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365 Ways to Practice Your Karate, Grappling, and Martial Arts Techniques
It is helpful to learn how to approach a
frightening situation with a controlled calmness. Having “been
there” prior to the actual encounter is a great way to condition
your body and mind, even if you have only “been there” in training.
This book will introduce you to 365 ways to practice your martial
arts techniques, extract information, and analyze the concepts you
have learned in class, so that you can gain the skills you need to
approach your technique training with confidence and maximum
intensity.
Martial artists frequently focus on how to perform the techniques,
but spend minimal time and little emphasis on how to make rational
decisions. You learn hundreds of specific techniques without
discussing or exploring how you or a potential opponent feel or
react to these techniques. The ability to reason is important both
to the sports competitive martial artist and the self-defense
oriented martial artist. Understanding the human psyche is perhaps
even more important than executing a technique correctly. Techniques
are predictable; the human mind is not always so.
Knowing what to do is a step toward knowing
how to do it. You must learn proper mechanics of technique
before you can learn the concepts of technique. When you understand
the “what” and the “how,” the next step is learning the “when” and
the “why.” Since all techniques don’t work equally well all the
time, knowing when to use a technique is crucial. Mastering the
concepts means mastering the highest stage of learning: correlation.
Or as has been said: Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day;
teach a man to fish, and he will eat for life. Many of the exercises
in this book therefore focus on developing critical thinking skills
for learning the stand-up and grappling arts. They are designed to
raise questions and trigger your imagination, and not necessarily
designed to answer your questions outright.
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