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pm yesterday- Night shoot at the department. Ran thru the qualification course with flashlight and weapon mounted lights. Combat marksmanship course that was top notch. today- Round robin training in 3 min round blocks of drilling ground n pound and coverage from the guard and then the mount. Started with basically a coverage and stress inoculation drill. Then, added locking up and working survival mode. Added sweep and option to back out of it. Moved on to mount/side mount with the same progression. 3, 3 min rounds of ground n pound sparring. We added a holster and facsimile handgun on a duty rig to this since most of us are cops. This worked well and we built on the drilling we just did only with the handgun to defend and use as a tool. Finished with 30 min free roll.

Or you could throw the affected foot's shin over the calf of the other. Then you keep the leverage the same, or even make it a bit harder.

Very well put ShoriKid.

There's some things you can work on, but some will take modification as mentioned already. Such as posting weight on one foot instead of both. I'd start devising body weight circuits. You can vary out pull ups almost to infinity to work slightly different muscles and keep you from getting bored. One arm, with or without assist, towel, inverted grip, off set grip. Additionally, you can do rowing motions by hanging under the bar and pulling your upper body off a bench. The heels only serve as a fulcrum here. Think about looking into should and upper body plyos and the like. For instance, you've got push ups and someone mentioned posting off one foot. Now vary grips and postures as well. Add a ball to off set the arm postures and work stabilization. Start working hand jumps between the floor and it. Along those lines, try shoulder stabilizer walks. From a push up position (again, modified), start walking the hands over one another to move your body like a windshield wiper. This will burn out the shoulders nicely. While you're down there, work in superman reaches for back stabilizers. Maybe some reverse crunches as well. A roman chair could help here and it wouldn't affect your injured foot. Think about building a set of parralets (small parallel bars). Check out crossfit.com for instructions that are cheap and easy. You can do loads of ab/core work with them as well as tri stuff. Don't neglect things like inverted shoulder presses against a wall for total upper core work. These will elicit a real burn in all kinds of places. I find it's best to do them outside of any circuits. Lastly, don't forget light weight, high rep, fast pace, seated or lying weight routines for more work. These might go a long way given your situation. Good luck and let us know what you come up with.

Great work!

I think drilling during the course of sparring is one of the best things you can do to really work your tools up to a usable level under stress. Of course, this means stepping back from a competitive mindset and getting into a training one. This can and should apply across all your free fighting training. For me, that means that I try to do it while I'm working stand up and grappling. Is it the only way to spar? No, I too enjoy "just sparring" and it too has a valuable place. Both methods are training tools. It's just a question of applying both in good amounts. At it's simplest level, setting up drilling during sparring can be defining one defender and one attacker. Or, you can use variants where the defender is forced to use one arm or head movement only. Also in the simple category, I'd group just attempting to use combinations or tools that are either new to you, or ones that you know that you are weak in. At more complex variation, one might integrate takedowns at given times during the fight. This is usually "fed" by the partner to train the other participant in finding the right timing for a given takedown movement. Also, one might have their partner give a specific form of resistance or defense to your movements. This will allow you to work specifically on defeating that kind of defense. I do like sparring, but too often we just have fun with it and don't grow because of it. It's another tool that we should really sharpen to help us move forward.

today- Drilled 40 min on series from open guard to 1/2 butterfly. Focused on transition followed by movements to sweep, triangle, and arm drag to back. 15 min of drilling. Bottom works open guard postures while top tries to pass. 45 min of free roll.

today- BJJ nite: Drilled hip bump sweep from closed guard. Transition to triangle and worked agaisnt various fluid movements. Really driled the small technical bits. Free roll for 60 min.

Some good points have been made. I'll add that there are always some movements that just flat out work better than others. It doesn't make the others bad, it just means that they are going to be less "high percentage" than others and should be treated as such. Additionally, there is a component of striking that HAS to occur in order to make joint work effective. It's something that is overlooked so often that it bears repeating. Further, there are some joint manipulations that are just taught these days to be used in the wrong context. This takes them out of their most effective applications and tries to make them fit circumstances that they weren't designed for. This makes them seem less effective. Personally, I feel that small joint manipulations really come in most handy during weapon control scenarios where you can justify the commitment of two of your weapons to one of his just based on the higher threat of his. But that's just me. The last thing to consider is that lots of people train a tad incorrectly in regard to joint manipulations. They either a) treat it as a "lock" instead of a break and thus expect it to function differently than intended, or b) train to keep trying to get it even when it's not working. They are a tool, to be abandoned in favor of another when not working like anything else we use. Just some thoughts on the matter.

