There is, of course, the simple yet devious concept of blindsiding. This is to sneak attack, from the rear, by misdirection, or some other means. Assuming that you are going to have enough awareness to survive and avoid the blindside, what are you going to do?
Where are you going to place your eyes when some mugger or thug wants to blindside you on the street? The other guy wants you to blink, to be unaware. You have to remain aware, and you have to figure out where to look, where to place your gaze, how to keep the visual line of perception open.
The first place I was told to look with the gaze, when doing kenpo karate kumite, was on the chest. One was supposed to open up the gaze and try to unfocus and see everything. With this method one could use the eyes to perceive a larger area, and not be fooled by an attack from a smaller area.
The problem here is that it is the human being, not the body, that is attacking you. The body is just a hunk of vaguely aware meat, and, especially in the arena of the martial arts, it is being used by the spirit which is the human being. You must perceive the human being operating the body if you are going to understand who is making the decisions involved in the attack of the body.
One Kang Duk Won martial arts fellow told me to look at the body when doing freestyle, and especially the Wing Chun kung fu drill known as Sticky Hands, because the eyes could be used to fool you. I found this extremely interesting, but, in the end, it was sort of a limiting concept. It was years before I figured out what was wrong with this type of thought.
The error in looking at the body of the other fighter is found in the concept that the eyes are the windows of a man?s soul. The soul is the human being, it is the spirit that is atually making the real decisions. If you look at the eyes long enough, if you use good, solid karate kata training to learn and understand the concept that you are looking for the source of the thought that is driving the action that is the attack, then you see the human being, and you see the exact thought that is behind every action.
In the martial arts, no matter if it is Wing Chun or kang duk won or Krav Maga, there is no action without a thought behind it. Even a a fellow who is drunk behind the wheel of a careening car, as unconscious as he can be, is making decisions. And a fighter, even and especially a warrior of the octagon, honed to a technical perfection, is going to exude a stillness which you can perceive the thought within.
So in martial arts, even and especially Mixed Martial Arts, you must look at the eyes if you wish to see what a fighter is thinking. You must look, and train yourself to keep looking, and not be distracted by anything, through all the phases of freestyle. This is the way to cultivate martial arts intuition and the sixth sense you are going to need in survival oriented combat. - 30300
Where are you going to place your eyes when some mugger or thug wants to blindside you on the street? The other guy wants you to blink, to be unaware. You have to remain aware, and you have to figure out where to look, where to place your gaze, how to keep the visual line of perception open.
The first place I was told to look with the gaze, when doing kenpo karate kumite, was on the chest. One was supposed to open up the gaze and try to unfocus and see everything. With this method one could use the eyes to perceive a larger area, and not be fooled by an attack from a smaller area.
The problem here is that it is the human being, not the body, that is attacking you. The body is just a hunk of vaguely aware meat, and, especially in the arena of the martial arts, it is being used by the spirit which is the human being. You must perceive the human being operating the body if you are going to understand who is making the decisions involved in the attack of the body.
One Kang Duk Won martial arts fellow told me to look at the body when doing freestyle, and especially the Wing Chun kung fu drill known as Sticky Hands, because the eyes could be used to fool you. I found this extremely interesting, but, in the end, it was sort of a limiting concept. It was years before I figured out what was wrong with this type of thought.
The error in looking at the body of the other fighter is found in the concept that the eyes are the windows of a man?s soul. The soul is the human being, it is the spirit that is atually making the real decisions. If you look at the eyes long enough, if you use good, solid karate kata training to learn and understand the concept that you are looking for the source of the thought that is driving the action that is the attack, then you see the human being, and you see the exact thought that is behind every action.
In the martial arts, no matter if it is Wing Chun or kang duk won or Krav Maga, there is no action without a thought behind it. Even a a fellow who is drunk behind the wheel of a careening car, as unconscious as he can be, is making decisions. And a fighter, even and especially a warrior of the octagon, honed to a technical perfection, is going to exude a stillness which you can perceive the thought within.
So in martial arts, even and especially Mixed Martial Arts, you must look at the eyes if you wish to see what a fighter is thinking. You must look, and train yourself to keep looking, and not be distracted by anything, through all the phases of freestyle. This is the way to cultivate martial arts intuition and the sixth sense you are going to need in survival oriented combat. - 30300
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