World Of Swords

You fight like you practice. That is it, that's all. I could stop this article right now. But, I won't, because this is such an imperative subject that I will continue to write about it.

Myelinization And The SAID Principal

This is a principle that the more you practice something the more myelin covers your nervous system causing the transmission of electrical impulses to be sent out more rapidly. Therefore your response time is much swifter, to the point where you don't have to think to get a action out (I could get into Bruce Lee's principle of the 4 stages of knowledge, but I will not get into it in this article). The SAID principal stands for "specific adoption to imposed demands". As one of my mentors said, "Your body gets good at stuff." Now that's not proper English, but that is the truth about it. The more you train a certain way, the more likely you're going to fight that way when a scenario comes out. Take for illustration the way I do a one legged squat. I taught myself to do it Pavel Tsatsouline style, with one leg out to the front. At the APEX Certification attended, they trained me to leave it an inch off the gym floor and right next to my other foot. Suffice to say that I had a lot of a tough times doing it! My body system was performing on the practice stimulus I had given it, so I had lifted my leg out more to the front (not all the way, but it felt more natural to do it that way)!

This is why Bruce Lee called| kata practicing "dry land" swimming. There is nothing wrong with katas but when you do not spar, you do not know your techniques very well yet. You do not understand how to use them in movement, you must learn to use your techniques in a safe environment where you won't get hurt.

Static Practice Will Get You No Where

All training should be pointed at the goal. Movement when the real fight comes up. Every practice must be moved along a rational progression more and more towards live training or sparring, until finally you are. The true test of a technique is its applicability in the field, and that is why Bruce Lee was such a hard case on live training. How do you find out how applicable it is? Well, by having your good friend box you (hand techniques are the most likely thing in a real fight, it's generally very weird to kick for most people during a fight), or getting into real fights. I sincerely hope you don't opt for the other choice, because if you aren't trained, you might as well get ready for a massive butt kicking.

Conclusion

Train with a progression towards having people punch at you while you isolate one techinque, and only (and I repeat) only train static in the beginning when you are learning how and then learn to fight under circumstances similar to the ones your asking for yourself to fight under. Then, you would be on your way to training to be a fighter who can thrive in the real world.

Scott Buendia teaches Jeet Kune Do and Filipino Martial Arts under Paul Vunak in Hillsboro, Portland, Beaverton, and Tigard, Oregon.

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