{"id":30719,"date":"2018-01-30T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarshed.foureyes.com\/?p=30719"},"modified":"2021-04-29T23:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T06:48:37","slug":"tq-charles-poliquin-reinforcing-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarshed.com\/tq-charles-poliquin-reinforcing-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Poliquin on reinforcing the basics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday Quotes are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. Find more here<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe rule is: the basics are the basics and you can\u2019t beat the basics.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Charles Poliquin<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Charles Poliquin is one of the top strength coaches in the world. He works with the most elite athletes in all sports, and has for over 20 years.<\/p>\n

What the most advanced players (in any arena, be it sports, music, etc.) know is that to do complicated things, we have to make them simple.<\/p>\n

We do this by ingraining the basics.<\/p>\n

And what are the basics?<\/p>\n

The basics are those simple, often obvious elements that we tell our coaches, \u201cOk, got that. What\u2019s next?\u201d<\/p>\n

In basketball, the basics are running, dribbling, shooting, passing and jumping. The best players have done more of these basics than anyone else.<\/p>\n

In health, the basics are sleep, water, and exercise. Everything works best when we have these basics taken care of. And getting these three back in balance usually goes far to bring us back to health.<\/p>\n

In classical guitar technique, the basics are playing a note with the right hand, and holding down frets with the left.<\/p>\n

(\u201cSure, already knew that, but how do I move forward?\u201d)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tempting to scatter our mental resources, always looking for the new pattern or exercise. In doing this, we gloss over the practice that could get us the results we want, and in far less time.<\/p>\n

When we hit our upper limit, we rarely need to learn anything new. Most of the time, we just need to refine and hone our basic movements, and the limits disappear.<\/p>\n

As Antoine de Saint-Exupery famously wrote, \u201cPerfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.\u201d<\/p>\n

If we work with Charles Poliquin, his gym won\u2019t have a thousand specialized exercise machines. He\u2019ll train us with basic bench-presses and squats.<\/p>\n

The basics aren\u2019t fancy.<\/p>\n

It takes trust and courage to embrace the simple. It takes humility to practice simple patterns with focus, awareness and specific intention. And it takes patience to stick with those patterns long enough to make them automatic, consistent and reliable in our muscle-memory.<\/p>\n

How do we go forward to the next level in our playing? By going back to the beginning and starting over, with the knowledge that the closer we get to the beginning, the further along the path we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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