The common denominator I have found training
with different instructors, who also were extremely effective using the
techniques of their arts (some did represent a variety of different arts).
There was a common factor. The way they used pain with their senior students
instruction.
No they did not
damage those individuals, it was not that kind of pain. But they used students
who elected to train to severe levels attacking their instructor, and receiving
much of the power of the defense being shown, unto pain itself.
What I
discovered (often with pain myself) was those students in turn each became
great instructors, because they ‘knew’ where to adjust your own efforts till
they could feel that correct pain. And of course they also learned well how to
do the same they were feeling. True skill.
Now I was never
that skilled, Not that things were not openly shared with me, but those
instructors knew my limitations, not being deeply trained in their arts, and
chose not to often share that pain with me. So I did not get ‘it’ the same way.
And much being
a youth instructor, I did not go to that
level with the kids. Though there were times, that the movements we were
studying did have an effect on the adults.
An interesting
thing about Pain. Our body does not remember Pain, we remember we were I pain,
but not the pain itself. Once experienced it goes away (in its own time)
Aikido for one
was explained to me this way. You don’t move the person, (an art of locks and
projections for the most part, which of course is an over-simplification)
Rather it is pain that moves the uke into desired consequences. Intense pain
feeling invoking reaction, or the feeling of anticipated pain causing the
desired reaction.
Another way of
looking at applications.
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