Martial Arts Problem Fantasy Technique

Would you like to try a new technique for improving your skills during training? This principle uses the art of assumption to shift the focus, using a problem, in how you practice martial arts. In my personal notes, I call it my Fantasy Technique.

Martial-Arts Problem Imagined

For this technique to work, you don’t have to focus on an actual martial-arts problem in your training. You imagine a problem to shift your focus.

This may sound a little confusing, but not only will it make sense in a minute or two, but the method actually works. And it works well.

Fantasy Fighting Frustrations

Typical problems include being locked out from the enemy because of timing or not being able to find the perfect distance for you to connect with your techniques.

Of course, there are other problems in martial-arts training, but I think these two should serve nicely as examples.

Let’s say you choose distance as your “pretend problem.”

Why I propose is that you make distance the focus of your training. The idea of focusing on one aspect of your training, or designing a session around a specific theme is nothing new.

What I am suggesting here is a bit different …

Martial Arts Challenge In All Your Training
Instead of making distance the focus of your practice session, I want you to train the same was as usual. Include your solo kicking, drill practice with a partner, weapons, etc.

Whatever you’d normally practice is fair game.

Each time you go through an activity, I want you to pretend that what you are doing isn’t working as well as it should. And the fantasy is that the reason it’s not working is because of your chosen problem … in this case, distance.

Your solo kicks could use more distance precision. Maybe you need to reach more with the kick, extending your hip forward.

Possibly, the distance is about right, when you are paired off with a partner. Today, about right isn’t good enough. You imagine that there is lots of room for more precision … for improvement.

Once again, pretend that the distance is your problem.

Do you see how this could help you improve? As I said, it’s a different way to focus.

Martial Arts Master

It’s like having a martial-arts master in the room with you, but in this case, he or she is in your head.

Your instructor wants to get you to a new level. So, today’s focus is having you examine and improve all the finite details of distance as it relates to the arts.

Remember, your distance (or timing, or power, or …) might be excellent already. It’s in your noggin that you imagine the problem or the sloppiness. This imagined imprecision just has to be eliminated.

It’s a fun way to look at one hand-to-hand combat training session for one day.

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