Learning to see!

  You know as I have the privaledge to teach this art , I can't help but travel back to the first days of my training, How exciting and frustrating all at the same time!  I see this in my younger students and I tell them... Never assume you know a form or technique,unless it is reaction instead of thought ! You have not mastered a thing ! and that says alot , because our Grand master and masters still come out to train the basics ! I say this more to my younger belts in sparring. They come to me frustrated becausethey are still thinking their next move or their anxious to get to the next belt level . I tell them that each step is vital!!, this is the foundation of their art,also to imagine they are blind, first you would have to learn how to read braille , inorder to read the book...so think of your art as such, practise your forms and techniques all the time,let them become a part of you and after a while it will flow like water because you can finally see the forms for what they truly mean!