| A lot of training where you repeat mistakes and | | | | ourselves and consciously work on the right |
| bad habits doesn't bring you very far. You may | | | | technique over and over again until we develop |
| have heard about the saying: the right practice | | | | the right habit and then built on it. If you are |
| and training improves your technique and brings | | | | serious about your martial art and want to |
| you forward. This is certainly what you need to | | | | achieve your goals and results faster, you can't |
| do. How about we build on this fact and | | | | get past a video log. |
| incorporate another step and take our skills to a | | | | Start to document certain techniques, |
| whole new level? We add a feedback system, | | | | combinations and Katas. Most cameras have a |
| where we actually see how we progress, | | | | date/time stamp as well as audio. My advice: use |
| evaluate and do the necessary corrections | | | | it! Speak any comment onto the video. No pen |
| towards perfection of our technique. It is a tool, | | | | and paper required! How good and easy is that. |
| which allows us to compare objectively our skills | | | | Once you watch yourself in the video, you see |
| with others, in particular if you competing in | | | | how others see you (Oh, I thought I am better |
| tournaments. | | | | than that). Now you have an excellent tool to |
| It is no magic pill or a substitute of what you are | | | | analyse your technique and do the necessary |
| doing, read on to find out. In class you receive | | | | correction for improvement. |
| feedback and corrections from your sensei and | | | | Do this on a regular basis over a longer period to |
| higher grades which is an excellent start. But now | | | | break bad habits or just for improvement and |
| it is up to you to take this advice and use it to | | | | progression of your art. After all, we all have |
| advance your skills. | | | | cameras; this is an opportunity to put them to |
| Here is a little challenge; we are all human, which | | | | good use. Here is a video of myself in our |
| can mean, that we fall back (more or less) into | | | | backyard practising one of my grade Katas. |
| our old habits. The truth is we have to condition | | | | |