Kung Fu Fighting And The First Few Seconds Of A Street Fight

Obviously, I am talking not just Kung Fu fighting

, but Karate or Taekwondo or any martial art, and I am not talking just street fight, but home invasion, robbery, and so on. You see, it is not enough to learn how to fight, you must learn to control your mind. If you don't that fight will only last a few seconds, and you will lose.

The first time I entered into Karate kumite, I was in a state of panic. I had endured a few school slap outs, but this was a grown man coming at me, punching me, and he wouldn't stop! It was a lesson I was in desperate need of.

After a couple of weeks of kumite I calmed down, and I started to observe what was happening. I began controlling the distance, to move the right way to protect myself, to set myself up for my own attack. I began to actually think about what was going on in this thing called kumite.

After a few months I began to understand why my partner was moving the way he was moving. I could see when he was going to kick me, or when he was moving in for a hand strike. I could see when he was manipulating me.

After a couple of years I stopped thinking about what I was doing. I merely set and waited, and observed. If he crossed the line I attacked. If he didn't see when I crossed the line, I attacked.

In this growing third stage I experienced less and less mental activity, and more and more mental focus. Simply, thinking got in the way of seeing what was happening, and I had to put it aside if I wanted to survive. I didn't understand that this was the opening door of enlightenment.

In that rush of excitement when a fight begins the mind tends to get very excited. Thoughts come so fast they fall all over each other and you are left in a state of bewilderment. Thinking is so quick there are no actual thoughts.

So the purpose of freestyle training, be it in taekwondo or kung fu or Karate or whatever martial art you happen to be engaged in, is to retain awareness. If your mind is even and steady, you won't endure the rush of thoughts that confuse you. You will, instead, have an actual thought, and it will be different than any of the common thinking thoughts, 'when do I go to the theater,' 'what do I have for lunch,' 'who should I call now,' that people usually endure and think are thoughts.

You will have no shallow, surface thought, and you will be aware of your body moving, often as if on its own. You won't hesitate or experience panic. You will simply use your kung fu fighting or karate or taekwondo, retain awareness, and deal with the street fight in a winning way.

by: Al Case

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