{"id":1106,"date":"2016-06-13T15:39:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T22:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2016-06-13T15:39:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T22:39:25","slug":"it-remains-a-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/it-remains-a-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"It remains a puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to land? Last night, in the dark of 16L, everything looked perfect. I gently bought the A320 into a nice flare, and was rewarded with an OK, but harder than I wanted, landing. It was safe. Many would say it was good. But I was disgruntled. I can do better. Often the final touch-down remains a puzzle to me.<\/p>\n<p>Today I watched some early 1970&#8217;s US TV. Strongly influenced by Bruce Lee, the show <em>Kung Fu<\/em> featured a fictional monk trained at the Shaolin Temple in China who wandered around the American Wild West kicking bad guy butt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b9sl4-soiFA\">This short YouTube clip is instructive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b9sl4-soiFA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1107\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/kungfu.png\" alt=\"kungfu\" width=\"851\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/kungfu.png 851w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/kungfu-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/kungfu-600x335.png 600w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/kungfu-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/kungfu-200x112.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCaine: &#8220;I think of nothing but to be one with the target.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboy: &#8220;You think I\u2019m gonna believe that? How can you see what you&#8217;re shooting at in the dark?<\/p>\n<p>Caine: &#8220;Watch my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>[Caine hits the target with his eyes closed]<\/p>\n<p>Cowboy: &#8220;How\u2019d you do that?!<\/p>\n<p>Caine: &#8220;I do not do it. It is not done.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboy: &#8220;What do you mean &#8216;It\u2019s not done&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Caine: &#8220;It is only experienced. It happens.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboy: &#8220;It happens?<\/p>\n<p>Caine: &#8220;The pole, the arrow, the bow are all one. Not many things. Not different things. One.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboy: &#8220;Well I see it, but I sure don\u2019t understand it.<\/p>\n<p>Caine: &#8220;Good.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboy: &#8220;Why is it good?<\/p>\n<p>Caine: &#8220;It remains a puzzle. When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to land? Last night, in the dark of 16L, everything looked perfect. I gently bought the A320 into a nice flare, and was rewarded with an OK, but harder than I wanted, landing. It was safe. Many would say it was good. But I was disgruntled. I can do better. Often the final touch-down remains a puzzle to me. Today I watched some early 1970&#8217;s US TV. Strongly influenced by Bruce Lee, the show Kung Fu featured a fictional monk trained at the Shaolin Temple in China who wandered around the American Wild West kicking bad guy butt. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/it-remains-a-puzzle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading It remains a puzzle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,113],"tags":[91,15,41,49,25,51,42,50,119],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-link-to-videos","tag-art","tag-bruce-lee","tag-flow","tag-inner-art","tag-landing","tag-meditation","tag-one-with","tag-simplicity","tag-zen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}