Posted by Royal Dragon on April 14, 2003 at 11:02:32:
In Reply to: Re: Type-clik posted by KC Elbows on April 14, 2003 at 07:54:06:
You make skill development sound like mutations that the HN team passes out. Skill cannot be posted, inferred, or photographed. Skill in martial arts means that when you cross hands, your art lives through you. It comes from testing yourself against the best. It doesn't come from doing a movement on it's own, but from doing the movements against someone who knows how to counter that, and by being able to deal with that. It comes from a unity of forms, not an isolation of them, meaning that all the pictures in the world of someone moving don't make it so that that person can actually use those movements to any degree of skill.
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The above is very well said, congrats KC.
I would like to add to it by saying, Although you can't see skill in still pic, you CAN see 'Lack' of skill in a still pic. Look at the body structure, the basics and fundementals. You can clearly see those who have no clue by looking at the position of the hips, the shoulders, the spine and the weighting on the feet. If you are looking at still pics where the practiioner is violating the utter most core basics of propper body structure, you can be assured they have no real skill in a anything martial as it is ALL built on those basics of structure and alignent. Without it, there is NO higher form.
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