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Old 02-23-2006, 04:03 AM   #17
Dirk Hanss
 
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Re: How important are the basic techniques

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Lynn Seiser wrote:
How good is the written word without a basic alphabet?
How good is mathematics without the basic numbers?

IMHO, its all in the refinement of the basics.
Finally a point, where I can argue - as professional.
You can do mathematics without numbers, you can dan create even a mathematical universe without the basic operators.

And there might be 10 people out of the 10 bln, who could learn it another way - if they find a teacher. If I was to ask to teach someone, I always would start teaching to count (with the help of the fingers). That's how it works for most. And even if they are skilled, you always have to come back to the fundamentals, i.e. when is a theorem proved.

And that is probably the reason, why in all budo I know you have fundamental techniques that are taught again and again, and you have basics all beginners start with.

Dirk
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