Neuro Linguistics for Enhanced Combative Performance

In brief:

-language is a reflection of thought but you must also understand that the language you use inside your mind directs your thoughts and mental focus. If you change the way you think, you change the way you feel, if you change the way you feel you change the way you act, if you change your actions you change your results!

-The ineffective use of linguistics at an internal dialogue level can massively inhibit your performance under pressure and can actually increase your fear.

-Using Neuro Linguistics effectively will affect your actual external skill level DIRECTLY.

I watched a film the other night.

Played out on screen was a clich that has been used countless times to generate suspense in films: A man trying to start a car on a railway track as the train bears down upon him. He fumbles for the keys, his shaking hands drop the keys, he glances up in terror at the oncoming train lights, he picks the keys up, his shaking hands cant get them in the ignition and he pokes ineffectually around the slot etc etc etc When under pressure it is possible that we may lose control of some fine motor skills.

These are the kind of fine motor skills that allow you to quickly slide a small key into a narrow ignition or lock "target". To use a more combative, martial arts analogy these are the same fine motor skills that allow you to deliver a precisely targeted, well timed, "clean" knock out punch to the tip of an opponent's jaw. Let me repeat that: when under pressure we "MAY" lose control of some fine motor skills. There is no rule that says that we "ALWAYS" lose control of fine motor skills when under pressure.

This simply is NOT an accurate reflection of the reality.

And you know what?

This will not change, no matter how many times street-fight "ex-spurts" and strip mall self defense gurus tell you that this is an absolute truth.

If it were absolutely true that you "ALWAYS" lose your fine motor skills under pressure then the answer to all the following questions would always be "NO".

-Have you ever been under serious time pressure (late for an important meeting for e.g.) but managed to put your socks on, tie your shoe laces, put on a tie, slot the key quickly and easily in the ignition and drive at a good but safe pace to your destination without crashing?

-Do fighter pilots under combat refrain from beating wildly (using only "generically targeted", gross motor movements) in Neanderthal frustration at their sophisticated controls when engaged in combat? -Do Infantrymen in Iraq under fire manage NOT to lose the capacity to use their radios properly, load magazines with small fiddly bullets, slot them into their weapons (which, by the way, have very small, precise buttons and levers on them) and just run at the enemy seeking to bludgeon them to death with their helmets?

-Do Bomb Squad units exist?

-Is successful open heart surgery taking place somewhere in the world right now?

Look, its like this: If human beings did NOT have the capacity to maintain fine motor skills under combative pressure we would be R.I.P. with the Sabre tooth Tiger right now, wouldn't we?

In fact, is it not precisely our capacity to maintain fine motor skill capabilities under combative pressure that makes us the longest surviving, most dangerous, predators in the history of the planet?

OK, my pedantic tone may just be starting to grate a bit so let me take it down a notch.

Have your hands ever shook when putting a key in a lock?

Does a soldier ever drop ammunition when trying to reload a weapon?

Do Bomb Squad people and surgeons sweat and feel the effects of an adrenal response?

The answer to these questions is "yes".

Of course... some times... some people... will respond in this way.

That is called a specific response.

So many martial arts/ RBSD truths are based on a kind of unchallenged, pseudo scientific fuzzy logic. Do NOT allow yourself to fall prey to this kind of thinking. We must be absolutely rigorous in our assumptions or we will drift off in the wrong direction. One sure fire way of knowing that a massive ASSUMPTION is being made is when people start using the word "Always".

If you have an interest in NLP: "Always" indicates that the person using the word is distorting, deleting and generalizing their perception of reality to fit a prescribed "Map" of how the world works.

The sentence "People always lose their fine motor skills when under combative pressure" does not pass the "structural well formed ness" protocol of NLP and would be challenged on the Meta Model as a Universal Quantifier.

The NLP Challenge would be something like: "Do People ALWAYS Respond in that way?" or "Has there ever been a time when people haven't responded in that way in a fight?"

So: Some People can and do respond with a high level of skill under combative pressure sometimes. So the important question is: what is the difference that makes a difference?

Well a big part of it is just the repetitive training of hard physical skills whilst steadily introducing simulated "pressure" to the practitioner. No amount of psychology is going to get around the fact that fighting is a physical/ athletic endeavor... though you don't necessarily need to be that athletically developed to successfully survive most typical street challenges. You must be engaging in frequent "hard skill" development. Get on the bags, lift weights, do live drills with a partner etc

BUT ... and this is a very big but. Can you imagine a situation where someone has all the physical skills but just gets "psyched out" by some bullying thug who starts playing him at a game doesn't understand?

A mind game?

Of course you can. What good is the champion kick boxer, the MMA genius, the karate instructor with years of training under the belt, fit as a butcher's dog, strong as an ox with the reflexes of a highly strung mongoose if he simply freezes and wets his pants when faced with this "combative pressure|" we've been talking about? None. No good at all.

Why? Because none of those skills/ attributes will be brought to bear on the opponent.

So I ask again: what is the difference that makes a difference?

Well, let me answer that question with another question.

Can you, right now, think of a time where you performed well under pressure? Everything went right, your movements where smooth and precise and decisive and you were in the moment with total control and focus on the task in hand? It could be anything: a presentation you did, a meal you cooked, a car you cleaned... Hey, don't laugh, there is a reason why in all the old Kung Fu stories the Master makes his student do menial tasks whilst beating him physically and berating him psychologically.

Give it some thought.

Now can you think of a time when you were doing something relatively simple but everything you did went wrong? Just really clumsy, dropping things, falling over your own feet and you hear yourself saying: "I just don't know what the hell is wrong with me today?" We've all had these temporary "stupid moments"- sometimes they can last for hours, even days...some people seem to be enduring lifetimes of stupidity!

Consider these two different scenarios. What was the difference? What were you doing in one that you weren't doing in the other? The difference that makes the difference is simple: its all down to how you were processing reality in that moment. Which was either a quick and effective processing... or not. Ok so what effects how we process reality? How can we control our thoughts so that we are always processing quickly and effectively when we need to be?

Anthony Robbins was once quoted as saying: "The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of your communication with yourself and others."

Allow me to expand and specify on that, if you will, to say: "The quality of your combative performance is a direct reflection of the quality of your communication with yourself."

After all it is you who you spend most time talking to, right?

There are mistakes that you make when communicating with yourself when performing a fine motor skill task under pressure that could:

a. make you drop your car keys when your in a rush and make you slightly later for work

b. make you drop your guard at a critical moment during a street attack and make you the star of your very own local news story

There are specific things you can change in an instant at an internal linguistic level that will change your focus, your perceptual speed, your "task fixation" and your overall Combative Performance.

This is not magic, these are the same principles used in time and motion studies to increase factory workers packing time, in military training to make people more efficient at their designated tasks and by sporting professionals to increase their athletic performance.

Developing these psychological attributes cant give you physical skills you don't have, but it can ensure that you perform at the top of your game and access the fullest capacity of the skills you do have when it matters the most.

The specific words you use when you are thinking at an internal dialogue level inside your head are immensely powerful.

Take control of them.

Use them to their fullest capacity and take every advantage you can over your opponent.

Take Care.

Richard Grannon... bio at http://www.streetfightsecrets.com

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