things happen when one breaks through to this level of matrixing. Intuition kicks in hard and fast. Students learn faster, for the mind will not reject simple concepts when they are presented in the right order.

Of course, students are unique individuals, and how much matrixing technology is required for each student is a variable. A high number of practitioners breakthrough on the first course or two, a few students need all the courses, and there are going to be one or two practitioners who are going to need to study all the courses...and then get a kick in the pants besides. However much matrixing it takes for the true martial abilities to kick in and start truly functioning properly, and for the student to take advantage of all those fabulous, advanced abilities that students of the True Art have come to know, the journey is well worth it.