Timing and fast reflexes can be your saving grace in a physical altercation, but how does one gain speed and improve their timing in an environment (i.e. fighting), where the variables are constantly changing and the rules are out the window.
It has been noted that people who are involved in martial arts and boxing are typically 50% faster in their reflexes and have a much keener sense of timing when it comes to fighting movements. Therefore, just by training in martial art of your choice, you will increase the speed of your reflexes and better your timing.
Of course, even if you are in a martial art or fighting sport still increase the speed of your reflexes and improve your timing. This can be done by doing a few simple speed drills, as well as learning how to remain calm and relaxed.
The ability to remain calm and relaxed altercation can be difficult without the proper training and discipline. When the threat of a physical confrontation arises it can be difficult not to tense up, become anxious and start adrenalizing.
Adrenalizing is your body’s way of defending itself from physical harm, but it can also be a great hindrance in a fight. When the body starts adrenalizing, you start to lose fine motor movements in other words, all your years of training and fine tuning your fighting skill can be thrown out the window when your body is fully adrenalizing. Another concern with over adrenalizing is that your body over exerts itself and uses up a lot of energy, leaving you prematurely depleted.
There can be however a benefit to adrenaline. Through practice and training you can control yourself not to over adrenalize, that is to say you can harness the benefits of adrenaline without restricting yourself to simple gross motor movements created by over adrenalizing.
A muscle as the ability to respond much quicker when it is relaxed, as opposed to tense, that being said, when you can remain relaxed in a confrontation, your reflexes will remain much quicker than a person who is tense and nervous. This of course takes practice and training to overcome and should key part of a complete self-defense program.
There are of course many exercises you can practice daily to increase your speed while maintaining a relaxed body. Certain meditation techniques can also help with maintaining a relaxed controlled persona.
It is a potent for speed and accuracy not to try and discipline to what your opponents move a be put to expand your vision to be able to sense subtle movements in your opponent, movements that are made prior to the strike. These movements are much more exaggerated. When your opponent is tense and wound up.
The ability to remain calm and relaxed in a confrontation will keep you in control and have your opponent second-guessing themselves. Do you have the speed and agility to be able to spot and respond to each and every action your opponent makes?
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Having been in numerous martial arts in his life, from Kung Fu to kick boxing, D. Paul Walmsley now helps facilitate a self defense system that teaches the physical and mental applications of self defense. Self defense is not just about learning how to fight. It’s about minimizing personal injury during a physical confrontation and eliminating the the threat of further injury in the most efficient and direct method possible.
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