Speed is further refined during class drills to improve fast twist muscle type fiber development and reaction time. All of this works to enhance inner confidence and peace of mind in the knowledge that you can protect yourself!
Because of the powerful nature of the art, students are taught that the first goal is to avoid a potentially dangerous situation. This includes understanding different levels of awareness and training intuition, paying attention to how you are feeling in a particular area or about someone nearby.
This is all geared towards improving your confidence about your surroundings and recognizing when something doesn't feel right so appropriate actions can be taken. Unfortunately, many martial arts today still practice tournament or sparring which is not conducive to learning effective self-defense skills. On the contrary, Choi Kwang Do maximizes the student's ability to defend his or her self through a series of specialized defense drills.
Students learn to deal with oncoming attacks and react with explosive force. Reaction and movement skills are further refined through these street proven defense drills. Furthermore, students learn how to deal with close range attacks, opponents grabbing or locking them in a hold and respond with a means to recover and counter attack.
Through this entire system, the tools needed to survive a real situation are developed. Ultimately, students feel more confident that if an unavoidable situation arose, they have a means to deal with it.
