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Logical thinking is a slower process and it is a process humans gained and developed through the evolutionary processes not that long ago. Before then, most of our human brain processes were lizard oriented, if you will, that allowed us the freeze at danger if appropriate; flee from the danger faster than the danger; or fight or defend if you will or hunt and kill or whatever to survive dangers.
As we humans evolved into the tech-savvy folks we are today the logical thinking parts of our brains had to kick in... to survive. We still use extensively the lizard parts of our brain and we also, if we survived, began using the thinking logical side after to figure out what was what and how we did what we did so we could improve and pass on to those who follow in our footsteps... survival stuff.
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Now, in these very modern self-protection times in and out of the dojo, for us karate aficionado's, we need to really, truly and consistently use our thinking logical brain parts to learn, study, practice and apply those skills necessary to achieve successful self-protection. This stupid is as stupid does saying, "shut up and train" must be tempered equally with efforts of logical thinking testing synthesizing of processes and concepts that need to work when tempers flair, anger ensues and aggressions and violence rear up their ugly and deadly heads.
Words + Actions = Concepts + Triggers = Success in self-protection through self-defense and self-defense defense.
It is all nice, fine and dandy to spout out euphemisms such as shutting up and training.
Imagine this, you are a First Lieutenant with a new team of grunts. Can you picture and experienced LT telling the new untested, untried and untrained fire-team telling them to simply, “shut up and go train” and can you visualize that training being of any benefit at all? A good LT is going to assess his new fire-team and then he and a solid experienced Sergeant/Company Gunny, etc., are going to begin training first with words in classroom environment; they are then going to have discussions with the new team on how all of this is implemented; then possibly they will hit the field in exercises to first, with set exercises and expected responses, train and test what they learned intellectually and as they progress and learn then the officers and NCO’s will implement unexpected situations and concepts as a part of learning creative actions and reactions and such to learn and create concepts and triggers … BEFORE they go live in the reality of combat. If we simply told them to shut up and train what could you suppose would be the results, it won’t be experience and they won’t last long.
Even after all the training and practice the LT/NCO’s are not going to just tell their fire-teams to simply go out and train. There is a process…
Ever hear of AAR’s? You first prepare for an exercise/mission; you create a plan and your implement as much of the intelligence as possible coupled with the experienced side of the troops to create and plan for as many inevitabilities as possible; then, if time permits you train and practice both set and creative; then and only then do you enter the zone. Even then and if you are lucky to have both boots and vets when you enter the field or zone you still listen and learn from those there and in the mix because as you already know combat, like all aggressions and violence, is constantly in flux… changing all the time and in almost every moment. Complacency is a real killer.
What makes any of us even consider that any other way in a military unit or in the dojo is going to be different fundamentally and basically speaking? We have to ask ourselves questions at every step in the training processes, i.e.,
- Can you imagine situations and scenarios?
- Can you ask the ‘what if’ questions without being a what-if monkey?
- Can you ask and define what it would be like if…?
These and other questions are necessary for the logical thinking mind/brain to consider and then transition from the slower logical thinking side that often makes us look clumsy and goofy in training and practice until everyone achieves that transitional leap from the logical mind to the lizard-like instinct-like side to create concepts and triggers that lie on top of our lizard basic instincts like flight and fight responses to trigger the NOT thinking mind and allow our programming to go and get-r-done.
This is where such meme’s and quotes and euphemisms are great inspirations that because they are easily misunderstood must be supplemented with words and logic and thinking and words so the student does not misunderstand but learns and understands and leaps to the implementation from academic to reality when the times comes, right?
Be careful what you say and write, be ready to explain and in preference as you already know and can see in your mind’s eye… explain it up front like you would encounter in a news article, i.e.,
Open with just enough to convey the idea in the first paragraph; then in each successive paragraph of words and sentences and ideas and theories and concepts explain in detail the ‘Rest of the Story’! Oh, and all the while make sure YOU and your STUDENTS… “Have FUN with it all!”
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