Reality Check!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:27 pm
We encourage every person to have a personal survival statement. And inside this mission statement is their commitment to stay fit. Not just physically but mentally as well.
We have many people who attend our classes and find out a few hours into it that maybe the level of physical conditioning that thought was enough in reality isn't.
But isn't that the way it is with many things...how you think something is one way, might be totally different when you do it for real.
Over the holidays I was able to experience this a few different ways. One short story was just before Xmas while walking in NYC downtown during the holidays I was at a cafe eating, when a loud argument broke out a few feet away from me between 2 men sitting at opposite tables who were talking to a woman. 1 man was the husband of the woman who was about 6'2, 220, of average shape, and the other man was no relation to either and was slightly taller and bigger then the other man.
When the argument got louder it tuned into a physical altercation (fight) when the bigger man jumped up and ran towards the other man siting with his wife with clinched fists and as he got closer to the man he swung his hand and knocked the other man out of his chair...the woman sat there is awe along with a few of the other patrons...
When the man hit the ground on his back the bigger man stood over him and continued to beat him for about 15 seconds during this time the manager of the cafe ran over to break the fight up and the waiter using his cell called the police. Myself and another person safely pulled the bigger man off and broke up the fight seconds before the police arrived.
When the police took statements from everyone, I over heard the man who was beaten up make a few replies. When he was asked what happened....he explained his version of course, he said the man just ran over with no warning and started beating on him. When the he was asked why he didn't defend himself he said.....you know it happened so fast, I didn't know what to do..I even train in martial arts and couldn't remember what to do...I thought he was going to kill me!
Hummmmm now since this could have happened to anyone of us reading this, I guess his reality was not the same one of the real world. This often happens when you only stay in the training world and never venture out to be exposed to anything else.
Training without stress inoculation is only a fire drill without the fire...
This is the transition training needs to take in order to make sure a person is ready for the real bell....Ding....Ding...
We have many people who attend our classes and find out a few hours into it that maybe the level of physical conditioning that thought was enough in reality isn't.
But isn't that the way it is with many things...how you think something is one way, might be totally different when you do it for real.
Over the holidays I was able to experience this a few different ways. One short story was just before Xmas while walking in NYC downtown during the holidays I was at a cafe eating, when a loud argument broke out a few feet away from me between 2 men sitting at opposite tables who were talking to a woman. 1 man was the husband of the woman who was about 6'2, 220, of average shape, and the other man was no relation to either and was slightly taller and bigger then the other man.
When the argument got louder it tuned into a physical altercation (fight) when the bigger man jumped up and ran towards the other man siting with his wife with clinched fists and as he got closer to the man he swung his hand and knocked the other man out of his chair...the woman sat there is awe along with a few of the other patrons...
When the man hit the ground on his back the bigger man stood over him and continued to beat him for about 15 seconds during this time the manager of the cafe ran over to break the fight up and the waiter using his cell called the police. Myself and another person safely pulled the bigger man off and broke up the fight seconds before the police arrived.
When the police took statements from everyone, I over heard the man who was beaten up make a few replies. When he was asked what happened....he explained his version of course, he said the man just ran over with no warning and started beating on him. When the he was asked why he didn't defend himself he said.....you know it happened so fast, I didn't know what to do..I even train in martial arts and couldn't remember what to do...I thought he was going to kill me!
Hummmmm now since this could have happened to anyone of us reading this, I guess his reality was not the same one of the real world. This often happens when you only stay in the training world and never venture out to be exposed to anything else.
Training without stress inoculation is only a fire drill without the fire...
This is the transition training needs to take in order to make sure a person is ready for the real bell....Ding....Ding...