Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Negative Responses or Positive Responses @ Maharlika Martial Arts: April 10, 2012

Today in class, we had three different groups working on what they needed to know for TD's (transitional drills). We had groups learning from TD's 2, 5, and 8. It's nice to see everyone working on something different and still have enough partners to work with.

One thing I notice happening (and I've done this too) was that the Receiver puts up his counter/parry before the Feeder attacks the target because they already know the drill. The Receiver knows that the Feeders next shot is to the neck or heart. I had to remind them to respond to the Feeders attack before acting on the drills next movement. I guess it's like dealing with bad situations in life.

Sometimes in life, we react too quickly before anything happens. Anticipating something bad is coming or going to happen because of past experiences. Or, our emotions start making us react wrongly/unreasonably, because we already feel it's coming. Stop! We have to reset ourselves and remember that things will happen when it gets there. When that moment comes, then we are ready to deal with it with correct responses (our positive/feeder mindset is ready to deal with it); not with bad responses or negative thoughts. But with positive thoughts (you can get through this bad time, you can overcome your fear of...) and thoughts of how you could learn from this bad situation.

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