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- From: troyer@mitre.org (Tom Royer)
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- Subject: Re: What are the purposes of Forms ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.205256.21006@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:52:56 GMT
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- In article <BxytnD.JrL@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> phd07@keele.ac.uk (H.C. Patel)
- writes:
- > Finally, how should one perform a form ?.
- > That is, do you picture an oponent in front of you while performing ?.
- >
- Yes. According to my instructor:
-
- After the first hundred executions of a form, you know and
- remember the moves and techniques.
-
- After a thousand executions, you will no longer have to imagine an
- opponent,
- you will see him.
-
- After ten thousand executions, the people watching you will
- see him, too. In fact, that's the best way to judge the execution of
- a form: how well you see the performer's opponent.
-
- --
- Tom Royer
- "If you're not free to fail, you're not free."
- -- Gene Burns
-