tallgeese

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Well, that makes more sense now that it did to me yeasterday. I'm not a big fan of throwing my fist into something hard for no reason.

Thanks bushi....and good point.

Yeah, but Halloween just gets us all on higher alert. With the increase of crimes and juvenile problems that start occurring this time of year we all start growing an extra set of eyes about this stuff. We also start putting up with less garbage from people and get less inclined to put up with excuses. Parents get called alot. I'd say wait until after the holiday to start the ninja antics.

The others are offering good advice. Relax and breath, that's real important. Moving past that, you can work all kinds of stuff cardio wise to help with the problem. Any kind of conditioning will help. Distance running, sprint training, cal, any regular thing that will elevate the heart rate and get you sweating is good. Even weight lifting is beneficial to improving your overall ma performance. As always, I will drop the suggestion of crossfit.com This website is dedicated to conditioning for functional performance. You do a lot of cardio via olympic lifts and body weight exercises. It's excellent for what we do and I can say it's improved my performance. Also, remember that doing the activity you are involved with is the best way to get better at it. So keep training, as much as you can. Try to set up training cycles on rounds. This keeps the intensity high and gives your system a break every few minutes to reboot. You can do just about anything this way...sparring, mitts, rolling, sd drills, you name it. Just keep moving.

today- 1 mile run 1 mile on the elliptical legs

You might try a follow up with an orthopedic doc too. They specialize in bones, muscles, and joints. They will have a better insight into the specific problem than a general practice guy. Also, they tend to focus on sports related methods of injury and hence, they usually work to return people quicker to their activity.

I think from a traditional standpoint, that's what striking a makawari is for. I'd suggest repeated use of focus mitts and a heavy bag to condition the hands to striking. Not a wavemaster kind of thing, but an honest to goodness canvas heavy bad. This will build your tolerance to striking very well. As cool as it is to pound on stuff, remember, you're in this for the long haul. And at some point in the future, you're going to want your hands to function for everyday things. So take care of them as you train. Wraps are important and proper coverage for significant bad work.

The transitions we're talking about means moving between standing and ground, the takedown game. It, in my mind, also means moving between different tactical tools given changing situations of combat. Single teachers or schools that have a well rounded program should be doing this already. If your studying at two different schools, you're going to have to lean towards whichever instructor is able to help you put the two or more together into a useful format.

Yeah, that's priceless. And I don't think the mma dude is an outstanding specimen either. That's what you get for buying your own press. There's probibly a lesson for us all here.

shorty today- 2 mile run

I'm going with the bogus vote here. Sorry, I just don't but into the jedi mind trick kind of stuff. I've been on the floor with guys who've done this sort of thing and there is something to the use of pressure points to maximiaze other combative movements, but on the whole I've been severly underwhelamed. I think it's all pretty hypothetical in a street-speed engagement anyway. Thinks just move too fast and too unpredicitably for such surgical percision regualarly. Many of these things operate on a string of nerve attacks that work together to affect the limb or body. I've had strings of up to three demostrated to me and I keep thinking...Three, I'm lucky if I have that much precision with one during an exchange against a live opponant. Still, there's somthing to the whole pressure point thing, but for the distance death thing - no way. I'll keep my skeptic hat on for this one.

Definalty don't expect the lunging punch as an actual attack. Short strikes are the way to go. They can be a good place to start training responses, but you should move away from them asap for sd training. If you get accustomed to reacting off of short, highly effefective striking, then anything that comes your way along the line of a highly telegraphed stepping punch or lunging pusch, or a giant round house hook for that matter, will be more easily countered by your training.

So very true .

Today- crossfit 20 mins continous of- 5 pull ups 10 push ups 15 squats back and bis

I'd like to say go ahead and be kids, but just be aware the others are right...you're going to get questioned about this. A bunch of people running around after dark in dark cloting with thier faces conceiled look a lot like a bunch of thugs trying ro break in to something or jump someone. And if you're packing around realistic facsimile weapons you're probibly going to get a gun pointed your way. Best bet is to confine this sort of thing to an area that everyone knows what you're doing. It's easier if you live in an area that has some rural-ness to it.

