Street Fighter Moves - 3 Reasons Why Reality-Based Training is THE Antidote to the Fear of Fighting

About 3 months ago, I got an email in private from a martial artist who was studying Krav Maga.  He confided in me that though he trained with his Krav Maga techniques on a regular basis, something very strange and discouraging happened to him one night.  He was at a public place when an aggressor called him outside to fight.  And this is what he told me.  He froze like a dear caught in the headlights.  Nothing happened, but he walked away disheartened and confused and feeling like a "coward". 

I reassured him that his experience was more commonplace than he thought amongst those studying traditional martial arts.  I explained to him that he obviously was not experiencing reality-simulated fighting.  He was training in "fighting choreography" without the intense and unpredictable dynamic of a real street fight.  What he needed was reality-based training to prepare him for the real world.

3 Reasons Why Reality-Based Training Is The BEST Antidote To The Fear Of Fighting:

Reason #1 - Your Subconscious Mind "Knows" How The Fight Will End - Let us examine for a moment the dynamic of fear.  Fear is usually that of the unknown, that is, feeling that we will not be able to handle a situation.  This doubt causes a reflex action of visualizing ourselves failing and doing miserably.  Now once you train in reality-based scenarios, you "know" how each fight will end.  "You will win."  This is the belief that is engendered.  You see, believing  and "knowing"  are inseparable because knowing is just "believing" something with absolute certainty.

Reason #2 - You Get Used To The Adrenaline Rush - Whenever you sense or believe a real threat is impending, your body prepares you for danger with an adrenaline dump into your bloodstream to make you more efficient to handle the problem at hand.  The adrenaline rush cannot be avoided.  The problem is that the untrained person doesn't know what to do with it or how to handle it.  When the improperly trained person gets the adrenaline rush, he calls it "fear".  When the properly trained person gets this same adrenaline rush, he calls it "excitement" - same bodily experience only with a different label thus triggering a different psychological experience.

Reason #3 - You Usually Train With A "Non-Compliant" Partner - When you train in Traditional Martial Arts, you train with "Compliant" Partners.  What this means is that your training partner is cooperating with your technique.  He throws a punch and allows you to grab it in order to practice your counter move.  Real street aggressors are not cooperative with your techniques.  They are very, very non-compliant! 

A "Non-Compliant" training partner is instructed to attack you with surprise blows and moves, and he will resist as aggressively as possible to try his best to screw up the perfect execution of your technique.  This is what it is like in the real world, and if you can get used to training like this - you will become ready, and you will become fearless.

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From Charles Prosper - The Street Fighting Sifu

Dojo Training vs. Real Fighting for Self-Defense - A Martial Arts Lesson From Abraham Lincoln

There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to martial arts training. The first, we'll call them the "safety-first" schools, adheres to the philosophy of no-contact or light contact and never doing anything that might cause injury to a student.

This school usually focuses on solo training with little to no actual contact between students without the use of padded, safety gear.

The second school, we'll call them the "tough-guy" schools, believes that you have to do everything for real if you're going to be any good.

This school tends to avoid solo training and kata "forms" for a more no-holds-barred, freestyle approach to combat training.

Each sees the other as wrong. Unfortunately, just as with all extremists, each misses the possibility of a third, or middle approach to training.

The Warrior Concepts Black Belt Mastery programs are designed to take this middle path, aiming for a safe approach to the training while focusing on the important key elements that will be present and crucial to surviving a brutal attack. If you've read my other articles and blog posts, or if you've attended my live classes and training events, you already know what I'm talking about.

In this article, I want to focus on one of these views - the "tough-guy syndrome" - and talk about the misconceptions present that, contrary to their intent, lead these students astray from their ultimate goal.

Now, before I begin, let me say that there are those people out there who are just plain tough. They can take as much as they dish out and have an almost superhuman ability to withstand pain and punishment. But...

...these people will be so with or without fight training.

As I've discussed in other articles, there is a vast difference between a warrior and someone who fights for pleasure or reward. Where the warrior seeks to be able to defend self and others only when necessary - and with the least amount of wear and tear on him or her self - the fighter will very often put themselves in more danger just to show that they are the toughest guy there.

Here are several truths about the nature of training and combat that I have discovered from over thirty years of not only martial arts training, but from actually having to survive in real-world self-defense situations.

1. Dojo training (practice) is NEVER the same as the real thing. No matter how much you try to make it so. Unless you're actually cracking ribs, breaking legs, gouging eyes, and dislocating joints during training, you're still "pulling" and therefor NOT in combat mode.


2. Related to number one above... You don't do to your friends what you do to an enemy who's trying to maim or kill you. Again, slow training which takes into account things like adrenal response, attacker-logic and good combat strategy is better than acting strong and going fast so you can feel tough.

Science has already proven that, in suvival mode when under the influence of adrenaline, epinephrine, and several other chemicals dumped into the blood stream by the hypothalemus and triggered by the amigdala, you will already go as fast, and be as strong, as you can be. In other words, you don't have to train fast to BE fast in a combat situation.

