faster than peripheral

“Reaction time to touch is faster than peripheral vision reaction time and much faster than focused vision.” - Rory Miller, Drills

Comments: When training for self-defense one trains their senses. Self-defense will mean close in, touching, physical violence so training to use your largest organ, the skin and touch sense, means learning to act and react without the human brain thinking machine slowing the process down. Consider this, if you feel a certain sensation that says, “Oh shit, I am under an attack,” then the touch response goes directly to the lizard for action and it does not pass either the human brain or the monkey. This is where and why training and practice, especially involving adrenal stress conditioning, becomes critical to self-defense.