Targeted Repetitions

Wim Demeere's blog provided a quote, i.e. targeted repetitions - with a specific purpose every single time. This has meaning to many of my previous postings. This is a means to describe how one must NOT just do repetitions with a mindless emptiness that often provides physical exercise but not much else but rather with an intent that trains and teaches one how to make it work in a conflict, a fight or in combat.

Just throwing hands out in front of you in a perfect form will not get you there. Targeted repetitions are those repetitive behaviors that encode within the brain not only the moves but the purposes of those moves and a visualization in great detail incorporating sight, sound and feel tend to encode the best. This prepares you for the next level where one uses a uke in a uke-tori model of training to encode things deeply and permanently. 

Like most things marital arts this is only to get one to think about these things. It is meant to provide a means by which you can actively learn and incorporate such activities to your benefit should you encounter a conflict or worse - predatory violence. It is putting what you learn into practice starting out with the first step - targeted repetitions or hyoteki kurikaeshi.