Learning alot to learning nothing at all

[aefibird]

It's like getting over a hill only to find a bigger, steeper hill!

 

...and the hills get bigger and steeper the more you train... lol

[jarrettmeyer]

The more you know, the more you know that you don't know.

[vitasama]

Now you're really learning. Most people don't realize how little they know.

 

I think you hit the nail on the head ...

 

"Only by learning do we discover how ignorant we are" -chinese proverb

 

You will never know EVERYTHING there is to know... that is the most important thing you can ever understand ......even black belts are ignorant

[foreveryoung001]

I can still remember what my instructor told me during my first class after my 1st dan test, "Now I'm going to show you how to throw a front punch the right way."

 

We worked for two weeks on perfrecting (relative term) a simple front punch. I had to begin to think in some new ways about shifting my body weight. I had just gotten my black belt, but in some ways I felt like a white belt all over again. Consider yourself blessed that you have realized this early in your training. It came as a bit of a shock to me, and in some ways, it may have added to my decision to take a few years off of my training.

[Shorinryu Sensei]

I can still remember what my instructor told me during my first class after my 1st dan test, "Now I'm going to show you how to throw a front punch the right way."

 

We worked for two weeks on perfrecting (relative term) a simple front punch. I had to begin to think in some new ways about shifting my body weight. I had just gotten my black belt, but in some ways I felt like a white belt all over again. Consider yourself blessed that you have realized this early in your training. It came as a bit of a shock to me, and in some ways, it may have added to my decision to take a few years off of my training.

 

Interesting...and I've heard this before from others. They don't teach you the "correct" way until you get your black belt? Why? We teach the correct way from Day 1 of training.

[foreveryoung001]

Interesting...and I've heard this before from others. They don't teach you the "correct" way until you get your black belt? Why? We teach the correct way from Day 1 of training.

 

I honestly don't know why. My instructor quit teaching a few months after I tested for 1st Dan, and I didn't even attempt to find another Chung Do Kwan school at the time... Years Later, I got ahold of my grand master and asked him about it. He said that my instructor may have had his reasons, and he may have been, just plain, wrong. Since then I have worked with my Grand Master to put together an overall lesson plan for my own students, where we work on certain goals... or maybe we could call them "levels of accomplishment" where every technique is always a work in progress until the day you die, but the closer you get to "perfection" the more you are able to focus on smaller and smaller variables within each technique. I like this philosophy more than what my instructor used, but it still goes along with the main point of this thread, in that there is always more to learn, and perfection is just an ideal to aim for but never attainable.

[Jinxx0r]

wow... I'm in the category of not knowing enough to know that I don't know.

 

[Logan]

Think about realizing you don't know near as much as you thought you did when you thought you knew everything, and then figuring how dumb you were then, it should make you seem smarter.