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today- 1/2 mile warm up on the treadmill back/bis/forearms abs It's time to start thinking about my weight class for a tourny next month. If I go at 159.9 I'm right there at about 161 as of a weight in this morning. Easy. However, I could go in at 149.9, with weigh ins in the night before I could make it nd get back up to feeling good prior to the matchs. Still, that stinks. I hate cuttng weigh. Hate it. I like food. I could whine for a while, but I'll just settle for buckling down and deciding within the next day or two.

today- BJJ: Drilled over passing the butterfly guard. Went on to establishing a side mount series. 35 min free roll.

I'd agree, espically for newer people, keeping similiar sized partner for standing throws is a good idea. Weight and size does matter, it's why there's weight classes.

Agreed, you'll often see that opening sequence in trapping and in fighting based arts. All in all, I liked what I saw for sure. My gripe, as usual, is the takedown defenses. I don't think that trad ma-ists really get the power and speed of someone actually trying and trained to put them on their back. I was there once myself. I'm not saying that the movements don't have merit, but the hand placement and everything else is really secondary to what's going on with one's hips and their level, ect. Also, I rarely see trad guys throw real good takedown efforts. Lots get's taken for granted on the subject by alot of people who haven't looked outside their art for answers.

today- 3. 5 mile run Drilled on side mount escapes 6, 2 min rounds of escaping side/ holing side and advancing position 5, 3 min rounds of free roll 2, 3 min rounds of sparring 2, 3 min rounds of sparring to ground w/ strikes

today- Drilled high guard work. Wrist lock to shoulder crank to arm bar series. Also did some work on taking back from the guard and sweep from there. 3, 2 min rounds of escape v. submission work from the guard. 45 min of free roll.

yesterday- Most of the day was taken up by training at the dept. Room entry, active shooter training with force on force. Ok, so team movement ect, really doesn't fall into the sd catagory but force on force is really good regardless. Getting used to puttin rounds on the bad guy while he's shooting back is important no matter the context. BJJ nite: Drilled over gi choke fromside mount series followed by an arm bar option. 40 min free roll to finish.

today- 3.5 mile run chest/tris abs

Granted here that the effects of the cuts aren't being taken into consideration. Reactivity to damage is something that is hard to realistically train and will vary from person to person. As to knife v. knife I think that a review of incidents would hold up that most knife altercations don't go that route. However, you could seriously alter those percentages in your case if you trained in carrying a blade regularly for deployment. Size of blade and type shouldn't matter in a well devised system. What's more important is the durabilbuty of the blade, sharpness, and skill of the user. Two inches of well honed, solid folder or small fixed blade will open lots of wound channel.

I'll second tomcat by and large. The force multiplier afforded by an edged weapon is exceptional. The proof is always how a pattern will affect it's intended targets. As for the defense after the inital attack I agree. There seems to be the assumption that the initial counter attack defangs the knife fromt he attacker. This might not be the case for several reasons. A miss, or heavy clothes, ect. I've seen what I would consider better, but I've seen far more I'd consider worse.

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KG- go you is right! Nice work with the 9+ miles. today- Training day at the range. Mostly entry stuff, but lots of rounds down range with pistol and rifle. Good day. 3 mile run

today- Day 2 of the seminar. Lots of work from top today. More great stuff. 30-40 min of free roll at the end.

today- 2 hour seminar at the BJJ club I train at. Went over all kinds of stuff. Great day. Finished out with a 45 min free roll. Now I'm crashing out.

I think it's important to give credit where credit is due. Who shaped what you do? Where is it's orgin? What outside influnces shaped or added certain aspects of it? Those are questions everyone should be able to answer just becasue I don't think those who brought ideas and addtions to a system should be overlooked. The wave after BJJ hit was to suddenly "discover" grappling applications in kata. Forget it, just man up and admit that getting some ground skill was a good idea and you went and trained with "x" camp to gain it. Beyond that, I think that lineage is often oversold in trad arts. The changes to about every art I'm aware are probably so signifigant that they don't bear much resembliance to what was done in antquity anyway. Nor should it, things change along with our understanding of training physiology and psycololgy and physical performance fileds. This chages things. Where the rubber meets the road, it rarely matters who trained with who in the last century.

I've used them before, I don't have one. Maybe not the specific model you reference, but the style of bag. I like them, they are great for kicking and function just as well as a regular bag for the rest of your work. You'll find that they are heavy and don't swing much. A realy bonus as far as working heavy kick combos go. I'd seriously think about replacing my heavy bag with one if it ever wears out. tomcat- the idea of folding or reciprocating strikes use just that, a folding motion to be delivered without the limb being used returning to your normal posture. They rely on body mechanics for power and sometimes sensitive target area foreffect. An example would be a jab going out to strike, rather than come back, the hand cuts back and the strike allows and elbow to "fold" over to contact. The body moveson in with this strike. The elbow might then "unfold" into a backfist of one angle or another. Again, the body does a short arc at thehips for power. To stay with the same limb, after the backfist you might again drop weight and let the elbow "fold" down to a vertical elbow to the body. The arm might then explode up (straighten) , driven by the body, and eye gouge to drive his head backwards. That's a lead hand example. Now, you can work in grabs with the other hand, strikes with the other hand or complete series with the other hand as well. It's a good way to make someone cover up while you work your game forward. Again, just an example, there's lots of ways to put them together. The idea is to keep the striking and grabbing and such fluid so one flows into the next. With the nature of the strikes and the need to get percise weight drop and hip action, the dual maki's are really good for training them.

today- Drilled over high guard series. Soulder lock, armbar, sweep. Then moved into top drills, side mount transitions for weight. 60 min free roll.

Kuma's right on that. To keep training in what you're already doing just throw a session yourself. Adaptation to solo training is much easier than conceptualizing a new training methodology. That being said, I'm a huge fan of prinicple based training. There's an article I did on the subject in the Articles sectin. If you're bound a determined to do something like that, then detailed trining in multiple arts is very useful. Further, you might want to look at broader principles to work with, ones that are more outcome focused. The defintions of each of these outcomes will then over lap to show you where you're going beginning of conflict to end. Many of prinicples you're talking about are what Lee would have probabily classified as Attributes, which has more to do with the indivuidual fighter than the game plan for winning in combat. Again, his is not the only way to breakdown and classify such things, but it is very useful and it goes to no re-inventing the wheel as someone mentioned. Just a few thoughts.

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today- 3 mile run Spent the day in training in some of our less lethal munitions. Not a lot of personal application, but good training none the less.

I'm pretty sure I didn't say that's what they were for. In fact, in another thread I was one of the guys arguing against the whole concept. As for the classification, I think the connitations were clear enough. I was speaking for more of technical/ skill concept of training. Still, whatever you want to call it is fine.

today- 3, 2 in rounds of mitt/body guard work. Combo to kness, add coverage. Drilled the D'Arce. Free roll for 40 min.

No, those aren't the kind I refer to. Mine are about a foot long each and I use them in pairs. One high, one low. And when used in the approprite fashion can be used for far more than just correct form. With the right set of drills, they are excellent, in this configuration, for developing reciprocating and/or folding strikes.

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yesterday- BJJ nite: Drilled on hip bump to kimura, followed by a leg over sweep. Finished technique by adding an arm bar to the end of the combo. Free roll for 60.