Something to think about

[Toudiyama[NL]]

Hey Bri,

Do you skip rope in training?

or do pushups or situps or other warming up excercises that do not use fight techniques?

[Thai Bri]

I do exercise, yes. Almost everyone who seriously takes part in a physical endeavour does. And I have a reason for doing them. I do them to PREPARE my body for the rigours of using the fighting techniques in a real fight. And I try to make these exercise exercise the right muscles in a relevant way. Kata might be a bit tiruing, but so is getting in and out of the bath 100 times!

But I do not convince myself that I am learning focus....or technique...... I do not load my muscles with faulty muscle memory. They know the difference between a right cross and a press up. They won't know the difference between a robotic straight right against thin air and a right cross for a real fight.

Getting back to the other people doing physical endeavours, like tennis, football, even boxers, wreslters etc. Do you ever see them performing long sets of combinations, on their own, against thin air, in a robotic way? Don't include training that is more akin to exercise, or shadow boxing, or combination practice in that..... There is a big difference between those and Kata.

Kata is a left over from training when the people weren't clever enough t think of better things, and were the got distracted by how things looked instead of how effective they were. We do them from day 1 because our instructors told us to 9thats why they did them), and we've added all the so called reasons as we went along.


Do them if you want ot. Tell yourself your learning "focus" or "techniqe". But be careful what you say to newbies. Be like Ted Truscott whomakes it clear that they do not help you learn to fight.

[jubaji]

Kata is a left over from training when the people weren't clever enough t think of better things

Man, you are starting to sound like greenidiot. Don't get overwrought.

[Thai Bri]

Don't call me overweight.

[Szczepankiewicz]

Getting out of the tub is indeed exercise.

Everytime Bitty tries to exit the water, 5 Greenpeace volunteers cry out "Save him. He's going to die!" and shove him back in the tub.