Training is meaningful & satisfying
Training results in the performance of complex, graceful and meaningful techniques and mastering them is an empowering psycho-somatic experience.
Children assess for themselves the success of a technique and with the collaboration of their training partner work towards improving it. The implications of this are that students internal motivation for excellence and mastery is ignited and they are less reliant on carrots and sticks.
Training satisfies the compelling need for completion or gestalt. All exercises tangibly lead to performing techniques with greater efficiency and elegance and under increasingly complex circumstances.
This is very different from some other exercise regimes where training is often fundamentally meaningless and either exploits the competitive nature of participants for motivation or in exceptionally manipulative systems exploits students need for completion to "encourage" continued training.
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