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Think that all your techniques that helped you earn all your forms competition trophies, or even your sparring trophies, will protect you on the street. Think the deadly techniques espoused by your martial art will protect on the street. Well, maybe they will, that is maybe they will if you are not so scared to death at the moment that you cannot use them.

Ever see Don Fry fight in ultimate fighting matches. He is a master of the stare-down. Not only is he a big, powerful, and tough looking guy, he capitalizes on his appearance by using stares and facial expression to make you think he wants to break you into small pieces, and, by many accounts, this is not an act. Imagine accidently bumping your car into his car at an intersection one lonely night just after he just lost a tough fight. You get out of your car to check the damage and suddenly he leaps out of his car and comes raging toward you. I do not care who you are or what you know, you will be sacred sh*tless.

Fight-or-Flight

How will you react? Will you even be able to react, or will you be paralyzed with fear? Even the best combat trained police officers and soldiers have experienced “freezing” when faced with moral danger.

When faced with mortal danger, the human body instinctively reacts by releasing an enormous surge of adrenaline, the most powerful hormone in the body, which causes certain predictable physiological and psychological responses within the body. This reaction is often called the “fight-or-flight reflex." Although these effects may be lessened by intensive training, they are occur involuntarily and cannot be consciously prevented.

Therefore, the fight-or-flight reflex is not a matter of courage or lack thereof, it is an instinctive response controlled mostly by the autonomic nervous system. When the brain sense mortal danger, your sympathetic nervous system instantly dumps a variety of hormones into your body that cause a high arousal state known as fear. In this state, your body operates differently than it normally does and sometimes you have no control over its actions. These changes take effect immediately and may last for a long time, so their effects may linger long after the actual threat is removed. One common effect precipitated by these effects is the distortion of perceived time, called tachypsychia.

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