I Am Learning Martial Arts As Slow As I Possibly Can!

This remark, that I am trying to learn Martial Arts as slowly as I possibly can, actually comes from 1967-1968. I was in a Chinese Kenpo Karate school at the time. Which self defense school I was in doesn't matter, however, as, I found 'slow learning' applied to every martial art in existence.

That doesn't mean I wasn't learning and having a ball. Heck, Martial Arts made life worth living, and the rite of passage is not equaled in other method in life. But, as I have said, I was learning pretty darned slowly.

The method of learning slowly was described to me as achieving 'plateaus.' I would go up a rank, learn new material, and then practice that new material for 4 - 6 months, and be bored with that new material after the first month. I knew what I had been taught, you see.

Somebody shows me a move, I practice it a dozen times, and then I can do it. I don't have to think about it, and don't really understand why I am supposed to practice something I know. And pretty much everybody is like this.

Intuitive learning is the method by which a human being learns, and human beings are the fastest learners in the universe. Yet they are asked to memorize random techniques and tricks, and then draw connections that don't, for the most part, exist. No wonder learning is has become arduous; no wonder people quit.

Think of it in this manner: you are asked to memorize an geomtery formula, a trigonometry sequence, learn how to add two negatives numbers, and then you are a mathematician. Doesn't make sense, and it won't work. Yet that is the way the martial arts are taught.

Well, of course, they originate in nations which did not have logic, let alone broad public education, let alone an interest in the latest and greatest modern method for learning. Doesn't mean their arts aren't great, they can be phenomenal, but they are slow. The method used to teach is just slow, you see.

There are alternatives to this random memorization of tricks...if one is to be willing to admit that the old methods are antiquated, and that they can learn fast, and that it is okay to learn at a faster rate. We are our greatest natural resource, and it is time to undo the restraints, throw away the wheel chairs...and get the lead out. After all, you don't want to keep learning the martial arts at a snail's pace, do you?

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