How Bruce Lee Lengthened His Opponents Reaction Time

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Published by Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Edited by Lak Loi, Bruce Lee talked about reaction consisting of three elements:

  1. The time required for the stimulus to reach the receivers (i.e. audio, visual, tactile, etc),
  2. Plus the time required for the brain to relay the impulse through the proper nerve fibres to the proper muscles, and
  3. Plus the time required for the muscles to get into action after receiving the impulse.

Reaction time becomes longer under the following conditions:

  1. Not trained in any type of system,
  2. Tiredness,
  3. Absentmindedness, and
  4. Emotionally upset (i.e. anger, fear, etc).

Opponents reaction time islengthened:

  1. Immediately after the completion of a technique,
  2. When his stimuli are combined,
  3. When he is inhaling,
  4. When he withdraws his energy (involves attitude),
  5. When his attention or sight is misdirected, and
  6. Generally, when he is physically or mentally off-balance.

I like to say…

A reaction is a primal response.

A response is an intelligently programmed reply.

Peace, respect and love, Lak

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