In fact, it's far more important to practice drills and exercises that develop your ability to think quickly and calmly under pressure than to worry about how fast you're going. This is an important lesson for the tough guys who think they're training for real.

And finally...

3. Just because you make the training "feel" real - doesn't make it so.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America, used to ask people what appeared to be a simple question that illustrates this point perfectly. He used to ask a person...

"How many legs does a dog have?" (Feel free to answer the question for yourself)

Of course, the answered would invariably be, "four."

"Correct," he would reply. Then he would go on to say, "let's pretend that the dog's tail is actually a leg, now how many legs does the dog have?"

How about it? Simple question. Simple answer, right?

Well. If your initial thought was to answer with, "five"... I'm sorry to say...

...you'd be wrong!

Just because we "pretend" - just because we play a little mental game - and "say" that the dog's tail is a leg, doesn't make it one. The dog still only has four legs.

And, just because you make your martial arts training "feel" real, doesn't make it so.

Don't believe me?

That's okay. You can believe whatever you want. But...

...before you begin spouting that I don't know what I'm talking about, do yourself a huge favor and ask anyone else with the same real-world combat experience that I do, how similar actual combat is to their training drills.

If they weren't confidential, I'd be happy to direct you to all of the military and law enforcement guys on my list who routinely find themselves in the "line of fire." Then they could tell you the same things they share with me when they comment on these articles. They could tell you I'm right.

But, this isn't about me being right. This is about you figuring out what you need to get proficient with this area of your life as quickly as possible.

Like I said before, you are always free to choose what you think and do. That's the great thing about having free will.

Just don't confuse free will and what you've chosen to do, with what's going on and what will work in the real world.

Jeffrey M. Miller is the founder and director of Warrior Concepts International, an expert in the realms of real world self-protection tactics, and a master teacher in the art of Ninjutsu - the art of the Ninja. He is highly saught after for his direct, often politically-incorrect approach to helping people get what they need. Through his classes, seminars, book and video products, and corporate training events, he empowers individuals with the time-tested and proven concepts, principles, and closely guarded secrets of the warrior in a way that makes them highly effective in Today's world. Get more information about reality-based self-defense and other related topics by subscribing to his newsletter at http://www.warrior-concepts-online.com/newsletter.html

Street Fighter Moves - How to Maintain Your Training Experience Through Reality Based Visualization

When I first discovered how quickly and efficiently one could learn Reality-Based Self Protection, I was a dedicated follower and practitioner ever sense.  Norm, my first sensei, explained to me that just after a couple of days of 8 hours each of intensive Reality-Based Scenario Self Protection training, I could go away easily retaining what I learned for months and months after wards, only needing a refresher course maybe every 4 to 6 months.

This revelation of easy retention fascinated me, but the question that still creeped into my head was that sooner or later, with no re-enforcement or refresher courses whatsoever, I would lose the edge of what I  learned and my skill and sharpness would inevitably dissipate - over time.  So goes the adage, "Whatever you don't use - you lose."

I asked Norm if there were any remedies that one could take to forestall the dissipation and dulling of skill from non-use over time.  He said, "Yes, there is something that you can do."  I ask, "And tell me, what is that?"  His answer was -

Daily Creative Reality-Based Visualization

The power of visualization has been known and practiced for centuries, and during the 20th century, many experiments and great books were written on the subject, documenting its awesome potential for growth, power and achievement.  Many athletes who won the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California in the year 1984, practiced daily reality-based visualization routines, that is, they practiced seeing themselves, while eyes closed for 15 minutes a day, executing perfectly their moves and winning the gold. 

Reality-based visualization creates muscle memory on the basis of "subconsciously created artificial experience".  This is based on the fact that the subconscious cannot tell the difference from a real experience and that which is imagined to be real.  If you imagine a guy who is only dressed in a bear suit to be a real bear, you will react the same as though he were a real bear if he jumps suddenly out of a bush to grab you.

The Technique Of Daily Creative Reality-Based Visualization

The technique of reality-based creative visualization is disarmingly simple:

Pick the same place and time each day.

Practice for no more than 15 minutes per day.

See yourself in your mind's eye in a fight or threat situation with the ugliest and most aggressive looking S.O.B. you can imagine, but see yourself defeating and decimating him with what you know and what you have learned.

Create this mental movie with as much detail as you can create: the smells, the sights, the sounds, the tactile sensations, the chaotic movement, etc.

Get a spiral notebook, and make a diary entry of your visualization progress every day or so.

Practice the first 21 days without missing a day.

Take a 3-day break from visualizing, and then practice another 21 days.

Keep this cycle up of visualizing 21 days followed by a rest period of 3 days from visualizing until the next time you go in for a Reality-Based Fighting refresher course with your instructor.

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From Charles Prosper - The Street Fighting Sifu

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