how do you build your reflex abilaty?

Question

i have very poor reflexes

my art does not do any partner trainning and if we ever do its usualy slow to get the technique down.

Answer 1

Practice with a partner.

Answer 2

No training partners at combat speed? you poor guy. What do you study?
Yes, relaxing and not getting tense will help you hit harder, faster, and with more control. How do you train that? Visualize it, then practice it. Your kata/forms training should help a little.

Cross train in other sports such as basketball, tennis, football, soccer, etc. All those sports require reaction time and timing to be successful. The great thing is you can go to a pick up basketball game for free. Have you thought about taking a class on fencing.

A lot of reflex ends up being anticipation and experience...
Best of luck.

Answer 3

What kind of martial art you are? That's quite unusual training martial art alone without partner. Btw, here's some information I read from several books.

You may have good reflex, but you may not developed a good reaction yet. Two factor affect the reaction, first is your mind second is your body. To have a good reaction one must blend mind and body.

First, let's talk about mind. Your mind must focus like a laser. When you focus (at least from what i read in some books), you can see the incoming attack clearly. At higher level, some masters can even "sense" an attack. I often lose focus during my sparing session because I'm exhausted. And the next thing I know is that I'm getting a punch. To enhance focus, you can try meditation.

Second, is your body. Although, your mind see an attack came, sometimes your muscle seems not obey your mind to do what your mind want. (i.e. you don't hit the target where you want to, or you move too slow, etc). To improve your body reaction, one can do standard physical exercise to increase strength, stamina, and flexibility. You can find this physical exercise from your class, or martial arts books.

After you practice these. You can try your mind and body coordination in randori style training. I don't know your style, but most style involve a free style practice. In short, you can practice meditation and physical exercise to improve your reaction.

At least this a few information I get from some books. I hope this can help. Good luck.

Answer 4

If you don't do any partner training you will NEVER get the technique down.

If it is only slow you will also NEVER learn anything you can apply when someone is resisting. You need to train against a resisting opponent eventually (after you think you got it down) even with a very simple concept because you want to no you NEED to know how it applies to a human body and if you are doing it right, the only way to know that is to try it against a person using real resistance and is not compliant.

Compliance is dancing, resistance is martial arts.

You have been taking a dancing class till now. I suggest you find a class that teaches with resistance.

I highly doubt it is your reflexes, sounds like your lack of proper training. And I also doubt that it is your "art" that doesn't train with resistance. I haven't heard of one art yet that only trained with no partners and only sometimes with them with complaint resistance.

Answer 5

I find that there are several ways to build up reflex speed, mostly involving LOTS OF PRACTICE. One of the best ways is to get a tether ball kicking bag, which is essentially a rope with a ball in the center (if you do not wish to buy one, they are easy to make, also more effective, as you can decrease the size of the ball as you practice). Also, handball is effective. However, depending on which type of martial arts you take, any type of Randori, sparring, or such activities are highly effective. In essence, any drill which involves random effects and response seem to work the best.

Answer 6

Like Bluto said, you need to train with a resisting opponent. This means drilling with gradual added resistance, and then finally doing sparring or randori. When you start sparring/randori, you should be doing it frequently and to a good degree. You don't want to go all out and hurt each other, but if your in a striking art you can go full contact if you have the proper equipment. If a grappling art you can go pretty close to all out without worry of injury if you are smart.

What art do you do?

Answer 7

what maritial art do you do that doesnt require a partner....anyways im sorry but to build reflexes for martial arts you have to practice usually with a partner.....give me your martial art then i will help more

Answer 8

You're too tensed. Your body react better when you're pumped up but relaxed at same time.

Answer 9

its what u eat. stop eating fatty foods. eat more fresh fruits.
then....have a head massage to release toxins in your brain.
then...workout until u sweat, to release toxins from your body.
then...you will own chuck norris

Answer 10

relax..the more you think about it the more you get pre-occupied..