A person can spend their life learning self defense but when a situation arises, they are too shocked to react in an organised way....how can you rearrange your thoughts in so little time, under pressure?
Is not this just so for some? Is not there two types of stress? The everyday stress. Then the chaotic stress.
Those that are used to the latter, and have spent many years learning to deal with the latter in real life environments, once out of it, they find themselves learning how to adjust and manage the former type.
See, some will freeze up at the chaotic stress, if they are not accustomed to it. Those that are VERY accustomed to it from a daily basis, they FREEZE up at the normal everyday stress, once they are put back into it, because they have to learn HOW to deal with it all over again. Yet, throw them into the other type of stress the traumatic type and they are right at home and can function. It is all what you are used to, and have learned to walk through. Is it not?
Also, consider the fact that those used to everyday, chaotic stress, become very, very immune to it, where nothing in this world will shock them. Some even stop producing adrenaline. Now, how many can honestly say they have experienced this?
Remember though, those used to the above, those that are immune to it, put them in normal stress and they are not good at handling it.
What do you attribute that to?
Okay, KansasJew, just curious to hear your assessment (your thoughts on what I wrote). Thanks.
Ps. For clarification, Sarah, you refer to those "in training" all their life. That is just something to fall back on. Is it not? Also, does it not depend on the training itself, and if it prepares them for real life? Is not much of the training out there, just fake and for show, that will do nothing for you if in a real life situation.
Anyhow, about what I wrote-the clarifiction is that in the above I am referring to those that have the training, or not, and have spent it in EXPERIENCE, not just mere training. Just wanted to clarify that. There is a difference between "a life of training" and a having "experience". Right?