Chris M wrote:Somebody else mentioned that speed is more important than power, and that sparked a whole tangent of conversation about what constitutes speed. What I'll throw out that nobody else seems to have mentioned is the speed of opportunity. In real combat, and just as much in sport combat as well, windows of opportunity open and close very rapidly and usually without predictable rhythm. Frankly, anyone claiming that if you can just learn to generate enough mysterious internal Chinese martial arts power, you can just create your own opportunity at will and just blow right through whatever the opponent has up there is laughingly delusional. It also tells me he's never fought anything more than a 140lb. uncommitted opponent in a friendly sparring session. You face a 300+ lbs. experienced opponent who's intent on personally ending your life right now and the magical mystery tour of TCIMA power comes to a screeching halt. You better have another trick in your bag besides optimized power generation, preferably a large-caliber firearm. With some guys, anything less and you're just toast.
Shooter wrote:re: thresholds of intensity
My own approach to attaining such thresholds is based largely on addressing the individual's perceptual thresholds first. It makes it easier to create failure because everyone operates according to what they perceive as unacceptable in terms of levels of threat and actual physical contact. Exploring those points of failure in a spontaneous, unrehearsed/unscripted manner shows the individual exactly how they perceive their role in conflict. It doesn't neccessarily have to be all that physical to attain unmanageable levels of intensity. As the trainee adjusts their perceptions of threat and their role in conflict, they move very quickly in discovering their personal combat. Chaining one's default movement patterns to tactical responses often involves what I call, "re-cognition sequencing". It's through this type of work that allows our training group to glimpse speed of opportunity. Familiarity with the various factors that create failure puts speed of opportunity within reach...close enough to see it, anyway.
Capitalizing on speed of opportunity is a whole different ball of hair.
TrainingDummy wrote:Hi Shooter,
I'm working with something that -may- be a bit similar at the moment and would ask your feedback.
I'm attempting to get students into unscripted exchange as quickly as possible with full protective gear and reduce the "universe of technique" until it's something that the student can deal with at their level of experience. So a day 1 newbie might be working a drill of jabs vs jab defence, or maybe a clinch game where the aim is to take their partners balance rather than throw.
The aim of the drills is not to win, the aim is to slowly ramp up the intensity of the drill to the point that someone has some sort of emotional reaction. This may be signalled by a change of breath, tension, or collapse in structure. Once player A has a reaction, player B points out the reaction cues and gets player A to feel through what's happening for them (e.g. "You're structure is collapsing, what's going on for you?" or "There's tension in your chest, are you getting angry?"). The drill doesn't stop at this point of reaction, but reduces slightly in intensity so that player A can both complete the drill with a high quality of technique and feel through the reaction to conflict at the same time
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