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This is about your free will, the fact that you don’t rely on others and other actions to act. You make the choices you make as if you were prescient by the ‘tells/signs’ you discover through sight, sound and especially touch. By the fact that you learned to read the signs, as if hunting in the deep woods watching for signs on the trail, in the bushes and by the environmental signals such as sudden and complete silence and so on. Your free will is that permission you give yourself to act when the tells or signs appear be it to turn around and go elsewhere, to run away or to work communications of deescalation.
Free will is also about bypassing the O&D of the OODA loop by observing the signs of impending violence and making the first move and remaining in movement as if a gyroscope. If you are taking a stance or observing in order to determine a means of self-fense then you are not acting with free will, you are being controlled by the others actions of free will - you are reacting to his actions and if you have studied the professionals they all tend to say, “Reactions are slower that actions and harder to overcome toward actions.” Something like that or similar but once you react and they move freely and act freely you will remain in a reactive mode unable to stop the threat except in rare exceptional cases when you shift from reactions to actions, taking the initiative. Best case scenario.
Listen, it has been said and proven that in most attacks you are already in a bad state where your OODA is frozen, you are taking damage and you have to move in a way that takes back the initiative. Wouldn’t it be better to act first through free will, the will to either walk away, to run or to fold the cards and hope you can deescalate things?
Fee will starts by taking the initiative in your training and practices toward a more proactive active stance where your entire repertoire consists of tells, signs, knowledge, understanding, and experience that allows you to use your free will to do what is smart and beneficial, take the first step by moving first, continue to move and provide a way out to your attacker and yourself.
Free will starts by giving yourself permission to question everything, to find answers, to condition your primal responses accordingly and to allow for the first move much like the old karate credo to attack first. Attacking first does not mean hitting, kicking, dumping, disturbing structure and doing damage, it means taking the initiative to act and move first in a variety of ways and a variety of methodologies.
Speaking of methodologies, i.e., “Multiple Methodologies [actual tactics and attack methodologies of impacts, drives (pushes), pulls, twists, takedowns/throws and compression, are best for stopping a threat]” When I talk about methodologies as stated in the last I mean those but there are other methodologies of which I write here such as initiative, free will, action over reaction, avoidance and deescalation and so on, those methods that will achieve your goal of going home alive and in good heath. With these additional methodologies you can still stop a threat, stop the damage and achieve success in your self-fense. Utilizing every single tool begins by using your free will to make a decision and give yourself permissions to do “EVERYTHING” humanly possible to avoid conflicts and violence.
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