THEORY; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Training truth

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We must train and practice and apply the way we want to defend ourselves or we will not defend that way at all. A perfect lead-in regarding self-defense through karate and martial arts, the type that can be called, “Adrenal Stress-conditioned Reality Based Training.” Two additions to the standard fundamental principles of defensive disciplines” being “Self-defense and Chemical Cocktails.” 

Sport and Combat oriented styles, especially more philosophical driven systems, train toward their true nature while self-defense oriented systems/styles must train according to the true nature of conflict and violence, i.e., self-defense. 

In karate and martial arts, “sparring” is an excellent drill. Sparring is not the same as real fighting and real self-defense for many reasons. If we exercise one model when training and a different model when sparring, or if the same model looks different in the two contexts, then are we “Training Truth?” If we do not exercise our goals we train and practice in the way we practice it then why should we practice it that way?

It must be remembered that the anatomical dynamics of two humans clashing in unarmed conflict has not changed much since … well, since there were humans. 

We will have difficulty transitioning our practice and training into self-defense if we don’t bridge them from practice to application, a reality based application. The proper understanding and application of fundamental principles of defense (multiple methodologies) systems is required if that functionality is to be unleashed. 

In a fight, i.e., in a self-defense situation, one person is the aggressor or attacker or adversary who attacks someone who does not want to fight. The adversary’s intent is not to win but to hurt, to get something from the victim. The adversary typically does not posses foreknowledge of the defenders skills but has situated the attack to apply surprise, fear and pain, to overcome their lizard brain and keep them stuck in the OO bounce. 

If we cannot translate our training and practice into the actual context in which they must be applied, we must question (1) the goals themselves, (2) the training and practice methods, and (3) the nature of the context. 

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