{"id":14,"date":"2010-10-27T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T16:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightfast.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-10-27T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T16:17:34","slug":"dealing-with-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/27\/dealing-with-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"If you think about the things that strike fear in our minds, it is typically tantalized with the unkown\u2026 \u00a0ignorance\u2026 \u201cwhat will I do<\/em>?\u201d\u2026 \u00a0these insecurities well up inside of a person when they are apprehensive about what\u2019s around the corner.\n\nHorror flicks use this all the time. What your imagination draws on its own canvas is often more fear inducing than the actual image on the screen.\n\nIn this week\u2019s blog I want to communicate two methods of dealing with fear<\/em><\/strong> that will make it both less intimidating and, most prominently, allow your perception regarding fear to change so that you can embrace a level of comfort whereby fear becomes an asset to you.<\/strong>\n\nHope that last statement is not lost on you. If it is, let me state it more clearly\u2026\n...fear can be your friend.<\/strong><\/em>\nThis process of harnessing fear as a benefit begins with the education of your personal defense arsenal. Like anything in life, you can entertain any level of commitment to such an effort as you choose. You also will reap the rewards, when necessary, that reflect your level of commitment. Being rooted in Arkansas tradition, we tend to say, \u201cyou reap what you sow<\/em>\u201d.\n\nSo here\u2019s a couple of options I offer as starting points.\n

Step 1 towards harnessing your fear...<\/h4>\nBuild your personal defense arsenal.\n
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  1. Gain a defense to a right cross or haymaker.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \n\n<\/div>\nThe right cross, or John Wayne haymaker, is the #1 attack that will come your way in a scuffle. Everyone thinks they have the magic George Foreman heavy handed wallop that will drop anyone, anywhere. Of course, these are uneducated fighters\u2026 which will also play to your benefit\u2026 but you need to be ready for that attack. Here\u2019s two solutions (there are many) to said attack.\n\nOption #1: Parry the punch. <\/strong><\/em>\n\nTo translate that, get out of the way\u2026 step off-line\u2026 use your hand to pass the attack to your inside. \u00a0The first benefit here is NOT getting hit by the punch, of course. The second benefit is getting to your opponent\u2019s outside, and eventually his back.\u00a0 When you get behind your opponents back, you have a vast number of targets you can take him down with, damage and\/or create immense pain. You also remove yourself from the immediate threat of his most dangerous weapons to strike you with\u2026 his arms, hands, elbows, feet, knees etc. Be careful, he can still rear head butt you!\n\nIf you aren\u2019t sure of how to attack him from the rear hitting painful targets, I suggest you pick up another of our Fight Fast videos. Perhaps Nir Maman\u2019s Israeli Combat Course might be in order.\n\nOption #2: The triangle block. <\/strong><\/em>\n\nThis requires a bit more quickness, comfort and practice on your part. However, it is achieved by throwing both of your hands, as they are nearly touching in a triangular or arrow formation, towards the attacker\u2019s right shoulder and impacting his shoulder and upper arm to take the momentum away from the punch. This offers you several options for counter attack. You can wrap his arm with yours and head butt him. You can wrap the neck into a guillotine choke. You can elbow strike him easily\u2026 knee to the groin\/diaphragm\/bladder\u2026 you are also set up for several throws or takedowns as well.\n\n
    \n\n<\/div>\n\nThe key is to go forward towards the punch and attack that shoulder to \u201cdisarm the strike\u201d.\n\nTactical Knowledge and Practice<\/strong>\n\nReduce the Damaging Effects of Fear\n\nKnowing some pain rich targets to strike, and knowing which tools to effectively strike them with will NOT necessarily eliminate your fear, but it will give you options to turn towards in that lightning strike of a moment \u00a0when you need them most. More clearly stated, it gives you the opportunity to manage and act on your fear induced impulses.\n

    The 2nd<\/sup> step towards harnessing your fear\u2026<\/strong><\/h4>\nGain both comfort and respect for fear. Fear is a natural instinct that you have as an animal. (That\u2019s right, you are an animal!) The same instinct that raises the hair on the nap of a dog\u2019s neck is the same fear that gives you that little feeling that something is not quite right in your surroundings.\n\nMost people have experienced that moment when they knew something was awkward\u2026 out of place\u2026 or not quite right\u2026 and your fear allows your brain to realize it even before you can consciously pinpoint the exact reasons why. Neuroscience even has a name for the phenomenon and it is studied in depth at Universities the world over. It\u2019s called \u201cthin-slicing<\/em>\u201d. Google it if you like.\n\nYou should not attempt to eliminate fear. <\/strong><\/em>It\u2019s providing you with a benefit of letting you know when you should be concerned. Also, it can recruit and create a serious dump of adrenaline that will decrease or eliminate pain, increase your strength and speed, heighten your senses and focus your attention on that which must be dealt with. These are all just portions of the \u201cfight or flight<\/strong>\u201d syndrome which hits your body at a rapid pace when faced with the onset of fear.\n\nExperienced officers and military field operatives can explain to you the \u201c30cc check\u201d response to fear. Few of them speak of this event, but anyone with real world experience can tell you just how immediate the rush of fear induced fight or flight hormones will ready the body for the proper response. This is the body\u2019s elimination response to fear that causes operatives to urinate without control.\n\nAdrenaline and the fight or flight response to fear is incredibly powerful and purposeful.\n\nThe element of fear that most people get nervous about is the \u201cfreezing fear\u201d or \u201cdeer in the headlights\u201d kind of fear that paralyzes people from action. While no one can ever promise or guarantee some complete lack of fear in you, I can state clearly\u2026 from both personal experience and from research as well\u2026 that with knowledge and training provide options and understanding that allow you to recognize \u201cwhat\u201d is happening, and thus the freezing element of fear is diminished, if not eliminated entirely<\/strong>.\n\nIn fact, operators have repeatedly stated that a fear impulse jolts them into step by step action<\/strong>. This appropriate response is amplified greatly through realistic training and the ingrained practice of striking targets with techniques.\n\nUnderstand this\u2026 experiencing fear does not mean that you are void of courage.\nCourage is deciding to act in spite of the fear.<\/strong><\/em>\nKnowledge of how to respond, attack and handle tactical situations provides you with the confidence to employ courage with fear as the initiator or spark plug.\n\nAnd as the owner and operator of TRS Direct and Fight Fast I\u2019ll state this to you\u2026\n...you do not want your first day of training,<\/strong>\nto be the day after you discover you really need it!\n\n\nFore More Self Defense Instruction Click Here<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you think about the things that strike fear in our minds, it is typically tantalized with the unkown\u2026 \u00a0ignorance\u2026 \u201cwhat will I do?\u201d\u2026 \u00a0these insecurities well up inside of a person when they are apprehensive about what\u2019s around the corner. Horror flicks use this all the time. What your imagination draws on its own Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}