| Re: Video training
In rec.sport.fencing on Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:01:28 -0800
Jonathan Jefferies <jonathanjefferies@alamedanet.net> wrote:
>very useful. Likewise if you learn by "monkey see, monkey do"
>as I do then watching the occasional video may be enlightening.
>But if the choice were one lesson or one video - I'd go with
>the lesson.
>
Mainly, I think, because it's very hard to do *properly*. Even with a
mirror, if you don't have an experienced eye looking at what you are
doing, you can miss a lot.
Anyone who has taught knows the weird feeling of seeing someone do a
manouevere, finding nothing wrong, and having a more experienced
teacher point out all sorts of mistakes. That you never saw.
Even if you are of the "form doesn't matter" school, you can still end
up praticing things that are counter-productive and you'll find that
out the hard way.
If you've been fencing for long enough to have good kinesthetics,
good, feeol for what your body is doing and how that translates to
good fencing, then you can probably work things out from a book or
video. But if you are a novice, it's all equally weird, and you won't
realise you have been practicing it wrong until you try to use it,
find it's hopeless, and have to unlearn all that body memory.
Books are good for theory - for strategy, for some understanding of
how it fits together. And also for reminders, a way to remember some
of what you were just taught. But not for learning physical things
from...
Zebee
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