I have noticed that until now, I have made improvements in keeping the mind at the back – in the spine. However this has its limitations. When someone holds my hand tightly, half of my attention goes to the hand. I am able to keep roughly half of my attention in the spine. Because of …
Teaching is difficult. It rips you from your own, personal training for the betterment of others. Verily can it be described as self-sacrificing! However, one must constantly improve to give new insights to their students. Realization cannot be achieved via laziness. The support a master gives must be such that the students should surpass the …
I don’t understand sparring. I used to advocate it but a recent experience has brought me to my senses. In my fight, my opponent’s movements were a flurry and I kept getting hit in the head. That didn’t feel good at all. I then began to realize that I did not have the prerequisite skill level …
I am currently focusing on the transfer of mass and am finding it damn amazing. It’s so clever how the mind can be used to transfer mass to various areas of the body. I have known the mind to be capable of doing many things – theoretically! But doing them practically, via one’s own intentions …
So I memorized the Butterfly Knives form awhile back. I must say, it’s the best form after SLT. I thoroughly enjoy it. I like how the shoulders, elbows and hands rotate. I don’t have any knives so I just practice with closed fists. I cannot get anything out of it though. Tom said that there …
A few days after coming back to India, I started working on pushing my shoulders back. In my opinion, there are a handful of ways to achieve the state of “your shoulder sitting in the back.” The first is manually forcing it to stay there as much as you can during the day. This method …
