Take Your Time
The foundation for building a skill is developing technique. Often, speed and power are mistaken for good technique. Just as often, speed and power are used to hide bad technique.
Everyone nowadays likely has either a DVD player, a DVR/Tivo, or both. Imagine recording a movie and then watching it in the fastest forward speed for the sake of getting through it. How much information do you think you've missed?
For starters, you've lost all the audio. That alone probably accounts for 75-80% of the information. Secondly, since the fast playback only shows single frames and skips over others, you might only see 1 frame out of every 100. So you've missed 99% of the visual information.
Sure, you may get the general idea of what's going on, but you'll have none of the details. The same goes for your technique.
To really train it well, you have to slow down and feel every aspect of it. Glossing over it will not only make for sloppy technique from the outset, but the poor quality of it will only be magnified as you put even more speed and/or power into it.
Where it will really come back to haunt you is when you move up to a more advanced class. Suddenly your technique will no longer work on anyone in there because they've been there much longer than you and can easily see your flaws.
Especially in silat, there is so much content and depth in a simple movement. Treat it like a really good steak and savor it.
Everyone nowadays likely has either a DVD player, a DVR/Tivo, or both. Imagine recording a movie and then watching it in the fastest forward speed for the sake of getting through it. How much information do you think you've missed?
For starters, you've lost all the audio. That alone probably accounts for 75-80% of the information. Secondly, since the fast playback only shows single frames and skips over others, you might only see 1 frame out of every 100. So you've missed 99% of the visual information.
Sure, you may get the general idea of what's going on, but you'll have none of the details. The same goes for your technique.
To really train it well, you have to slow down and feel every aspect of it. Glossing over it will not only make for sloppy technique from the outset, but the poor quality of it will only be magnified as you put even more speed and/or power into it.
Where it will really come back to haunt you is when you move up to a more advanced class. Suddenly your technique will no longer work on anyone in there because they've been there much longer than you and can easily see your flaws.
Especially in silat, there is so much content and depth in a simple movement. Treat it like a really good steak and savor it.