Call it a Kung Fu fight, call it a karate fight, it doesn't matter. What matters is that this type of martial arts fighting is going to raise your intelligence. That's right, stepping onto the mat and going man to man is actually going to result in higher intelligence.

This flies in the face of those silly people who believe that martial arts, be it Karate or Kung Fu or whatever, is just a brutal event. They watch the blood and guts on the latest UFC spectacle and call for new laws. But they really are people who haven't learned lessons in the dojo, and so ...they are stupid.

I know, stupid is a retarded word, and it would be dumb of me to use it so lightly, but consider what intelligence really is. It is how quickly people can shift through information. It is how fast they can connect the events of the world and imagination.

Modern educators and scientists and doctor types and that sort of thing would have you believe that intelligence is how much you can remember. It is a number. It is a high score on a test.

But a high score on a school exam has nothing to do with the real world. Further, it has nothing to do with common sense. And both the real world and common sense are what occur in a martial arts dojo during the learning process.

First, one is going to learn how to get along with others by the simple expedient of walking into walls and fists and things. Not by being told politely by a professor type. Being told how to be polite is merely following directions, and has nothing to do with real learning and the input of cause and effect action into one's own world and experience.

Second, one is going to learn how to input information and make decisions off that information a hundred, nay, a thousand times more efficiently. That knuckles are flying towards the face impels a person to make a connection, to make a decision, to do something. Thus, reality becomes the lesson which is taken to heart instantly.

The ability to think quickly, to connect the dots, to handle reality in expedient fashion, then becomes the true education. This education can be shared with ANY field of knowledge. Thus, if you want to be smarter, then learn how to karate fight...if you want your children to be intelligent, teach them to kung fu fight.