What Happens When You Get Rid of Reaction Time!
Reaction time is one of theterrible, if not the most terrile, scams ever foisted upon human beings. The idea that you must wait for somebody else to move before taking action will get you killed, and it is a trick of a blinded mind. The whole concept, and I dont care if you are a practitioner of Wing Chun or Hung Gar or Shotokan or whatever, is designed to make you a victim.
Now, the problem is that this concept of reaction time has become common to all arts, and basically is a coruption of art. One of the reasons for this is that the martial arts have been designed for teaching to children, and children dont have enough sense of themselves to deal with reaction time except as victims. Thus, you have to avoid classes which have been designed for children.
Another problem is that the mixed martial arts phenomena that is currently the wow in society has driven people to training methods that utilize nothing but muscle and brawn. How strong are you, how fast are you, and not how can you harmonize with your opponent. Again, the method creates victims of time, moving after somebody else has moved, and it does not create people who move in The Now.
For example, watch one of the latest UFC bashes, the fighters miss as much as they connect, yet the time involved should be faster than somebody can move their heads. The reason this is happening is because people are moving in response to action, and not in concert with it. Or, and this is really worse, they are moving without having any real idea of where they are moving, striking out blindly and hoping to win the lottery.
On the other end of the scale are the artists who dont miss their strikes, who are aware in the middle of combat, and come out of the battle unmarked and yet with a knock out to their credit. Watch the last fight with Anderson Silva Silva, the one in which he bashes Forrest Griffin. Anderson seems lazy, dancing unconcerned at the end of Forrests punches, and yet he is never touched, and instead loops a lazy, little punch in that knocks Forrest into the middle of next week.
But Forrest was already in the middle of next week! Forrest, you see was trying to hit a head without knowing where it was, which is obvious if you analyze the trajectory of his punches. Forrest was not capable of being in The Now, or of predicting in any fashion where Andersons head would be.
So here is the question that I have been working around, if a person is in reaction time, punching after the action and not in concert with the action, where is he? It doesnt matter where he is, what matters is that he is not free of the trap of reaction time. He is not in charge of his life, he is living some other time, he is living in the past, he is not living in the right here and now.
Well, it is obvious that the world is crazy, and we all knew that, but we can make it not so crazy by undoing this silly thing called reaction time. Simply, you must seek out training drills where you move with somebody, and because he moved. Whether you study Kenpo or Krav Maga or Choy Lee Fut or whatever, you must research what reaction time is, and remove it, through intensive training, from your existence.
Al Case, 4O years martial arts, hundreds of articles for the mags and his own column, has designed methods which will undo reaction time and de-corrupt entire martial arts. You can take advantage of his free report at Monster Martial Arts, and you can see him moving without reaction time at Blinding Steel.