Wanderingdragon wrote:No biggie Chris, just Saturday night gooffin' ...on a thread that has made some valid points but with too much intellectual posturing
From my standpoint I don't see any of it as intellectual posturing at all-- quite to the contrary I've found the vast majority to be extremely helpful in terms of evaluating and contextualizing my own training. In short, for me it's part of the process of stripping away the garbage and improving what's important. It all comes down to individual experiences and the mental framework from which we each approach our lives.
To me, what you talk about makes sense, but only for someone who already has some natural ability and experience. So if you're already a fighter, what you talk about may be enough. For someone who doesn't have the practical experience, for example, imagining people attacking and interacting with the environment as a training tool can very easily lead to fantasy and delusion. I like some of the ideas you've presented, but they're just not accessible to me in the way that you've presented them, and that's not meant as a criticism of you or what you've presented at all, it's just an acknowledgment that we probably have pretty different backgrounds and world views. It's not a question of better or worse at all, just what's available.
My 2 pennies, presented with 10 penny words...
What I'm after isn't flexible bodies, but flexible brains.
--Moshe Feldenkrais