Visualization<\/a> is used by many athletes as a regular part of their training. Beyond experiencing this as a visual learning aid, one can also imagine and recreate the feeling of a given technique in their mind.
\nWhen watching a teacher demonstrate a skill, attempt to imagine how it would feel if you were them. Instead of focusing on the visual, try to focus on the feeling of where your limbs are, what contact with your partner would feel like, and how it would feel to move and respond to that contact. It can also be useful to go through this mental exercise after you have performed a skill physically, to help deepen understanding and retention.<\/p>\nPractice Both Sides of a Partner Exercise<\/h2>\n
Make sure that you get the opportunity to both give and receive a particular stimulus. In kinesthetic learning, feeling both sides of an attack and parry, or of a wrestling grip and counter, give useful physical data about the nuances of successful and failed execution. If you’re working one-on-one with an experienced practitioner, make sure you are coached both on the student side and the coach’s side. It will be useful to sharing what you learned with future training partners and for giving you the complete kinesthetic picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week I’m exploring kinesthetic learning, which can be understood as the act of learning by feeling or doing. Kinesthetic sense is often best engaged through experiencing the stimulus for the skill and feeling the consequence of right and wrong action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}