developing a feeling

“Remembering techniques has taken precedence over developing a feeling for them, while adherence to a syllabus has become the main conduit through which karate is passed from one generation to the next.” - Michael Clarke Sensei 

Comment: Kind of like memorization vs. understanding, the kind of understanding that allows a manifestation of application by feeling - and under the stress of adrenal flooding too. Another point to make is remembering techniques that does not meet the needs of conflict and violence effectively. A technique based training model is about trying to meet the requirements to combat attacks, not sport, etc., but street attacks or even socially driven monkey dances called sometimes “Bar fights.” Our focus should be on how we manifest techniques according to any given situation of a random and chaotic nature through the study, understanding and application of multiple defense methodologies as driven by proper application of fundamental principles of principled based multiple methodologies, i.e., using theory, techniques and philosophy to drive our application of physiokinetic principles in applying multiple methodologies, i.e., the six methodologies of compression, drives/pushes, pulls, impacts, twists, and takedowns/throws.