Rec and Sports

Getting Rid of Reaction time

[I:http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/extras/pics/bowzerimage25.jpg]Time can be manipulated at will, for it flows like a liquid. Time seems to be a fixed thing, used to measure the object and paths of the universe, and it seems to be quite set. If one engages in a little martial arts training, however, they will soon see that time is aone measuring stick that is extremely flexible.

If a person has a certain presence of mind it is very simple to understand time. By understanding the theory I am about to give you, and applying it to the martial arts, a person can gain this presence of mind. There are four distinct stages, or steps, to this theory.

To see/think/react is the first step. Sees a threat, the beginner thinks about it, and finally reacts. One might call this the block and counter stage.

To see/react is the second step. The student eliminates having to think about a technique through practice, and goes from seeing a threat to reacting to it. Speed is picking up at this stage of understanding time, and the student is usually able to block and counter with the same hand.

The third step is to merely react. Becoming more polished, the student doesn’t even need to see a threat to react, he begins to have a sixth sense when a threat is about and whirls to meet it. This is a simultaneous block and counter stage.

To go into action is the fourth step. A student moves before a situation can result in a launched foot or even a raised fist. The student is moving inside the moment at this stage, and he has eliminated rea-, which is reaction time.

Mind of no mind is the meaning of the Japanese term Mushin no shin, and it means that a person is moving in the moment. A person is an actual master of the world at this stage, able to see things before they happen, and act accordingly, and he is not a victim of the world, only capable of reacting to a threat. Personal choice is immense and developing at this a stage.

Time is used to measure the world, but time is actually a perception of the world. If you want to handle the world, you merely have to train your perceptions.This is just one of the many things that can happen during a course of study in the martial arts.