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Old 11-01-2001, 06:23 AM   #20
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P.S. progress is a very odd thing in that sometimes you lay the groundwork for progress during those times you are on a plateau. For example, my aikido has had a radical change recently through a week long training course with an excellent sensei. At first I thought his technique was quite poor, then (after 4 days) I realised what he was actually doing and I was hooked. My aikido has changed radically since, but if it wasn't for the fact that I've done sankyo 6,719 times (well it feels like it) I would have been concentrating on where I was standing, what my hands were doing etc too much to motice what was really going on in the technique.

i.e. its only when you can do your aikido without having to think about it, when you can actually start to think about it again.

Ian
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