Seven-part series on preparatory Cuing
Hey everyone, Brian Hill with The Complete Combatant. I'm going to be doing a seven-part series on preparatory Cuing so that you can perform at the highest level. We know that there's three stages to training. There's the accuracy and precision mode, there's speed and efficiency, and then there's performance mode. This is probably the least understood part of it and people often train very hard and develop a lot of skill, but when it comes time to perform, somebody else steps up to the line. This is an important process to get you ready for either showing your skill under pressure, fighting, or facing everyday challenges. None of it's different to your brain. It all considers it to be a threat, and it needs to know exactly what to do and how to do it. Alright, start with number one. Number one is always be ready. Okay?
Accept the challenge
Now, that's easy to say, and we talk about that all the time, but you should be ready to accept the challenges that come. You should relish the challenges in your life. When it's time to step up to the line, you should be ready to go. I often hear a bit of insecurity or dark humor when people step up to the line and I ask them if they're ready, they say, I guess so. And if you've ever attended my class, this is a strict rule. If you utter the words, I guess so, you'll be dismissed from the line until you're ready, I will not allow you to do something as dangerous as shooting with an I guess so. Now, I know some of your like, hey, you get what we mean, and I do, I really get what you mean as part of the problem is you have to be ready.
Be ready
You should be always ready to go first. You should be ready to step up to the line. Now, that doesn't mean you won't be nervous, and that doesn't mean that you won't have great feelings of pressure, but you should physically and mentally assume the posture of readiness. And you should say, this is why I came here. This is my work. This is what I'm about, and when I step to the line, I'm ready. Okay? The timer doesn't intimidate me. The challenge doesn't intimidate me. Nothing will stop me from my given purpose. It's a different feeling of being ready, but it's exhibited right away. And it helps you to man manage your arousal level. Arousal level is a psychological term, and it basically comes down to whether you're overstimulated or understimulated. When I was dealing with fighters constantly, this was the real battle in the locker room.
work in the gym
I didn't make brilliant speeches and give them a new strategy and see something about their opponent. We did all that work in the gym, and that's movie lure. It's ludicrous to think that you'd have to do that in a fight. Occasionally, something will pivot, but mostly that work's done in the gym. What I managed with a fighter was whether he was too excited or he wasn't excited enough, they're both equally dangerous, okay? You need to have just the right amount of excitement before you go into an activity. You need to be ready to do it because it preps the body, physiologically, psychologically and technically to move forward. So we want to stretch our skills just a little bit, and we want to be ready for it. If we're overexcited the symptoms will be there.
Bring yourself back down
We'll see jittery knees, we'll see held breath, we'll see rapid glancing with the eyes clenching, nervousness, loss of focus and attention. And what you need to do is bring yourself back down, recognize that you came here and that you want to do this, and you're excited to do this, and that's fine. And release that struggle. Understand that pressure is a part of life, and it's okay. Understimulation is just as bad, and this is a disassociation from the events that are about to come. So you're so flat that you feel nothing, and then you lose all the advantages that you would gain physiologically and psychologically from being under pressure. Because we gear up, we become a high performer in that standard, and you're underwhelmed right now, you're not ready to go. We see this a lot with people have traumatic backgrounds where they just kind of disassociate it can't affect them. They're far from it, and they're far from the outer product. And some of you say, boy, I'd like to feel like that, but you really don't because you don't perform well in that. You don't adjust well and you don't perform at your highest level.
So, from now on, whenever somebody asks you if you're ready, the answer is yes. Okay? When you step up to the line shooter, are you ready? Yes, I am. All right. Or you just say nothing at all. If you're in competition, that's fine too. If you're going to do a drill in the class, volunteer to be first. I know a lot of you were in law enforcement and the military, and you never volunteer for anything, but this is willing participation. We have come here because we want to train. We are high-level Marshall Athletes that want to move ahead. So, there's no reason for us to hide or cower in the back of the group. We should go first. We should set the precedence, and we should be leaders. You can tell I get passionate about this because you have to do this. It changes you fundamentally, and it allows you to be a more of a hunter in this situation instead of the prey. It allows you to step up and to be fully engaged in the moment because it was your choice in the first place to come. It's your choice to perform well, and you can't hide from it. I hope that helps you guys start practicing this in little things, and it'll have great, great ramifications for large issues. You know, if you're an impatient person, you learn to be patient in small things. If you're ill disciplined, you discipline yourself with something simple in the morning like making your bed. If you feel like you're not ready and you're doing something small.
And then everything we do, these are small drills, but they become a lifetime of habits, and that becomes the character of who you are. So, always be ready and know if you come to my class and if I ask you if you're ready and you give me some other answer, you're going to go take a break for a while until you are ready. I think that's more than fair and equitable for everybody, and I demand the best out of all my clients as I do myself. All right. I'm Brian Hill with The Complete Combatant and as always, measure, refine, and perform.
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