Chris M wrote:There's raw velocity: how fast your limbs are moving as a function of distance per unit of time. There's acceleration: a measure of how quickly velocity increases per unit of time. There's distance-to-target: the closest weapon to a given target. There's also the difference between weapons which travel in a linear trajectory vs. those that describe an arc. There's perceptual speed: a measure of the lag between the occurrence of a cue to initiate movement and the actual initiation of that movement. There's timing: coordinating your movement with your opponent's such that you are out of harm's way, you blend seamlessly with his movement, and that your weapons arrive at just the precise correct moment.
Shooter wrote:For the newb, creating failure often involves a first day at training that doesn't go very well right off the hop. Before introductions are made they might be confronted about anything they may or may not have said or done in the five minutes prior. They're confronted with a disarming remark or question and then a verbal bluster, encroachment, maybe a fient or twitch. Most times that's enough. Sometimes it might involve physical contact.
When folks are more 'innured' to conflict, it takes a little more creativity. Most times we get talking about their work or pets or whatever disarms them. I start putting on some 16oz gloves and tell them we're going to work through some drills in a bit. Then suddenly some tool they just met 10 minutes ago is yelling and throwing punches at them. Kinda like that.
Doc Stier wrote:the individual growth and development of each student ultimately requires a positively structured, specifically customized mode of instruction to insure individual success in learning and training.
For those who advocate the latter method, I wonder whether you might also be manipulated in the same way by someone who is able to accurately assess your psychological triggers and your emotional attachments?
What exactly about what I've typed has led you to believe this is something that I would endorse?
Chris McKinley wrote:very few TMA teachers start with the student where they are first, then guide them toward their art's material. Usually, it's "here's our art......anything else you're doing is wrong, and we won't bother to meet you where you are...we'll only acknowledge what you're doing as "correct" when you come all the way over to where we are first".
Shooter wrote:Chris, your concept, Speed of Opportunity, and the means to realizing its fullest potential is a very good topic. We both agree that 'threshold of intensity' is key. No mystery to anyone who has done the work. I've shown how I get folks to their perceptual threshold(s) and tried to explain why I do that first - it's the most common first point of failure in sudden violent attacks, muggings, alpha affimration, whatever. More importantly, the exercise is a tool to get the person responding and moving in the moment.
Anyway, I hope the discussion can get back to that body of work. All the pieces (timing, position, etc) don't matter so much and are actually non-issues once the concept is experienced in real time.
It'd be cool to see how other folks work at passing through those thresholds to acquire Speed of Opportunity.
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