An Eternal Student
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This is something I've been thinking about recently, and I wanted to run it by a few other people and find out what they think.In general, martial arts training is desgined to fight mutliple opponents.Our forms and katas are constructed with this specific aim.Whne we perform these, we keep moving, going from each threat that presents itself to us and dealing with it.There's no standing around and testing the opponent, no back and forth exchange of blows just attack,defend and win.
However whenever we do sparring training we're not really doing that.You have two people line up against each other, probing and testing each other, shuffling back and forth, having way more time think about it than you you're going to have in an an actual fight.
So are we creating a conflict or hesitation in ourselves by doing this?We practices movements for fighting mulptiple threats, constantly moving and not getting a chance to really think.(Because if you do try and think too much it screws up your movements anyway)
Then we try and put this training into practice by focusing on a single threat, which isnt properly committed to attacking you and taking you down, and so we shuffle back and forth and inevitable think about things too much.
Any thoughts?
However whenever we do sparring training we're not really doing that.You have two people line up against each other, probing and testing each other, shuffling back and forth, having way more time think about it than you you're going to have in an an actual fight.
So are we creating a conflict or hesitation in ourselves by doing this?We practices movements for fighting mulptiple threats, constantly moving and not getting a chance to really think.(Because if you do try and think too much it screws up your movements anyway)
Then we try and put this training into practice by focusing on a single threat, which isnt properly committed to attacking you and taking you down, and so we shuffle back and forth and inevitable think about things too much.
Any thoughts?