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Martial Arts Teaches Mind Over Pain Techniques

How Martial Arts Can Prepare You For hits ANYWHERE

The problem that most martial arts practitioners experience is that they jump straight into pain. That is, from the first moment, they’re taught to feel pain, to tap out, and the pain ends. This instills a fear of pain. Like a child learning to walk, you have to take easy first steps, not attempt to run full out.

First, experience pain.

When I was first faced with this same issue, my shidoshi (instructor in the Bujinkan) was using me as the class uke, demonstrating techniques on me with regularity, and always taking them to a final control. After a bit of this, he would make the pain excruciating; I would be screaming in pain. Eventually, I knew that I had to take the pain, and I began to “drift off”. I would use visualization to get myself into a nice place (I have a fondness for Maui, so I’d visualize myself on the beach there), only to be wrenched back to reality, being told I needed to experience it. He was right.

Once you experience pain, you can isolate the pain. Use the pain, and feel for it; what direction is the pain moving, how are you contributing to it, and, most importantly, what happens when I breathe?

Source:  http://martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/459/how-does-one-mentally-push-past-pain-in-training

WARNING:  WE DO NOT SUGGEST YOU TRY WHAT YOU SEE IN THIS VIDEO. DESPITE NOT FEELING PAIN, DAMAGE AND INJURY COULD EASILY OCCUR!!

 Muay Thai

Muay Thai is a combat sport of Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. This physical and mental discipline which includes combat on shins is known as “the art of eight limbs” because it is characterized by the combined use of fists, elbows, knees, shins, being associated with a good physical preparation that makes a full-contact fighter very efficient. Muay Thai became widespread internationally in the twentieth century, when practitioners defeated notable practitioners of other martial arts.

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