Keep Active Awareness "Frosty!"

Ever notice the first time you see a really cool car and suddenly you see them all over the place when before you never gave them a second look? Yea, like the "Smart" car, now every time one reaches my perception I exclaim, "There goes a smarty car, cool!' Can you tell I like those new cars but to the point Charles.

In karate, because most karate-ka do not live or experience danger zones all that much, one must continually re-start their awareness of their space or environment. It makes it frosty so you don't let important knowledge and the resulting instinctual warning system, EWS or Early Warning System, that tells you to turn around and go the other way to "avoid" danger or dangerous situations.

It is called training and even those who work and live the life of a sheep dog, metaphor from a book, you have to remind your mind/brain of those indicators that tell you to run, don't walk.

I call this "keeping it frosty" but direct it to awareness. You can also say that is what you need to do for training and practice to be effective as well but the first line of defense is EWS.