well the question is....
Are you training to fight and be a soldier? or are you training your internal system to increase your level of awareness and receptivity to the environment around you? There is a difference you know, even though the warrior or soldier learns the latter.
The "Old way" of teaching in IMA is that you learn the moves first, get acclamated to them, after a few years you start to learn the techniques for fighting. Remember it is "INTERNAL", which stresses the importance of what i wrote above about "level of awareness" and "receptivity to the environment around you."
and of course learning about chi and your body's awareness through fighting AND healing.
Tai chi ba gua Hsing i. these are all internal arts that are designed in the Taoist way of thinking. Train one extreme then train the other,,balance the two extremes and then go from there.
but as a rule in "INTERNAL" you train the "INSIDE" FIRST.
it is the longer road to take,but in my opinion the more enriching road.
Peace,,,TWS
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.