“…and where accuracy does not run, beauty limps.”
Was reading the book ‘Theology and Sanity’ Sunday afternoon when I came across a paragraph that ends with that line. He was writing about the virtue of accuracy.
There is a feeling that it is a very suitable virtue for mathmeticians and scientists, but cramping if applied to operations more specifically human. The young tend to despise it as a kind of tidiness, a virtue proper only to the poor-spirited. And everybody feels that it limits the free soul.
But in fact, accuracy is in every field the key to beauty: beauty has no greater enemy than rough approximation.
I like it!
Accuracy in martial art technique is beauty. You gotta stay on top of the basics, make them as accurate as possible. There are a billion ways to change things up and keep the training interesting. But you’ve got to commit to doing the mental and physical work!
Repeatedly training accurate basics is the road to beautiful, advanced technique.
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