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Karate Komments: What Is Muscle Memory?

programming the movements into our brain. now complete, movement is automatic, smooth
When teaching new skills this is broken into and precise. The development of muscle
By Jim Riddell three parts. In the beginning there are so many memory is one of the reasons why it takes such
things for the student to think about – foot and a long time to achieve a high level in a martial
hand placement, allocation and transfer of body art. Muscle memory is something that we seem
weight, where to look, which way to turn, etc… to retain after long periods of not performing
uscle memory is movement that the
Mmuscles become familiar with over time. By breaking movements into components, this a particular skill. I have seen people return
Muscle memory is not found in the muscles, but portion is quickly learned. to karate after several years, or even decades
away from the sport believing that they had
like all other types of memory, is stored within The second phase is much more gradual.
the brain. It is not memory in the muscles, but This is where the adjustment and fi ne tuning of forgotten most of what they knew. They are
usually quite surprised to find themselves right

memory for the muscles. Once a motor action movement and technique takes place. Muscle back where they left off within a few months
is learned, and repeated often enough, it can memory, requiring hundreds, even thousands
of resuming training.
be performed without thought. A few everyday of repetitions, does not judge good form from
examples are typing on a keyboard, riding a bad. If these adjustments are not made, the Whether your goal is to win trophies
bicycle, or entering your pin number. student would just get really good at making performing kata in a tournament, or to protect
the same mistakes over and over again. The yourself in a self-defence situation, muscle
In the sport of karate, muscle memory is
something that we are constantly developing tweaking during this timeframe ensures that memory is of the utmost importance to a
martial artist.
and relying on. When learning a new technique the “quality of the quantity” is maintained.
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