Mastery

I was thinking about mastery. Mastery to me is when something is refined by a person to the point of extreme excellence. It has to do with work and practice of any given thing for years and requires persistence. It isn't something you usually consider yourself to be but more a view that a community has o someone due to the efforts they have put forth. Everyone wants to be a master at one thing or another but few ever attain such skill. Why is that? Because they give up? because they were going after the wrong thing? Or maybe because they simply don't practice and refine the details. I don't really have an answer. Just some things to think about. I have a challenge that each person takes on mastering just one simple thing. Anything. Once you have mastered one thing you can then master anything because you can duplicate the process. That's all for now.

Visualization

Sorry it's been so long since I wrote anything folks. I want to talk about visualizing while you do your forms. As you do your forms you should be seeing your opponent and exactly what your doing to him as you execute your techniques. This starts to train your mind on how to react when a similar situation would occur in real life. Your mind does not realize that you are only imagining it, so for your brain it is real. Your brain can then have something to reference if you were ever to have a similar situation in the street and respond appropriately to the situation. Frankly, if your not visualizing the applications vividly each and every time you are doing a form you are just dancing. Without the visualization there is no application so your wasting your time, but you could be a really good martial ballerina. Visualization adds depth to the forms and it's fun to imagine some of the crazy stuff you could do to someone. You get to make up the applications so have them be a little crazy just make sure they would work and how. Nothing worse than training your brain to respond poorly and getting hurt because of it.

Ben Newcomb
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