Combat Chu Fen Do

[Johnlogic121]

I read about the art of "Chu Fen Do" in a Black Belt magazine years ago. This art reacts to the common tendency for martial artists to cultivate supreme calm when doing their martial arts routines. Instead, the idea is to go with your adrenaline response and enter what they call a "controlled state of panic." The idea is that a person who panics without training in facing the situation can be bitterly useless in a fight, but when you have experience at going into a panicked state, you can still fight effectively where other epople would be emptying their bowels. Has anybody heard of this style or trained in it? I have an impression it was emerging back in the 1980s as a reaction to the tendency for people to cultivate calm in the midst of conflict, so it could also be seen as a kind of modern forerunner to certain "reality based self-defense" programs but taking a radical view of how fighting psychology can be achieved by radical training. I haven't heard much about this, even though the ideas can stimulate much debate. Is it best to remain calm in a fight, even when remaining calm generally seems impossible? Is a mental attitude of "controlled panic" really the better way? What does the forum think?