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"Learn to Fight and Rise Above
Your Fear"
Fear has its undeniable dynamics in all
forms of street combat, with no exception, but you can rise above the
"fear factor" by adding a considerable mental feature to your efforts of
learning street fighting. Critical situation on the street are possible
at any moment - it is a good point to start with for your preparation
for facing the additional fear aspect. Do you feel like you are the type
of man or woman who simply freezes when a street fighting situation
occurs? Well, panic is unavoidable with most of us - but if you learn to
fight and control, at the same time, your emotions, you will handle your
emotions to the disadvantage of your opponent.
This is why it is vital to practice, practice, and then practice again -
it is the essence of any effort to learn to fight. It is crucial to
arrive at such a point of naturalness, so that by the time you become
conscious that you should actually feel terrified, your attacker has
already been dealt with. Many people forget to take in hand the
intensification of the feeling in an authentic street combat situation.
More often than not, if you can bring to a halt the intensification of
emotions on both street combat sides (the attacker(s) and the
defender(s)), the conflict does not take place. However, such prevention
of emotion intensification rarely occurs, so the only thing that you can
do is to continue your street fighting training and to learn to fight by
being the one in control - which means that you control your emotions
and not the reverse.
I can recommend a series of real-life situations exercises, but my
warning is that the level of emotion intensity with such exercises does
not compare with the level of emotion intensity in the actual street
combat. For instance, a good manner of learning to deal with fear is by
having someone rub you the wrong way. When someone is rude to you, you
will experience both panic and bewilderment as to the reasons why he or
she might act in such a manner.
The reality is the same: you may often find no authentic logical reason
behind street attacks. They might want to rob you, in some situations,
but time and again you may find yourself with your face smashed for no
reason that you could actually comprehend. This will definitely line up
a series of contradictory emotions. In practice, you may even feel the
need to cry or even let your tears out, for that matter. This means that
you have lost control over your emotions.
However, practice does make perfect. If you cry while you train, you
will gradually learn to retain those tears, so that when a street
fighting situation actually comes up, you will be the complete master of
your emotional reactions. Listen to what I am saying: an aggressor is
not going to attack you with subtleties. On the contrary, he or she will
yell insults straight to your face - sometimes closer than what you
might ever expect to, and believe me; sometimes you may even have to
deal with literally bad breath situations.
Finally, when you learn to fight by controlling the fear factor,
remember that your attacker actually deals with emotions, too. Your fear
control training may in fact provide you with some reliable clues as to
what the other is going through in a similar situation. In other words,
never let it out of your mind that your opponent has weak emotional
points, too. By studying yours, you can get an idea of his or hers.
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Sincerely,
Mr. Maurice A. Gomez Sr.
American Kenpo Karate Black Belt
USA- Head Instructor
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