COGNITIVE
Response Time:
The speed at which you perceive and appropriately respond to an action.
Processing Speed:
The ability to translate information from one form into another more useful form.
Co-ordination:
The level of sensitivity with which two or more functions of our brain and/or parts of our body are synchronized (e.g. hand-eye co-ordination).
Fluid Intelligence:
The ability to learn new things or solve problems in new situations.
Focus & Attention:
The ability to maintain your concentration on a task for lengthy periods of time.
Divided Attention:
The ability to successfully pay attention to more than one thing at a time.
Divided Execution:
The ability to successfully apply different actions to more than one thing at a time.
Mental Agility:
The ability to redirect attention between different tasks while maintaining good performance levels.
Awareness:
The ability to perceive events, objects or sensory patterns with some level of quality.
Sequencing:
The ability to order ideas and/or objects in your mind.
Ambidexterity:
Being equally adept in the use of both left & right sides of the body.
Coordination:
The ability to be able to move hands & feet separately or perform different functions at the same time.
Cross Lateral Training:
The ability to function movements in which your arms or legs cross over from one side of your body to the other.
Multi-Tasking:
The ability to be able to utilise the attributes of unconscious actions, peripheral vision & the ability to function from any position.
Flow of Movement:
Being able to flow with relaxed muscles and continue fluently through varied sequential movements.
Peripheral Vision:
Ability to use mid brain (reflex) not relying on focal brain where we analyse and process our thoughts, making reaction time faster.
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STICKS & HUMAN MOVEMENTS
The movements of the sticks are the same movements used in boxing & many other martial arts.
You are actually learning self-defence & attack movements while having fun with sticks. All the strikes and motions of the sticks relate to the same strikes with the hands and feet. The sticks are simply an extension of your limbs.
The stick movements are linked to the three plans of motion of the human body.
Your body doesn’t move in only one dimension; it moves in three dimensions. If it didn’t, you wouldn’t be able to move your leg in all different directions for example.
Our training programs reflect three-dimensional movement and utilizes all the planes of motion in the same manner that the body moves in real life.
There are three different planes of motion: Sagittal, Frontal, and Transverse.
In each plane, several different movements occur at the joints.
The different types of movement that occur within each plane in brief:
The Sagittal Plane – Any forward and backward parallel movement
The Frontal Plane – Any lateral (side) movement
The Transverse Plane – Any rotational movement