{"id":948,"date":"2008-06-04T04:12:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T04:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:18:20","slug":"the-three-rs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/the-three-rs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Rs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Response, Reaction and Reflex<\/strong><\/p>\n

In any hostile situation it is important to maintain control.\u00a0 Often people think of control as a well thought out process where you act like a Chess Master to subdue your opponent into submission.\u00a0 In reality thought has little to do with it.\u00a0 I continually drill my students to stop thinking, breath and just be.\u00a0 But what does this mean in a real life situation? In a hostile situation you need to be in command of the three Rs, Response, Reaction and Reflex.<\/p>\n

Response<\/strong>: Our immediate Response to any situation can determine the outcome by maintaining advantage over your opponent(s).\u00a0 Responding weakly may give us the advantage by drawing in our opponent(s) with a false sense of security.\u00a0 Responding aggressively may discourage our opponent(s) from picking you as a target.\u00a0 This first R, response, requires us to quickly assess the situation and determine our course of action, weak, strong, strong then weak, weak then strong, or some other response will drive our next move.<\/p>\n

Reaction<\/strong>: The word reaction is often taken to be an emotional response to a situation, that is NOT what we are talking about here.\u00a0 To react indicates an immediate action that occurs without thought.\u00a0 Without training our reaction typically reverts to the flight or fight model though I add a third reaction to the standard two, freeze.\u00a0 Freezing typically occurs during a moment of indecision or just before flight.\u00a0 We train to avoid the Freeze or Flight reaction, we train so we can Fight if necessary but mostly to maintain control of our reactions.\u00a0 Our training removes the emotion and limits fear from the reaction to a situation.\u00a0 The more we train the more we react with muscle memory to a threat increasing our reaction time.\u00a0 Muscle memory is devoid of emotions like fear.<\/p>\n

Reflex<\/strong>:\u00a0 Even with muscle memory coming to our aid in reducing fear and increasing reaction time there is still one R remaining.\u00a0 We may have the correct response and we may even give the correct reaction, but without the proper training our defense will fall apart quickly.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Muscle memory is only good for the initial few seconds in a situation.\u00a0 After that you will have to rely on your knowledge and skills to protect and sustain you.\u00a0 Soldiers are forced to do repetitive training for a reason, it builds a long term procedure for a given situation.\u00a0 Perhaps we should name the third R repetition however that is only the tool to attain the skill we want.\u00a0 Given proper training when hit your body will respond to soften the effects of the blow similar to the way your leg jerks out when the doctor hits your knee!\u00a0 The key component is repetitive training, a common theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Response, Reaction and Reflex In any hostile situation it is important to maintain control.\u00a0 Often people think of control as a well thought out process where you act like a Chess Master to subdue your opponent into submission.\u00a0 In reality thought has little to do with it.\u00a0 I continually drill my students to stop thinking, Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-training-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}