Intuition is Subconscious Pattern Recognition 🎧 #653 (Apr 20)

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Intuition is Subconscious Pattern Recognition 🎧 #653 (Apr 20)

Especially in Self Defense!

Apr 20, 2026

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Finding analogs of pattern recognition in martial arts

“What is intuition? It’s just subconscious pattern recognition!”

-Paulo GN Rubio

(Coach & instructor FMA, Knife Defense, Pekiti Tirsia Kali)

Today I have something off the beaten path of stocks and finance. My disclaimer is no knife defense practice will be 100% effective. The best defense is common sense and intuition to avoid being there in the first place, and run if you can. There are often many cues and clues to something bad about to happen.

But sometimes evil finds us and our families in compromised situations and some of us live in cities where the rights of protecting oneself with the 2nd amendment is almost a legal battle in itself.

If you want to skip all of this, go to time marker: 11min 10 sec

I highly recommend this seminar with coach Paulo Rubio. It is a 7 hr / 1 day commitment. (His August Kansas event needs to be rescheduled for World Cup).

Plenty of opportunities coming up in Phoenix, Houston, Los Angeles, Upland CA, Montreal, Portugal, and Switzerland.

You get beginner level slow instruction that builds throughout the day, ending in cognitive load drills and simulations. And the drills can be done at home by yourself or ideally with a partner.

Here is what one of those drills looks like in slow motion.

Here is a POV vantage of another base drill at speed.

How fast is a real knife attack? As fast as you can blink.

This guy, even after the 1st attack was blocked by officer #1, had the time to slash and stab officer #2 in the back twice! video has two camera angles. This is graphic so be warned.

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