Trying to relate and make a connection
I definitely get complacent in my training and appreciate when we get the opportunity to train in a different form or do an exercise that’s more outside the box. Still, I have my preconceived notions of things, muscle memory, personality, and just some things that I do because that’s the way we do it. Going over stick 2 with some of the yellow belts I noticed a couple of them right off the bat doing something strange. After they kick-kick the stick before the strike they were grasping the left hand above the right. After a lot of thought, my best guess is that we tell them to hold the stick on their thirds and they were probably just trying to achieve this, but obviously was causing issues in the form. It really made me think about this certain technique and trying to relate to why they were doing it that way. After doing it a few times, I still just did it the way I normally do it, because that was the ...