The Truth About Martial Arts and Self-Defense

performance in their first real assault too.

You might reasonably imagine how “playing the role” of a real aggressor can affect these dysfunctional adrenal reactions in the student. The truthful and economical answer is both ‘easily” and ‘reliably’.

The adrenal release is not a voluntary action. It is autonomic and automatic, ‘hard wired’ response to the cues of danger. Thus if you authentically present those cues of danger, then you will get the adrenal response. In twenty odd years I have never seen this fail.

The difference of course is how the student handles and manages that adrenal response. Since most of us are not accustomed to or experienced with ‘life and death’ situations and the adrenal rush most people are overcome by it. By this I mean they ‘choke” or ‘freeze up’ and they are unable to use the martial technique they may have learned because they learned them under the non-adrenal state of martial arts study.

Now are there exceptions? Yes, there clearly are exceptions. If a student performs effectively in their first adrenal stress driven scenario there is almost always a single reason. That reason is because it’s not their first adrenal stress driven ‘fight’. They have had previous experience with the ‘real thing’ and the adrenal rush it elicits.

What the RMCAT fight simulation do is to provide that ‘biochemical experience’ without the dangerous experience of getting into a real attack!

The more modern training methodology of simulation and adrenal stress driven scenario-based training has scientifically proven itself superior to any other training method and in many different and varied fields.

Fighter pilots train in aircraft simulators, tank crews do the same in computer modeled tanks, commercial airline pilots are required to maintain their emergency skills through periodic simulator training to qualify and maintain their fight worthy status.

It should thus be no surprise that this simulation training methodology is superior when applied to unarmed self-defense training. More so than any alternative methodology including any Asian based martial arts systems.

This is precisely why I have employed the simulation based, adrenal stress driven scenario methodology in my self-defense classes for two decades now. It simply works!

In the next installment in this series we will look briefly at the martial arts business model itself and thus see its innate problems in offering true self-defense training.

We will also begin our examination of how adrenal stress conditioning provides benefits in every aspect of one’s personal and professional life and well part from self-defense issues entirely.

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