Now that the thread is back up, how did it go?

Defiantly go for it. 19 is still way young.

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Nice job!

Either way.

The double ended striking bag is a good choice and will get you slipping and bobbing the head quite well. I'll also second shadow boxing, with the emphasis being on defensive movements. Also don't forget to keep the head movments going during your heavy bag work. Last but not least you already called- keep up the sparring. Do some work that makes you do nothing but defend ans slip for a few light rounds a day. It'll go along way. Remember to keep your sparring structured to work on things, not "just spar".

This method has more to do with the time frame in which your examples started in mma than being the most effective method. For instance, when Hughes started wrestling, no one had even heard of the UFC yet. Same with Machida and karate. For the longest time that was simlply THE primary method of building fighters. Now, with the advent of mma as a major sport, and it's influence being what it is across the martial arts as a whole, you're strarting to see a shift in this. More people are just starting training in multiple diciplines. Time wil tell how the people starting now, under this new method, will do in comparison. That particular generation hasn't hit hte cirrcuit just yet. I'm not saying that staying with a single art to black belt or beyond is a bad idea before cross training, I'm simply saying that it's probably not as big a deal as some people make it out to be.

Yesterday- BJJ nite: Drilled rounds from open guard. Worked maintaining it and transitioning to a feet in position. Went on to move to spider guard and/or 1/2 butterfly. Finished by liking all together based on the energy we got from our partners. 45 min of free roll. Worked on a new sweep from 1/2 guard. Today- 1 mile run Weight circuit of extensors muscles 10 min cool down on Boomer. Half guard sweep from last night. Last 3 days- Teaching control tactics for the department. Mainly teaching, but I got a few odd reps in during striking and weapons disarming/retention. Spent a lot of time in the High Gear armor as an attacker.

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I look at it much the same way as Kuma. I think the primary focus of ma's should always be self defense. Anything else is a by product of that. The exceptions I'll easily give out are for arts that focus on archaic weapons. Sword arts and such almost have to be done out of a love for the weapon or culture.

today- 9, 2 min rounds of mitt work. Start with double jabs on the mitt while moving. Add on coverage from hook prior to jabs and cross to end of jabs. Finally, cover hook, double jab, cross and mitt holder shoots. Work sprawl to defend. Work on to sprawling and cutting angle. Finish with striking and taking back. Drilled triangle from guard. Really worked technical set up with the drill. Moved on to push thru set up. Finished with 30 min of free roll.

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today- BJJ nite: Worked transition from full guard to half butterfly position. Drilled sweep from there followed by an arm drag to taking back. 40 min free roll.

Bujin- the sheer number of places it's taken me. Gokei- the mental finishing school that it turned out to be for combatives. BJJ- the high level of technical proficiency inherent in the game. And that rolling slower with less effort makes you learn more.

Ok, got the chance to check it out. I'm gonna say that the decision wasn't out of line in my opinion. It really could have gone either way. Not to mention, to dethrone a sitting champ, you really should have to decisively beat him. At the end of the day, any time it goes to the judges it's out of the fighters hands. In this case, I don't think they were wrong, but I wouldn't be throwing a fit if it had gone the other way either. All in all, it's probably the tightest technical battle at that level we've seen in a while. Kudos to both guys and I'm looking forward to the rematch. I have to go with Shorikid on his assessment of getting back to the roots of mma. It is a bad idea. Look at the talent level you have now and the well roundedness of the fighters. It's leaps ahead of what you saw before. Largely due to the unification of rules and sanctioning that allows for more money to be made under a legitimate, professional sport. Take that away and you'll see drastically different products. Anyone remember the reign of Tank Abbot? I think we've all become accustomed to a higher grade of competitor. The sports current format has given that to us. Weight classes, rules that make sense, cross training to fulfill potential rather than a "this art vs. that art" all make for a more watchable venue and better fighters. I don't think we'll see a legitimate move backwards, nor do I think we should.

Just got the video, I'll get back with my thoughts.