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How to control your flight reflex?

The flight reflex is the 1st survival option after evaluation. It isn't willpower-controlled, but context-evaluated: if flight is safe, you flee. If dangerous (leaving child behind, etc), you fight.

Waarom dit gebeurt — het mechanisme

The brain evaluates flight distance, number of attackers, terrain, presence of loved ones to protect. All in under 400ms. The flight reflex isn't binary — it's a gradient (fight-flight-freeze). You can start fighting then switch to flight when opportunity arises.

Hoe het Avikzar-Systeem hierop antwoordt

Yehouda teaches the 'transition phase': how to strike 1-2 times to create an opening, then flee to the exit. Not an MMA fight. A survival fight where fleeing is the final goal.

Yehouda Avikzar (10e Dan) — De freeze is niet uw schuld — het is uw biologie. Maar trainen na er een te hebben beleefd, dat is uw verantwoordelijkheid.