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bushido man is very correct in his assessment of trash talking. It's easy to blame MMA for this considering some of the things said during TUF or at the end of PPV's, however, it's been around awhile. Not just in the WWE either. Go to any high school athletic event and you'll see similar. Hang out during practices of the same high school athletics and you'll hear it even worse. It almost a given part of the adolescent psyche as it relates to competitive endeavors.

So glad they went with "Enter"!

It's not uncommon. Especially when you're talking about a small group of people who train together frequently. It's part of the reason it's good to reach out and train with others. Lots of it has to do the tools that each bring that one or more of the others have a harder time dealing with than the others. Some people have a hard time dealing with certain tactics, some people are good at these tactics and thus give them a hard time. The same person might not be as overall skilled, but the niche their skills fit can give someone a fit. It's the same reason that some fighters just has anthers number. They win more than they should because the skill set they bring fits into the chinks of the other's armor. The best way to deal with this is to use it as a training tool. See why the outcome in happening that way and move to work on those aspects of your game. Again, getting out and feeling different energies will help. This will give one a more well rounded approach to applying their game. This, in turn, will translate into a better performance.

Welcome aboard KF! Glad to have you.

today- 8, 2 min rounds on the mitts. First working slipping the jab, cross to each side. Add counter with jab, lead elbow. Move to slip both ways, jab, lead elbow, rear upper cut. Finish mitt series with the above drill, add a hook by the mitt holder; the response is then a double leg takedown. This uses the level change of the shot to protect from the hook. 4, 3 min rounds of light sparring. Worked good form and follow through with each strike. Drilled the slip live and focused on integrating other coverages with it. Worked on getting the double leg to flow off of strikes. Drilled 1/2 butterfly position. Covered sweep from there and triangle. 30 min free roll.

Increased strength is the obvious answer, and that's a benefit when utilized properly. There's also an element of power endurance that is highly beneficial. Overall, there is also just a general increase in athleticism that is a good thing that comes from training with weights.

Great question. Given what's out there, I'd have to say Living the Martial Way, but Forrest Morgan. You just have to rip out all his references to kata .

today- chest/tris 2 mile run

In the case of using deadly force to defend another or ones self, the circumstances that exist legally to allow you employ this level of force are typically in line with the bounds of moral obligation. If you're acting in a moral manner in these instances, you'll be within the boundaries of the law. A lot of discussion happens over the topic, and that's good that ma-ists are thinking over these lines. However, we do some times over think the issue. The law is pretty clear cut on these things. If anything, ones moral code might be more restrictive than the law. This is much more common than vice versa.

They are enjoyable, and usually a good experience.

Running is something that is done because it has to be. Not because it's ever fun. today- BJJ nite: Drilled on hip bump sweep using a gi hold. Worked it into series with a transition to triangle from the first movement being defended. Finished with a gi choke at the end of the string. Free roll for 45 min.

today- legs/shoulders 1 mile run

today- 1 mile run back/bis/forearms abs 10 min cool down on Boomer. Guard passes to side, focused on good crush on side after pass; elevated pass post double leg takedown as well.

Welcome aboard! I'd advise against doing anything that causes more trauma to the toe, personally. It's not a matter of conditioning a healthy body part, it's a matter of dealing with a legitimate previous injury. You'd probably be better served by working to adapt around the injury with your kicks. Glad you found a friend who has the credentials to bring you along on your journey. Good luck.

today- Physical Fitness testing at the Dept.: 1.5 mile run bench flexability sit ups went real well.

today- BJJ nite: Drilled takedowns. Double leg and double leg to trip. Finished off takedown with elevated pass to side mount. Drilled round robin for 25 min on holding and escaping side mount. Free roll for 20 min. Spent a lot of time passing guard tonight and working newer material into my game.

I've always used it as a stomping motion alone, no matter where it was targeted or at what height. To me, the side kick is a stomping motion. To this, most of mine are low.

Welcome back to the boards, wish it was under better circumstances. Good luck and looking forward to hearing from you.

Yeah, it sounds like the area you're looking at is about optimal. Maybe a bit lower, but wherever you can get a feel for his movements with your peripheral vision. If you look central, you can pick up the movements of the rest of his body, specifically his elbows and knees, which will tell the movements of his hands and feet with a non-centralized vision. This peripheral vision is quicker to perceive and react to movement than hard focusing. Thus, your response time is better. Stay away from the eyes in my opinion. bushido man is right, it will narrow your vision and almost force you into tunnel vision. It's hard enough to battle this while in the thick of it, no use making it harder. There's also a psychological component to staying off the eyes. It keeps the fight at a professional level. In other words, you tend to think of the attacker as a set of targets rather than a person you're tearing up. This makes it easier to deploy your arsenal during combat. Just my thoughts on the matter. It always a debated issue and one that's important enough to bring up again from time to time.

Great point, once you make body contact a general feel of what the opponent is doing is a better indicator than sight. It's important to grappling sure, but also to people engaged in a trapping range and the clinch as well. To the previous post, I see what you're saying. But to me, it's not about anger or peace, it's about winning the conflict; confronting violence and prevailing to go home as unscathed as possible. I'll let larger social commentators worry about peace. Any peace I had with this individual was breached by his assault. Now, we're into conflict resolution mode. If it's come to the deployment of my skills, we're beyond negotiation. Win fast, and hard. It's not anger, just my desire to go home at the end of the fight, that's all.

today- 6, 2 min rounds of mitt work. Start with jab coverage and counter jab, add cross, work a defense for low hooks after jab cross. Move on to mitt holder shoots double leg, counter with sprawl and choke. Drilled guard pass sequence. Double unders, over under, collapsing the legs. 40 min of free roll, 3 min rounds.

The reason I don't focus on the eyes is that they aren't going to hurt me. You might catch a telegraph, but then again maybe not. You're much more likely to intercept an attack based on seeing the movement of the limb actually attacking. Peripheral vision will pick this up faster and react quicker than a solid stare will. That's why I don't focus anywhere specific. Looking at the eyes makes it too easy to tunnel vision on one, relatively unimportant, aspect of an opponent. It can draw you in away from the rest of the conflict. Avoiding eye contact also keeps it less personal, it's not a person you're fighting, it's another set of targets to destroy. That's the mind set best suited, in my opinion, to winning a conflict. Keeping that distinction is easier if you simply read targets out of the corner of your eyes. Hope that explains my stance on it at bit better.

today- 2.5 mile run chest/tris

It's a kids class, rules are different for kids classes. I don't see a problem with what was done at all. Personally, I don't have any experience with special needs kids. In fact, I have minimal time teaching kids, that alone is a special skill. But we hold them to different standards in the area of performance and knowledge, there's no reason that different sets of disciplinary rules shouldn't apply as well. Just my thoughts.

On the flip side, contracts are fairly common these days in any commercial institutions, even good ones. It's more the norm than not. Think about it, there's such a huge turnover rate in ma's, any ma's, that locking people in to a year is just a good idea. It keeps them around and maybe salvages a career in the ma's because they don't want to waste the money. I haven't been at a good place, even to train as a guest, where there wasn't a method in place to break the contract in good standing for medical reasons, unforeseen events, ect. If everything else looks good, I wouldn't let the presence of a contract be the factor that holds you up.