by Mike
Over at the Karate Thoughts Blog, Charles Goodin writes about "Making It Look Easy." The basic idea should be familiar to pretty much anyone, martial artist or not: when you see someone who has been doing something a long time doing something you've just started (or perhaps have been doing a long time and have been having trouble with):
The assumption is that the expert is doing something hard and is just making it look easy. In fact, because of his understanding and skill, what he is doing is easy...It may sound trite at first, but meditate on it and it soon becomes a very interesting point of view - with diligence, hard things become easy. Mull it over for a bit longer and then it becomes a why-didn't-I-think-of-it idea - hard things are hard until they're not hard anymore.
How does your technique go from being something hard to something easy? Hazmat talks about The Magic of Muscle Memory - aka drill, drill, drill; test, test, test; refine, refine, refine.
Keep in mind what you're doing isn't hard, it's just not easy yet and I think you'll find that changing your outlook will help accelerate your progress.
CC licensed photo from O pirata.
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