Training like a champion
If I want to become a champion, I should go to one who championed it already and draw from the wisdom. I had the pleasure with J.F. a national dance champion, who succeeded with different partners. It was an astonishing experience merely by feeling the energy and dedicated passion which he radiated from the first to the last second of our dialogue. These are the key learning of what it takes, the habits and thoughts of a champion.
Awareness and conscious analyzing all the time
Am I mechanically doing it or am I fully present in every detail all the time? We know practice shapes the master and we see people training all the time, but how conscious are we while we are doing things? The love is in the detail and the more aware you are the earlier I can learn how to do it more right in the opposition to; No matter how long I practice, if I don’t understand the soul of it and dance with it, I will become good at something which doesn’t tap into the soul and create not the value I wished for.
Blueprinting
It is an ancient wisdom, that in order to build a skyscraper you need to have a blueprint for the design and its creation based on the principles and laws of nature.
In a time where we are haunted to do, do and do and a world where we say plans are no good as everything changes so quickly, it was fascinating to hear the meticulous detailing of his envisioning and planning.
How many different ways are there for me taking these two dancing steps? How does it stand in relation to my partner and how can it dance in harmony to the music? While I am training 1 hours, being proud of my discipline, he spends half the time thinking of how it could be done and the other half succeeding on a new level.
He models a constant analysing of every little detail and formed a profound concept of understanding of the essence of dance which is broken down into building blocks in complexity and relation to each other. The way to mastering dance is then paved by clear focused patterns to be learned and practiced as in 10 figures combined with a box of building blocks of details for the individual and coupled harmonic movements supporting the best possible dance.
Simplistic creative discipline
They are meticulously and creatively planned over months, weeks, days, session and time boxed. Everything is disciplined executed with maximum focus and intent, while communicating and analysing together all the time to make sure it is the best possible execution and constant growing. The focused he expressed was sharp and deep that it left me stunned. If I do it, I do it for real otherwise it is wasted time. Every exercise, every movement is consciously reviewed; Did I do what I said I will do? How did it go?
Prestige less feedback
In order to succeed as fast possible, I need to learn how to succeed quick. Every session is transparently filmed, analysed and act upon. If he is stuck during one timebox, he would immediately ask for honest, prestige less coaching, feedback. What are we doing wrong? What am I doing to create this? Is it my fault? The more honest, to the bone and usable the feedback is the better. There is no prestige in the champions mind, there is only growths and result.
Learn from everything
And talking about the obsession of learning, he gave those words of advice to me. “You can learn something from everyone, no matter how good or bad they are! Watch and analyse! That was cool! If I take that and add that? Let’s try!”
His results talk loudly. I will try to lift myself to the next level with awareness, meticulous blueprinting, creative discipline, quick feedback loops and an open mind.
See you out there rocking!
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