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Speed first must explain itself through the OODA loop. One observes then orients then decides on a course of action and finally then ACTS. This is a process every human has to go through to do things and the time it takes is about speed. The faster you pass the loop to act over an adversary the faster you gain the advantage over that adversary. This requires complete and comprehensive training and practice.
That training and practice includes knowledge, the type of knowledge for martial arts self-defense means knowing and understanding a lot about conflict and violence. If you are confronted by the unknown and/or unfamiliar then you have to go back to the start of the OODA loop thereby putting you behind and given the mental and physical speed to your adversary.
This is the knowledge necessary long before you take that first step on the dojo floor of a self-defense martial art or karate. You have to know what you don’t know and what you don’t know you don’t know otherwise the initial advantage is not yours.
If you can train and practice toward a process that allows you to skip steps (procedural memory programming in zombie routines) in the loop you gain more speed toward reaching the action level. If your actions are such that it causes the adversary to bounce back to the OO section and remain there, the OO bounce, then you gain more speed and reduce his creating more time to achieve your goals. Remember, that applies to him as well.
Then you apply the principles in such a manner that you literally “lengthen your line” in relation to the adversary’s line also adding to your speed. This type of speed is developed long before that of the actual physical speed of your body, i.e., hands, feet, elbows, etc., through economical motion, efficiency, proficiency, control, simplicity, natural action, etc.
Consider also that your awareness also contributes to your speed. The ability to perceive danger long before you encounter the situation provides you time, distance and speed in acting to avoid the conflict and violence before the physical applications of self-defense. This is also about adding speed to the loop while providing time to consider avoidance over defense methodologies in avoidance because your loop now has time to consider what it observes, you have time to orient you human brain so that it also has time to consider options so when you finally decide to turn and run your actions become those that avoid damage and those legal and moral ramifications self-defense involve.
Lets talk a bit about the speed that involves application of karate and martial arts. Keep in mind that speed reciprocates timing and timing will be discussed in the next section. The first, most obvious, application of speed is best described as our movements being such that our adversary is unable to react thus speeding past their processing of the OODA loop.
Another aspect is what some call movement speed, as already partly described above. It is about how fast our bodies move across space or distances. Then we need to know about how other sub-principles effect and enhance movement speed through structure, axis, relaxation, posture, and wave energy, etc.
Look also at effectual speed, i.e., a more holistic view of the time it takes to compote a method to its final goal on target. Add in timing speed where we move faster in our response to our adversary, in other words we put our methodology into effect faster than they do - faster OODA loop.
Spatial speed, where we move less distance in executing our methods through superior economical motions. If we can execute the same method as our adversary but only through a shorter distance or path then we are twice as fast in its application barring any other possible similarities or dissimilarities.
Speed involves various types of perspectives such as remembering that effectual speed involves movement, timing and spatial speeds. We don’t want to forget that the speed of traversing the OODA loop also contributes to overall speed.
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