wadoka wrote:Hi Claas, (Santa Claas?)
I was asked to do the honour but noticed I have a yellow shirt and that it's not Easter! :D
(My mother had to perform. Luckily there were no kids. She wouldn't have fooled them.)
The idea that analysis and teaching mantras are not the same thing is a very good point. On a forum all this easily becomes difficult to put in the right context. We seem to need the words and a visual input. Many times a feeling. Still, with an effort and mutual respect we can share thoughts here also that support the training. A forum is a forum and the dojo is the dojo.
Most people really can never understand analysis of movement by their correct mechanical terms. Many times on the other hand terms are thrown but the essential phenomena are not mentioned. Still the ones without the analytic knowledge can many times understand every teaching and with enough training perform well. So exact analysis is not as important as the teachings. Still if you have the tools, go ahead. Sometimes it makes it easier to understand the teachings and at least answer questions or decide wisely not to.
Funnily I get the feeling that many people with very good knowledge about mechanics mess this kind of stuff up and the ones with just some very basic knowledge but more time training and teaching cover the essential stuff with their correct physical terms with a better ratio. Feeling seems to be a better teacher than academic ways, if we want to put the two against each other artificially like this. Thinking is good, training a necessity.