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There are the tales: young bully tries to beat an old man, old man gives a Karate Ki-ai, young man falls to the earth. And, people want to know if these are real stories, or just the old bushwah being repeated for fun. Surprisingly, there are truths to these incredible legends, and some interesting scientific theories.

First, practice of Karate yells is real, and part of most of the karate forms in existence. The karate yell (hihap, or ki Hap, in Korean) is used, in the beginning, to help focus the movements of the karate kata into precise moments of time. This increases the mental concentration, and eventually causes the student to back slightly out of his body.

Don’t get freaky with me on this. To be removed form the body means merely to assume a slightly different viewpoint of the body, to have the spiritual ‘I am’ that runs the body maybe a few inches above or back of the body. It is a gentle thing that happens to everybody as they live, but can be encouraged to greater degree, with a variety of effects, through the study of the martial arts.

Now, the body is not shouting, the spirit is shouting. As I said, the ‘I am’ that operates the body is shouting, and the body seems to actually get out of the way of the spirit shout. A shout directed by spirit and not body is infinitely more powerful than a shout powered by just the body.

With a shout by the body all that moves is the air. When the spirit is involved emotion will move, and not just massed air molecules, and this can be testified to by any good artist who knows the value of emotion when performing. Eventually, a martial artist will move intention, which is far above simple air, or even emotion, this is the stuff of legends and great abilities.

Thus far we have been discussing kiai from the viewpoint of being slightly outside of the body, but now we must discuss the effects of a spirit shout on another body. Yes, there is probably measurable impact by waves of massed air, which can put out candles and that sort of thing, but only at short distances. These usually depend on body movement, a fist, for instance, to help propel the mass of air.

But there is also the fact that a being can expand his size, when liberated from the body, and actually touch the body of another being, and this is a direct touch that can wither and blast the opponent. The body is composed of water, and air is molecules, but spirit is intangible. Spirit is a perception that can stretch through the apparent space of air and cause that water to wave, to ripple, to vibrate…to shatter.

I know there will be people who disbelieve what I say here, but they are people who have not done the martial arts for over 4 decades. The fact is that the martial arts don’t just forge the body, they cause a person to realize who is doing the forging,–oneself–and therefore to take a removed position from the body. In summation, the martial arts take long years and intense work to reach the level I am talking about, but if you understand what I am saying, and are willing to dedicate yourself to endless hours of practice and a higher code of life, then you can achieve the Karate yell of which I am speaking.

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