gavin

when i am put in that situation when i just go bang* all sorts of fucked up uncontrollable shit happens. my eyes glaze over my face goes red and i actually get tunnel vision.all of a sudden thirty men with guns wouldnt stop me and im a machine tredging through anything infront of me with one word in mind KILL! then when i have "won" people will be screaming telling me to stop etc and i'll look and see i have dissabled the threat.then all of a sudden i calm and im starving so the very next thing i do is go eat lol. i have been pretty upset when ive goten arrested and wind up with the shit they give ya.

this is all a load of chemical reactions inside me. i just see it as the way im piped up. are you guys saying its possible to switch in to this gear all of a sudden?

with training as i grew up i came to a point where me and everyone thaught i had got a controll of my temper but that wasnt so! what i had done is pushed back the point at which i did flip. this is a terrible thing. this caused me to be a fanny and take alot more flack than i should. its meant that for a couple years i felt insecure and weak and always wondered what happened to the old me. for that couple years i went iwthout fighting ya see and then i got in a scrape that i couldnt run away from bang* here the old me again. i beat **** out the twat and from then on i where buzzing about having that extra gear to shift in to. i knew it where still in me to flip like that and since have tried to find a way of doing it on demand. i personally dont think this is possible now. but would be an awesome thing. also when i have flipped the little i know. ie how to land a punch i have done naturally. i can still use my legs to walk when i turn likethis so if i trained myself propperly then do you realy think it would all go out the window??

Mike Brewer

Gavin, you strike me as either completely full of shit or deeply troubled.

Michael Wright

I'll go with both.

Isn't this the guy who couldn't understand why he kept getting into so many fights??...

Ghost

Taking a dump in the morning?

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Wolfeye589

I'm glad you brought up the gunfighter scenario. I believe it was Bat Masterson that once said the three most important things a gunfighter needs is Deliberation, Accuracy, then speed; In that order. I think the same applies to all combat. Keeping calm and "Taking your time in a hurry" is crucial.

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Liberty

Basketball legend and OBLS Kareem Abdul Jabbar, in his autobiography, "Giant Steps," tells of an encounter he witnessed between Bruce Lee and a really skilled streetfigher friend of Kareem's. Jabbar relates how that, at first, the guy held his own, when all of a sudden this coldness came over Lee's face and demeanor. That next thing he knew Lee completely owned the guy from there on. Others have also related having observed and or experienced this chilling, unerving "cold and calculating aspect" of Lee's prowess.

Mike Brewer

I don't know if you're familiar with the old adage, "The mark of a champion is making the impossible look easy." My dad always used to put it like this:

When you get to the end zone, make sure you look like you've been there before.

A good fighter wins and looks like he's fought a war to do it. A GREAT fighter wins and looks like he never broke a sweat. Michael Jordan wasn't the biggest guy on a basketball court, nor the strongest or the fastest. But he was always where he needed to be and he exuded calm. Same with Bruce Lee. When he fought, it was about "becoming a doll made of wood" no matter how much he talked about "Don't think! Feeeeel."

I think a fighter reaches a true evolution when he can settle down and fight intellectually. Maybe not a lot of people get there, which is why so many still make mean faces and grunt and growl and try to look intimidating. But still, if you DO get there, you're a badass evermore.

Garland

So...look out for the ones with the thousand yard stare?

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Mike Brewer

Maybe, but that's not really what I'm talking about. I mean look out for the guy who can be smiling and laughing and joking around and then blast your front teeth out without breaking stride. When a guy can just think things through, take care of business like he's solving any other challenge in life, and then move on unfazed, he's someone to watch out for. In classes I've taught, I often refer to this idea by saying that you should be as emotionally attached to the situation as you are when you're trying to decide which brand of green beans to buy at the store. You just don't care much. There's no real emotion that comes with it (no angry temper, no sullen resignation). It's just engaging the brain and doing what the situation demands without letting it get you too riled up.