Visualization is extremely important I was in a car accident when I was 18 have been training since I was nine use visualization to relearn how to move 52 now I went through stage 4 cancer two years ago .Been solo training for the last 15 years. I can hit harder and faster than I ever have been able to just have to be careful with the bones. It only wins when you give up
It's more significant than is often realized. I would say effective solo training is one of the most important skills, if not the most important skill, a martial artist can develop and be comfortable with.
This thing we have from experience is pretty cool. I think what you are mentioning is the state of mind humans have called "masters" over the centuries. They seem to be able to do anything they see even if for the first time. As you said, it came from the hard work and mastery of the body with one art, and the human mind has an automatic acquisition device to capture anything we see to put it to work. Same thing happens with language emersion too. I wonder if it only happens to teachers though, and not to people uninterested in translating the knowledge into future instruction? I feel personally that teaching as a process trains a person to take in information better on first viewing (so we can share it again) and maybe this helps use learn so much just by watching a video. I know when I watch Si-Fu Boztepe video all day before class, it comes out in my actions with fluidity, and I agree, it is kinda scary.
Brilliant insights, honed to simplicity. Anyone with some mileage in the martial arts knows how utterly essential these ideas are - and how rare to hear them well spoken. Thanks, Adam.
I noticed this way back as a kid when training TKD like crazy. Watching Jackie Chan films always made me level-up for a few hours. It's easy to put it as psyching up, but I think the unconscious aspect of bodily learning is often heavily underestimated.
Visualization is also a way to practice 'dangerous' technique 'to the end'. You can always break the arm completely or poke the eye et in your shadow boxing routine provided you trained it on a living breathing training partner under pressure beforehand
🤔 much to think about here...habits can be good or bad, concious or unconcious, useful or useless... a good instructor should be able to guide these habits in the proper direction. Proper nourishment for the appropiate levels.
This guy really knows what he's talking about. Can't believe he doesn't have more subscribers!
I wish I can learn in person with Adam. He explain things very well and seems like a down to earth kind of guy.
made one of my biggest breakthroughs during solo. i remember my teacher even saying "huh what happened to you". lol remember both very clearly. =)
Visualization is extremely important I was in a car accident when I was 18 have been training since I was nine use visualization to relearn how to move 52 now I went through stage 4 cancer two years ago .Been solo training for the last 15 years. I can hit harder and faster than I ever have been able to just have to be careful with the bones. It only wins when you give up
Enjoy your informative lectures.
Great teacher. Love to see Adams ideas on applications of biu sau.
I agree with Adam. Some of the best refinements in coordination come out of self reflection, self study, and imagination.
It's more significant than is often realized. I would say effective solo training is one of the most important skills, if not the most important skill, a martial artist can develop and be comfortable with.
This thing we have from experience is pretty cool. I think what you are mentioning is the state of mind humans have called "masters" over the centuries. They seem to be able to do anything they see even if for the first time. As you said, it came from the hard work and mastery of the body with one art, and the human mind has an automatic acquisition device to capture anything we see to put it to work. Same thing happens with language emersion too.
I wonder if it only happens to teachers though, and not to people uninterested in translating the knowledge into future instruction? I feel personally that teaching as a process trains a person to take in information better on first viewing (so we can share it again) and maybe this helps use learn so much just by watching a video. I know when I watch Si-Fu Boztepe video all day before class, it comes out in my actions with fluidity, and I agree, it is kinda scary.
I finally recovered from a wrist injury looking forward to train again. New year new focus.
Brilliant insights, honed to simplicity. Anyone with some mileage in the martial arts knows how utterly essential these ideas are - and how rare to hear them well spoken. Thanks, Adam.
Great advices! Thanks for your support Sifu Adam!
I would always watch the ip man films before I graded and for some reason do much better than I would have normally
I noticed this way back as a kid when training TKD like crazy. Watching Jackie Chan films always made me level-up for a few hours. It's easy to put it as psyching up, but I think the unconscious aspect of bodily learning is often heavily underestimated.
Visualization is also a way to practice 'dangerous' technique 'to the end'. You can always break the arm completely or poke the eye et in your shadow boxing routine provided you trained it on a living breathing training partner under pressure beforehand
Thats a good point
experience in two man drill, sparring and real fights ... all that experience , right ?
Absorbing just by looking sounds to me like what babys and toddlers do. Maybe its something in ourselfs, a learning-skill? Something like that?
You're talking about mirror neurons
🤔 much to think about here...habits can be good or bad, concious or unconcious, useful or useless... a good instructor should be able to guide these habits in the proper direction.
Proper nourishment for the appropiate levels.