Mother nature gives us the gift of FEAR, along with the mechanism to deal with it - the FLINCH. We hunch up, elbows drops and squeezed in to protect our flanks, arms and hands shoots up to protect the throat, face and head when threaten.
In an non weapon confrontation, what we fear the most ( I know I'm) is an attack directed to our throat, face, and fingers to the eyes. So how can we possibly minimize this fear factor while still able to be cool/level headed enough to deal with the threat? Training, training and more training. Since there are multitude of ways you can carry out "head hunting", an straight punch, jab or finger thrust to the face is fast and not easily intercepted, thus used as the base of our training.
Training routine goes some thing like this: you = A, partner = B.
B steps in with an right punch within a few inches to the left side of A's face. From the normal relaxed WC forward hand positions, A intercepts B's punch around the wrist area with the back of his left hand (outside gate) while sticking/riding and guiding it pass his face and stop the hand at the left ear, letting the punch slide by. Distance of the punch to the side of the face will need to be reduced closer and closer, faster and with more intent and power as training progress. The guiding motion of the hand is like wiping the sweat from your brow, the goal of this exercise is to get comfortable enough and accustom to having an punch thrown straight at you without the flinching reaction, practice makes perfect (almost). We want to get to the point that your intercepting hand is the only thing separates the fist and your face, with the palm touching the face and ear. Of course you'll need to give your right hand (inside gate) equal time to B's right punch, using some thing resembles an modified wu/pak ... and nooo, not THAT wu sao Mo used to stop Larry's eye poke with.:hmm: Mirror training with the opposite side and then reverse the training attacking role.
What had described is but an very basic starter routine and is not all inclusive (I'm sure many of you already has/had some thing similar), you can do a slight pivot/facing of you stance or just the upper body, you can combine that with a small forward step, or you can flavor it any way you like to suit your taste.
So what is in YOUR wallet? Like to hear what other training methods you guys have/had used to address this issue ... don't all jump in at once now ...
In an non weapon confrontation, what we fear the most ( I know I'm) is an attack directed to our throat, face, and fingers to the eyes. So how can we possibly minimize this fear factor while still able to be cool/level headed enough to deal with the threat? Training, training and more training. Since there are multitude of ways you can carry out "head hunting", an straight punch, jab or finger thrust to the face is fast and not easily intercepted, thus used as the base of our training.
Training routine goes some thing like this: you = A, partner = B.
B steps in with an right punch within a few inches to the left side of A's face. From the normal relaxed WC forward hand positions, A intercepts B's punch around the wrist area with the back of his left hand (outside gate) while sticking/riding and guiding it pass his face and stop the hand at the left ear, letting the punch slide by. Distance of the punch to the side of the face will need to be reduced closer and closer, faster and with more intent and power as training progress. The guiding motion of the hand is like wiping the sweat from your brow, the goal of this exercise is to get comfortable enough and accustom to having an punch thrown straight at you without the flinching reaction, practice makes perfect (almost). We want to get to the point that your intercepting hand is the only thing separates the fist and your face, with the palm touching the face and ear. Of course you'll need to give your right hand (inside gate) equal time to B's right punch, using some thing resembles an modified wu/pak ... and nooo, not THAT wu sao Mo used to stop Larry's eye poke with.:hmm: Mirror training with the opposite side and then reverse the training attacking role.
What had described is but an very basic starter routine and is not all inclusive (I'm sure many of you already has/had some thing similar), you can do a slight pivot/facing of you stance or just the upper body, you can combine that with a small forward step, or you can flavor it any way you like to suit your taste.
So what is in YOUR wallet? Like to hear what other training methods you guys have/had used to address this issue ... don't all jump in at once now ...
