Pretty wise words for urban combatives

[knifehand]

http://www.dojoweb.com/articles.asp?articleid=4932

[Jiu-fu fighter]

Very wise words indeed, I know what it feels like to be suddenly overwhelmed .... and afterwards that shame that the countless hours of martial arts training just did not kick in...

[WildWest.]

Good article, thanks for posting.

[knifehand]

i thought it was good as well........too many instructors out there who tell people to relax when striking in self protection .....thats why i like carl cestari.....he was the first and only instructor ive ever heard say you wont relax in a fight and even better this is the way we should be training for life and death encounters ....stiff and rigid.......i guess like the saying goes " we should train like we fight"....but how many of us actually do? ....TMA has always taught me to relax and breathe but when faced for real i was just the opposite and uncontrollably unrelaxed ......but when was the last time you trained this way? im sure some of us are fortunate enough to have had this experience and came out relatively ok but did we "remember" the altercation and more importantly how we felt seconds before we had to strike?....when you literally cant think straight or talk very well......30 seconds before you begin to crash on adrenalin seems pretty quick to a 3 min round on a heavybag.......does anyone here train this way ??....id like to incorporate this style of training.

[Garland]

Need not be a sociopath...
The body has a neurophysiological response to immediate danger, and if you are lacking in the nuerotransmitters (GABA, norepinephrine, adrenaline, etc) that kick this system into play, you might be "calm" when you should be experiencing a fear response.

The whole sociopath arguement (antisocial personality disoder) is that they may have lower baselines for these things, and therefore engage in shitty behaviors as a way of achieving normal arousal (the other big thing is they are horrible with interpersonal relatedness, but who is to say that comes before or after doing bad shit to others). It's a chemical thing acording to the biological camp of mental health professionals.

You should feel the jumpiness though, in fact, that extra bit of energy is hardwired into system for the life or death type of shit. If you don't want it, I hypothesize that there are some specific meds, and in particular, a pretty specific cocktail of drugs that may make it so you don't get the CNS response* that gives you the "adrenaline dump", the "butterflies in the stomach", and the jitters.

*people with Panic Disorder take benzodiazepam type drugs and other CNS depressants to avoid or alleviate panic attacks...what is an anxiety attack besides this fear response?

[apparatusnine]

i thought it was good as well........too many instructors out there who tell people to relax when striking in self protection .....thats why i like carl cestari.....he was the first and only instructor ive ever heard say you wont relax in a fight and even better this is the way we should be training for life and death encounters ....stiff and rigid.......i guess like the saying goes " we should train like we fight"....but how many of us actually do? ....TMA has always taught me to relax and breathe but when faced for real i was just the opposite and uncontrollably unrelaxed ......but when was the last time you trained this way? im sure some of us are fortunate enough to have had this experience and came out relatively ok but did we "remember" the altercation and more importantly how we felt seconds before we had to strike?....when you literally cant think straight or talk very well......30 seconds before you begin to crash on adrenalin seems pretty quick to a 3 min round on a heavybag.......does anyone here train this way ??....id like to incorporate this style of training.

there has been a few times where i have felt that from sparring. oddly it has always been with friends(out side of training). im searching for words how to explain it. we just have this understanding that when we get hurt threw fighting that it isn't personal. now i know most ppl when training hear that from there instructor/sensi and soforth, but with my friends it is just different we take it to brand new levels. levels that damn near emulate true street fights. like when i train with my sensi it is hard to get that "uncontrolled adrenaline" serging throw your body. for fear of...i dont know. it is just that with my friends we have been throw some struggles and hardships and those didn't break us so why would a simple fight?

apparatus