This remark, that I am learning Martial Arts slowly, actually comes from 1967-1968. I was in a kenpo school at the time. What martial style I was studying doesn't matter, however for I found 'slow learning' applied to every martial art being taught.
That doesn't mean I wasn't learning and having the best time of my life. Heck, Martial Arts brought a point to life, and the rite of passage is not equaled in other method in life. But, I was learning slowly.
The method of learning slowly was described to me as achieving 'plateaus.' I would go up a rank, learn new material, and then practice that new material for 4 - 6 months, and be bored with that new material after the first month. I knew what I had been taught, you see.
Somebody shows me a move, I practice it a dozen times, and then I can do it. I don't have to think about it, and don't really understand why I am supposed to practice something I know. And pretty much everybody is like this.
Intuitive learning is the method by which a human being learns, and human beings are the fastest learners in the universe. Yet they are asked to memorize random techniques and tricks, and then draw connections that don't, for the most part, exist. No wonder learning is has become arduous; no wonder people quit.
Think of it in this manner: you are asked to memorize an geomtery formula, a trigonometry sequence, learn how to add two negatives numbers, and then you are a mathematician. Doesn't make sense, and it won't work. Yet that is the way the martial arts are taught.
Well, of course, the self defense arts come from countries which did not have logic, let alone public education, let alone an interest in the latest and greatest modern learning method. Doesn't mean the arts aren't great, they are, but they are slow to learn. The idea of plateaus is just slow, you see.
There are alternatives to this slow memorization of random moves, of course, one has to be willing to admit that the old methods are...old, and that it is okay to learn fast. We are our greatest resource, time to take the buckles off, undo the restraints, throw away the walkers...and get the lead out. After all, who would want to keep learning the martial arts as slowly as you can?
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