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Old 02-21-2007, 08:52 PM   #638
DH
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Re: Baseline skillset

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Ignatius Teo wrote: View Post

Whilst we are on the subject of metaphors, what parallels do you see between forging steel and forging the body?
Well,none actually. I think it’s a way overplayed axiom
All that stuff about
"The iron brags about facing the tortuous furnace and the heat...
The steel blade? Looks back and smiles."

Or "Through tortuous discipline, fire and coaxing, thus the blade is born..."
Yadda yadda Actual forging is addictive but a whole lot of hot, hard sweaty work.

I think the real key to learning this stuff is repetitive, gradual work. Ya have to learn without stress at first to slowly get your body to hear and respond in new ways. It's the best way to learn this stuff not beating it ala forging. Even fighting with it has to be a process or you'll just go back to isolated flexing.
It's why I don't really want to teach people. I'm having too much fun to waste my time with technique junkies. I look for other people who are just as challenged by it as me and who will eat it up and work it.
Cheers
Dan

Last edited by DH : 02-21-2007 at 09:01 PM.
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