Things that have nothin to do with Martial arts that help

[Decapitate911]

Since I don't have a martial arts school yet, although I was recommended a good few yesterday, I am gonna check out soon.

 

And I've been on the shelf from tendonitis, so I can't really workout for right now, I have been doing some things to help coordination

 

Over the past week, I have:

 

Learned how to juggle

 

Roll stress balls in my hands fast without them touching

 

and balance a plate on a thin wooden rod

 

These may seem like circus things, butt do you think these skills will help coordiniation in martial arts in any way?

 

Like, I heard juggling does something to your mind, like multitasking or somethin.

 

Anyway, learn to juggle anyway, its fun, and entertaining to friends!

[delta1]

Coordination is good.

 

Try reading things like The Art of War, Book of Five Rings, etc.

 

Start a program of meditation.

 

You may still be able to do some light stretching and work out some with bunjee chords. But don't overdo it.

 

Most importantly, since you don't yet have a style or school, use the time to research. Find and visit all the schools in your area. Look into their history and their reputation. Decide what you want out of an art and see if you can find it locally.

 

And, make sure you tell us all about what you are doing, so we can dump on you and ... Just kidding. One of the reasons I chose this forum is that there is a lot less chest thumping and putting others down than any of the others I've seen. You can get a lot of good advice here. There are a lot of styles represented, and some good experience. SO ask. We'll tell you something, whether we know or not!

[White Warlock]

Like, I heard juggling does something to your mind, like multitasking or somethin.

Yes, i learned to juggle when i was working a job that required me to do a multitude of things every day. You can't do things simultaneously and juggling helps you to realize that. It also does build up new nueron paths* in your brain that help you to handle dealing with multitasking.

 

Multitasking is an interesting word. When you hear that, you automatically think of someone doing a multitude of things at the same time, but that's not what it means. Multitasking means to be able to compartmentalize the various tasks you are doing, and being able to switch easily from one task and back to the other without missing a step. This is what you experience when you are juggling.

SO ask. We'll tell you something, whether we know or not!

 

And on that note...

 

* A recent study demonstrated that the brain actually creates new nueron paths to deal with new challenges, assuming those challenges are experienced often. This is especially relevant information for wannabe martial artists that think practice is just a waste of time. Proof now exists that clearly indicate... practice allows the brain an opportunity to create shortcuts, so your overall performance increases and your techniques or applications become more effective.

 

Yay! We're not wasting our time after all. Whether it is physical or mental, we are indeed expanding our minds. hehe...

[Decapitate911]

Sweet

 

Expanding Mind Rocks

 

And Delta

 

I have been doing just that, and trust me, I'll ask

 

I've pretty much read the complete idiots giude to martial arts, I am reading the new feng shui book, and I actually got 2 books on Buddhism and meditation yesterday.

 

So I pretty much have the history of everything down. Butt my friend, about 18 years old, he was talkin one day in My computer engeneering class about the stuff he's done, and he's a freakin Samurai, like, Certified. So he has done some pretty extensive research around here, so I am gonna let him be my guide. Although to take his ken-jitsu class he had to drive to like, 2 hours away.

 

So anyway, yay *goes and juggles*

 

BTW, how long can you juggle without a messup? I learned in about a week of practice, butt I still have about a 20-30 time limit before I have a tendency to drop one.

[Shorinryu Sensei]

Your friend is a "certified Samauri"?

 

*bells, whistles and flags flying here*

 

You have some good advice from Delta and WhiteWarlock. I don't know, but your friend sounds like a teen, martial arts "wanna-be" perhaps?

[Decapitate911]

I know it sounds like that, butt he is the real thing, trust me.

 

He's been doing this kind of stuff his whole life, and from like, age 12 has been doing very athletic stuff. Now he is fit as crap, you can see each individual muscle in his body move when he is doin stuff.

 

He's actually a good guy. Hes going to a 2 year akido dojo in Japan after college. The thing where you like, train 8 hours a day and don't really get that much contact with the outside world. The guy honestly does have a thirst for knowledge and bettering himself.

[Drunken Monkey]

you cannot be a "certified samurai".

 

the samurai were a class of people that used to exist in japan (and to a certain extent, they still do, the actual family that is).

 

even if you are born of the old samurai family, it still does not make you a samurai because that class of people were effectively abolished how ever many years ago.

[popo1999]

Yea I mean DUH!@!...... We all know that the Last Samurai was Tom Cruise....

[equaninimus]

I know it sounds like that, butt he is the real thing, trust me.

 

He's been doing this kind of stuff his whole life, and from like, age 12 has been doing very athletic stuff. Now he is fit as crap, you can see each individual muscle in his body move when he is doin stuff.

 

He's actually a good guy. Hes going to a 2 year akido dojo in Japan after college. The thing where you like, train 8 hours a day and don't really get that much contact with the outside world. The guy honestly does have a thirst for knowledge and bettering himself.

A what? I think he is having you on!

[Decapitate911]

ok ok, enough with the certified samurai thing, jeez.I don't know exactly, I mean, he has done samurai training stuff, like a bunch of the ***-tsu's

 

I was just saying that as an exaggeration of how this kid is the man.

 

And the thing I am talking about with akido is http://www.nippon-kan.org/uchideshi/uchideshi.html

 

He is doing some variant of that. Its not that exact program, butt something like it.

 

BTW: another fun coordination thing to do is learn to write fluently with your left hand.

 

That is what I'm workin on now. In school, I have been switching hands, doing whole days of left hand writing, to maybe equal out the use of my tinier, less usefull left hand.