Between Touch Routine
Dr. John Heil
Twin Cities Fencing Club
September, 2022
2840 Electric Rd,. Suite 200; Roanoke, VA 24018
540-772-5147
MIND of the FENCER
CHESS MASTER
Decision Making
ZEN WARRIOR
Action Thinking
ZEN RIDDLE
TO TOUCH
&
NOT BE TOUCHED
CHESS MIND
Logical
Word
Calculation
Tactical/Strategic Thinking
ZEN MIND
Intuitive
Pictoral
Emotional
Action Thinking
Now
Mental Game
Shift Rapidly
Chess Moment
to
Zen Moment
&
Back
Sport Intelligence
TACTICS
Every Touch
Choice
Each Bout
Series of Adjustments
Play the Odds
Mastering Chess
Systematic Study
Tactics & Strategy
Personal Games
Historic Games
Great Performances
Chess Mind
Michael Marx
5 Time Olympian
“An action no one could think of but me”
Pattern Recognition
Temporal
Zen Mind
If one really wishes to be master of an art, technical knowledge is not enough.
One has to transcend technique so that art becomes an “artless art” growing out of the Unconcious
Herrigel,
Zen in the Art of Archery
“
Zen Mind
Iris Zimmermann
1st World Champ Medal
Decades
Down 8-12 to
Olympic Medalist-Trillini
Forgot the Score
Ready to Keep Fencing
ACTION THINKERS DILEMMA
Knowledge of the Game
without
Falling Prey to the Curse of Over Thinking
Rapid Cognition
Fear & Threat
Visceral Reaction
Instinctive Recoiling
Choices
Consequences
Mental Preparation
Where people confront chaos and death…
The ability to constrain panic by procedure…
Critical to survival and success
Capt Craig Mullaney in
The Unforgving Minute: A Soldiers Education
Mental Training
Between Touch
Routine
Systematic Approach
to the
Critical Moment
Manage
Mind-Body
�Action Mind Set ��
4-WAY SKILL SET
Broad <-> Narrow
&
External <-> Internal
Attention Control Theory, Nideffer
EX BRO AWARE | AD IN ANALYZE |
OPEN EYE EX NAR | INNER EYE ROW IN |
Mindful Fencing
EX BRO STRIPSIDE COACH | AD IN TACTICS |
FENCING EX NAR | ZONE CHECK ROW IN |
EX BRO AWARE | AD IN ANALYZE |
OPEN EYE EX NAR | INNER EYE ROW IN |
Managing Body
The ZONE
Psychology
As
Funnel
Expanding Shrinking
Tunnel Vision
Auditory Exclusion
l
�Zen - Chess�
Chess Master
Zen Master
When You Say Ready?
Excitement
or
Fear
Seize the Moment
or
Shrink From It
Fence to Win
or
Fence to Avoid Losing
Seizing the Moment
A flawed order delivered on time and with confidence always beat an otherwise perfect but mumbled order
Capt Craig Mullaney in
The Unforgving Minute: A Soldiers Education
Decisiveness
Vladimir Nazlymov
10x World Champion
6x Olympic Champion
“Close Eyes & Go”
Trust Moment
Trust Coach
ZEN RIDDLE
TO TOUCH
&
NOT BE TOUCHED