Ian wrote: No specialized internal training. In your every day life, do you stand around? No. Your martial art has to become like this."
ashe wrote:Ian wrote: No specialized internal training. In your every day life, do you stand around? No. Your martial art has to become like this."
learning to stand is the most basic requirement.
look at how we develop as children. first you learn to roll over, then to sit, then TO STAND.
that's why children learn to stand first, and why we need to do the same.
ashe wrote:disagree. what children learn during sitting, crawling and standing is stability.
the falling down is what happens when you lose stability.
the learning process in children is binary. 1 or 0. did i succeed? no. do not repeat that action. yes. repeat frequently.
falling down is the negative reinforcement, it's the cue that our actions were incorrect. if falling were the method we'd never learn to walk.
for the sake of clarity my definition of stability in this context is " the ability to control movement".
so stability is what we're after in all our postures. the ability to control, in infinite degrees, our own movement.
Walk the Torque wrote:I'll go with Walter on the forgetting how you gat there thing. Also whatching my son go from all fours to crawling was a tad painful emotionally, as he was so frustrated and angry that he did not know what to do to get his arms and legs going without falling on his face. I have images of him grimacing and willing this event called crawling to happen.
Anyway; As I see it, standing practice is not necessary to gain internal skills or skills to fight well, but it really does speed up the process. Stability aside, just the sense of connectedness and what it does to your ability to deliver the required information to your body on how to move is just incredible. Moreover, I would not like to leave standing practice behind, because I believe at a certain point it is less about standing still and more about learning strong insidee movement.
I like Mr Minoru's approach though. Lots of feed back with partnered stuff, and the emphsis on movement gives it a certain quality that is appealing to me.
Walter Joyce wrote:Saying that children learn just one way or just another is false. Like adults, different children have different personalities and therefore different learning methods or styles.
"No, I don’t do [qigong]. No specialized internal training. In your every day life, do you stand around? No. Your martial art has to become like this."
ashe wrote:Walter Joyce wrote:Saying that children learn just one way or just another is false. Like adults, different children have different personalities and therefore different learning methods or styles.
i was speaking on a neurological level during the early stages of development.
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