Since I began my martial arts training over 35 years ago. I have found that the one area that
my students seemed to always have problems with was .one steps. (the formalized routines for
self defense) required for all belt promotions. It seemed that the students minds went blank
when they got up to do the tests and instead of remembering the dozens of one steps they knew
they suddenly found themselves stuttering and stammering and falling around the mats doing the
same one step again and again or not remembering any at all. I knew that I had taught the
students dozens of one steps for the tests and that they had practiced dozens even hundreds
of times the one steps, again and again. So why were they forgetting? I realized that it was
due to .overload. and .over simulation. of their minds with complex one steps that had
absolutely no relation to anything they could follow in their minds.

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