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The primary conflict is that the physical actions of self defense must be dead simple, but humans refuse to do anything simple for very long. They start embellishing.
RA Miller wrote:Dana-
I've been doing most of my writing elsewhere, but this echoed something for me that I wrote last month in response to a comment:
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There was an anonymous comment on the last entry:
"If you think you can turn a cross section of society into the martial expert that is Rory, you might be in for a big letdown. But I think you will have fun trying, and everyone in your classes will learn something they wouldn't learn anywhere else. "
Assuming that wasn't pure sarcasm, here's the deal:
I'm no expert. I'm a nearly crippled up middle aged man with some skill, some experience and some mean. But I'm consistently successful against people who are bigger, stronger, faster and/or more proficient than me. My theory, and what I want to do with this group, is not to teach them to move like me. I want to teach them how I think.
Most martial artists learn how to move, then they use this 'right way to move' and either attempt to understand violence through that filter or ignore it altogether. I want to set up violence as the world, the context. From my mind and their own experiences teach them how to think about it, how to plan, what to see, how that drives reaction... and then have them work on their own movement in that world.
Less forging a sword than growing a tree. Oooh- better analogy: Martial arts tries to create warriors. I want to re-introduce a predator to the wild. Not build, but awaken.
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Followed it up here
http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2007 ... right.html
Thinking a lot lately about how to teach, how to get stuff from my head and instincts into someone else.
Rory
Dana Sheets wrote:Rory - the training you're talking about - training mindset before movements - is that for the professionals or for the people who've never been in a fight?
Dana Sheets wrote:Rory - the training you're talking about - training mindset before movements - is that for the professionals or for the people who've never been in a fight?
Dana Sheets wrote:
The same should be true for training in Uechi. You can lead a horse to water - and we should be leading our students as close to the water as we can get them. The repetition and consistency of training is up to them - however, IMO we need to tell them -- clearly -- what we expect them to be learning to do with their bodies and their minds.
Training in Uechi-Ryu Karate shouldn't be a guessing game.
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