Reality-based training ideas?

1. Change the dynamic of your randori, instead of taking turns, have it be whenever someone feels like you are vulnerable, that is closer to reality. That might mean sometime of 2 or more opponents, and focus becomes more on movement, causing space, and awareness. As well as help you address the times you appear most vulnerable.

2. Same drill, but begin with the old broomhandle floor routine... i.e. you put your head on a broom handle, put the other end of the floor, and spin around the broom handle ten times as fast as you can. This sense of dizziness/disorientation is similiar to being "rocked" or hit from a blind side. Begin your drill like that.

3. Stobes and Loud Noises/Music, disorientation as well as automatically increases stress levels. Forces you to begin to focus other external stimuli out. Other students having air horns and things like that also help. Sudden loud noises, all subconciously impact you and cause stress, they are used in Military training frequently.

4. Introduce weapons work, chalk knives, paint knives, what have you. No rhyme or reason as to who has it, or when they will use it. Nothing prechoreographed, everything improvised.

5. Start off in a bad position, so many time we begin our drills from a neutral/standing position where we are anticipating an attack. Begin in a bad position and work from there, start off laying on the ground, or turtled up. Start off with an attacker on top of you. Vary it, so that you are working on escaping bad positions immediately. Reality isn't that you always anticipate an attack, you have to be prepared for an unexpected attack, and things not going as you anticipate them. (Murphy's Law, what CAN go wrong WILL go wrong).

Just a few ideas that I have used and been exposed to and I think work WONDERS. They all also suck tremendously to be in, but are great training tools and methodologies.

Why don't you do sparing? I'm talking about real, hard sparing that stretches for 7,8 or even 10 rounds. Not the demonstration type training you've been doing so far.

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