Red5angel
22-Oct-2002, 06:42 PM
this is left over from some other forums I post at where threads ar egenerally hijacked pretty quickly. for some of you this may sound familiar......
I am recently discovering that repetition, consistancy, and time are three ingredients to training that if added in liberal amounts, can lead to a much deeper understanding of the martial arts.
It sounds like common sense but I seem to be running into a lot of people who dont seem to know what I mean exactly. My training regimen consist of about 90% basics, 2-4 hours a day, usually split up into 2 hours in the morning and an hour to two hours in the evening. Before you ask, yes I am married, no I do not have kids, and yes I work a professional 9 to 5 job. :)
I am finding that the extra time doing just the basics, really brings out the effect these drills or exercises are supposed to produce.
An example would be developing the ability to generate power from the dan tien. I have just barely scratched the surface, but I have been doing the same 4 basic exercises for the last year and have seen some tremendous benefit!
I am finding that although the arts arent all that complicated, most good arts rely on a few basic physiological and physics principles, they can have great depth if practiced precisely and consistantly.
This leads me to believe that many practitioners, even the 'high' level ones, instructors and such, rarely make it to appreciable levels of skill. Has anyone noticed that when they go to schools that teach the same art you study, that most things seem very much alike? For wingchun it seems to be that way, even with the claims of lineage, and changes by supposed pioneers in modern combat, it all seems about the same, vanilla. I believe this is because these people that are good, stopped at good and instead of continuing down the path to reach real appreciable skill, they sort of took a side path or two.
Does this make sense to anyone?
I am recently discovering that repetition, consistancy, and time are three ingredients to training that if added in liberal amounts, can lead to a much deeper understanding of the martial arts.
It sounds like common sense but I seem to be running into a lot of people who dont seem to know what I mean exactly. My training regimen consist of about 90% basics, 2-4 hours a day, usually split up into 2 hours in the morning and an hour to two hours in the evening. Before you ask, yes I am married, no I do not have kids, and yes I work a professional 9 to 5 job. :)
I am finding that the extra time doing just the basics, really brings out the effect these drills or exercises are supposed to produce.
An example would be developing the ability to generate power from the dan tien. I have just barely scratched the surface, but I have been doing the same 4 basic exercises for the last year and have seen some tremendous benefit!
I am finding that although the arts arent all that complicated, most good arts rely on a few basic physiological and physics principles, they can have great depth if practiced precisely and consistantly.
This leads me to believe that many practitioners, even the 'high' level ones, instructors and such, rarely make it to appreciable levels of skill. Has anyone noticed that when they go to schools that teach the same art you study, that most things seem very much alike? For wingchun it seems to be that way, even with the claims of lineage, and changes by supposed pioneers in modern combat, it all seems about the same, vanilla. I believe this is because these people that are good, stopped at good and instead of continuing down the path to reach real appreciable skill, they sort of took a side path or two.
Does this make sense to anyone?