No Application, No Problem
In tonight's class I learned another really important lesson about our forms: that there isn't always an application (which means there are countless applications)
Sometimes there is a sequence or a technique that feels a bit strange, or is hard to visualize an opponent for, hard to envision a strike zone, or what you would be blocking and I realized tonight that sometimes they are designed that way. Another tool. another way our forms can teach us a different sort of lesson. Instead of thinking about how/why you're doing something, it is allowed to be a pure motion, which forces you to think about how you're moving rather than how you think you should be moving. Since you are teaching your body what feels powerful in the absence of any context, that allows you to bring that feeling/understanding into several contexts. So instead of just training how to move for one specific scenario sweep and take down their guards, continue the circle of energy, strike bridge of nose with knuckles you can use the feeling you developed into all sorts of techniques!
Writing this all out set off a feeling of familiarity in my brain and looking back through some old blogs I realize I have explored this concept before! (Read: Purity in Consistency) Again I am seeing this idea of "purity, allows possibility" emerging as a blog topic, so cool!
(If you're reading this and thinking, Oh! Sihing you forgot to mention which technique from which form you were talking about, I want to investigate this section too what is it? I purposely omitted it because I felt that I might be taking away an opportunity for someone else to have this same realization, and I think it was a great lesson that I needed to learn, so if you think it might be worthwhile, do some forms and look for it, listen.)
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