The Author in Texas teaching a Combative Grappling Seminar!
A few year’s ago I was training with a student of advanced skill and he said to me that he wished we practiced the same thing more often during his lessons! (though we practice the principle we were working on regularly) I thought about what this student said and replied that they needed to practice more often on their own at home! Skill and technique are taught hand in hand at our training hall and during individual and group private lessons. Repetition is extremely important! However when you are practicing and continue to practice you will see the similarities in almost all of the techniques we employ and in almost all Martial Sciences it is the same! It is this step being able to link the similarities by using the principles that we practice that really starts a practitioner down a path of greater skill. Everyone gets this at their own pace. Some people get it quickly and others take awhile. The major point is that you will get there if you practice consistently. That is the key! Lots of practice and sweat and eventually the similarities pop out at you and the next thing you know you are making great leaps in your individual improvement! Do we constantly train enough? How much is to little and how much is to much? These can only be answered by ourselves and only by looking at what we can and cannot do! The first step each of us should ask is, am I getting enough training time under my instructor? If not then we need to make it to class more often! Next question, am I training enough on my own? Some of the best martial growth you will ever have is when you train on your own at your home, working through some techniques you have been shown. This type of training is where you make great strides and develop the ability to always have a great training partner! (yourself) The finest martial artists in the world are generally the ones who practice a lot on their own time! Do you go to seminars? Seminars are a great opportunity to see a different instructor and to learn some different skill sets! You generally also have the opportunity to work out with training partners that you are not used to! This is great, because everyone moves a little bit differently and no two people react the same way to a technique! Now if you are training at the Training Hall and working out at your home and hitting that occasional seminar you generally will be making good progress. Some people will make fantastic progress and others will make steady progress. Bottom line is if you are training and training correctly you will probably see significant skill development over time.
Fast forward to today and the practitioner above reshaped his training and started practicing at home more and attending seminar’s and he has made incredible progress!
One note of caution though, be patient let things come to you and try not to get everything at once. Sometimes overtraining can be detrimental to you and you should just take your time! Remember nothing is more important than your family so balance is essential. Train, enjoy and in no time you will see great results!
You Control Your Training!
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Brian R. VanCise
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