What Happens When You Have No Reaction Time!
Reaction time is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, scams ever foisted upon human beings. The idea that you must wait 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 student of Shotokan or Wing Chun or Hung Gar or whatever, is designed to make you a victim.
Now, the problem is that this concept of reaction time has become common to all arts, and basically corrupted those arts. One of the reasons is that the martial arts have been designed for children, and children dont have enough sense of themselves to deal with reaction time except in the most victim manner. Thus, you have to avoid classes taught for, or evolved for, or designed 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 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 in the middle of combat, and come out of the battle unmarked and yet with a knock out to their credit. Watch the last fight with Anderson Silva Silva, the one in which he bashes Forrest Griffin. Anderson seems lazy, dancing unconcerned at the end of Forrests punches, and yet he is never touched, and instead loops a lazy, little punch in that knocks Forrest into the middle of next week.
But Forrest was already in the middle of next week! Forrest, you see was trying to hit a head without knowing where it was, which is obvious if you analyze the trajectory of his punches. Forrest was not capable of being in The Now, or of predicting 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 should be fair obvious that the world has gone crazy, and we all knew that, but we can uncrazy it by undoing this trap called reaction time. Simply, you must seek out training drills where you move in concert with your opponent, and because he moved. Whether you study Choy Lee Fut, Kenpo, Krav Maga, or whatever, you must research what reaction time is, admit when you have it, and remove it from your life.
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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