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- From: ek@patty.gud.siemens.co.at (Ernst Krudl)
- Subject: Re: body memory
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:51:36 GMT
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- Thank everybody for replying, mail or newsgroup, it helps me to continue.
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- When learning Taiji beginners often state: I cannot remember, meaning
- they cannot remember in their (visual) mind, and are not aware of the
- body sense learning ability.
- So that was one part of the question, how to explain to the student, if he
- asks how he remembers.
- Is it a general rule that in the beginning a form is easier learned by
- body sense than by visual metaphor or aural instructions, despite of what
- type the student pefers to learn with generally: seeing, hearing, body/
- feeling.
- In my experience I would say yes in most cases.
- With children I found they could imitate complex movements after weeks
- without having them ever done, and although maybe not exact replications
- they seem to have caught the "energy flow".
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- With my own training visualisation on the long run seems very effective.
- My home is aprrox. half an hour from my training place and what annoyed
- me in the beginning has turned out wonderful. On the way home I visualize
- the trained form and I remember the body sense experiences as well as
- the teachers instructions very clearly.
- ALso from time to time I try to do the forms in mind very fast and
- this shows me very clearly, where I have difficulty or still miss something.
- Visualizing in that case for me is always a mixture of seeing and still
- feeling the whole body.
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- Refering to another thread the question comes to my mind, why
- can a body sense memory not be tranfered to the visual memory, is
- this our present state, or because of our usage of brain, or brain
- itself ? Interesting but probably too difficult a question ?
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- Visualization (or even not to) seems also a connection to concentration/
- meditation.
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- Last remark:
- In a book called Das Training der Sieger (The training of the winners),
- published here in Vienna it is said that many , all ? super athletes
- train visually to perfect their performance, always of course together
- with actual training and not exclusively.
- Does this apply to martial arts too and what are your experiences and opinions ?
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- Ernst Krudl, Vienna, Austria (ek@patty.gud.siemens.co.at)
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