brownie0486
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The 5 commonly known/recognized senses humans have and use in our daily lives are Sight, Sound, Taste, Touch, and Smell. There’s a sixth sense I’ve written about which most are unaware of which is Proprioception as well.
In self-defense with the use of firearms, we primarily will use our sight, sound and touch senses. Sight to see what the potential threat is [recognition], Sound to identify where a potential threat may be coming from, [recognition], and Touch to access and use the firearm to defend ourselves with this particular tool [but it could be any object that could be used as a tool readily available and can put our hands on like a knife, scissors, hammer, beer bottle, etc].
Obviously sight plays a significant role in self-defense. Sound may be the sense that alerts us initially to something [recognition again] and draws our attention to a specific area where vision then verifies more specifically that which drew out attention [recognition again].
The two senses working in concert with each other [sight and sound] help us immensely in determining the direction, distance and manner of the potential threat. One or the other, or both almost simultaneously will usually be the leading factors in recognition that we may need to respond physically in some way in our defense.
How that potential response is carried out will involve the sense of touch. We may move our feet along a macadam [pavement made of layers of compacted broken stone, now usually bound with tar or asphalt] or terra firma [solid ground or dry land]. The type of footing we are on will be dictated by our sense of touch and will be dependant on the type of footwear we are in, whether the ground beneath us is uneven, paved, rough, or smooth. All these involve the sense of touch, or how we perceive the way we are connected to the earth though our legs and feet [to include footwear].
While in motion, we will be using another sense developed in most of us within a few months of being born and that will continue to be developed for the rest of our lives, which is called proprioception. This sense gives us natural balance, movement without falling over, and an understanding of where our feet are in time and space.
Our touch sense also will be used when we reach for a holstered weapon, or any tool at any location familiar to us without having to use the sight sense to know where it is and how hard we are gripping with our fingers. This touch sense tells us we have gripped the weapon/tool, and is directly proportional to our proprioceptive ability to know where our limbs are in time and space, how much force must be used to pick up/move an object within that time and space.
Through repetitive movements in practice, we develop a proprioceptive sense of where our arms and legs are in time and space, what movement is needed to access the tool we want to use and where that tool can be found without using our others senses. We develop our proprioceptive abilities, which frees us from having to use all of the senses we are normally born with to accomplish any given task the brain tells us we need to perform. It’s all done without conscious thought once we have honed these skills through repetition.
The more we “practice”, the faster we can react to stimulus from the world we live in. Without highly developed proprioceptors and slow and fast twitch fibers in our muscles, we would not be able to access the tool/weapon as efficiently as possible in any given situation. To further develop these skills requires us to repeat any given task over and over.
Human muscles contain a genetically determined mixture of both slow and fast fiber types. On average, we have about 50 percent slow twitch and 50 percent fast twitch fibers in most of the muscles used for movement. In attempting to be as fast as possible to respond to outside stimulus, I’m interested in developing what are known as the Type IIb muscle [ twitch ] Fibers
These fast twitch fibers use anaerobic metabolism to create energy and are the "classic" fast twitch muscle fibers that excel at producing quick, powerful bursts of speed. This muscle fiber has the highest rate of contraction (rapid firing) of all the muscle fiber types, but it also has a much faster rate of fatigue and can't last as long before it needs rest.
Moving out of a potential kill zone [ moving off line of the attack ], accessing and drawing the weapon [ getting the tool into play ], and, in this case, bringing the firearm muzzle to bear as soon as possible to be able to fire and hit with it in the least amount of time all require the efficient use and high development of our Type IIb muscle [ twitch ] Fibers along with our highly developed proprioceptors which allow subconscious thought in our actions.
The above fairly covers the advanced development of one of the senses, the sense of touch and subsequent movement through our touch sense, both the sense of being connected to the earth through our legs and feet [ moving along the ground ], as well as the sense of touch through are hands and fingers [ accessing the tool in the most efficient manner possible ], none of which could be possible with real speed without the development and use of proprioception and/or our development and use of proprioceptors.
I’ve already written about how proprioception [ the understanding of where our arms and legs are in relationship to our environ and how it works with another sense [ the sight sense ].
I’ve been able to develop the “Enhanced Peripheral Vision” © TM skills using proprioception over direct vision skills in the last 18 months both physically and conceptually. Students are discovering exactly what they are capable of doing without using direct vision and how they can develop their peripheral sense of vision, not having to always rely on direct vision.
Lately I’ve been working on further development of another of our senses [ the sense of sound with the use of proprioception ]. In the last few months, one of my students and I have discussed introducing advanced drills to further students sense of sound and being able to determine where the threat is, and more importantly being able to then muzzle the threat without any visual ques which could be used in total darkness. I’ll discuss the use of my “Enhanced Auditory Perception” © TM skills in another article in the future.
