everything wrote:a normal person probably cannot master piano, guitar, bass, drums, vocals, etc. but maybe can be decent multi-instrumentalist and master "music". i don't think they ever really "start over" when they pick up a new instrument. they are already master of music.
Kong Bao Long wrote:IMO You can have just one master (one endeavor) if you truly expect to have mastery over it.
Some arts (with their origins that date back centuries) have shenfa that doesn't look practical by modern standards. These were created during a time when there was no orthopedic surgeon. You suffered a torn rotator cuff because you did the technique over and over..(training) You where as useless as a surf.
Arts that are centuries old arts are focused on a ergonomic kinesthetic approach. They had to be,
Why is this relevant to the thread?
If your practicing one of these arts ... IMO Mastery lies time in doing... sounds simple I know, but learning a technique that in grounded in ergonomics, you can practice it over and over without harm to your physical (joints, tendons ligaments etc) Ergonomically, it's sound... that means you will be able to do the technique till you master it. That old saying if you can do the technique 10,000 times you will have mastered it. If at 5,000 you have injured yourself through repetition? How deep can you go on the mastery?
IMO the masters of old understood the internalization of the shenfa through serious study, understood that when combined with the practical knowhow one acquired working on it over and over ..
an exaggerated example: You blow out your knee throwing a Question Mark kick ... so what... you just go to the surgeon.. right? its an Awesome kick, But totally modern. How long can you expect to do that kick? I've seen 70 yr olds that because they have thrown a front kick 10000 ergonomically, focused on kinesthetic ergonomics... there isn't much you can do to thwart what they are doing.
you keep starting over, sometimes you won't see what I'm referring to
windwalker wrote:When your life depends on something.
You will either have mastered it,
or won’t need to.
wayne hansen wrote:TBF.
Hank Hill.
wayne hansen wrote:It is like origami making a statement on another thread about someone wiping out 99 % of the tai chi community
It is an unproven guesstimating unless he has tried 99% and bettered them
he would absolutely wipe the floor with 99% of the Taijiquan folks I know in open competition and probably push hands too
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