Interesting discussion going on in Bill's Forum. Gets to the heart of TMA training and the discipline associated with trying to perform technique in an accurate manner. I see some very interesting subjects that are near and dear to all of us who spend a lifetime practicing a martial art. Is there something about the repetition and striving for perfection that is relevant to self defense or should we simply accept the fact that all the work and time put into this discipline mostly falls into the "healthy exercise" category and if we really want to learn self defense, go pick fights in your local Biker bar! :) Here is the basic questions that started the discussion, followed by Bill Glasheen's very technical explanation that supports the TMA training philosophy. Drop in to see what others have to say. . . GEMattson.
"The nervous system was not designed to do the same thing over and over again.
"The nervous system was designed to be flexible. You typically find yourself doing things you've never done before."
"So if this study is right, do certain kinds of traditional karate training and ideals make us slower and less effective by trying to get us to be consistent? What do all those "sloppy" but effective karate masters know that the picture perfect ones don't?"
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Bill's Response: I'm not sure you get this one, Mike.  I think people can over interpret the results. This is just a consequence of the nonlinearity of our makeup. When you have a system capable of displaying mathematical chaos behavior, then you never, ever, ever retrace your steps exactly the same way. This reminds me of my dissertation. In it, I was trying to take a publication from Science (Cohen et al from Harvard) and bring it to the next step. They hypothesized that heart-rate rhythms as measured by Power Spectral analysis could be an indication of autonomic nervous system health. Hearts beat faster and slower due to our breathing activity and various control systems in our body (blood pressure and blood flow). It gets "cross talked" to the heart-rate via the autonomic nervous system. This is how this rhythmic activity looks in the frequency domain. |
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Reading Behavioral Intent Threat Pattern Recognition and Early Threat Recognition Skills “Reading Behavioral Intent”
by Darren Laur
No matter the mode of attack (psychological, emotional, verbal, physical), or if the threat is armed or not, what can give us the tactical advantage, especially in the pre-contact phase of a confrontation, is the ability to recognize a threat “pattern”. Because we know that the skilled predator(s) will use the element of surprise to their advantage, there are threat patterns that we should all be aware of that can “alert” us to a potential attack, thus minimizing the threat’s primary advantage, that being the element of surprise.
Before I share some of the Patterns and Threat Recognitions to be aware of, I believe it is important that the reader review my article on the Anatomy of Fear:
In this article I shared the following:
1. The brain has been “hard-wired” to deal with the emotion of fear/violence 2. One pathway is known as the “high road” in which action can be based on conscious will and thought. This pathway appears to take effect during “progressive” types of fear stimuli. Here a combatives student will be able to apply stimulus/response type training using the OODA model having regards to gross motor skills and Hick’s Law |
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 Pictures from 2006 China Tour...Susan came back from the Post Office this afternoon with a package from Darin Yee. Turned out to be a CD with over 2000 pictures taken by the group members during their recent trip to China. When the tour participants travelled, they had to break up into smaller groups in order to get into cabs. With everyone carrying cameras and taking photos, on more than a few occasions you will see pictures of the same place from 3 or more perspectives. If you would like to view the pictures from this CD, just click on the photo of Darin or gallery . Once in the gallery, you can click on the photos to enlarge and enjoy. As I get time I'll add more pictures.
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