If you look around all martial arts schools and programs for self-defense, which are offered, one can conclude that everything that you need to do to effectively have to defend against a Crazy Crazy, is trying to kill to come is a few steps - learn some tips and techniques – and voila – you are a master!.
After all, if that’s what everyone does, it must be right. Right?
Why then, if so …
* … D Black Belts (and below) is beaten by thugs, street fighters, and other, less “serious”?
* … So many people admit (publicly or itself) expressed doubts about the ability to act even when controlling for self-defense training?
* … The street fighters, special forces, experts and real look at what is usually in the schools of martial arts and self defense classes with contempt and disdain taught?
Perhaps it has something to do with a gnawing feeling deep inside that something is missing – that something is wrong. Perhaps he has with the fact that the real experts – people who have really “there” in combat situations in the real world, those who really know what works and what can not work under pressure – when your life on the line. But anyway, if we start from the novice with a “gut feeling” or an expert who knows to speak, there remains the fact that something is missing from the traditional training programs.
But what could it be?
Natural defense mechanism – the missing element
Element is probably the least known, and this is lacking almost everywhere in most programs for self-defense, the reality of the natural emotional reaction that takes place during a stress attack. How is it that people who are moving creatures on the face of the planet is not to overlook a very important aspect in the process of teaching and learning self-defense?
Good question, do not you think?
The truth is that with all our logic and rationalizations that we are primarily emotional beings. In fact, in our response stress, we react emotionally, at least from a basic level of attraction, aversion, and neutral-Ness, before we even have access to take on our memory banks for a solution and where appropriate, measures to solve the problem.
Most people have experienced what the fight, flight or freeze response. But what exactly are the ways in which we need if they could find to respond to acts of aggression by an offender angry?
This can be a difficult question to answer, instead of being all the different personality types, each with their own experiences and knowledge. But we, the possibilities of general reaction, which are inherent in each of us wired. These answers are not easy to understand to higher orders of brain function that most of us are familiar, but our central brain, such as R-complex or reptilian brain known. Among these there are four basic or primitive modes of intervention:
* Confident, Quiet – In this mode, we have not really perceive a threat. Even if the attacker can be serious, we do not move and hold our ground with strength, confidence and presence.
* Defensive, emotionally – Here we are overwhelmed by the aggression, size, and pressure on us by our opponents. Our body instinctively to vital targets blade cover and move away from a safe distance.
* Direct, committed – in a so-called “fire” mode of action, we feel to be shot in the attack and committed to a direct action. Out of fear or anger is directed, we adopt a direct approach and go-for-it. ”
* Avoid evasively, – In this mode, we want to avoid any conflict as a first step. If we can not avoid, of course we have to create a distance between us and our attack and use light, avoidance, motion to clear the attack and stay away from our members received abuser.
Of course, our moods and emotional states in a constant change. Even under similar circumstances, we can see that we are different, because the real person we feel to do it. While a person can trust us, we are different “distance ourselves and others we can take the initiative and” Moving In For The Kill “.
The important point here, as I said, is to be able to function effectively in each of these emotional influences. After not only opportunities but the realization that our own bodies, certain restrictions and requirements on us to be in different situations, can go a long way to ensure that we meet the training we need, and get going, well-prepared to a real situation faced by a real attacker, in the real world.