westway50

So i do Wushu and recently ive been learning this broadsword form. i got the sequence and moves to a good point. But im lacking that intent while i am doing it. like with the eyes and stuff. i need to learn how to create that intent. how do u ppl create that fighting spirit that makes martial arts so cool??

eXcessiveForce

Intent comes from visualizing what you are doing.

To just do a form without visualization is closer to dancing than fighting. Martial arts is about fighting. to having a picture of someone coming at you and in this case you using a sword to cut them down, visualizing the effects of the strikes the reaction of the persons body etc.

One things is, if you don't know what the moves in the form are for, and are just mimicking the movements as taught to you by someone else, it will be very hard to get that intent.

Intent comes from understanding.

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Paul-M

start by just choosing a place in front of u and stare at it without moving your eyes from that point, then focus your eyes so its like your looking past it, into the distance. Then it should be easier to imagine what you're doing, feel as if you are actually blocking and cutting people down, put force into it as if you are really fighting, but at the same time maintain flow. Imagine where your enemy is and look them in the eye at all times.

leeman17

Think of survival, think that each moment could be your last and use you intentions to live to fuel your movements. Do the form with this in mind and see what it looks like and feels like, after all martial arts are intended for survival and not fighting. Think of what your doing is more fighting to run away. just an opinion what do you think?

npk9

You need to show more intent - not to sound like an ass but what does the word intent mean?? If you're just doing moves in a form for the sake of doing moves in a form then there is no intent. You have to do it like you mean it - thats intent. W/O that there is no fighting spirit. To help you better understand this - ask the coach why are the moves done in this order? What is the intent behind these sets of moves? What are the applications?

Warning - please don't go to extreme with it where you get into the XMA mindset (let me yell and spin my samurai sword in the air really fast with the look of constipation).

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