psychological effects of fighting

[Jack]

And then what happened?

[g]

r u still trying to hear some dirty storys jack

[kicker]

well if you aren't really ready inless you have classes that you fight with other people so you know your blocking and attacking moves. Then I think you are ready but if you havent it's almost like no but a bit better

 

 

[MuayTB1]

I'm ready, I welcome a good beating. So not afaird to lose, I can fight anyone. Gang beating? As long as I'm alife, I'll rebuilt my dead body cells again aways. Lets fight already.

[Bon]

::edit:: Edited September 29, 2002 by Bon

[KickChick]

"Martial arts training gives you the confidence to walk away from an argument before it escalates into a fight. Knowing that you have the ability to physically handle your opponent means that you can react calmly and with presence, without getting angry.

 

Anger, which can enhance performance by increasing adrenal levels, clouds judgment. The best martial artists are eerily calm, even when fighting. Anger interferes with selecting the right technique and the execution of that technique."

 

 

[SaiFightsMS]

Now tell that to Angus.

 

 

[KickChick]

Well I believe that the fighting philosophy of a traditional martial artist differs from that of a "fighter".

 

There is a fighting philosophy of the poisonous snake which I will use to show you.

 

Imagine yourself to be a poisonous snake. Someone provokes you but if you think that it is not necessary to fight back, you keep silent or leave him alone. Seeing no reaction

 

from you, he probably stops irritating you. However, if you feel you can't avoid a fight, then don't hesitate, but initiate an attack as fast as you can with the aim to defeat him totally!

 

There are times when we should fight and when we shouldn't fight.

 

We should fight when we are in danger, or in a critical situation that cannot be dealt with by other means.

 

There is a Chinese saying that he who knows how to deal with situations is a hero. You are not a coward when you refuse or avoid a fight. On the contrary, to accept a meaningless fight means you are a fool posing as a hero!

 

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[ This Message was edited by: KickChick on 2002-01-29 09:27 ]

[Deathcometh]

I would like to think I would handle everything well, but I know I won't but at least I can expect how I will react.

[Xtra Tribal]

Fighting is mostly psychological.

 

Egos start fights because parties don't want to back down. Most fights can be avoided, but at least if you've sparred, thrown someone hard or vice versa, and been knocked out or knocked someone out, you know how much easier it would be on the concrete street for someone to die, get hurt, someone to get sued, or do jail time. Fighting is never a good option, ever.

 

In self defense you may respond with complete commitment because you are fighting for your life, jail or not. If you aren't interested in living, you will lose.

 

In this extreme scenario where you are fighting because you have no option to run, your physiology changes, especially in your nervous system.Your bag of strategies, techniques, and calm shrinks or even vanishes if you aren't into regular adrenaline bursts from full contact fighting with little or no protection. Huge chemical change, you see different, hear different, feel different, your synapses fire harder making subtle small movements gross and less fluid. (An earlier post mentioned the adrenaline, which is just one thing, but if the adrenaline rush is too great, you may actually get sick and vomit or lose your ability to stand. ) You'll remember a handful of fundamental movements you've trained the most as a martial artist because of amount of repitition creating stable neural pathways for the movement, muscle memory, simple and direct.

 

The neurochemical response to intense stress is pretty interesting supplementary research besides fight psychology