Home training

[Kacey]

What motivates you to practice/train at home?

[Min]

Tournaments that show me that I am still not as good as I'd like to be, different youtube videos that I watch to motivate myself, the lead by example attitude I teach to my students when I tell them to train everyday. My friends that keep me in line, coming onto different martial art threads, my love of learning new weapons.

That is just me though :P. I am very passionate about my training and want to take both myself and my students to the highest level possible.

[IWishToLearn]

My students. :)

[terryl965]

The everlasting persuit of perfection that is never ever going to be.

[Drac]

Keeping me safe when I'm working the streets..

[Marginal]

What motivates you to practice/train at home?
Sparring class, the need the justify my "sport formula" vitamins, enjoying the art...

[arnisador]

Training, and setting a good example for, my son!

[CuongNhuka]

What else? The desire to be the best.

[dani416]

[LEFT]thiking of fighting, outlasting the opponent, burning off what i ate, UFC, gliding through the usual workouts at my gym, thinking about the ajuahn coming to me and feel i am in good condition.

[Hawke]

Feels good to move around. I even dream about MA...hehehe.....hey, no pointing fingers, bet you dream about MA too.http://martialtalk.com/forum/images/icons/icon10.gif

Sometimes just moving and practicing calms my mind. :asian:

I cannot imagine NOT doing MA.:erg:

It's possible I may be addicted to MA.:uhoh:

Cheers.

[qi-tah]

Feels good to move around. I even dream about MA...hehehe.....hey, no pointing fingers, bet you dream about MA too.http://martialtalk.com/forum/images/icons/icon10.gif


Yes, me too! And in my dreams i am crap, so that's motavation to train i guess. http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/images/icons/icon11.gif Before my last grading i can't tell you how many times i dreamed that i stuffed up and walked off the floor...

But generally i don't need motavation to get out and enjoy myself... training never fails makes me feel good. http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/images/icons/icon7.gif I see it as a sort of general maintainence for life, rather than just "something i have to practice for class".

[agemechanic03]

Well I really don't have the abililty to train at home b/c i live in dorms and I have a roommate and have absolutely no room. I do however have an instructor that allows us to come to class every day M-F in which I attend every day. Sometimes I do go to the gym on weekends just for an hour or two just so I can perfect my forms and work on anything I need to. But like everyone else, the satisfaction of physically feeling good after the workout/ training.

[MJS]

What motivates you to practice/train at home?

I don't want to rely just on my dojo training to make my material good. Perfect practice makes perfect! :) Even if its only for 20min. its better than nothing IMHO.

[FearlessFreep]

Class is for learning new material and correcting old material. Outside of class is for the repetition and the bulk of the work to ingrain the material

[exile]

Like a lot of the posters above, I train at home because it feels good to put myself through physically demanding paces. I also hate feeling I'm not on top of a problem worth solving, and things like strength, balance and control of technique are problems of that kind, things that can be solved, but not easily, and not without a lot of effort. So if I haven't done around 40 minutes to an hour of practice at home on any given day, I feel like I've been slacking off.

[Bigshadow]

I incorporate training in the things I do every day. Anytime I am moving, I am training. To me, something as simple as opening a door is training. In terms of our art, there would be one or more right ways (adhering to the proper body mechanics) and many wrong ways to open the door. I train to have proper taijutsu in all my movement. These things along with Sanshin I can do alone.

[exile]

I incorporate training in the things I do every day. Anytime I am moving, I am training. To me, something as simple as opening a door is training. In terms of our art, there would be one or more right ways (adhering to the proper body mechanics) and many wrong ways to open a door.

Good insight, and very nicely put, David!

[Tames D]

Cani.

[TheOriginalName]

I don't know about everyone else but i feel happier when\after i have trained.

Training is like a drug - i need to do it - it's not a "if i feel like it" - i need to train to get my next fix - then when i stop i feel happier - i feel like a better person

[Christina05]

Bruce Lee movies.

[KempoGuy06]

to be better. to be sure that I can effectively deffend myself. to be healthier

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[Langenschwert]

So if I haven't done around 40 minutes to an hour of practice at home on any given day, I feel like I've been slacking off.

Me too. I feel like a fat slob when I don't train. Not that I am fat (I'm pretty trim, but there's always room for improvement), but I feel fat when I don't train. I don't want to have to ask my training partners "Does this gambeson make me look fat?". ;)

Best regards,

-Mark

[exile]

Me too. I feel like a fat slob when I don't train. Not that I am fat (I'm pretty trim, but there's always room for improvement), but I feel fat when I don't train. I don't want to have to ask my training partners "Does this gambeson make me look fat?". ;)

Best regards,

-Mark

Greetings, Mark—nice to see your byline again! And yes, I feel the same way, though like you I've no reason objectively to feel like that. Maybe it's a matter of feeling not so much fat and slobbish as rusty, stale, like your limbs are atrophying and going to seed. And after a hard workout, conversely, I feel the way a much-loved motorcyle must feel after its owner takes it apart, lubricates and polishes every piece that needs it, and reassembles it into a tight sharp street rocket again...

Even half an hour or an hour a day of serious workout time is enough to get that feeling, I find. Cheap at the price, eh?

[Rich Parsons]

What motivates you to practice/train at home?

Being Single I have weapons around. When I was married I still had weapons around, but there were other things I had to move out of the way first before I could train.

I also do privates out of my house. So this helps me.


When I feel blah I use to do forms and I would also just twirl a weapon or just think about techniques.

I have some books and videso that I can drop in from time to time.

In essence I just have it around so as to not make it hard to avoid.