Imagine walking through the woods. You
carefully move and step slowly on the uneven ground where even the exposed tree
roots are all covered by leaves. We adapt to environment. Although trees might
seem static and unmovable they are still flexible and adaptive. They adjust to
the surrounding environment and therefore become even more stable. They do not
consume extra energy to rise straight up. It is natural for them to adapt to
the floor declination when they grow.
We all have to adjust to our environment, or
in martial arts to opponent, and to the mistakes you make during the fight. You
can do this only by being flexible. In everyday life there is an abundance of
events and issues that require our adaptation. But are we able to adapt
quickly? How do we know what to do? When someone trips and is just about to
fall, his brain starts to function at high speed. When we are very young or
very drunk, we just let it go and fall down. Kids roll with it or just fall loosely,
and because of this reaction, they are not severely injured most of the time.
What about the rest of us? Our first reaction is violent; we start to
gesticulate wildly with our hands. We start to contradict the obvious that
happens all the same. Most of the time, instead of bending our knees, we stop
our fall with our arms and quite a lot of times break our wrists. We forget how
to fall and do not know how to adjust to this event that has happened to us
many times before in our lives. We react in panic.