What Happens When You Have No Reaction Time!
[I:http://mymartialartsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/AlCase1.jpg]Reaction time is one of theterrible, if not the most terrile, scams ever foisted upon human beings. The idea that you must wait for somebody else to move before taking action will get you killed, and it is a trick of a blinded mind. The whole concept, and I dont care if you are a practitioner of Wing Chun or Hung Gar or Shotokan or whatever, is designed to make you a victim.
Now, the problem is that this concept of reaction time has infested all arts, and basically corrupted those arts from the get go. One of the reasons is that the martial arts have been designed to teach children, and children dont have enough control over their bodies to deal with reaction time except in the most victim manner. Thus, you have to avoid classes taught for, or evolved for, children.
Another problem is that the mixed martial arts phenomena that is currently sweeping the globe has driven people to training methods that utilize nothing but muscle and brute force. How much muscle do you have, how fast are you, and not how can you harmonize with your opponent. Again, the method creates victims of time, martial artists who have moved after somebody else has moved, and it does not create people who move in the time that is now.
For example, watch one of the latest UFC bashes, they miss as much as they hit, yet the time involved should be faster than somebody can move their heads. The reason this is happening is because people are moving in response. Or, and this is really worse, they are moving without having any real idea of where they are moving, not sure where they should be striking, just striking out blindly and hoping to win the lottery.
On the other end of the scale are the artists who dont miss their strikes, who are aware even while somebody is trying to knock their block off, and come out of the battle unmarked and yet with a knock out to their credit. Watch the fight in which Anderson Silva bashes Forrest Griffin. Anderson seems lazy, awareness in his eyes as Forrests fists brush his very throat, and yet he is never touched, and instead loops a lazy, little punch that knocks Forrest into stupidland.
But Forrest was already out of the fight! Forrest, you see was trying to hit a Anderson without knowing where the man was, which is obvious if you analyze the trajectory of his punches. Forrest was caught by reaction time, he was not able to predict in any fashion where Andersons head would be.
So here is the question that I have been building to, if a person is in reaction time, punching after the action and not in concert with the action, where is he? It doesnt matter where he is, what matters is that he is not Now. He is not in charge of his life, he is living in reaction time, he is living in the immediate past, he is not living Now.
Well, it is obvious that the world is crazy, and we all knew that, but we can make it not so crazy by undoing this silly thing called reaction time. Simply, you must seek out training drills where you move with somebody, and because he moved. Whether you study Kenpo or Krav Maga or Choy Lee Fut or whatever, you must research what reaction time is, and remove it, through intensive training, from your existence.
Al Case, 4O years martial arts, hundreds of articles for the mags and his own column, has designed methods which will undo reaction time and de-corrupt entire martial arts. You can take advantage of his free report at Monster Martial Arts, and you can see him moving without reaction time at Blinding Steel.
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