I didn’t give myself enough room, the form is big and
although I started and was in the zone so to speak I quickly ran out of space
and almost into the judges. That wierded
me out and I popped mentally out of that no thinking just doing frame of mind
into an ‘oh my god now what’ moment. For
me when I ‘plink’ out of the zone like that I’m not aware of where I am in the sequence
of the form. Maybe that makes me weird
but its how it works for me. Parts of
many of the longer forms have repeat movements and sequences so it can be scary
when you lose your focus on the doing, just going with the flow, and realize you
have no idea where in the sequence you are.
What maybe I should have done at
that point is some move that would have allowed me a moment to regroup mentally
and get back into that doing frame of mind.
What I did do however, is just grab a similar section of the form and go
from there. I never did get back into the
‘zone’ so feeling panicked, awkward and embarrassed that I just messed up and
that it is probably reflected in the movement of the form I just sort of
stumbled to the end.
Its not realistic to expect the surroundings/conditions/preplanning
to be perfect everytime. Especially when
performing at a lot of different locations like we do in the I Ho Chuan. So how does a person prepare and stay in that
zone even when things go awry? How do
you get that doing frame of mind to stand against outside distractions/influences? Do I have poor focus? Should a person prepare an emergency response
/ Hail Mary sequence to save the day?
Should I stay out of the doing not thinking zone when performing? If that’s even possible? Am I just
weird? Insights would be appreciated.
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