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TAO OF JEET KUNE DO
Often, it's not how fast it travels but how soon it gets there that counts.
- Bruce Lee
Elements that make greater speed possible:

• Preliminary warming up to reduce viscosity, increase elasticity and flexibility, and tune the system to a higher physiological tempo (heart rate, blood flow and pressure, respiratory adjustment).
• Preliminary muscular tonus and partial contraction.
• A suitable stance.
• Proper attention focus.
• Reduction of stimuli-reception to rapid perceptual habits and reduction of the resultant movements to fast-reacting habit patterns.
Vision Awareness: • Learning great speed in visual recognition is a basic beginning. Your training should include short, concentrated, daily practice in seeing quickly (awareness drills).
• High levels of perceptual speed are the product of learning, not of inheritance.
• A boy who is a little slow in reaction time, or in speed of delivery, may compensate for this slowness through quick seeing.
Total reaction consists of three elements:

1. The time required for the stimulus to reach the receivers (i.e.: audio, visual, tactile, etc.).
2. Plus the time required for the brain to relay the impulse through the proper nerve fibers to the proper muscles.
3. Plus the time required for the muscles to get into action after receiving the impulse.
Reaction time becomes longer under the following conditions: 1. Not trained in any type of system
2. Tiredness
3. Absentmindedness
4. Emotionally upset (i.e.: anger, fear, etc.)

The direction of one's attention (awareness) to the motor act can shorten the response time.
A practitioner must learn to perform at top speed all the time, not to coast with the idea that he can "open up" when the time comes. The real competitor is the one who gives all he has, all the time. The result is that he works close to his capacity at all times and in so doing, forms an attitude of giving all he has.
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