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A Fight Breaks Out
The difference between an art that uses imaginary opponents and one that uses real ones is party understanding and partly focus.
Without a real target, lots of confusion and mistakes pop up that are pretty easily fixed if you find a way to get an opponent in there. That said, it requires focus to "see" the invisible enemy, that dude who is about your height and only slightly less skilled. If you put a weapon in the hands of people who spar, it's harder to get them to focus on drilling moves and process.
Technically each move we learn ends with the attacker escaping, but it's very easy to just flow into all the other moves. Which is how I en
We Lose More People That Way
I've been doing a lot of sitting and watching and reading while my leg heals and I expect I'll continue to sit and watch and read for a few weeks more. No choice if I ever want to bend my ankle or run without collapsing. As it is, I think what I tried to do on Sunday has strained or torn something in my calf.
Sigh.
I think part of the problem we have retaining people in martial arts is that it requires a certain type of person to enjoy it, basically the exact opposite of the person in Hollywood movies. Rather than the aggressive defender of justice always moving to the next adventure, we need the geeks and nerds. The people who can sit and
Cycle of Pain
The circle of my personal stubbornness looks like this:
• Something I'm doing hurts. Refuse to stop because that would be 'weak'.
• The pain continues. Now it would take a much longer time to fix. Slow down (but don't stop) to try to let it heal. Alternatively, end up in enough pain to force me to stop.
• Pain seems to be getting better. Start pushing limits.
• The thing I'm doing hurts again. Refuse to stop...
Not good. There's no meaning in it. Pushing limits to breaking point only shortens the time you have to enjoy your limits. It's so hard to admit that though. To sit out and watch. I hate how fragile I am. I
Contrast
As a previously bullied, shy child with very conservative parents, anything I liked was usually picked apart and/or mocked. To this day when I like or love something, you'd never know it because I act disinterested. It's hard to overcome those old lessons.
"You need to find your voice."
It was interesting to me in class the other day that my voice was the loudest. Newbies are quiet and uncertain regardless of temperament, as they discover quickly that it's oddly hard to focus on your feet, your sword and try to talk out loud, even just to count to ten. I was told early on that the idea behind kiai (or just counting loud) was that even if yo
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This is an example of what I can do, I can't post it on my da gallery yet because it is a gift and my bf didn't get it yet. [link]