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It is a known fact that many people study a martial art year after year, practicing and memorizing kata after kata. They compete in all the tournaments (winning trophies at night). They go from white belt to yellow, to orange, to purple, to green, to blue, to brown, and finally to the coveted black belt. However, I know of several very high ranking belts who have gotten into real life or death street altercations where the assailant brandished a gun, and either overreacted using the wrong technique or just froze. because they had too much information and too much. many techniques in your brain to process them quickly enough. The end result. They felt afraid and/or could not adequately defend themselves. This is a very sobering and humbling revelation for anyone who thought they really understood the reality of the high-intensity, fast-paced, and violent nature of a real street fight. Basically, there are 5 main causes of fear during a real street fight, but like all problems in life, there has to be a solution. I have it for you here in this article.

Cause #1 – Lack of preparation from knowing too many techniques – Most martial artists are guilty of this one. The more techniques you fill your head with, the longer it will take you to process which one to execute when in many cases you must react with instinctive split-second timing. It’s much better to know two or three highly effective maneuvers that are so similar to each other that it would only require a slight variation of any one of them to tailor your self-defense to counter a punch, knife, or club. This means that you would focus all of your self-defense on just a handful of techniques that you would master. Who do you think would have the fastest reaction time: the person who knows and masters only two or three techniques or the person who knows 400 possible moves? Knowing too much causes confusion, uncertainty, and ultimately fear.

Solution: In self-defense, learn less but learn better is the answer.

Cause #2 – Lack of Thought Control – This is a simple but obvious principle. What you think causes what you feel. So if that’s the case, and it is, you just need to learn to control your thoughts. Allow yourself to use the adrenaline and “fight or flight” feelings that run through your body the moment you realize “the attack is about to hit the shan.” Give yourself permission to get angry! Realize that this person in front of you is not King Kong or Godzilla. he is human. If he cuts himself, he will bleed. If you hit him hard enough and in the right place, he will fall over. This person before you could hurt you, if you let him, so that you would never hug your daughter or kiss your wife again. Doesn’t the thought of this make you think of P. Oed?

Solution: If you practice getting angry in this way for, say, 10 minutes a day for 21 days, you’ll be amazed at how your perspective begins to shift from fearful to fierce.

Cause #3 – Unrealistic Training Environments – Do you train with a gi on your bare feet? You do! Well, I’m sorry to inform you that this is not how you walk down the street in real life, in an Asian outfit and barefoot, unless you’re making some kind of weird fashion statement. The closer you can make your training environment look and feel like the real world, the more comfortable you’ll feel if a real self-defense situation occurs. They’re not easy to find, but there are self-defense instructors who make you train in shoes and have at least part of their training centers mimic the real world by showing you how to fight on a ladder, in a closed room, against a wall, etc

Solution: The more realistic your training environment is, the less fear, if any, you will feel when actual combat occurs.

Cause #4 – Unqualified Instructors – Unfortunately, a vast majority of senseis and sifus are not street fighters or street fighter oriented. Too many martial arts schools are sport and fitness oriented. They don’t train for real fights. They train to “play fights”. How can I say this? Tournaments are sports. Sport is a game. The game is to play. Therefore, if you train only or primarily for tournaments, you are training to “play fight.”

Solution: If you want to learn mainly self-defense, ask your sensei or sifu to show you what their combative and street self-defense program is. If you don’t get a satisfactory answer, find another instructor.

Cause #5 – Lack of stubborn determination to overcome your fears – You know you feel fear. You know you don’t feel ready. Alright.

Solution: If you have a stubborn determination to overcome your fears, with the right guidance, that is, with the right instructor, you will overcome your fears of fighting. I guarantee you this. It is only a matter of time and persistence that one day you will be able to say: “I am not afraid of anyone!”

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