April 01, 2004

a martial arts moment

Rob, Thesamegoes in learning martialartsforms. You have mesmorized (that'san interesting typo -mesmorized) memorized a movement for years. La-la-la-la-la you just repeat it by rote overnover. Then one day kaboomski! you're playsparring withsomeone and that movement just comesoutof you like that and you go omigodomigod that's what that move is for. And you thinkback to the wholelineage of carefulteachers whopackedthatpiece of wisdom into the form and you say thank you!

Posted by allen at April 1, 2004 11:52 AM