For a Taekwdondo Black Belt, or a Karate Black Belt or some other type of martial artist, the first seconds of an attempted mugging are not overwhelming. They don't experience the quickness of breath, the panic, or the desire to run. His (or her) reality is a different one.
The Taekwondo trained mind gets calmer and more focused, decisions are quick and simple, and it is the mugger that is in trouble. This is because the Taekwondo black belt has trained himself to act this way. Fight or flight don't mean anything, and the taekwondo expert just takes it in stride and gets busy.
In a Taekwondo class, or any martial arts training hall, you learn how to look at the fist, really look at it. Most people don't want to confront what is happening in a fight, so they close their eyes, shrink back, and they are in a fantasy of denial. Gee, I wish that guy wasn't going to hit my head...WHAM!
But to learn anything a person has to look at it, and in a martial arts class the student is forced to look at it so much that something strange happens. He actually ENJOYS looking at the fist coming towards his face. The mugger thinks he's got a victim, but, instead, he's got a rhino by the horn, and that rhino is just starting to focus on him!
Learning to keep the eyes open when a hard punch is flying towards the head is just the first step in the martial arts training routine. Once the initial fear is dealt with, and the student is able to study a hard fist coming towards him without experiencing any fear, he learns how to understand that fist. It becomes easier to make decisions, even in the middle of a fight..
This is the reason that there are so many techniques to memorize in most martial arts. Kenpo has some 500 techniques, and karate and Taekwondo have 20 to 50 fighting patterns (kata) to remember. Unfortunately, this lengthens the amount of time necessary to get a person to black belt, but that is a problem easily overcome.
To make training faster one needs to learn how to deal with fighting in a more conceptual manner. Not the remembering of techniques, but the understanding of the simple concepts behind a karate strike, a taekwondo kick, or a kung fu exercise. Once the concept is absorbed, training becomes incredibly quick.
The difficulty with concepts is not understanding them, but in separating them from other concepts. The martial arts have become so inbred that it is often very difficult to isolate and make understandable the simple concepts. Thus, the Taekwondo Black Belt, the karate Black Belt, or other martial artists, often take too long in their training.
The Taekwondo trained mind gets calmer and more focused, decisions are quick and simple, and it is the mugger that is in trouble. This is because the Taekwondo black belt has trained himself to act this way. Fight or flight don't mean anything, and the taekwondo expert just takes it in stride and gets busy.
In a Taekwondo class, or any martial arts training hall, you learn how to look at the fist, really look at it. Most people don't want to confront what is happening in a fight, so they close their eyes, shrink back, and they are in a fantasy of denial. Gee, I wish that guy wasn't going to hit my head...WHAM!
But to learn anything a person has to look at it, and in a martial arts class the student is forced to look at it so much that something strange happens. He actually ENJOYS looking at the fist coming towards his face. The mugger thinks he's got a victim, but, instead, he's got a rhino by the horn, and that rhino is just starting to focus on him!
Learning to keep the eyes open when a hard punch is flying towards the head is just the first step in the martial arts training routine. Once the initial fear is dealt with, and the student is able to study a hard fist coming towards him without experiencing any fear, he learns how to understand that fist. It becomes easier to make decisions, even in the middle of a fight..
This is the reason that there are so many techniques to memorize in most martial arts. Kenpo has some 500 techniques, and karate and Taekwondo have 20 to 50 fighting patterns (kata) to remember. Unfortunately, this lengthens the amount of time necessary to get a person to black belt, but that is a problem easily overcome.
To make training faster one needs to learn how to deal with fighting in a more conceptual manner. Not the remembering of techniques, but the understanding of the simple concepts behind a karate strike, a taekwondo kick, or a kung fu exercise. Once the concept is absorbed, training becomes incredibly quick.
The difficulty with concepts is not understanding them, but in separating them from other concepts. The martial arts have become so inbred that it is often very difficult to isolate and make understandable the simple concepts. Thus, the Taekwondo Black Belt, the karate Black Belt, or other martial artists, often take too long in their training.
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The real solution to this too lengthy time in training is in Matrix Martial Arts. Matrixing is a method that simplifies the various arts, and makes them ten times easier to learn. Thus, to become a Karate Black Belt, or a Kung Fu black belt, or an expert in any field of martial arts is now much faster.
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