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I ride the aikido short bus.
This is not consciously self-denigrating, nor a cry for sympathy. Nor am I saying that I Suck, because after a year at least I don't that any more. I'm growing towards acceptance of the fact that I do not absorb these skills as quickly as other people, nor as quickly as I do other skills. (It may be late in the day to have this lesson; a consequence of the fact that I've always drifted away from things that didn't come easily to me, even if I found them interesting.)
Enlightenment came from working with several newbies over the last week; one in particular. He's had maybe a dozen classes, and the two when I was working with him we were doing complicated henka waza techniques (that is, you switch what you're doing in the middle), stuff I've only done a couple times. And he was getting the hang of it right off the bat. I'm not saying he's ready to go pound gang members' heads in or anything, but the information was clearly sticking fast and hard. Comparing to myself at that point--. (To salve my ego a bit, another newbie I worked with who'd been around a few months is probably a bit behind me at a comparative time period. But his ukemi's consistently better. My arm still collapses sometimes when rolling. Le sigh.)
In other news, we found the first sucky episode of MI-5. Naturally, it would be the one about someone hax0ring their systems. It was to vomit...copiously. Bad technobabble even by TV standards, on top of a gratuitously over-emotionally-wrought plot. Still, one bad egg out of, let's see, ten episodes so far is pretty darn good (and upon checking, I find that the person who wrote this one didn't do any others, at least not this season).
Enlightenment came from working with several newbies over the last week; one in particular. He's had maybe a dozen classes, and the two when I was working with him we were doing complicated henka waza techniques (that is, you switch what you're doing in the middle), stuff I've only done a couple times. And he was getting the hang of it right off the bat. I'm not saying he's ready to go pound gang members' heads in or anything, but the information was clearly sticking fast and hard. Comparing to myself at that point--. (To salve my ego a bit, another newbie I worked with who'd been around a few months is probably a bit behind me at a comparative time period. But his ukemi's consistently better. My arm still collapses sometimes when rolling. Le sigh.)
In other news, we found the first sucky episode of MI-5. Naturally, it would be the one about someone hax0ring their systems. It was to vomit...copiously. Bad technobabble even by TV standards, on top of a gratuitously over-emotionally-wrought plot. Still, one bad egg out of, let's see, ten episodes so far is pretty darn good (and upon checking, I find that the person who wrote this one didn't do any others, at least not this season).
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Some people are annoying like that and appear to pick up techniques with little or no effor. However its worth remembering that there is more to martial arts than just getting the technique correct. There is also the issue of getting "muscle memory" laid down so that in a fight situation you automatically do techniques without your brain getting in the way.
I have seen situations where someone gets techniques straight away and doesn't spend the time practising them enough as they want to get to the next technique. So whilst they end up being able to lots of techniques in a training situation, the techniques aren't very useful in a real situation where you don't have time to stop and think.
MI-5/Spooks
My current favourite A&E thing is 100 Center Street. Slightly different feel to it...
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According to the BBC Spooks site, there will be a series 3 (with 10 episodes) out this year.
And there's a difference between UK and US terminology; "series" vs "season" :-)