Reaction time is one of the biggest and baddest, if not the biggest and baddest, scams ever foisted upon human beings. The idea that you must wait for somebody else to move before taking action is a trick of a blinded mind, and will get you killed. The whole concept, and I dont care if you are a practitioner of Hung Gar or Wing Chun 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 the wow in society has driven people to training methods that utilize nothing but muscle and brawn. How strong are you, how fast are you, and not how can you harmonize with your opponent. Again, the method creates victims of time, moving after somebody else has moved, and it does not create people who move in The Now.
For example, watch the MMA fighters, 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 after the action. Or, and this is really worse, they are moving blindly, 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, the world is crazy, and we all knew that, but we can make it uncrazy by undoing this silly thing called reaction time. Simply, you must seek out training drills where you move in The Now, and not in the past. Whether you study Kenpo or Tae Kwon Do or Choy Lee Fut or whatever, you must research what reaction time is, and remove it, through intensive training, from your existence. - 31491
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 the wow in society has driven people to training methods that utilize nothing but muscle and brawn. How strong are you, how fast are you, and not how can you harmonize with your opponent. Again, the method creates victims of time, moving after somebody else has moved, and it does not create people who move in The Now.
For example, watch the MMA fighters, 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 after the action. Or, and this is really worse, they are moving blindly, 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, the world is crazy, and we all knew that, but we can make it uncrazy by undoing this silly thing called reaction time. Simply, you must seek out training drills where you move in The Now, and not in the past. Whether you study Kenpo or Tae Kwon Do or Choy Lee Fut or whatever, you must research what reaction time is, and remove it, through intensive training, from your existence. - 31491
About the Author:
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.
