MOTIVATION OR HARRASMENT?

Bad Ju-Ju does not take a day off.

Hi Guys, and guests.

I had a prospective new student call me up the other day, he was in training with another school so when I asked him why he wished to jump ship he told me that on the few occasions that his life demanded more from him than grinding at Wing Chun he would get bombarded with texts and emails from the school asking him why he was not training.

He said they claimed they were simply trying to motivate him to keep up the good work.

I think we all know this story.

But it does beg the question.

As you all know, if you are away from training for a couple of weeks, I will get in touch to see if everything is going well, we are a family of sorts after all, but I never mention missing training, and I would never be so crass as to pretend it was motivation for your benefit.

As most of you have trained with me for years, you are well aware that I do not bug people to train; I do not even bug you guys to do the FORMS…

..hint, hint, do more FORMS.

My position on this IDEA of motivation is consistent with my position of Wing Chun being a Self-Defence System.

Emphasis on SELF.

If we do find ourselves in trouble, it will be our nervous system that will call the shots and not our social calendar.

Despite the deep and meaningless conversations around ‘Response vs Reflex’, self-defence is never expected; we will always be in crisis mode, and as such, everything will be ‘reflex’.

If any student needs external motivation to train, they are not training for self-defence, I do know that there are a thousand reasons to train, and in their own way they are all just as valid, but if you hope to reflexively use your training when you are not in your ‘Right Mind” it needs to be filed under Self-Defence, and not under Thursday evening if I am not too busy.

Bad Ju-Ju does not take a day off.

I am not saying that we need to train ‘hands-on’ every day; this would be counterproductive and lead to burnout, but we must remind ourselves why we train every day, just in case we get attacked on a Tuesday.

If we believe that violence is real, then we need to be real.

For those of you who train this evening, we will be working on readiness and understanding the ready position.

All good. Now that you have read the post, go do a FORM.

Here is an old video because what is a blog post without a video?