All of these trainging-lessons are of two types:
- Physical practice like kicks, punches etc.
- Effect of practice on mind
I have trained by my teacher. Thats physical training. I am the proof that training not just changes your body, it changes your mind, your way of thinking too. You start to think in a different manner than what you usually did. I don’t know of the facts and I guess training releases some chemicals in body that go into brain and change its functioning and make it superior. I always belived that human body is animal, it was designed to run, work hard and make it stronger but today’s corporate lifestyle makes you live the opposite. I think Martial-Arts changes your body back to what originally what it was supposed to be.
April 2:
- keeping Hara (a body part 3 inches below naval) tight while practicing Sanchin Kata footwork is actually correcr practice. It has nothing to do with gifted skills at birth.
- Thigh kicks have started to tell me that they can be refinied and made better as if there is a new body which now needs new kind of practic and movements, the movements that are correct.
April 3:
- Practice is not feeling like a suffering anymore. It is still very difficult and extremely hard and tiring but no longer suffering or drudgery in anyway.
- Practicing side-kicks in static position from last 10 days and today it came naturally, the leg is just standing without any extra suport/force from my side. It took 2 months to correct thigh-kicks but now just 10 days for side-kick ??
April 8:
this was the first time I pushed myself beyond the point I could take pain. It never happned earlier in my life, neither in social life nor in political study/research, nor in understanding UNIX way. My instincts are right. Martial-Arts can give me what I always wanted in my life. I do not know what exactly that thing/feeling is that I want but I know for sure that Martial-Arts practice will give me exactly that thing/feeling.
April 9:
I no longer want claps, followers and name and fame like a movie star. Its first time I no longer want the popularity of a star or political leader. Its first time I want to master my body, I just want to live my own way of life and be satisfied in that and I really feel happiness in that. I no longer need an external thing to make myself happy, its all within my body now.
April 16:
- The season is changing to very, very hot unlike last 2 years. The body is adopting itself to getting up late around 6:30 AM, which is its usual way of getting itself into relaxed zone and being lazy. Even after all this, getting up earlier is not a big deal anymore unless I have slept after 9:15 or 9:30 PM
- The more you practice , the more body tries to adapt to the hard work you are doing. The harder one practices the better the body adapts, the lesser it pains to adapt to Martil-Arts practices.
April 19:
- You do not need to fight 1000 street fighst to become a fighter. It may feel essential but not mandataroy in reality. Truth is stranger than fiction. You only need to practice the basic techniques, correct postures and correct angle 1000 times, then after few years street fight will come naturally to you, provided you have a really good technical and honest (moral) teacher.
- With a wing-chun guy you stay in kicking range and he may not be able to fight with you that skillfully. With a TaekWondo guy you stay in trapping range and he may no be able to fight with you that skillfully. With a Muay-Thai guy you stay in ground-fighting range (wrestling range). A true fighter remains empty, his true art does not remain in any way or style. He finds and discovers his body through hard and correct training, he focuses on himself than any particular style bilndly. Then he has no range, no style and no ideas or opinions. He fights using no style but using himself – that is the true spirit of a Martial-Artist.
April 21:
Practcing attacks, movements correctly, improving everyday, correcting your postures and angles frequently is very difficult but possible. Possibility lies only in practice, you have to be litle harder on yourself, determnation is required as human body and brain both have basic property of finding relaxing and easy ways.. Practice which looks impossible will become possible after 2 weeks of gradual labor. Do not try to jump to a higher level in just 1-2 sessions. Body takes time to adjust to a new lifestyle and movements.
April 22:
I did not practice today as I thought my body needed rest. It was fine till 10 AM, after that I started feeling tired with unworkable muscles as if like I was earlier when I did not have a teacher. Seems like body has crossed the first stage of adapatation to a new lifestyle. I needed more sleep in the morning as I slept from 10:30 PM last night to 7 AM today.
April 24:
Today, my mind started to observer the posture and angle of exercise and also the stress comes on which muscle and which part of the body.
April 27:
My mind has started to focus on correct technique (quality) rather than maximum number of repititions (quantity). It is focussing on doing all the repititions in a proper and correct posture and correct angles.
April 29:
There is not much confusion. When I want to write a blog, there is no pain or hesitation in doing so, the flow of thinking and writing in blog seems to be continuous and without any doubts. Martial-Arts has changed my mind, my way of living by clearing my mind of doubts and illusions and fictional obstacles. I feel free and clear.
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