reaction time

Reaction time is one of the terrible, if not the most terrible, scams ever foisted upon human beings. The idea that you must wait for somebody else to move before taking action will get you killed, and it is a trick of a blind mind. The whole concept, and I don't care if you are a practitioner of Wing Chun or Hung Gar or Shotokan or whatever, is designed to make you a victim.

Now, the problem is that this concept of reaction time has become common to all arts, and basically corrupted those arts. One of the reasons is that the martial arts have been designed for children, and children don't have enough sense of themselves to deal with reaction time except in the most victim manner. Thus, you have to avoid classes taught for, or evolved for, or designed for, children.

Another problem is that the mixed martial arts phenomena that is currently the wow in society has driven people to training methods that utilize nothing but muscle and brawn. How strong are you, how fast are you, and not how can you harmonize with your opponent. Again, the method creates victims of time, moving after somebody else has moved, and it does not create people who move in The Now.

For example, watch one of the latest UFC bashes, they miss as much as they hit, yet the time involved should be faster than somebody can move their heads. The reason this is happening is because people are moving in response. Or, and this is really worse, they are moving without having any real idea of where they are moving, not sure where they should be striking, just striking out blindly and hoping to win the lottery.

On the other end of the scale are the artists who don't miss their strikes, who are aware in the middle of combat, and come out of the battle unmarked and yet with a knock out to their credit. Watch the last fight with Anderson Silva Silva, the one in which he bashes Forrest Griffin. Anderson seems lazy, dancing unconcerned at the end of Forrests punches, and yet he is never touched, and instead loops a lazy, little punch in that knocks Forrest into the middle of next week.

But Forrest was already out of the fight! Forrest, you see was trying to hit a Anderson without knowing where the man was, which is obvious if you analyze the trajectory of his punches. Forrest was caught by reaction time, he was not able to predict in any fashion where Andersons head would be.

So here is the question that I have been getting up to, if a person is in reaction time, punching because of and not in concert with the action, where is he? The truth is that it doesn't matter where he is, what matters is that he is victim to the trap of reaction time. He is not in charge of the fight, he is living some other time, he is living in the past, he is victim to reaction time.

Well, the world is crazy, and we all knew that, but we can make it un-crazy by undoing this silly thing called reaction time. Simply, you must seek out training drills where you move in The Now, and not in the past. Whether you study Kenpo or Tae Kwon Do or Choy Lee Fut or whatever, you must research what reaction time is, and remove it, through intensive training, from your existence.