Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Breaking habits and building new ones

Call it Pavlovian in method.
If you want to break a habit in your training, isolate it, focus on it, and do it repetitively until and beyond it bores you and it hurts. You need to sweat in this stuff.
Then re-apply the isolated technique into the overall form and the newly formed habit should be there.
You must revisit this isolation and intentionality with repetition if you want the new habit to truly deserve the word.
This is iaido. Breaking old habits and making new ones!

Thanks Joe for this conversation last night during training!

Chris

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