When Brian Dalton was attacked his body’s instinctive survival system by-passed his thinking brain and deployed human nature’s airbag: the Startle-flinch response. IMO it helped save his life.  The startle-flinch response deploys like a biological airbag, expanding in a sudden incident to create space between you and the danger. In Brian’s fight, the flinch-response expanded … Continue reading Violence Doesn’t Care What Martial Art You Study