If Bruce had Lived.

[moma_news]

Not sure exactly how that relates to the thread, but I would add that,

"Perfect practice makes perfect."

(Or as near to perfect as possible! )

[Szczepankiewicz]

I suppose it fits in there somewhere between all my ramblings...

[terry]

Originally posted by Szczepankiewicz
Getting back to debate and philosophize and what Terry and I were going back and forth on.

Our curriculum is set up in four major categories. One is concerned chiefly with strategy, tactics, principles and exercise. The other three deal with transportation, striking, and grappling. So over 75% of what we learn deals with doing, more so if you count the exercises.

For any given technique you spend, say, about 10% of your time taking notes, learning, pondering, possibly discussing, and eventually teaching said technique. The other 90-95 percent of your time is spent executing, practicing, improving your technique. Training your body to know the technique without knowing it at all.

So Terry is absolutely right, as all who have trained will recognize, that experience is very important. Train, train, and then train some more.

However, without the philosophy to guide your training, without direction your efforts may well be misguided. Look at all those people working soooo hard in the mcdojo. They work so hard for so long and are often times worse off than when they began.

A balanced perspective well made, Szczepankiewicz. No disagreement here.

Terry

[Guest]

Well thanks for that terry. All we have to do is agree with you and we are automatically offering a balanced perspective.

I now know the secret.

[Szczepankiewicz]

Well certainly Bitty. On the rare occasion that people agree with you they do suddenly seem smarter, don't they?


Are you just itchin' to see just how many internet forums you can get banned from????

[Guest]

Yes! I've been banned from loads!

Interestingly enough, on most I've been banned just for disagreeing with the fasionable views they all share with each other. Its like "come and discuss this, but you must agree with us".

Haw haw haw!

[Szczepankiewicz]

And it has nothing to do with your calm rational debating skills....

[Guest]

I can be very calm and rationale when I want to be. I just never want to be!

[Szczepankiewicz]

True. True.

[terry]

Okay, Br Thai, you're officially sitebanned. (*chuckle*) Seriously, though, poking a little fun isn't gonna harm anyone. Neither will disagreement. The farther I got into this particular dialogue with spanky it emerged that spanky and I had the kind of non-disagreement that is akin to looking at the same glass half-full vs. half-empty. I thought that his final statement was more balanced than what I had made. So I learned something.

I have exercised the right to moderate some of your posts when you got into long running exchanged of ad honymym attacks with people like ramus. The reason is that too much of this drives people away that are actually looking to learn about martial arts.
At the same time I also cut people like crazyjoe380 and you some slack because you make (and I know some might disagree with this) positive contributions. Albeit on rare occasions.

That slack goes away when, like Crouchtig, people start posting nothing but disruptive garbage. Especially if it starts going racist, sexist & anti-semitic just to get attention, which has happened a couple of times on this forum.

T

[Szczepankiewicz]

And Bitty needs a whole lotta slack.

[Guest]

I don't need it slack. I need it tight........

[Szczepankiewicz]

Someone retitle this thread to 'If Bri Thai's brain had lived'

Haw Haw Haw!

[Guest]

If I only had a brain.

There. I'll be the Scare Crow, and you can be Dorothy again.

[Szczepankiewicz]

Yay!!!!

I love to be Dorothy!!!!

Let's all follow the Yellow Brick Road!


However, it's gonna cost you double this time Bitty.