to be honest, and maybe i need to rewatch it as i was sneaking a viewing late last night with
the sound down, i thought it was very informative in a two-part way:
-the mind of seal psychology--entertainment-wise
-things that tactically make sense--that most of us probably do to some extent
what i thought i got--but maybe was wrong about was this:
1.high/low-line psychology...meaning, whatever part of my useable arsenol that is
closest to my target i should use. left hand engaged, use the right [possibly good
hand is first choice, a wee bit jeet koon influence].
2.fook thinking about technique [movement], shorter time lag and more efficient to
simply 'not think' and somehow just 'get to the SOFT target' for the quickest returns.
not impeding oneself with any other thought than target makes the brain work faster
as it is a one sided thought process. THAT MUST BE INJURED. this also has a kind of
logic that wont be interrupted if your good hand is injured or busy [hence the head
butt piece], as the person is still focussed on bring about injury and little else. he is
still FOCUSSED on the objective and all his energy is still flowing in ONE direction without
thoughts of taking personal inventory.
as for the not staying rooted piece, and bobbing and weaving contradictory bit, who knows.
i think i faze out when boxing style dynamics entered. one interpretation is that he had
MMA guys, wrestlers, presumably boxers, etc...and didn't appear too concerned with what
style they brought to the collective table. probably speaks to the seals as they are more
concerned with targets [once you get there, the roads dissappear]. he said in the beginning,
"i didn't need to tell you what to do, right...i just gave you the instruction". perhaps being
more concerned with simply one's own natural instinct. from that view point if he had a boxer
in front of him he was trying to help, perhaps the bobbing in some way didn't represent
a target one could fix on--even as the bobbers hypothetical feet were indeed rooted.
why i liked it was it hinted at veering away from style, and toward soft targets by way of the
shortest avenue and greatest comfort.
i have 'one' ex seal friend. and i've given up picking his brain, but one thing he said rang
parallel to the bloke in the clip. the whole inferred bit about keeping your head clear and
going for the targets--meaning not being overly concerned how you get to those targets,
keeping sort of mentally open to whatever it takes to get to those targets. it sort of makes
sense if one factors in just how much thoughts interfere with one's strategy and flow. i used
to know a guy who [although different] talked about not forcing a block but rather allowing
the speed and relaxed pace of gravity take one's arm down for the block..the breaks one
puts on by controling the hypothetical block can be at least seen as an analogy. not forcing
a move, but rather sort of violently reacting and exploding toward a goal/target and letting
your body-intelligence do the math. i've found--at least, my elbows have become more pro-
ficient when i'm sort of in an empty attacking mental place. sort of:
hey look, a face...hey look, my elbow...elbow, meet face. previously i'd have been more concerned
with re-aligning the ideality of my favorite range [time wasted] before firing off my favorite
jab/cross/hook [potentially putting more time between me and my objective]. i've found similar
things when i do my drive-backs [person holding a pad is miserably chased down by a flurry
of hard and fast hits. all my strikes are more sloppy because the target is moving, but they are
getting more accurate--they are landing. sometimes because they are scooping and following the
bouncing ball [head] like some kind of coordination game. it's more fun to lock on, and make hits
than it is to try and line people up. i read something way back about a lioness, and how she appears
whilst heading in for a kill. head on target, making it work and letting the body sort of catch up. it shaves alot of time off. i knew several fighters like this who appeared to be sort of sloppy and
arking--from a distance, but a great deal more of their collective strikes were landing--presumably
because they were following the bouncing ball like a kitten chasing a ball of yarn.
anyway, possibly i'm just aligning the clip with my sensabilities, but that's what i took from it.
fed the mental state of fighting the way i'd ideally like to approach it.
who knows, my seal friend also talked about standing still--rooted
and allowing them to
do all the work, sort of running onto him as his strikes met their soft targets. so maybe all seals don't
think exactly the same way. i've done as much sort of unplanned, but not as a rule. when in my fence,
i suppose that's my starting point. i've, on two occasions, had people choke themselves on my stiff
fingers [to their neck]. i wasn't even moving, they were doing the moving. i can't imagine feeling comfortable doing that when things really start hopping. but on some level i can see it being useful. i sort of belted two others really officiently [almost by accident i'm afraid] by simply putting up my fist and having them sort of run into it. one was in sports--and my placed hand sent his head upwards, and his body arse over tea kettle. one working security, where he not only ran into my fist but sort of pulled it into his face by some fooked up attempt to grab at it from the wrong direction. made me look faster and more efficient than i really was. it went into his eye and shut him down--adding to the illusion
of prowess.
clear-mind and target-mind not a bad way to think.
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