Reality First - Combat, Violence and Aggession

Teaching of combat and violence for stage and fight direction, based upon the teachings of John Waller, which have been used for over 40 years. This approach has been used by a number of fight teachers and directors. It is currently actively being taught by Jonathan Waller, Kristina Soeborg, Rodney Cottier, Jonathan Mitchell as well as many others, in the UK, and across the world from Italy to Mexico...

Friday 14 June 2013

Why don't things change....

You cannot simultaneously ignore problems and solve them.

This appears to be so obvious that it almost seems pointless to mention it... yet again and again people do just that.
When teaching one finds that students will ask if one can watch them to tell what they need to work on or improve. When you then point out a weakness, many times one gets the response.... "yes yes I know".

Well, no no! If they really knew it was wrong, they would have done several things. They would have recognised it and then in the moment done something to change it, and possibly done the movement again to effect the change in motion. They may also have told me before doing the movements that this thing was something you were having trouble with

The "yes yes, I know" response tells you that the person does not really know, rather have received the information in the past and so when you tell them again they think they know it.

Real knowing, knowledge, changes you and how you behave. Just receiving information doesn't DO anything,  how you use that information is what does something.

To affect a change in yourself you have to be Aware of it!



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