What Is “Self-Defense Stress?” Stress, as it relates to violence, is the response to a perceived discrepancy between a threat and your ability to control it under conditions where the outcome has the potential for death, injury or physical degradation.
The Symptoms Of Stress Stress causes a variety of psychological and physiological changes.
Motor Skills Classification Motor Skills is a fancy name for physical actions or techniques.
Many martial arts techniques are complex motor skills.
Fast Results With Minimal Training Another issue that supports the idea of keeping your inventory of techniques to a minimum is the amount of time you have to practice and the time it takes to build technique competence.
Imagine you work on 20 techniques and you train for an hour per session.
You reduce the number of self-defense techniques to three, you invest 20 minutes on each technique, conceivably investing 600% more time and repetition on each one.
What technique wouldn’t be improved by six times more training? T he Brass Knuckle Effect Imagine you knew you were about to be attacked by a large, strong, psychopathic assailant.
Let’s say your self-defense system consists of 20 different techniques.
THE SCIENCE OF STRESS POINTS TO THE NEED TO SPECIALIZE Virtually all accomplished fighters are known for specific techniques that they excel at.
If you ignore their “Bread & butter” techniques, most of them would be considered “Average.” Those fighters excel because of their ability to simplify their system and build on their superior techniques.
Knowing what you now know about technique selection and stress performance, what do you think about the merits of “Specializing” in a core set of fighting skills? Here’s how to get started.
What technique to you consistently land or apply when sparring? What is your best or favorite technique? What technique do you feel you would resort to under pressure? Answering these questions will get you started with the specialization process.
Adaptability Having as few techniques as possible doesn’t mean that you limit your ability to respond to a wide variety of situations.
Train to Momentary Exhaustion A good way to see how well a technique holds up under stress is to train it to extreme fatigue.
Html> Blast out a technique or combination repeatedly for a specified duration or until you can’t do it any more.
If you love to jump up, spin around and kick things, then by all means, go for it! Just don’t confuse techniques that will work in a street fight with those that won’t.
SO WHAT? HOW TO USE THIS INFORMATION Using The “KYSS! Principle” To Evaluate A Potential Specialty Technique Now its time to put this stuff into practice: Based on the priority you place on “Fighting skill.” Take a good, hard look at the skills you have in your inventory and the amount of time you plan to invest in training.
Attack the problem of stress performance this way: => Simplify your system through specializing in a handful of effective and adaptable techniques.
> Artificially create stress in your training sessions to inoculate yourself to it to some degree and… => Select gross motor skills that will be efficient under stress.
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