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- From: stark@dwovax.enet.dec.com (Todd I. Stark)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: body memory
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:33:20 GMT
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- ek@patty.gud.siemens.co.at (Ernst Krudl) writes...
- >With learning a new form/kata I usually experience body memory: I can not
- >recall the form in my mind, but once I start to repeat it, I realize
- >it is still there.
- >Can anyone explain this on a medical/biological level (or any other), please !
-
- I can't explain it, but it seems interesting to discuss.
-
- There is some evidence of sensory channel-specific memory of a sort.
-
- Several popular models behavioral 'strategies' (after Pribram, Miller,
- Galanter) as having components in specific senses; kinesthetic or body sense
- being one of these. One of these models, found in Neurolinguistic
- Programming, would probably either explain your experience in terms of
- preferences for kinesthetic tests rather than visual ones in your performance
- strategies, or in terms of the visual tests being below the threshold of
- consciousness at this point.
-
- The practical implication, in NLP terms, *might* be that teachers are
- best advised not to try to teach you by way of visual metaphor, since you
- don't seem to organize your kata performance that way, at least initially.
- That's useful for a teacher to know. Some people prefer to organize their
- performance visually (even though they certainly have the capability to
- remember kinesthetically as you are doing).
-
- Eventually, most people use primarily kinesthetic memory and tests, I think,
- once the kata is learned very well. An expert performer can do the kata
- blindfolded, without visual reference points or even with confusing visual
- reference points. A novice performer is frequently confused simply
- by asking them to start facing a different wall.
-
- kind regards,
-
- todd
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