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today- back/bis/abs 1 mile run 3, 3 min rounds of stick work on BOB round 1- angles and strikes round 2- patterns round 3- defense/offense combos

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The elbow parry he's using and dubbing a rhino is actually pretty good for hooking attacks, you'll use them alot in boxing. It covers well, protects everything on the side of the head and is pretty forgiving if angles of attack change. It covers alot that's important. I use it alot. you can even move it around and intercept straight attacks and such. Again, with some poractice, very versitile. It does lend itself to the crashing mindset well. It does expose the ribs, but any movement will open something. It's a cost/benifit that simply occurs. I'm usually more concerned with the head than the body. Also, crashing will tend to minimize that risk. The clawing is fine too, as long as you're raking the eyes. It WILL elicit a response. Very few people will risk things moving around their eyes without reacting. You just have to be certain that the use of force limits that you're under allow for that tactic in a given situation. What it won't do is end the fight or knock the guy out or destroy his ability to press on. I don't think that's what they're selling either, it's a tactic to gain distance to be used in conjunction with other measures.

today- 2, 3 min rounds on the mitt gloves. Focused working on slipping the jab and cross. Build in counters 2, 3 min rounds of slipping in a free sparring enviornment. 1, 3 min round of free sparring, setting up the slip add in rest of arsenal to defend agaisnt 4, 3 min round of free sparing, building to MMA focus. Finsihed by drilling stance work to keep post leg in position between you and partner.

Glad you enjoyed the article and that it's generated soem discussion. The mind is obviously an important factor in any martial endevor. However, prinicples as we look at them are about framework for combat. They are the working theories that guide movements. They are constructed to allow a pattern to emerge that will allow one to defend themselves. The mind is a guiding force, a fixed factor that will guide you in the development of your patterns and the movements that you will use to fulfill them. We look at this, as well as things like anatormy, timing, distance as factors outside your principles that will effect how well you are able to drive through your repsonse pattern.

today- 1 mile run chest/tris 10 min rep work on Boomer. Hit the modified spider from last night and sweep/submission from there

Don't laugh: Lethal Weapon and Die Hard. Both set at Christmans. I try to make my wife watch them with me every season. Now I just keep hoping the guys making Family Guy actually give us a "KISS saves Santa" special.

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today- BJJ nite: Drilled on a modified spider guard position. Then, moved to sweeping from there and then the triangle. Warm up and cool down was rounds of armbar from mount and hip bump escapes from guard. 35 min free roll.

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today- 1 mile run 4, 2 min rounds on BOB legs/abs

yeasterday- am: Drilled on guard recovery, double under pass on the guard, and knee over passing. 3, 3 min rounds of guard roll. Man in guard works for pass, man with guard works for sweep or submission 5, 3 min rounds of free roll pm: BJJ nite: Drilled warm ups on side mount escape and omo plata. Worked technical time on guard recovery. Cooled down with more side escapes and omo's. Free roll for 35 min.

The double ended bag can be useful in helping to develop those things. Of course, the best training for an activity is the activity itself. But as a supplimental solo workout, the double ended bag can help with both. I'm a big fan of it as a tool.

today- 3 mile run back/bis

yesterday- 1.5 mile run chest/tris

There is some good advice here. Just enjoy it is right. No one is going to be out to bury you on your first night at any school worth its weight. You'll find things getting easier the longer your around and you start falling into the group. Good luck and keep us posted.

People sit all the time. Cars, trains, parks, home. You could be part of a domestic incident, at home of someone else where you don't know everyone. Seems that I've heard or see all of these. Granted, you'd rather be up if you saw it coming, but things aren't always ideal. I'll repeat myself, worse case scenario. Train how you like, we're just repeating ourselves here.

cymry, I'll have to respectfully agree to disagree. Train however you want obviously, but i'll keep the workst case scenario in mind from time to time. There are too many variables in any situation to say what will and won't be useful.

So let's say you do get sucker punched at a bar. Best to have at least drilled the concept occasionally. Last I checked one could go to a bar and not be looking for a fight and still have bad things find them. Again, there are people that get carjacked as well. Best to know how your planned responses work and function under constrained conditions. At the end of the day, it happens, regardless of the situation or the setting. I'm not saying that it needs to be done constantly, but it should be done. No one is 100% turned on and tuned in all the time. I'll hedge my bets a bit.

Finally back from school. It was all kinds of fun, lots of shooting, the occassional obsical course and days on days of running around in body armor. It was pretty good on the workout side of things in it's own right. Still, it's nice to be back to the usual routine. today- BJJ nite: Warmed up with escapes fform side control, omo platas, and guard passes. Moved on to drilling open guard passing and then to guard recovery. Free roll for 25.

Because familiarity goes along way. Maybe it shouldn't be a regualar rotation for your training, but it deserves attention. Building in a comfort factor by prior practice will go along way should it ever be needed. Add in the fact that practicing from seated in a car will have a certain amount of crossover training for any seated position and you start to build a bretty good argument. Training defense from different postures shouldn't be based on the assumption that it won't happen to you. The likelyhood of attack should factor into the percentage of time devoted to that skill set, but that's a big diference than writing it off entirely.

Happy Holidays to all!

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