Making the Easy Things Hard

If absence makes the heart grow fonder then it follows that complication makes the brain appreciate simplicity.

Once you’ve learned a form it’s often fairly easy to breeze through it without paying much attention to detail.  You know the form.  You do the form.  It’s that easy.  The trouble is that just doing the form isn’t necessarily the best path towards getting better at the form.

Often it takes looking at the same old moves from a slightly different angle.  Tonight in forms class the students did that by standing on top of boxes, benches and balance boards.  Fun stuff that makes you really appreciate “just doing” the form – appreciating it in a way that hopefully makes you notice more.