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I’m often asked how one should divide up their training and learning time for optimal effectiveness. Every training activity can be divided into further divisions and there are good and bad strategies for all of them.
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Martial Arts have meant many things to me over time. Here are some of the outcomes I feel are found within the HEMA disciplines we practice at Academie Duello.
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It can feel wonderful to receive praise. But these types of compliments may be programming you to avoid risk and seek approval.
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I was turned on by sparring right away. Win or lose, I loved the environment, I loved the contact, and being able to truly test my skills with a weapon that allowed me to practice a large percentage of its deadly techniques in a safe, non-injurious manner. Yet for all the rewards that sparring can offer it can also be a destructive force in one's pursuit of a martial art.
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One of the core reasons to set goals and work to achieve them is to build happiness, fulfillment, and sense of self. But if you're using your goals to beat yourself up or hold yourself back, you'd do better to change your strategy regarding goals.
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If you want to become an excellent practitioner of something (and that is a worthy goal), then you are going to need to call on yourself to do something you can't yet do and keep asking for the yet-unreachable again and again.
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Goals are something that are always on my mind in one form or another. Sometimes I forget them for a time, get lost into the activities themselves, or just find myself drifting along, but I can't go far without popping my head up and wondering where I am and where I'm going.
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Our emotional state while learning has a dramatic effect on our brain's readiness to absorb new information, act creatively, and retain new content.
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A sometimes-heard phrase around the Academie is "doing things wrong will help you figure out when something's right." This is an often-understood but rarely appreciated concept.
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One day while teaching a private session one of my students brought in an old book of stretches and stretching routines and asked which ones were best for swordplay.
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