Tonight we worked primarily on our strategies regarding distancing in our sparring. Not only is your own range very important, but your opponent's range as well. Whether their range is longer or shorter than yours, it poses a unique challenge on how you position yourself in relation to them.
I learned much in terms of how to recognize what your opponent might be attempting to accomplish through their body language, as well as how to counteract or exploit it.
During this lesson, I realized that I needed to address something much more basic if I were to actually learn anything. This concept was to breathe properly. While participating in the lesson, I found my breathing was shallow at first, only getting air into the top half of my lungs. This is one of the reasons why we teach the sound focus, to expel all the air in your lungs in order to force yourself to take a full breath.
As soon as I recognized this I paused for a moment to reset myself, remind myself of the importance of good, full breaths, how those full breaths will keep me calm and give me more power. I slowed my breathing, but increased the quality of each breath, allowing me to embrace and respond to the lesson that was being taught.
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