Right Path

一步練錯百步歪

One stage trained wrongly, a hundred wicked ones

Apart from an external understanding, there is also internal understanding of such saying.

The internal meaning is about method.

Nothing was considered fortuitous in training was, any mistake would have lasting consequences. 

Training used to be about self-discovery, being wrong was taken into consideration.

Three types of errors can be contemplated in training: inherent, dead end and wrong direction.

Antidotes were one of the way to correct any practice inherent defects.

Changing one’s routine in an opposite way* was meant to avoid being stuck.

Voiding training principles was a way to correct maybe small but misleading in the long term mistakes.

Always training the same thing in the same way can only lead to weakening the body by ignoring the inherent defects of any routine, limit at a certain stage one’s improvement and little by little go astray. 

*Slow instead of fast, focused on the mind instead of the body as simple examples.