Neglected Technique: Feeling Hands, Using Your Gloves Like Cat Whiskers

[Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu]

You see this much more in the Golden Age, close range, in the pocket hand fighting, and more...hand feeling. One of the beautiful skills of that time involved hand to hand redirecting and really, perception. This Scientific American article talks about experiments that confirm that the human brain reads the environment "through" material extensions of the body, as if the ARE the body. Check it out: 

Scientific American: The Brain Senses Touch beyond the Body.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brain-senses-touch-beyond-the-body/

 

I've always felt that, because the human body is a vast predatorial (and prey) computational device, evolved over millions of years, and because so much of fighting is about not only sensing exactly where you opponent is, but also sensing where they are going to be, increasing the sensorial inputs only makes sense. One spends a great deal of time training vision, imagine if vision inputs become married to kineasthenic/touch inputs could create a super computational perception, well below the conscious level.

Think about this. The human body has evolved to actually feel through you gloves, as if the leather at the ends were skin. Think about the precision of that perception. Think about this. Do all you padwork, but do it touching your padman, or the pads, constantly, creating an additional vector of information, to confirm or sharpen the perceptions of your eyes. Fight and train with cat whiskers.