I've seen both, but don't use either so I won't try to postulate on the power outputs. Tiger probibly has a good point about power coming more eailsy to what you're accustomed to throwing. I do agree with bushido man on the blocking point. Anything that has to move that far to stop a punch in going to be ineffectual. Punches move to quickly and when thrown properly in combinaion it will make any sort of blocking with the legs useless. Hands cover the head, elbows and forearm cover the body, legs cover the legs and groin. It's the only scheme that reliably works across the board for combative situations as a standardized training scheme. Trying to practice this type of thing is really like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole in my opinion. It's taking away from time you could be training more effectual responses. Just my opinion.

I don't konw, I used to work in a high school enviornment and theyu work load th ey are asking these kids to do is obnoxious. It makes playing sports and having a parttime job nearly impossible. Scores aren't exxactly going up since the inclusion of all of this extra work. I think we should remember they're kids after all. By high school, there should be some amount of extra work granted. But way down at that level. It's crazy.

Today- crossfit 7 rounds for time of: 21 standing shoulder presses, 75 lbs. 21 back extensions chest/tris

It wouldn't be too far out of line. With the recent re-tools in Marvel, the Avengers ahve gone toe to toe with the Hulk on a couple of occassions. He's been associated with the team for years and yes, there has been some issues there. In Marvels animated Avengers film, which is based off the Ultimate run of the Avengers comic, the team throws down vs. the Hulk as part of the big finale. It's most excellent. There'd probibly be more plot outside the Hulk alone, but as a componant I could really see them going this way. I'm crossing my fingers that Cap and Thor are done as well as Iron Man so we can get rolling on the team movie.

On a less polished note, I've caught myself using this one during classes quite a bit lately... anything worth hitting is worth hitting hard

First off, integration is key to whatever it is that you are doing. Training both ground and stand up is good, but without a transtion game thru the clinch and takedown, as well as utalizing striking from the ground, it becomes less than fully effective. For a more sd aspect. You should also be training that which I list above as well as alternative methods of striking (eye gouges and such), small joint manip, and weapons. Again, transitions need to be trained, often thru spontaneous drills, to be fully effective. As for what one calls himself, it really dosen't matter to me. For my opinion, if you train in mma but haven't fought, then you train mma. If you've ever stepped into the ring, to comete under rules wich allow both standup and ground fighting as well as striking from the ground, in a full contact context, then you're had an mma fight. If you've done it multiple times, then you're an mma fighter. If you've done it and don't compete anymore (my case) then you used to fight mma. It' s probibly nit picking, but it just aleviates confusion about what you do. None of them are bad or less worthy of consideration by any stretch of the imagination.

I agree. And that fasle sense of security can get alot of people in trouble. One of the best things about the mma boom is that it's got people thinking about how they would deal with contact if they aren't from a contact oriented style. As to joe, Black belts shouldn't be carbon copies of one another. It's a good thing that you and you're friend fight differently. You each have differently physiologies and skills and more importantly, mindsets. Different is good, it means you're capatailzing on your traits.

Today, well, it's back to working out after a day and a half of construction. Got a wall knocked out of the basement and a couple of walles padded. It really helped get us some more room. As for the workout... 30 min of mitt work. 3 min rounds, 30 sec rest in between. Started with combos, continued building progression to closing distance with kicks to the combos. Counter shot after mits, followed by pushing off for distace and ending with a kick. 20 min of instructional phase. Work one group on attack series form the guard followed by serpentine arm bar. Other group on sweeps series, actaully got some reps in myself. Finished with 35 min of free roll. 3 min rounds, 30 sec rest. One bout to sit out after 3, then right back to it.

Not hating on you unknown, but I think part of that is probibly due to the large numbers of people who study TKD. Proportionally, they probibly have more people than any other two arts nation wide. Maybe some of the bigger karate confederations come close, I don't know. But anyone with any sort of organizational size will have a few slip thru. With TKD, there are just that many more involved.