You have just started your journey in the martial arts, an exciting time of discovery and human potential, the potential to make massive gains.
One of the aspects of being a martial arts teacher or coach, should be the ability to work with the student and get them to a certain place in the arts in half the time.
If it took me six months to develop a skill set, based on my own learning and mistakes made, can I transmit and coach that same skill set to another person in five months’ time?
Four months?
There is always the potential for massive gains, especially when one is starting in the martial arts and everything is new.
What is one of the ways we can do this?
In the Japanese martial arts there is a series of martial arts movement called the kihon- the basics or foundation in the martial arts.
This series of movement is the building blocks of all future lessons, it is the bio-mechanical movements of the martial arts you have decided to study.
Every martial art has a series of basics or foundation moves- what are those moves and drill in your art?
Identify these movements and train them, drill them, every-single-day.
Non stop.
Watch how fast you become good in the movement.
These fundamentals are important for two reasons- they are the building blocks of the art you have chosen to study, all future moves, skills, and methods will use them, they are the KEY to unlocking them.
They also train your body to move in a certain way, this way is the way of transmission, the way to catch the *feeling* of the martial arts you are studying and the way to understand it.
DON’T make the mistake of learning them and moving on- approaching them from an academic viewpoint, as the martial arts are not academic, thinking you have learned the basics and can now move to advanced lessons.
Polishing these basics, this foundation every day will lead to massive and sustained gains in the martial arts.
Three months?
See you on the mat.