Indigenous Ability

There are so many examples of blind training, or blindfold training that the paltry examples below don’t even scratch the surface. ·         Blindfolded Chi Sao [“Sticky Hands”] training among Wing Chun practitioners. ·         Blindfolded disassembly and re-assembly of the M-16 by armed forces cadre. ·         Blindfolded judoka and jiu-jitsu practice. ·         Emperor Joseph I, challenging the young Mozart to play the violin with one-finger, and to play the clavichord with a cloth lain on top of the keyboard. [BTW-The young prodigy did both unerringly.] And perhaps most intriguingly, to me, at least… ·         There was a “war game” engaged in by many American Indian tribes to prepare the young for all contingencies. The Comanche called the practice Pui Wha’i . Essentially, Pui Wha’i invol...