Training is a very personal thing
Posted by Stacy on Jan 13, 2012 | 0 comments
It has recently struck me just how personal training is. Not that I didn’t realize it before, I just don’t think I realized just how personal it can be. With ninjutsu, every person’s training path is different. Sure we learn the same techniques and katas, but each technique and kata is different for each person. Because of who we are and how our bodies work. But lately I’ve realized it’s more than just the physical movements, and how we need to adapt the thing we are working on to our own personal styles. There is a mental path that we all follow that is different for each person.
There is a mental path that we all follow that is different for each person.
As I read that statement it screams out – “Why didn’t you see this before stupid!” Then I think of the uncounted number of times Dennis has told me we don’t see things until we are ready to. I guess this is one of those times. I can’t even begin to catalog the number of things that have changed about me personally since I put that white belt on for the first time. Not just physically, and how I move physically, but in who I am and how I look at myself, my family, my friends, my training partners, my teachers, my co-workers, strangers, and the world. Everything is different. Everything looks different and feels different.
There are many things recently that drove this home. Seeing training partners hit walls and places they don’t want to go. Seeing people who were out for a while come back just as eager to learn. Seeing people I thought were so excited about ninjutsu fall away when they learned they couldn’t ‘collect’ this art. Seeing people who want to train, but because of life can’t be at the dojo even though they want to be. Seeing people come, try it for a few weeks, and go and I wonder why they never come back.
Each persons journey is different, each path fraught with pitfalls, bumps, twists, turns, branches, splits, icy patches, mud holes, shadows, and even a few smooth and clear stretches that are scarier than the rest.
My path is mine. No one else can walk it but me.
Stacy Ross
SMAC Student
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