quick reaction time?

Question

i have trouble with reaction time like when my friend was messing around and we "fought" but light hits i didnt really do anything like my mind stuttered when i thought of my kenpo classes how can i improve that and reflexes?

aslo how can i spar alone? is that possible like woth a punching bag? how can i practice?

Answer 1

Bounce a racket ball. Bounce it on the ground. Bounce it off the walls. Catch it with each hand.
As far as I can tell you are trying to improve your ability to place your hand where you want it to be more quickly.
Old school boxers were always seen playing with a ball. It helps change your reaction to reflex.
Good luck!
-rj

Answer 2

I dont know anything about kenpo but the way you spar alone is basically shadow box. Thats where your just by yourself throwing combos and stuff, moving around, as if you were sparring, except your by yourself. and also you can use a punching bag if your shadow boxing, but it wont be shadow boxing anymore. instead your hitting something, but in my opinion that wont build up your reflexes, just your power. The best way to increase your reflexes and practice is a speed bag. Its the bag hanging from the ceiling, or a board, and you hit it, dodge it, hit hit dodge n stuff like that,

watch this video to get a clearer understanding of a speedbag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuvM-i3mMew

Answer 3

Drills, visualization, and sparring can help you with this some but this also can be due to lack of experience and training. If you are a white belt that just started training in the past few months then that is not unusual. If not then when you are practicing doing techniques in class or doing drills you need to visualize some of these situations-don't just do them and mindlessly follow along in class. Also more sparring should help you with this to some extent. I would also start looking at my mental approach to all this and see if that does not need to be changed and improved. Fighting is really more mental than physical for experienced fighters much like a chess match with each using his skills, abilities, knowledge, and experience to gain an advantage or captalize on an opportunity or an oppenents weakness much like using the chess pieces on a board. For inexperienced fighters it is just the opposite and they tend to overly rely on their phyiscal skills and often make mistakes as well as freeze or tense up. That's why they tend to tire so easily and quickly. A street situation is much shorter and you litterally have all that compressed down into just several seconds where mental attitude, experience along with abilities is even more crucial.

A punching bag is an excellent training tool for helping to overcome some of this as well as shadow boxing which is one of the things that fighters use to develop their combinations and make them faster, smoother, easier to do, and thus more powerful. Start practicing some of your techniques with an imainery opponent and once again visualize some of all this as you do that and things should start to fall into place a little bit better for you.

Answer 4

Practice..... Practice some more .........Practice.
Some students take longer to build muscle memory. When you use a bag pick your spot to punch or kick on the bag move around and Patrice hitting the same spot from different starting points. Find some one to do hand drills with to help improve your reflexes and eye hand coordination.
Good luck I'm sure with practice and training you will get faster.

Answer 5

Ask your master about how to improve your reaction time. Get a sparring partner with a slightly greater skill than you, so you can build up your own reactions and stuff like that.

As for sparring alone, the only thing I can think of is to just train via punching bag or punching dummies. Or try to dodge baseballs from a baseball pitcher (LOL). The main way I know thats effective is to build up your reaction is to continue to practice, and spar someone of the same or of a greater level than you. Good luck =)

Answer 6

You have to practice more. You shouldn't have to think of a technique, you should just do it. It's called muscle memory, it comes from repetition and practice. Use a punching bag, shadow box, do practice drills, and spar with a real person as often as possible.

Answer 7

tats why every day on yahoo answer i tell plz to learn practical martial art which spar alot not the one who says its deadly art n never even apar...until u dont spar u cant react ....u can hit a great combp of 5 punch on punching bag but not more then one on spa...why???coz heavy bag dont move n yr opponent keeps on moving.....the main key is spar...i do muay thai n we spar alot ...we spar 5 days in a week so we can react easily...u cant even spar alone.....practicing alone is known as shadow boxing which is good but tats not spar...coz the image in mirror is not going to hit u ......there is only one answer spar n play a full contatc game

Answer 8

You don't want to be thinking too much in a fight. When you think about what you know you start to lose focus on the moment. Every second in a fight is vital and if you're not focusing on it, you could quickly lose.

Don't think so much. Just let your knowledge flow through muscle memory. If it's not there, you have to practise your techniques harder. With someone or even shadow boxing. That has been explained already.

Reaction time, it just comes with time and practise in the arts.

Answer 9

This just takes time and training.Your reactions have not become second nature yet.
The answer "More sparring practice"
Also more focus.Turn off all other thoughts.
Think only action / reaction.

Do not think about a TV commercial,work
food,girls,bikini's,school,etc.

Answer 10

Try to practice using your pheripheral vision instead of normal vision when sparring, I find this helps me react faster than when I try to consciously see the attacks coming in. Just pick a spot in the air 2 feet in front of you and lock your eyes to that spot or you can pick a spot on your opponent's chest and lock in on it, then use your pheripheral vision(what's commonly called the corner of your eye vision) to detect his attacks. This takes a lot of practice as you are constantly tempted to anticipate his attacks and will sometimes move before he even commenced any attack. But with practice, you can learn to see his movements and your body automatically reacts without your even thinking about it.