{"id":4819,"date":"2011-01-29T07:22:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2011-02-03T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T19:37:59","slug":"practice-a-suggestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/2011\/practice-a-suggestion\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice: A Suggestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Practice.<\/strong> How do you do it? Year in and year out. It\u2019s a task and a pleasure and a promise that, though broken now and then, still endures the years and the tears.\u00a0 Even though friends and lovers come and go there is that stubborn loyalty to something without a name (isn\u2019t the greatest loyalty to something without a name? People say \u201ccountry\u201d, people say \u201cfamily\u201d and mean something else that has no name).<!--more--> I\u2019ve seen and heard about <strong>a circus of methods and plans<\/strong>. One teacher I know, a top instructor in Mitose Kosho Ryu for years had a little card files with all sorts of work outs. Each day he would just dip into the file and pull out a card telling him which forms, which kicks and what basics to work on. Another friend, now a fine Chen style player, had the names of all her Kenpo techniques recorded, all 200+, just the names recorded and as the voice called each name she would execute it. My favorite response about practicing came from that diminutive fireball, <strong>Hawkins Cheung<\/strong>, sifu and old friend of the B. Lee. When he was asked about his practice regime he said, \u201cRoutines are for beginners, I practice whatever I feel like.\u201d So what do we know? Foremost, that practice is a very individual thing. Still,\u00a0 when you are first building your foundation in the art of Kung Fu there are some points that you should make sure your hit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bridge6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4824\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"bridge6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bridge6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Foundation training.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <\/span><\/span>Start with it in the morning and end with it at night. Foundation training is the calm, solid beginning of the day. Even a little, a few minutes, is like making sure your have a breakfast with real nutrition. For me, I practice the Ba Shi with the Horse, Bow, Cat, etc. You don\u2019t have to go through you whole routine. Take one stance and BREATHE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bridge3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4822 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;\" title=\"bridge3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bridge3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Stretches and warm ups.<\/strong><\/span><\/span> It\u2019s insane to stretch for twenty minutes to work out for twenty minutes. A little stretching and then go. Five minutes. If you want to stretch to actually improve flexibility, make that a separate routine. Be sure to turn your waist and relax your shoulders. Otherwise you may be stretched out but you aren\u2019t warmed up, for Kung Fu at least.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bridge4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4827\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"bridge4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bridge4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Basics<\/strong>.<\/span> <\/span>Start slow. Emphasize form. Yes, you should work up to speed and power but the main idea is to learn something from your basics each and every work out. Again, a good approach is to work through your moves but take some time to concentrate on certain movements. The minute you are doing your basics like a machine you should stop and examine what the next level would look like. More intent? More precision? Don&#8217;t train yourself to be a robot.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bridge2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4826 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"bridge2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bridge2-133x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Fighting training.<\/strong> <\/span><\/span>Dummy. Bag. Partner. Build strength, speed and experience. Sparring goes here, partner practice, self defense techniques. This is the hard and strong heart of the work out. Progress from patterned drills to free motion and then, as long as you aren\u2019t reved too high, to sensitivity drills like Push Hands, Rolling Hands, Sticky Hands. Change and adapt, over and over. Train hard and fast and then recoop. Challenge your best techniques, don&#8217;t rely on what you rely on.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bridge5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4823\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"bridge5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bridge5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Forms.<\/span><\/span><\/strong> Calm down with forms but heighten your\u00a0 sense of fluidity, rhythm and technical skills. Weapons practice goes here. Start with your most current form, go back and practice earlier forms then return to the one your are focusing on. Very slowly add the real execution of your skills into the forms but treat that like salt. Don&#8217;t put so much in that you can&#8217;t get it out again. Every form has a hidden theme, find it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bridge1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4825 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"bridge1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bridge1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Return to Stillness.<\/strong> <\/span><\/span>Back to stance work for just a minute. Calm, deep, slow. Stand up and walk around but go back to the meditative only with a different accent. Everything you moved through in the whole practice, you are <strong>still<\/strong> moving through only without a visible sign of activity. Stand up\u00a0 and relax. Work out over.<\/p>\n<p>To do<strong> traditional Martial Arts<\/strong> well is a delicate balance of what most people would call exercise and reflection. This interconnected Yin and Yang is more powerful than any single approach could ever be. And, as you advance, you also realize it&#8217;s more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practice. How do you do it? Year in and year out. 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