Party Time

And that is why I have been silent recently. Well, that and I haven't had anything worth saying. My little group have been working through things and although things have been good I have had no epiphanies about technique or made any significant links.

This is part of martial arts. Sometimes you have times that aren't stagnation, but aren't that thrilling for other people. "Today, my point control improved a fraction" "I'm spending time fighting left handed because I'm starting to get visible muscle growth on one side of my body".. Not worthy of a post in itself.

Drilling can be tedious. In fact it should be, your mind is going to be so busy during a fight that you don't want to think about how to move into true guardant/posta de finestre de whatever. In fact, during a fight, you shouldn't even be thinking about the name- *This* should be when your opponenent does *that* and so-on. It is supposed to be instinctive, and that's what drilling is for. If you can successfully perform a drill whilst your mind is elsewhere, you have been practicing properly.

I suppose I should start talking about muscle memory, something I've been developing in a different field for quite some time and I can feel it building up slowly. However, it is difficult to find the words for it- this is in the realm of the sixth sense. (we have more than five senses- there is sense of balance, sense of body and so-on. We just tend not to talk about them so the language isn't really developed)