[]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 a movement after something else has occurred. Do you understand the significance of this? If you move in reaction time, you are moving behind whoever is launching that strike to your nose.
Now you are forced to move, and this because of the attacker's move, rather than in keeping with what you want to do. That means you are the target, and you must get out of the way, build a good block, or whatever. It means you are not doing what you want to do.
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 make contact with his opponent, he must launch himself not to where B is, because B is going to move, and the location B is where he used to be. And A must not attempt to 'curve' the trajectory of his strike, for that will destroy his base and take power out of the movement. The trick is merely to understand the one sentence: in the time A goes to B, B goes to C.
To finish, let me say that many martial arts instructors talk about timing and slipping punches and that sort of thing, but they usually don't understand the equation I have presented you here. To understand this equation-in the time A goes to B, B goes to C-you should write it out, on a piece of paper, with every scenario of a combat situation you can think of. No matter what martial art you study, Karate, Kung Fu, Aikido, or whatever, this piece of information will enable you to lessen and even rid yourself of reaction time, and raise your martial art to a much higher level.
Reaction time is reaction, which means that it is a movement after something else has occurred. Do you understand the significance of this? If you move in reaction time, you are moving behind whoever is launching that strike to your nose.
Now you are forced to move, and this because of the attacker's move, rather than in keeping with what you want to do. That means you are the target, and you must get out of the way, build a good block, or whatever. It means you are not doing what you want to do.
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 make contact with his opponent, he must launch himself not to where B is, because B is going to move, and the location B is where he used to be. And A must not attempt to 'curve' the trajectory of his strike, for that will destroy his base and take power out of the movement. The trick is merely to understand the one sentence: in the time A goes to B, B goes to C.
To finish, let me say that many martial arts instructors talk about timing and slipping punches and that sort of thing, but they usually don't understand the equation I have presented you here. To understand this equation-in the time A goes to B, B goes to C-you should write it out, on a piece of paper, with every scenario of a combat situation you can think of. No matter what martial art you study, Karate, Kung Fu, Aikido, or whatever, this piece of information will enable you to lessen and even rid yourself of reaction time, and raise your martial art to a much higher level.
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