All the trimmings (Thanksgiving visit to Prof.Lomax)....

As with any good meal sometimes it takes a little while to digest. For me, the same has always been true of any good training session. The adage,”slow to learn, slow to forget” was written for me. Particularly, the first part, “slow to learn” or as I like to say I follow the Texas chicken wire method of learning. Just keep throwing crap at me, eventually somethings gonna stick. I may be a little more proficient than that, but you get the idea.

The same could be said of how I initially work new and often my old material, “slow to practice, slow to forget”, but with this method there's always the potential to learn something new. On this last trip for Thanksgiving I visited my family, went to the NCRM (National Civil Rights Museum) and also had an opportunity to spend a few hours training with my Silat instructor and four of his students. As the guest, his first question was, “what would you like to do?”. In standard fashion I asked if we could review the 1st Juru he taught me when he was in Houston back in October. As he began to go over the juru I could immediately see that 1) he was moving much slow and more methodically that the first time he taught it 2) he filled in some of the gaps I missed 3) he again corrected my posture and made me aware of some common errors to look out for when executing the foot maneuvers and finally, as he began to share the hidden understand within this short juru and the applications were actually different or expanded understands from my initial exposure.

From that simple request we moved into meridians and vital points, locks, 14 count applications against the low hook. I’m just now sitting back and digesting what was shared over a week ago.