| About 3 months ago, I got an email in private from a | | | | something with absolute certainty. |
| martial artist who was studying Krav Maga. He | | | | Reason #2 - You Get Used To The Adrenaline Rush |
| confided in me that though he trained with his Krav | | | | - Whenever you sense or believe a real threat is |
| Maga techniques on a regular basis, something very | | | | impending, your body prepares you for danger with an |
| strange and discouraging happened to him one night. | | | | adrenaline dump into your bloodstream to make you |
| He was at a public place when an aggressor called | | | | more efficient to handle the problem at hand. The |
| him outside to fight. And this is what he told me. He | | | | adrenaline rush cannot be avoided. The problem is that |
| froze like a dear caught in the headlights. Nothing | | | | the untrained person doesn't know what to do with it |
| happened, but he walked away disheartened and | | | | or how to handle it. When the improperly trained |
| confused and feeling like a "coward". | | | | person gets the adrenaline rush, he calls it "fear". When |
| I reassured him that his experience was more | | | | the properly trained person gets this same adrenaline |
| commonplace than he thought amongst those studying | | | | rush, he calls it "excitement" - same bodily experience |
| traditional martial arts. I explained to him that he | | | | only with a different label thus triggering a different |
| obviously was not experiencing reality-simulated | | | | psychological experience. |
| fighting. He was training in "fighting choreography" | | | | Reason #3 - You Usually Train With A |
| without the intense and unpredictable dynamic of a | | | | "Non-Compliant" Partner - When you train in Traditional |
| real street fight. What he needed was reality-based | | | | Martial Arts, you train with "Compliant" Partners. What |
| training to prepare him for the real world. | | | | this means is that your training partner is cooperating |
| 3 Reasons Why Reality-Based Training Is The BEST | | | | with your technique. He throws a punch and allows |
| Antidote To The Fear Of Fighting: | | | | you to grab it in order to practice your counter move. |
| Reason #1 - Your Subconscious Mind "Knows" How | | | | Real street aggressors are not cooperative with your |
| The Fight Will End - Let us examine for a moment the | | | | techniques. They are very, very non-compliant! |
| dynamic of fear. Fear is usually that of the unknown, | | | | A "Non-Compliant" training partner is instructed to |
| that is, feeling that we will not be able to handle a | | | | attack you with surprise blows and moves, and he will |
| situation. This doubt causes a reflex action of | | | | resist as aggressively as possible to try his best to |
| visualizing ourselves failing and doing miserably. Now | | | | screw up the perfect execution of your technique. |
| once you train in reality-based scenarios, you "know" | | | | This is what it is like in the real world, and if you can |
| how each fight will end. "You will win." This is the belief | | | | get used to training like this - you will become ready, |
| that is engendered. You see, believing and "knowing" | | | | and you will become fearless. |
| are inseparable because knowing is just "believing" | | | | |