Aquiring "Jedi" combat skills

[Starkindler (The Naked Jedi)]

may have been discussed before........if so linky me and ignore this thread....but.....

From reading threads here and there and some of what has and has not been said it is obvious a number of us have studied some form ofcombat training or martial art.

SO what I'd like to know is......

What was your MOST jedi-like experience in such above mentioned pursuits?

[Solinbeb Newau]

Stick fighting in a field and being able to tell where the people are around you is a fairly interesting feeling. (Did that when I was only a padawan)

[tanzanlinnear]

solinbeb said:

Stick fighting in a field and being able to tell where the people are around you is a fairly interesting feeling. (Did that when I was only a padawan)

It's great isn't it I'm able to maintain that level of awareness all the time, comes in real handy when shopping in crowded malls as I not only know where everyone is, but where they're going to be, so I can move around them ;D

As to the topic of Jedi Combat skills...
My best friend and I started studying Ju Jitsu and kenjutsu when we were 10, and pretty much never stopped. A few years ago after we came out of a pool hall, a group of kids tried to hassle us for drug money with flick knives. It goes without saying that we found a new use for our cues and walked away without a scratch

[Xzandar Vannlo]

Well because I don't believe in fighting until someone really TO's me mine is more in video games. In video games I'm great at dodging and staying alive especially during a suicide run my bro almost never hits me.

[kivaanzion]

I took a street-proofing martial art that was a blend of many arts. We started with Wing Chun based techniques and learned a little of everything after that. Much like Jeet Kun Do. I have also studied some basic Iaido, but it was purely on my own for my own enlightenment.

I do get that "situational awareness" feeling- I guess you could liken it to "Jedi Sense".

[Starkindler (The Naked Jedi)]

OK.
My story…so to speak.
Prefaced by saying I’m now sooo out of condition that my former teachers (one in particular) might actually CUT the excess off my body and then beat me into the proper shape if they saw me today.

What I studied:
Shaolin 5 animal system (traditional); Chen style Tai-Chi; Ronin style TKD; smatterings of collegiate wrestling and boxing; hints of Judo; anatomy (since I wanted to be as efficient as possible); Samplings of Chin-Na.
I have occasionally, when surprised or unthinkingly blocking a playful jab from someone, regressed and rendered a hand or arm numb/unuseable for a time. (VERY troublesome since one time it was my wife, then fiancé)

Closest Jedi experience:
Choosing one I’d say it was the time I was sparring with a friend in Tai-Chi class. Class had finished for the day and there was free time. My friend was also in the Shaolin school with me so we decided to put on a bit of a show since no one else had studied anything other than Tai-Chi. One thing led to another and I ended up blindfolded (why I cannot remember but it likely had to do with a dare). My friend proceeded to smack me around a bit until something “clicked” inside me. Dunno what it was or how it happened, but all of a sudden I knew where he was, could feel his body heat, the displacement of air as he moved. I blocked the next series of attacks as if he were in slow motion. It was better than seeing ‘cause I seemed to have more time to react.
We both freaked out at this and of course I lost whatever it was immediately upon getting emotional. It was an amazing feeling and experience. I still occasionally have small instances that bear resemblance, but still aren’t the same thing……..

[Shatir Lavan]

In tae kwon do, when I spar I can sometimes feel the attacks coming, so that I can "preact" to them. It's rare though, only when I have "no mind" like Nobutada says in Last Samurai.

[Jedi Magus]

Ive studied Doo-do, Yabba Dabba Do and Poo-do, hehe Just kidding.

But for real, I have been one with the Force, not just fighting, but universally.

I dont know if fear leads to the dark side, but it DOES ruin the link. (Snaps like a rubber band, even got a nose bleed once from it)

Loosing yourself to it, is THE weirdest feeling, the Loss of YOU and becoming one with everything is freighting to say the least.
It is real hard to get back to that state after doing it once, both through fear as well as through anticipation and just you.

(Theres a long set of stories, People think im nuts, but, it did happen, and will again i hope)

[Solinbeb Newau]

For a brief time (In Boy Scouts) I was teaching people how to do it (combat sense anyway)

Though...as far as feeling the force...if anyone's ever felt the wake (shockwave before thunder) from lightning...that can be one extremely overwhelming feeling.

[Solinbeb Newau]

kivaanzion said:

I took a street-proofing martial art that was a blend of many arts. We started with Wing Chun based techniques and learned a little of everything after that.

Sorry, first time I read that I thought it said Wang Chung based techniques...

[Jauhzmynn Enz]

Lightening storms. Argh, I don't like those. I have felt that shockwave and I'm not too keen on t. The storms in Florida are loud. Yesterday's storm nearly sent me climbing the walls. :-)

[tanzanlinnear]

kivaanzion said:

I do get that "situational awareness" feeling- I guess you could liken it to "Jedi Sense".

It's something that practitioners of most martial arts develop once they reach a certain level of mental discipline. Essentially, you are consciously (with training it becomes unconscious, or at least habitual) shifting your brainwaves from Alpha to Delta. As the brain is then functioning slightly differently, it processes your sensory imput slightly differently, and allows you to be more aware of your surroundings (because you are sensing them slightly differently, and more accutely)

[tanzanlinnear]

shatirlavan said:

In tae kwon do, when I spar I can sometimes feel the attacks coming, so that I can "preact" to them. It's rare though, only when I have "no mind" like Nobutada says in Last Samurai.

As your training progresses, it will become not only more frequent, but a comment occurence

[Jauhzmynn Enz]

This is all fascinating. At least now I've a name to put on the sense and a little information of how it works. At least in theory. What more can you guys share? Tanzan, Shatir and all? What about Tai Chi(And the other names it goes by.) has anyone noticed a higher aggressivness with the brain wave shift? A friend of mine seems to be a little more apt to be aggressive during that state.

[kivaanzion]

I have never been an aggressive person and my experience has been more of a feeling of heightened awareness.

Sorry, first time I read that I thought it said Wang Chung based techniques...

LOL!

Yes I've also studied the deadly art of Wang Chung, first developed in the mid 1980s. It was a one hit art.

I haven't had the need to use anything I've learned (knock wood). But a cute little thing happened at work a while back:

A co-worker decided to have a little fun by flinging an elastic band at me. I turned my head at nearly the last second to see my vision completely filled by the red band. I instantly reacted and my body bent in kind of an S shape avoiding the band.

My friend just stood there with his mouth open... He said I looked like something out of The Matrix. LOL!