Do You Have To Be 100% Fit To Train?

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You get an injury should you keep training?

The reason I started thinking about this is that quite often I get people coming to me

saying they are not training tonight or this week because they have hurt their foot or

their arm, or feeling tired.

How valid is this? I know everyone is different but when I was training properly I never

wanted to miss a session, I had to be told, no. It doesn’t seem to be that way anymore,

quite often I get a call saying I’ve pulled this and don’t want to make it worse. Sometimes

OK, fair enough, I’ll go along with that, but, if you’re serious, and want to focus on

every aspect of your art, you don’t have to go at it, big throws, or a whole night of full

physical rolling about.
You can take the oppotunity to work on the finer aspects of your art, step through slowly,

look at the small things that really make the throw. You don’t even have to get to the

throw part of it, there are so many small angle changes you can play with to try to enhance

your moves and going at it full tilt, isn’t the way to find these, it’s too easy to let

strength and speed take the move on, and you forget about the small things, the things that

really make it all work smoothly and effortlessly. I know, i’ve been there and done it both

ways, in fact until I’d passed my Black belt and started teaching, I was still doing it

that way.

So what I’m really doing is trying to give you a heads up, teach you something it took me 4

years to learn myself.

Though saying that, Sensei Hart did try to tell me as well, I still didn’t listen though

I’m afraid, not as well as I did.

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