[]Reaction time, in kung fu, karate, aikido, or any martial art, is an interesting beast. I say beast because it is the one thing you don't want. It is the one thing that can get you killed faster than a speeding ticket in Los Angeles.
Reaction time is reaction, which means that it is something occurring after something else has happened. Do you understand what this means? If you possess reaction time, you are moving second and behind whoever is launching a punch at your face.
Now you have to move, and in accordance with the attacker's direction, rather than in accordance with your own wishes. That means you are the target, and you are trying madly to get out of the way, or block, or whatever. It means you are not moving because you want to.
The easiest way to understand this whole thing is if there is attacker A standing on the A spot. And a defender B standing on the B spot. And a third spot, to the side, which we will call spot C.
The length of time it takes A to get to B, B can get to to C. But B HAS TO move at the exact same moment in time as A. If B moves after A, then he is going to get conked on the noggin.
And, if B moves because of something he learned in a lesson, or because of a drill, or because of anything else, then he is moving as if yesterday. B must watch A 'in the present moment,' and he must move in accordance with his own wishes and not because of what A is doing. This is the only way for B to actually live through a real fight.
There is, interestingly enough, the point of view of A, and of actually being able to hit somebody. If you have seen how many misses there are in the MMA, then you will understand this. Simply, A is moving to where B is, but B is no longer there.
In other words, for A to actually strike his opponent, he must strike not to where B is, because B is going to move, and spot B is where he used to be. And he must not attempt to change mid strike, for that will destroy his base and take power out of the strike. The trick is merely to understand and analyze the one sentence: in the time A attempts to move to B, B can move to C.
In closing, let me say that many people talk about timing and slipping punches and that sort of thing, but they are usually glib, and they don't really understand the formula I have given here. To understand this formula-in the time A moves to B, B can move to C-you should write it out, along with every combat scenario you can think of, on a piece of paper. No matter what martial art you study, Karate, Kung Fu, Taekwondo, or whatever, this piece of knowledge will enable you to shorten and even get rid of your reaction time, and bring your martial art to a whole new level.
Reaction time is reaction, which means that it is something occurring after something else has happened. Do you understand what this means? If you possess reaction time, you are moving second and behind whoever is launching a punch at your face.
Now you have to move, and in accordance with the attacker's direction, rather than in accordance with your own wishes. That means you are the target, and you are trying madly to get out of the way, or block, or whatever. It means you are not moving because you want to.
The easiest way to understand this whole thing is if there is attacker A standing on the A spot. And a defender B standing on the B spot. And a third spot, to the side, which we will call spot C.
The length of time it takes A to get to B, B can get to to C. But B HAS TO move at the exact same moment in time as A. If B moves after A, then he is going to get conked on the noggin.
And, if B moves because of something he learned in a lesson, or because of a drill, or because of anything else, then he is moving as if yesterday. B must watch A 'in the present moment,' and he must move in accordance with his own wishes and not because of what A is doing. This is the only way for B to actually live through a real fight.
There is, interestingly enough, the point of view of A, and of actually being able to hit somebody. If you have seen how many misses there are in the MMA, then you will understand this. Simply, A is moving to where B is, but B is no longer there.
In other words, for A to actually strike his opponent, he must strike not to where B is, because B is going to move, and spot B is where he used to be. And he must not attempt to change mid strike, for that will destroy his base and take power out of the strike. The trick is merely to understand and analyze the one sentence: in the time A attempts to move to B, B can move to C.
In closing, let me say that many people talk about timing and slipping punches and that sort of thing, but they are usually glib, and they don't really understand the formula I have given here. To understand this formula-in the time A moves to B, B can move to C-you should write it out, along with every combat scenario you can think of, on a piece of paper. No matter what martial art you study, Karate, Kung Fu, Taekwondo, or whatever, this piece of knowledge will enable you to shorten and even get rid of your reaction time, and bring your martial art to a whole new level.
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