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Hi Folks, i was giving my notes to my students, so i thought i must also share it with my 10P Family. Here is a breakdown of what i think is the process towards learning a technique in martial arts.
1) Learn - Pay close attention on the details which your instructor is sharing with you, while a technique is taught. try to understand it, focus on principles and fundamentals of it. Make Notes with all details in it.
2) Practise - Now you have laerned a technique, you have all the details and key factors which makes this technique work, now its time for you to practise it and get it into your muscle memory, pay close attention on details and key factors, are you missing something? are you doing it too fast or too slow. GO ask your instructor if you missed something.
3) Master - Now after a while of practising a technique, its time to master it. Master a technique means doing it without thinking, and doing it with perfection and speed with all the details and key factors in it, against the resistance.
4) Functionalise - Once you have mastered a technique, its time to functionalise it. By functionalise a technique it means to use that technique you mastered in real speed on a person who is really trying to attack you with realastic speed and pressure. Usually this comes with regular Sparring.
5) Maintain - Once you have completed all of the above 4 stages, its time to maintain your skills for lifetime and teach it to others. The more you teach, the more you learn. Keep Teaching, Don't Stop Training Before You Stop Breathing
Note : Pay close attention towards your breathing while you Train, the door of life is breath, connect your movement to it. You will never get tired if you have proper breathing pattern.
Note : Not all the techniques will work exactly the way it works for your Instructor or Friend, You must find out your own way to make it work, as your mind and body is not the same as of the other person.
Note : Don't be greedy and skip any of the stage. Otherwise the skill quality will be low.
Thanks.
Hi Folks, i was giving my notes to my students, so i thought i must also share it with my 10P Family. Here is a breakdown of what i think is the process towards learning a technique in martial arts.
5 Stages & Steps Towards Mastery of a Technique
1) Learn - Pay close attention on the details which your instructor is sharing with you, while a technique is taught. try to understand it, focus on principles and fundamentals of it. Make Notes with all details in it.
2) Practise - Now you have laerned a technique, you have all the details and key factors which makes this technique work, now its time for you to practise it and get it into your muscle memory, pay close attention on details and key factors, are you missing something? are you doing it too fast or too slow. GO ask your instructor if you missed something.
3) Master - Now after a while of practising a technique, its time to master it. Master a technique means doing it without thinking, and doing it with perfection and speed with all the details and key factors in it, against the resistance.
4) Functionalise - Once you have mastered a technique, its time to functionalise it. By functionalise a technique it means to use that technique you mastered in real speed on a person who is really trying to attack you with realastic speed and pressure. Usually this comes with regular Sparring.
5) Maintain - Once you have completed all of the above 4 stages, its time to maintain your skills for lifetime and teach it to others. The more you teach, the more you learn. Keep Teaching, Don't Stop Training Before You Stop Breathing
Note : Pay close attention towards your breathing while you Train, the door of life is breath, connect your movement to it. You will never get tired if you have proper breathing pattern.
Note : Not all the techniques will work exactly the way it works for your Instructor or Friend, You must find out your own way to make it work, as your mind and body is not the same as of the other person.
Note : Don't be greedy and skip any of the stage. Otherwise the skill quality will be low.
Thanks.
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