The classes I took this past week were essentially reviews of techniques. A Japanese master once said that you don’t know a technique until you’ve performed it 100,000 times. You can probably master a technique sooner than that, but if you did practice it 100,000 times, the movement would be as automatic as breathing.
Although, we would like to learn something new in every class, that is not the best way to proceed. You haven’t practiced the previous material long enough to commit it to muscle memory. It is better to do a variety of drills that work the past material in different ways. And that’s what our instructors did this past week.
So… there was more dirty boxing, but with the added element of dealing with a confrontational individual as well as an additional assailant. In addition, there were more breakfalls and drop-knee seoi nages. However, there was the added element of your opponent thwarting your throw and how to overcome that problem.
"Learning occurs when a conscious effort to put the body in a particular position or to move it in a certain way is transformed from a conscious action to an automatic action, requiring no thought."
The bottom line is… the more times you correctly repeat your techniques, the better you will be at them.
