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[anotheranon]

I competed yesterday for the first time since June. I didn't feel well (turns out I do have a bit of asthma) but I kept my head on and didn't do as poorly as I might have.

I'm starting a new learning curve that is among the most frustrating yet: stringing actions I already know into a desired sequence and remain able to change if the situation changes. I can manage about three but add a fourth and the whole tower topples.

This pisses me off because all of these are actions I know how to do, I just can't plan to do them or retain spontaneity. Also my feints are poor because I don't learn anything from my opponent's reactions.

V. acknowledges that this is difficult and may take months or years to master, which is not news, so I see a lot of drills in my future. It still stings to crawl uphill after yesterday, where I saw a 13 year old apparent "natural" skip his E rating to go straight to his D, while barely paying attention to what he was doing.

I pushed myself to drill after lesson and fumed a bit so I left early to cool down. Tomorrow I'm going to see if my dress mold is stable enough to serve as a target again so I can do some of the repetitions at home.

Comments

[tommdroid.livejournal.com]

First step is to understand one is doing something wrong. Second step is to identify what one is doing wrong. Third is to see what one should do instead.

Then there is the trick of actually implementing the changes.

I'd say you already done the hard parts. ^_^