Kinbaku Elements are larger and smaller bits and pieces of information to learn and grow in your Japanese rope bondage, aka kinbaku or shibari, skill.
You’ve started learning a skill and now it’s time to perfect that skill. This element will guide you in eight steps to perfect your new kinbaku skill or any skill for that matter.
1. Don’t go 3 days without practicing
If you don’t practice you forget. Here’s a chart to show you.
When you practice your body and mind starts making new connections. Once a connection is made solidify it.
2. Focus on small improvements
The more you practice and play the better you get at it. Most of the time you don’t see the improvement because it will only be a small improvement. But the improvement is there!
3. Study more and practice again
Study more, practice what you study and focus on small improvements. Rinse and repeat. Stay with one teacher, coach until you feel what they are teaching.
4. Explain it someone else
This is a good one, when you explain it to someone else you will chunk the information down to make it simpeler for the other person but just as well for you. This is a way of learning and understanding. When you teach, you learn twice.
Now, do not go do workshops, that’s a completely different ballpark. Explain it to someone on a peer rope event, explain it to your partner, to your cat a rubber duck… you get my drift.
5. practice the hard things
We humans have a tendency to avoid practicing what we are not good at but fact is, the more your practice the difficult things the more you get good in every area!
6. Take (mental) breaks
With all the practicing you do this should be a delight. When you give your mind some rest from a subject you are studying it keeps on creating those sought after new connections. Solidifying your knowledge. You are getting good without doing anything!
7. Don’t be afraid to fail
Failure is a necessary evil and will make you better, stronger. Failure forces you to show what you are capable of, your greatest qualities. In short, failure leads to success. In other words, if you don’t fail you haven’t tried!
8. Find a mentor
As cliché as it may sound, but having a sensei (someone who has already done the work) can compress decades of gaining knowledge into days. This can make you reach where you want to be that much faster. But remember that you still have to do the work!
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