MaartenSFS wrote:How do you train with intent when you are in such a state? I personally feel that training with a piercing focus is much more practical.
MaartenSFS wrote:How do you train with intent when you are in such a state? I personally feel that training with a piercing focus is much more practical.
shawnsegler wrote:
johnwang wrote:The difference between combat and dancing is intend and no intend. When you train, you should always pretend to know where your opponent's leading leg, leading arm, and back arm are. For example, when you parry down your opponent's leading arm, you have to assume that either your opponent will resist/yield. You will then take advantage on his resistance/yielding force.
This is a feeling everyone has at times, characterized by a feeling of great absorption, engagement, fulfillment, and skill—and during which temporal concerns (time, food, ego-self, etc.) are typically ignored.[12]
In an interview with Wired magazine, Csíkszentmihályi described flow as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost."[13]
Taste of Death wrote:How can I remember all that when I have no mind?
johnwang wrote:Taste of Death wrote:How can I remember all that when I have no mind?
You can't. IMO, no mind means that you pretend your opponent doesn't exist. This is why I don't believe in "formless" approach.
For example, when your left arm wrap your opponent's right arm,
1. You push your right hand on his throat.
2. You step in your left foot right in front of his right foot.
3. You move your right leg in a clockwise 1/2 circle and end behind his right leg.
4. You then step in your left leg behind his left leg.
If you just make a small mistake, your "cut" technique will not work.
Taste of Death wrote:If 1 is better than 1-2 and 1-2 is better then 1-2-3 than why would I want a 4 step technique? And you are right. I don't think about my opponent.
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