[]Reaction time, in kung fu, karate, Kenpo, or any martial art, is a deadly beast. I say beast because it is one of the most important things you have...that you want to get rid of. It is one thing that can get you killed faster than a bullet to the brainpan.
Reaction time is reaction, which means that it is something happening because of something else. Do you understand? If you have reaction time, you are moving second, after, and behind whoever is striking you.
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 best way to understand this thing is if there is attacker A on the A position. And a defender B on the B position. And a third position, maybe off to the right, which we will refer to as spot C.
The amount of time it takes A to go to B, B can move to C. But B HAS TO move at the exact same moment. If B moves after A, then he is going to get his block knocked off.
And, if B moves because of something he learned, or because of his training, or because of something else, then he is moving yesterday. B must observe A 'in the now,' and he must move in accordance and not because. This is the only way for B to survive.
There is, oddly enough, how A sees this situation, and of actually being able to hit somebody. If you have seen how many misses there are in the mixed Martial Arts fights, then you will understand what I am saying. Simply, A is punching to where B is, but B is no longer in that spot.
In other words, for A to actually hit somebody, he must strike not to where B is, because B is going to move, and then he was, and that is where he used to be. And he must not guide his punch mid strike, for that will destroy his base of power and render the strike useless. The secret here is merely to understand and take apart the one sentence: in the time A moves 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 happening because of something else. Do you understand? If you have reaction time, you are moving second, after, and behind whoever is striking you.
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 best way to understand this thing is if there is attacker A on the A position. And a defender B on the B position. And a third position, maybe off to the right, which we will refer to as spot C.
The amount of time it takes A to go to B, B can move to C. But B HAS TO move at the exact same moment. If B moves after A, then he is going to get his block knocked off.
And, if B moves because of something he learned, or because of his training, or because of something else, then he is moving yesterday. B must observe A 'in the now,' and he must move in accordance and not because. This is the only way for B to survive.
There is, oddly enough, how A sees this situation, and of actually being able to hit somebody. If you have seen how many misses there are in the mixed Martial Arts fights, then you will understand what I am saying. Simply, A is punching to where B is, but B is no longer in that spot.
In other words, for A to actually hit somebody, he must strike not to where B is, because B is going to move, and then he was, and that is where he used to be. And he must not guide his punch mid strike, for that will destroy his base of power and render the strike useless. The secret here is merely to understand and take apart the one sentence: in the time A moves 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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