When Did You Start Noticing Your Mistakes?

[Aniela13]

I agree with those who have said it's when you become comfortable with the moves...
...in the more humorous realm, I used to have a tendency to step in and try to jam kicks during sparring. After receiving a side kick to the ribs that literally threw me in the air and back a few feet (a couple weeks ago)...I noticed that mistake and haven't done it since ^_^

~Ani

 

[kidswarrior]

Not really sure when it was 'first', but do know that once I began teaching it back to others, wow...everything became glaring.

 

[ACJ]

I find teaching is one of the best tools for learning.

As soon as I started teaching, nearly no basic mistake was hidden to me. I had seen it enough times to know what I was looking for in my own actions.

I may have noticed most of my mistakes before teaching, but teaching was a real turning point.

If you have a video camera, that can really help push you along in finding your mistakes also. Watch it and see how many times you go "that looks so wrong."

 

[Balrog]

For me it's just started, I've been going to my class and just tearing myself apart noticing all the things that I've been doing wrong, and I always remind myself to take it back to the basics.

Preach it, brother! You can never do your basics too many times.

I was very fortunate to have a picky instructor who wouldn't let me get away with doing things wrong very often. That attention to detail has stuck with me and after I had been training for a year or so, the things he was telling me really started to turn on the light bulbs over my head. And when I had an issue of some sort, it has never failed that when I break it down to the component parts, I'm doing something wrong. When I get that basic fixed, whammo - I've got the technique fixed.

 

[Cirdan]

Yeah, the title is pretty self-explanatory, but there's a little bit more to it than that. I don't mean noticing when your technique isn't working, I mean when did you get to the point in your training when you noticed EVERYTHING you were doing wrong()?

What an excellent question. I got there after about four years. It is a funny thing, not only does every move feel wrong but the whole body feels different too.

 

[MilkManX]

Just recently I have noticed more and more and work on correcting them. Its taken until I hit my second year of training.