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> There are self-defense courses that literally reprogram your brain to have a more useful response! Is this a part of a martial art? What is the term for such

> There are self-defense courses that literally reprogram your brain to have a more useful response! Is this a part of a martial art? What is the term for such training?

bombcar 5y ago
This is part of most (if not all martial arts) and other various "fighting" courses - it's part of the reason for what appears to be brainless repetition of certain moves, etc.
carapace 5y ago
I do not remember the exact course, it was a specific class offered by a martial arts studio but it wasn't part of their regular martial arts classes. I did a search for "adrenaline re-imprinting" and it looks like these folks are doing the same or something very similar: https://carpediemselfdefence.com/adrenal/ https://carpediemselfdefence.com/adrenal/ - - - - edit: replying to bombcar and phenkdo: This wasn't repetitive training, the whole class took only a few hours, we didn't learn fancy martial arts moves just a few very basic responses, the core of it was inducing controlled adrenaline rushes and then consciously responding in coherent ways which then (somehow) get "programmed" into the (?) amygdala to be activated automatically when the stimuli recur. In the later stages of the class a big guy puts on one of those bear-proof suits and comes at you. I saw small ladies beat the everlovin shit outta that bear-man. Like fractured or broken bones and concussions delivered (virtually! The guy in the suit just gets rattled.) The weird thing is you don't break your own bones. Adrenaline is a hellofa drug.
phenkdo 5y ago
AFAIK for conditioned reflexes (and most habits), the basal ganglia is responsible. The amygdala is the alarm center that kicks in for life/death situations. caveat: have cursory knowledge of neuroscience
andromaton 5y ago
This book covers this and adjacent topics very well https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9904173-facing-violence https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9904173-facing-violence

> There are self-defense courses that literally reprogram your brain to have a more useful response! Is this a part of a martial art? What is the term for such training?

bombcar 5y ago

This is part of most (if not all martial arts) and other various "fighting" courses - it's part of the reason for what appears to be brainless repetition of certain moves, etc.

carapace 5y ago

I do not remember the exact course, it was a specific class offered by a martial arts studio but it wasn't part of their regular martial arts classes. I did a search for "adrenaline re-imprinting" and it looks like these folks are doing the same or something very similar: https://carpediemselfdefence.com/adrenal/ https://carpediemselfdefence.com/adrenal/ - - - - edit: replying to bombcar and phenkdo: This wasn't repetitive training, the whole class took only a few hours, we didn't learn fancy martial arts moves just a few very basic responses, the core of it was inducing controlled adrenaline rushes and then consciously responding in coherent ways which then (somehow) get "programmed" into the (?) amygdala to be activated automatically when the stimuli recur. In the later stages of the class a big guy puts on one of those bear-proof suits and comes at you. I saw small ladies beat the everlovin shit outta that bear-man. Like fractured or broken bones and concussions delivered (virtually! The guy in the suit just gets rattled.) The weird thing is you don't break your own bones. Adrenaline is a hellofa drug.

phenkdo 5y ago

AFAIK for conditioned reflexes (and most habits), the basal ganglia is responsible. The amygdala is the alarm center that kicks in for life/death situations. caveat: have cursory knowledge of neuroscience

andromaton 5y ago

This book covers this and adjacent topics very well https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9904173-facing-violence https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9904173-facing-violence