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When Knowledge Becomes Feeling - Part 3 - Embodiment (opens the original)
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Previous parts:When Knowledge Becomes Feeling - Part 1When Knowledge Becomes Feeling - Part 2: FrictionWe talked about the “installation” phase in Part 1, where your body, mind and whole nervous system are adapting and accommodating something new to the way you move, to the way you react to certain techniques, and to the mindset a martial artist has in specific combat situations. Muscle memory is being adapted to recall these new ways of acti
When Knowledge Becomes Feeling - Part 2: Friction (opens the original)
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Hey everyone!This is the second part of this article, so I would recommend checking it out before continuing with this one. As we mentioned in the previous article, after checking that you got the conceptual knowledge phase and basic motor learning right, it’s time to put it to the test through one of the most challenging parts of training, where you try to apply the new knowledge under some kind of pressure, and it often seems that it isn’t working.You may test them either during intense padwor
When Knowledge Becomes Feeling - Part 1 (opens the original)
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Many of us who started martial arts, perhaps because we got bullied and wanted to fight back, or saw some Van Damme and Jackie Chan movies and got very hyped up, or because we wanted to have that naturalness, that flow they displayed. And we wanted to go through that initiation period, that period of training and transformation that made us finally powerful enough to be able to fight the injustice we were afflicted by, to protect what we deemed important, and, why not, to seem cool and, as Gen Z
The Warrior of Light in the Bhagavad Gita (opens the original)
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The Hero Through Ancient CivilizationsFrom the texts and verbal traditions of ancient civilizations, many elements have been preserved and recorded, among which the most important is the Hero Archetype. In the Iliad, we have Achilles. In Greek mythology, among others, we have Hercules, Theseus, Perseus, Bellerophon, Jason, etc. In Mesopotamia, we have the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is the first epic poem found in written form.In the history of ancient Europe, the best-known myth is that of King Ar
When Winning Teaches You False Lessons (opens the original)
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One of the Worst Mistakes Is the One That WorksDoing something wrong*, getting away with it, and starting to believe that what you are doing is the right way just because you aren’t facing immediate consequences, or you aren’t aware of them, is one of the most dangerous mistakes.There was a time when I would not have given much importance to this. But today, I have come to think that it is one of the most dangerous ways to self-ruin because it is often quiet. It doesn’t feel like the ruin is hap
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