Brownie
In self-defense with the use of firearms, we primarily will use our sight, sound and touch senses. Sight to see what the potential threat is [recognition], Sound to identify where a potential threat may be coming from, [recognition], and Touch to access and use the firearm to defend ourselves with this particular tool [but it could be any object that could be used as a tool readily available and can put our hands on like a knife, scissors, hammer, beer bottle, etc].
Obviously sight plays a significant role in self-defense. Sound may be the sense that alerts us initially to something [recognition again] and draws our attention to a specific area where vision then verifies more specifically that which drew out attention [recognition again].
The two senses working in concert with each other [sight and sound] help us immensely in determining the direction, distance and manner of the potential threat. One or the other, or both almost simultaneously will usually be the leading factors in recognition that we may need to respond physically in some way in our defense.
How that potential response is carried out will involve the sense of touch. We may move our feet along a macadam [pavement made of layers of compacted broken stone, now usually bound with tar or asphalt] or terra firma [solid ground or dry land]. The type of footing we are on will be dictated by our sense of touch and will be dependant on the type of footwear we are in, whether the ground beneath us is uneven, paved, rough, or smooth. All these involve the sense of touch, or how we perceive the way we are connected to the earth though our legs and feet [to include footwear].
While in motion, we will be using another sense developed in most of us within a few months of being born and that will continue to be developed for the rest of our lives, which is called proprioception. This sense gives us natural balance, movement without falling over, and an understanding of where our feet are in time and space.
Our touch sense also will be used when we reach for a holstered weapon, or any tool at any location familiar to us without having to use the sight sense to know where it is and how hard we are gripping with our fingers. This touch sense tells us we have gripped the weapon/tool, and is directly proportional to our proprioceptive ability to know where our limbs are in time and space, how much force must be used to pick up/move an object within that time and space.
Through repetitive movements in practice, we develop a proprioceptive sense of where our arms and legs are in time and space, what movement is needed to access the tool we want to use and where that tool can be found without using our others senses. We develop our proprioceptive abilities, which frees us from having to use all of the senses we are normally born with to accomplish any given task the brain tells us we need to perform. It’s all done without conscious thought once we have honed these skills through repetition.
The more we “practice”, the faster we can react to stimulus from the world we live in. Without highly developed proprioceptors and slow and fast twitch fibers in our muscles, we would not be able to access the tool/weapon as efficiently as possible in any given situation. To further develop these skills requires us to repeat any given task over and over.
Human muscles contain a genetically determined mixture of both slow and fast fiber types. On average, we have about 50 percent slow twitch and 50 percent fast twitch fibers in most of the muscles used for movement. In attempting to be as fast as possible to respond to outside stimulus, I’m interested in developing what are known as the Type IIb muscle [ twitch ] Fibers
These fast twitch fibers use anaerobic metabolism to create energy and are the "classic" fast twitch muscle fibers that excel at producing quick, powerful bursts of speed. This muscle fiber has the highest rate of contraction (rapid firing) of all the muscle fiber types, but it also has a much faster rate of fatigue and can't last as long before it needs rest.
Moving out of a potential kill zone [ moving off line of the attack ], accessing and drawing the weapon [ getting the tool into play ], and, in this case, bringing the firearm muzzle to bear as soon as possible to be able to fire and hit with it in the least amount of time all require the efficient use and high development of our Type IIb muscle [ twitch ] Fibers along with our highly developed proprioceptors which allow subconscious thought in our actions.
The above fairly covers the advanced development of one of the senses, the sense of touch and subsequent movement through our touch sense, both the sense of being connected to the earth through our legs and feet [ moving along the ground ], as well as the sense of touch through are hands and fingers [ accessing the tool in the most efficient manner possible ], none of which could be possible with real speed without the development and use of proprioception and/or our development and use of proprioceptors.
I’ve already written about how proprioception [ the understanding of where our arms and legs are in relationship to our environ and how it works with another sense [ the sight sense ].
I’ve been able to develop the “Enhanced Peripheral Vision” © TM skills using proprioception over direct vision skills in the last 18 months both physically and conceptually. Students are discovering exactly what they are capable of doing without using direct vision and how they can develop their peripheral sense of vision, not having to always rely on direct vision.
Lately I’ve been working on further development of another of our senses [ the sense of sound with the use of proprioception ]. In the last few months, one of my students and I have discussed introducing advanced drills to further students sense of sound and being able to determine where the threat is, and more importantly being able to then muzzle the threat without any visual ques which could be used in total darkness. I’ll discuss the use of my “Enhanced Auditory Perception” © TM skills in another article in the future.
Brownie
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