To best train reaction time, the cue must be appropriate to the sport.

Obviously in boxing and MMA, pushing a button to react is not appropriate to the sport; an object coming at you quickly is. The same could be said for football and other sports. Your eyes and body CAN be taught to react faster. So how can we get this training ? One option many use is the slip ball to practice their moves to avoid it. It is highly predictable and no where near real human speed. There’s also having someone throwing real punches at you. Now at least that is more realistic. With that the consequences are:

• If you miss, it hurts.
• Not allowing for your eyes and body to get consistent, repeatable practice.
• A person can’t throw punches at a repeatable speed for very long.
• No one can throw punches at super-human speeds to practice over-speed training (see further down).

This leaves us with the Robot Boxing Fitness arms, which overcomes all four obstacles. The arms take full advantage of reaction time training by:

• Training reaction time from beginner to most advanced.
• Practice blocking and counter-punching in real time speeds.
• Having your eyes practice sensing movement earlier.
• Help in getting rid of blink, flinch, turn away reaction.
• Practicing having your muscles around 10% tension for quickest reaction time
• Getting hit for failure.

It may sound funny or mean, but getting a stimulus for failure to perform actually gets you to learn quicker reaction time. By getting the center of your eyes to see faster, your peripheral in turn will see faster too. Kind of like a two for one special.

• You’ll learn to make only the movement needed to avoid the hit and stop extra movements that are wasting time and energy.
• Your anxiety level will go down with practice. The lower your anxiety, the faster your reaction time.
• You’ll for the first time ever be able to practice true over-speed training.

Over-speed Training

Over-speed training is a technique that you practice at such high speeds that are humanly impossible in real life, so that when you are exposed to real life fast speeds again, they seem slower. For example, let’s say a batter is practicing hitting fast balls. They come in at about 90 to 95 mph. Then someone invents a pitching machine that will throw them at 150 mph. The same batter stands at the plate and trains his eyes at such fast pitches, to the point when he now returns to a human fast ball, they appear to him to be actually slower, less intimidating. The Robot Boxing Fitness Arms do the same by throwing jabs faster than any human boxer can. Brain injury slows reaction times. Since the Arms hit with 8500% less force than a human punch going at the same speeds (this percentage can be higher or lower depending on who threw the punch, but it makes a point), so a miss does not mean brain injury.

• There is no tel (short for telegraph)

Most fighters, amateur and pro, give a tel just before a punch. Amazingly, when studied, their tel often takes longer than the actual forward punch, giving the opponent a huge advantage to react. If you can learn to block or dodge the Robot Arms, all human tels will offer a bigger advantage to you.

Like so many things in life, they have to be repeated over and over before they are subconscious. Much of driving is like that. The more the brain has to function to make a decision, the slower the reaction time will be. By repeated practice with the Robot Arms, you’re teaching your eyes and body to react to the point it becomes a reflex. A reflex gives the fastest reaction time.

• It’s fun!

Something that is fun and challenging will be done a lot. But through the fun, you give your eyes “muscles”. They look the same but they react quicker. Your repeated practice put your muscles at about 10% tension when the need arises because you trained them to do that rather than fully tense. The eyes, brain and muscle combination work together for quickness like you’ve never had before.