...they're just not up to par with what you want or need.
How can you get what you know you need without compromising quality and settling for what's available or, even worse...
...not pursuing your goal at all?
Well, you have two choices, really...
...you can accept defeat or the fact that maybe your standards are too high and settle for what's available, or...
...you can do what scores of very skilled practitioners have done before you. You can take advantage of the benefits of seminars and camps to get the knowledge you need from the best teachers there are.
Instead of "settling" and approaching your training with what amounts to a "victim's mentality," you can take control of the situation. Instead of whining, complaining, and making excuses - you can take action - one of the main traits of a warrior.
With all of the power and rich information pool of the internet today, it is impossible to NOT find what you're looking for in the way of martial arts training. There are literally hundreds of seminars, from half-day workshops to full weekend events, and from one and two-day intensives to full-blown ninja training camps; and they're all there for the students who are willing to plan a little more, focus a little more, and be ready to travel a little farther than everyone else who HAS "settled."
Can you really learn martial arts and self-defense from seminar training only? I know it's worked for me and many of the most proficient experts that I'm associated with. In fact, most of my training career, at least in the early days, was during a time when I was serving with the US Army and stationed in places like Korea and, what was then, West Germany.
Were there martial arts clubs and groups close-by? Absolutely.
But, I had a desire to not only train in the martial arts but, to train with the best. And so...
...I had no choice. I HAD to travel to get what I wanted and needed in the way of quality.
What I found was that I learned more during each training event because there was MORE TO learn. That was perfect for me because it gave me more than enough to work on in-between the martial arts seminars and Ninja Camps that I WAS able to attend. And, it also caused me to focus much more than the local students who were there.
Why?
I think it was because...
...they took their training for granted. Whereas I did not. Since I went through more in the way of time, effort and money to be there, I refused to let any of it slip by. As a result, I, and many of my friends who also traveled for training, developed our self-defense abilities much more fully - learning our martial art with much greater depth than many who had access to their teacher practically everyday.
Funny, really. Because it wasn't until I became much more interested in the lives of warriors-past, that I realized that this method of training - traveling to one's teacher to spend short, but intense, visits to gain the lessons for mastery, is exactly the same way many of the most famous warriors in history...
...became Legends!
Martial Art Self Defense
Well, I have my own beliefs, mostly involving the fact that most have never been in a real-world self-preservation situation with an assailant out to do maximum damage with any technique or weapon they choose. Basically...
... they don't know any better.
In this issue, I want to look at a foundational idea that the rest of our training philosophies should take into account if we are to prepare ourselves in the most efficient and effective way possible.
First, we need to consider the learning curve of the average human being. When we think about how we learn best, aside from the methods that we might have been exposed to along the way, it becomes obvious that the "natural" way to learn can be seen in the following pattern:
Do - Think - Feel
That is, the most effecient and effective learning model for most of us is to:
* Do the 'thing' in a hands-on fashion.
* Think about the 'thing' - work at understanding what makes it 'tick' and how it can be used - it's impact and use for us.
* Have an emotional response - we either like-it, don't like-it, or it doesn't matter.
So, what's the problem you might ask. That's the way martial artists train in just about every dojo or training center around.
The problem is that...
... the above formula is only half the equation!
The problem is that, we may learn best this way but, we operate very differently when under stress. I don't mean just danger, but any time stress factors play on us. Whether we're talking about fear, sadness, happiness, or whatever, we simply operate in a different way than we learn. And, this must be accounted for in the learning curve or we will simply be unprepared for a real-life encounter with an attacker.
The difference that I'm speaking of is really an exact opposite of the learning formula. When under stress, human beings operate by the formula:
Feel - Think - Do
This means that in a life-threatening situation we will:
* Have an emotional reaction - to the type of attack, the assailant, the environment, rules and regulations that we are bound by, and a hundred other factors.
* Access memories, beliefs, and mental functions - and then, based on what we think about the situation and what we know...
* We go into action - and do the best we can with what we know.
To say that the formulas are different, is more than an understatement.
What are we to do with this information? How can it help us to better train to be prepared for a life-saving situation?
Quite simply - we can make sure that we are producing and working under a particular emotional mode when training for self defense. This will require a training atmosphere akin to that used by actors-in-training than what we are typically used to seeing in a martial arts academy.
The Four Base Emotions
The human being enters the world with four base emotional triggers that, based on future stimuli and the addition of the higher mental functions, combine to produce the many emotions themselves. But, from a primative, self-preservation perspective, it is these 4 base impulses that we will concern ourself.
The four base emotional responses to stress are:
* Confident, stability - we're basically unmoved by the threat, because there is no perceived threat.
* Defensive repulsion - we are overwhelmed by the source of the impulse and instinctively cover our targets or pull away to a safer distance.
* Aggressiveness - we quickly move in to take control of the situation.
* Evasiveness, avoiding - we sidestep or evade the problem, seeking primarily to completely avoid having to deal with the problem at all.
While there have been countless martial arts and self-defense systems that have been designed around a particular emotional response mode, no one mode is right or wrong in and of itself. Each one is an option to be channelled and used as a tool, if only we knew how.
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