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Post by Dod Watt on May 21, 2011 10:53:49 GMT
The response towards a situation can be influenced dramatically by the time you take to react to it.
How would you assess this if you were under pressure to get involved, would you think first then respond or would it be a spontaneous reaction?
And giving that we all do karate, what sort of training do you put into your classes to cover this area?
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Post by jimlukelkc on May 22, 2011 13:36:13 GMT
Think in advance would be my advice Dodd. Imagine, visualise as many possible scenarios where you might have to react in order to be prepared should it happen. Try to avoid,or deflect or re-direct if it does come up but if it becomes unavoidable, react. In class we try to be as realistic as possible within the appropriate age groups and have "adrenalin sessions" and realistic situations. We hit pads and each other regularly and hard! We try to cover weapons, ground work, knife awareness etc. It is a large subject to cover once you get into it, ethics, legalities and so on but we do our best.
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Post by fujicolt on May 24, 2011 2:20:26 GMT
Sadly Dod - there are no absolutes!
meaning if A happens you must do K or W.
as Jim says and i know you do when you teach, it is our duty to try and tailor training to expose our students to as many scenarios and possible secondary elements as we can to introduce not just physical factors but also emotional and psychological elements also.
see Bob Davies report on the session we did at the friendship course to explore how secondary elements - even just an instructor pretending to be angry with you (mmmmm..... horrid man!) can make you go to pieces!
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Post by Dod Watt on May 24, 2011 8:27:53 GMT
As you know Steve I do ask questions that don't have easy answers, well answers that can be written down, I find it is always better to be shown, any way I totally agree with both you and Jim, but I started this topic for everyone, even for them who haven't been in a real physical confrontation. I want everyone's thoughts on how they would perceive how things would work out, how they would train to be spontaneous even in the most stressful of situations, preparing our bodies to react instinctively in that split second which could give you that feeling " I'm in control". These are the things I want to know once we have committed ourselves into getting involved. Once that decision has been made we haven't got time to think, thinking while we have responded makes it a slow reaction, if you follow me. I know that you can never be sure of an out come, but with diligent training in this field it can help us over come some of the factors that can obstruct our approach to dealing with confrontations. Some of the factors that could and will hinder us is stress, fear, apprehension and so on, these are the things we need to come to terms with, to try to control them, once we have done that we have a slight advantage. I have read Bob's report on Steve's Friendship Course ( very good report by the way Bob ) and know they covered some of this there, and knowing Steve this will have been quite intense and stressful, but I do know that everyone will have left the course with the knowledge that there are ways of dealing with these factors I'm speaking about and with a training regime to help them over come these. Please give your thoughts on this as we can all learn from each other
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Post by fujicolt on May 24, 2011 9:09:53 GMT
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Post by Dod Watt on May 24, 2011 9:19:36 GMT
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