Thai Bri

Yeah, but Bluaer is the best, right?

Szczepankiewicz

Kick that dead horse!

Kick it!

Again!

and again!

shuyun

my fighting philosophy is to preserve life.

use as much force only as is necessary to stop the fight. whether that force is zero or deadly depends on the nature of my attacker.

my philosphy is to injure rather than to hurt. In hurting the person's ego gets bruised and adrenaline rages. No one wants that from an opponent.Many times this escalates the fight into a lethal one. Many tough women end up dead in rape scenarios in which they claw at a man or spit on the face or even grabbing the balls. One or the other ends up dead.

If you proceed to an injuring attack (break his arm or leg for example) the pain will be such that what ever droid or adrenaline rush he's on will be dumped. Plus since he is no longer a threat you yourself will not need to kill him.

Cruel? He asked for it. you could have been left alone. if you didn't injure him someone else would have killed him.

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5 seals

My mentality about fighting is cold hard cruelty I erase all emotion from my mind and wait for the moment when my opponent makes a fatal mistake thats when I unleash the furys of hell on them.

osopardo

The ideal mindset is an "alpha state" type of thing where time slows down and you're able to respond to the attack automatically. Nerves may wreak havoc before the confrontation but once the game is on countless hours of training and "muscle memory" takes over and you do just what you have to do to win, no more, no less (meaning you have the control to do only as much damage as necessary and not cut somebody's head off with a butter knife because you're afraid of getting punched in the nose). Without that control you're just an undisciplined brawler (which is why newbies in the dojo are often considered dangerous for their unpredictability) The other side of that coin is thast without that control the undisciplined brawler often leaves himself open for the intelligent counter.

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Pushups Completed: 5 1/2
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shuyun

whatever it is the point is to enter a combat situation with no emotional or intellectual burden. To fight and just fight anymore slows you down. The alpha state is the kind of feeling when you're "on a roll". the challenge to the martial artist is to always be "in the zone" or at least be able to enter into it very quickly without conscious thought. Muscle memory or instinct? one infulences the other.

Muscle memory triggers instinct when something feels familiar (somatic markers as they are called by psychologists). Instinct then also calls a whole array of muscle memory (can you say spider sense?).

It takes all sorts of stimuli to trigger the brain not one particular thing. That is why martial arts is more about awareness than simply stimuli-response.

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