Abstract: A method and apparatus for training a person in the martial arts. In the apparatus a display screen has four block-regions. Each block-region has means for rapidly and prominently displaying the word "block". Each region corresponds to a zone on the person's body. An attack-region has means for rapidly and prominently displaying the word "attack". The apparatus has means for displaying each region, one at a time, in a variety of sequences.In practicing the method, the person observes the apparatus which displays a randomly selected sequence of instructions. Each instruction is either to block one of four zones or to attack. The person responds to each instruction in turn, either by blocking his corresponding zone or by making an attack move.