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Muscle memory is when your body does something automatically. Muscles remember what to do by repeating something many times. Sometimes this is called motor learning. In martial arts, this is the ability to, say, throw a punch without thinking about all of the small things required - which knuckles to use, twisting the hand, the retracted hand, etc.\\xa0

There\'s a bad side to motor learning - like when throwing a technique, someone throws it to the same place without thinking. Every time.

There are ways to expand muscle memory and not be locked in to only a few patterns.\\xa0Practice things differently. Routine is the enemy. It\\u2019s not that we don\\u2019t want muscle memory, it\\u2019s that we don\\u2019t want it to limit us. Work different heights, different body placements,\\xa0different combinations. Strange combinations.\\xa0Different speeds. When you slow things down you can focus on the movements and make adjustments. That\'s something we should all be doing anyway.

Jeremy offers his favorite drill for combatting the negative effects of\\xa0motor learning.

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