tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827293309574913027.post959814884670778933..comments2023-03-30T00:52:50.594-07:00Comments on Sword and Circle: Rhythm, Harmony and Discord Part 1Maijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264657619197571965noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827293309574913027.post-46380677928496000642011-04-11T07:11:57.946-07:002011-04-11T07:11:57.946-07:00@ctk -
Everyone's personality comes out in any...@ctk -<br />Everyone's personality comes out in any partner practice - everyone feels different to cross hands with, no? But movement and rhythm obviously manifests more fully in free sparring/dueling/flowing. <br /><br />We all learn by imitation, I posted a link a while back to a piece about mirror neurons, and how copying someone excites the same neurons in your brain as in the person you are watching .... so yes, it's imitation, but on some level YOUR imitation of somebody will look like you and my imitation of the same will look like me.<br /><br />What I find really interesting however is how our identity is somehow wound up in how we move, and the resistance to finding new ways. I think it's somehow linked to Rory's ideas about Monkey/social conflict and the importance of your opponent knowing it's YOU that won - the necessity to communicate dominance from one individual to another means that you need to be recognizable as YOU. I think on some level changing yourself is internalized as 'cheating', it screws with the ego or loses the point or something ..... so we are resistant. (This is not a fully formulated thought at this point, but certainly a question in my mind ...)<br />Out of interest, Sonny never seemed to fight/flow/play from ego. He was so focused on how the other player ticked and how to 'play' them that he pretty much disappeared. That's what I mean by him being a chameleon. There was no 'there' there that you could fight, he was constantly morphing, toying with you like a cat with a mouse. Luckily for us students he was doing it in the interests of teaching us, not torturing us LOLMaijahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18264657619197571965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827293309574913027.post-5297640956107549562011-04-11T05:02:21.051-07:002011-04-11T05:02:21.051-07:00Personally, after many years in the traditional ma...Personally, after many years in the traditional martial arts with set patterns and set ways of expressing those patterns, it was (and still is) very hard to change up my personal style.<br /><br />In fact, even just saying, "personal style" is a misnomer. There really isn't anything personal about imitation, is there?<br /><br />Great post. It has me thinking!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com