So for those who have been training awhile...Can you look back to when you first started training and remember how you were, maybe clumsy and hesitant, unsure of yourself, performing moves awkwardly, and then figure out from there about how long before you finally started to relax into your martial art and let it "flow", for lack of a better term?
My first year at Krav was enthusiastic. I performed the newly-learned moves energetically, but I had to be stopped and corrected constantly the first four months, a little less so four months after that, and finally by the time the year was up all that practice seemed to start paying off. I realized that it had been awhile since my level 1 material had been interrupted by the instructor. Yay! It was a good feeling. But much of it was still self-conscious and forced, on some level.
Sometime during the second year of practice, the level one basics finally became subconsciously performed, they started to "flow" out of me. I don't know when that became true, but it obviously did happen. Now I will look forward to my level 2 material getting to a "flow" as well., hopefully by the end of this third year.
So for me, it takes over a year to get to the "flow state" if I am practicing diligently. What about you?
My first year at Krav was enthusiastic. I performed the newly-learned moves energetically, but I had to be stopped and corrected constantly the first four months, a little less so four months after that, and finally by the time the year was up all that practice seemed to start paying off. I realized that it had been awhile since my level 1 material had been interrupted by the instructor. Yay! It was a good feeling. But much of it was still self-conscious and forced, on some level.
Sometime during the second year of practice, the level one basics finally became subconsciously performed, they started to "flow" out of me. I don't know when that became true, but it obviously did happen. Now I will look forward to my level 2 material getting to a "flow" as well., hopefully by the end of this third year.
So for me, it takes over a year to get to the "flow state" if I am practicing diligently. What about you?