The Blinkies

When you spar, do you ever find yourself closing your eyes when you spot an incoming strike? That is the blinkies. It happens to most of us to varying degrees.

One way to cure the blinkies is to slow down and identify the incoming strikes. I don’t mean casually say “punch” or “kick”. I mean super specific, like “roundhouse punch to the temple” or “side kick to the solar plexus”. Be aware, be specific and hopefully through this practice embrace the incoming strike rather than close your eyes. (And hopefully down the road, be able to relax and evade or block the incoming strike.)