Do you "practice" or "train"?

[tradrockrat]

looks like I could use some more of both! Just yesterday I was going through some drills when I realized that I was screwing up the order of my blocks. This is the first drill I ever learned!!!!

 

[Lynne]

I'm a newbie but I do both. I practice my forms almost daily. I practice wrists grips and one-step sparring "in the air." I practice whatever I've just learned until I get it right or at least improve.

Wow, has it made a difference in my forms. My shoulders weren't square, my front stance looked like a high-wire act, and so on. I just need to get the fist right! But I'm practicing that.

I enlist my daughter to train me. She taught me preparation (arm and defensive/offensive stepping) and constantly corrects me when I'm doing something wrong or sloppy. She was a terror when I was first learning forms. She insisted on preparation when I was just trying to get the stepping right! I thought my head would explode from the mental overload. Now, I'm glad she was insistent. And I have to listen to her, don't I? :whip1: (She's 17 and I'm 49)

 

[Ping898]

I have always kind of viewed it as when I am in class I am training, but when I am on my own I am practicing what I was taught.

 

[Jade Tigress]

I have always kind of viewed it as when I am in class I am training, but when I am on my own I am practicing what I was taught.

I would say the same.

 

[bushidomartialarts]

i was training pretty hard for the past 18 months in anticipation of the rank test i just past.

taking this month off from training, and merely practicing.

most of the time, i both train and practice

 

[CoryKS]

Training conveys to me a sense of learning new material, whereas Practice suggests maintaining or refining known skills. So I would say that first you train and then you practice.

 

[Darth F.Takeda]

I practice my art form,
I train to fight.

I like this one the best.

SHUGYO!

 

[Karjitsu]

Every day I train, Just by the way I work ,Eat, Lift, Its just the WAY

 

[Sensei Payne]

Do I practice or train...hmmm well I am just going to answer with a...

YES

 

[Langenschwert]

I find the distinction between the two somewhat artificial. I'm not sure what to call my regimen. All I know is that I suck a little less every day. That being said, when I was doing a lot of music, I took a lesson with a respected jazz teacher. His view of "practice" is more like a doctor who "practices" medicine, and advised me to view my musical training in the same way, since it was that level of dedication and intensity that would get me where I wanted to go. I've taken that advice with me ever since, and tried to apply it to my HEMA training. Unfortunately, since I've got a day job (I left my life as a full-time road musician a few years back), I have to temper it somewhat, but during my training, I try to approach it as if I were "practicing" in the highest sense of the term. Whether that means I'm actually "training" or "practicing" doesn't really matter to me at that point. I just do what needs to be done in order to solve whatever problem I'm trying to get through.

Best regards,

-Mark

 

[Xue Sheng]

By the definitions supplied it would seem to me that you cannot train unless you practice but you could potentially practice and not train.

And with that said I would have to say train... which is both.