“BP: Tell us about your concept “slowing down time.”
JW: Well, like most good things my training in “slowing down time” began with a lot of pain. I was competing in the super-heavyweight finals of a big Push Hands tournament. I only weighed about 170 pounds at the time, but I often went up in weight classes for the extra challenge. My opponent was a 230-pound bruiser with a bit of a mean streak. The rules of this event were that you have to stay on your feet and in the ring, and the target area is the waist to below the neck. I had been controlling the match and with about 50 seconds to go, he countered an attack of mine with an explosive shoulder pulse that broke my right hand. I felt it shatter and then time slowed down. It was wild. On the video his hands were coming at me like bullets but in my mind they were floating at me like clouds. I was able to easily win the match with one hand … and then I had some thinking to do. If the human mind can slow down time in an emergency, how can we train ourselves to do this at will? This event became a beacon in my training, and I began to develop a method of changing my perception of martial flow by drilling techniques and combinations of movements until I saw them in more frames than my opponents…
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