Interloper wrote:Bao, breath is just part of the equation. What is relevant is the mental training and conditioning that permits someone to maintain focus under duress. That is what the warrior classes have trained for, for centuries.
My point about driving is that the human mind is capable of conditioning multiple layers of simultaneous activities, both mental and physical. That said, a person who is demonstrating a concept of internal structure and movement, should be able to do so while speaking. That was the original discussion. Fighting while maintaining that focus, is another level of the same developmental process, just with more layers of issues you must deal with, including breathing.
I completely 100% don't agree. It's not about maintaining focus, rather about knowing on what to focus or multi-tasking. Multitasking is not the same as focus under duress. You can focus and still screw up your breath. Some people use lower deep breathing when they speak, but when you stand for a crowd and want to make yourself heard, people tend to make an effort with the lungs, tense the breath and use the chest area. This will affect the balance. So it's not a question about focus, it's about physical shiftings in your body affected by how you use your breath. When you fight, the breath and control breath will be the most important, not speaking and make yourself heard. That will be a completely different issue and a too different situation to be comparable.
Now I don't make any excuses for showing bad balance. I don't know anything about his balance because I can not be there and test him. But I know that anyone can have a bad day and that it's hard to control every small shifting that happens in the body and how those shiftings affect your body.
... And I sincerely doubt that this person has a mental training that is anything compared to warriors of the old days ...