As a musician I find it interesting that there are so many similatities between the martial arts and the performing arts. For one, when performing most if not all people get some adrenaline going and as we know this effects fine motor control...and without fine motor control one is not going to play in tune and be able to play things with ease and fluidity so a large part of performing is learning to respond to that "nervous" energy and channel it. A lot of people say that one should have NO tension whatsoever when playing an instrument or performing martial arts but to me I really think its more a matter of "distributed tension."
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