Topic: Unity of action takes precedence over speed of action

[Susan]

This is another snippet of advice from the "Valuable Advice" section of Plee's book "Beginner to Black Belt" (My all-time-favourite karate book).

Plee says of this section:

"This manual is for beginners. Accordingly, I shall give you here, in no particular order, some advanced advice which will be a veritable mine of "secrets" for those who read them. You may understand them at first glance, but as you progress, you will understand them better and often in a different way".

Anyway, I thought it might be interesting to hear different interpretations of this piece of advice.

UNITY OF ACTION TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER THE SPEED OF THE ACTION

[Mole Bach]

Susan,
I'd love to reply with some intelligent/witty answer to your post, however, no matter how many times I read it, it makes absolutely no sense to me what so ever.  but I promise that, as soon as it makes sense, I'll post something worthy of debate.
 

[Jewels]

UNITY OF ACTION TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER THE SPEED OF THE ACTION

When focusing on diffrent parts of the body when practising and then focusing on speed i remember that you can,t have speed until you can unite your actions..which is obvious i know but i always forget

[Lloydie]

Jewels, thank you very much for making some sense of this for me.   Like Mole Bach, I had read it again and again and just could not grasp what the hell it was trying to convey.  Your post gives me a bit of a grasp on the slippery beast  

ta

lloydie