xo-karate

Would you record coaches instructions or students drills? or both? What if you pick just one subject per class? I know that you'll "miss out" on lot, but one pointer might be enough? Have fun and save the material for later years:-)

http://www.dvreport.com/blogimage/xo-belt-1.jpg Link to an empty webpage - with no promotional intend. I toke the image and made the belt. My first stripe! (Or dan like my kids call it....) What ever...

congratulations Tallgeese 10/28 Gym 40 min circulating - no recovery.

10/26 short 3 km jog in snow... slippery and after work.

I've been looking for a tool to make a delay for playing a video. Idea is that camera films, but video is played ... say 60 second delay. You could do your kata... and go to the monitor and see 60 seconds with out playing around with buttons. (And glasses in my case.) I might have found a software called video4coach. Not quite what I was looking for but getting there. (It's a freeware.) Also idea is to set up a camera to film a rolling on mat so people could see how they look - what could have been done... and so on.

Yes - you are correct. (And we do not have stripes in our belts - so it's not official. And I'm doing it to my xo-belt - not karate or bjj belt.) xo is my crossover training belt... kind of all over training result that includes all training.

Giving stripes - ranks to my self, does not mean that I don't use instructors in my training. In my case I at the moment I do karate, bjj and some physical training like, gym, aerobic and home workouts. So instructors correct in classes, but my "program" would include all of my training - kind of xo like "crossover". I might be awarded ranks in BJJ or Karate, but stripes is my own personal thing. (In our bjj there is no stripes.) So it's more like doing a plan and completing the work and then awarding your self a stripe - not by time, but by doing what you planned. (What you plan is up to you. More you demand from your self, more awarding is the "stripe" - I guess?

BJJ is very much more unformal than Karate or Judo. At our gym, you don't bow entering the mat or leaving it. It's just handshake after workout session. Whole colour issue is just a way to feel important. Rules made to be exclusive.

10/25 Gjj garage day - a 90 min session with co-workers:-)

I've seen different kinds of ways to get a belt and I'm "ok" with different approaches as long as person getting the rank feels like earning it. BUT I'm not suggesting giving belts to your self - more like something intermediate. (This might not be suitable if your graduation speed is 3 - 6 months). If your graduation speed is in years, I'd could be a good idea to do smaller steps. I've designed a "stripe - system" for myself. I make a plan and if I can keep the plan, I'll award me a stripe. (OK - it's for my personal training belt, but it could be for anything - as long as your system does not have stripes in official ranks.) Any comments?

Has anyone used video as a tool for feedback in training?

One element in my new training program is to do 10 times Kiba dachi very low and keep the stance 10 seconds - and in future increase duration. (From some source - i think it was elastic steel - good duration could be like 4 minutes:-)

10/24 Home workout - just getting back to the routine. Little form Pinan Nidan:-) and heavy bag punches and kicks. Some kibadachi stance drills for legs and some chinups.

At older age I've started think of stances more as a physical exercise. I have to agree with the Bruce Lee comment on stances, if karateka is doing makiwara, heavy bag or sparring. (Practice will mold the stance to suitable for the person and his abilities. ) If you are doing only basic training and no contact sparring, you might not feel the feedback of a correct stance

10/15 gym 45 min (same routines as normally is 75 min, but instead of rest I undulated with lower and upper body reps.) Was also an aerobic workout ( or anaerobic..)

10/14 golf 18holes

10/11 Gracie garage - lesson 1 again. 10/13 golf 18 holes (I'm not getting up to speed on training this Autumn. Looked at crossfit, but it looks a little difficult to do with out a crossfit gym. - more rolling and heavy bag:-)

Not much You can do in that time.

What about Tai Chi vs MMA - or traditional trainers vs competitors? It could show on MBTI? Or like you said newbies in MA and over 10 years with a control group of newbie in say tennis and 10 years tennis players?

blacknebula, are you thinking of doing MBTI's and then following their involvement? It might take a while to see who stays with the "program". What's your plan?

10/9 Jogging from work to home 6 km in 2 min interval - walk / 130 bpm about 45 min.

Idea behind Gracie garage is that the "garage leader" is not an instructor. It's more an attempt to learn together. I do go to an official club to roll with an instructor - an I do suck. And I don't take any money from Gracie garage - it's free and instruction come from video tutorials. I can imaging many better solutions, but it's not happening. This is a very nice option. I get to roll and others get to learn something about BJJ. (They might even joint the same club, if it feels right for them - you never know.) So why do I think it's good to do Gracie University lessons. It teaches those small details that otherwise would be forgotten - and it's easy rolling. It let's me go to the gym next day to roll with tougher students. It's an ADD-ON - not a substitute for normal learning.

I have 4 daughters and I did teach them karate for a brief session - maybe one winter season. I think I was not ready for it:) Now I have a 4 year old granddaughter and I'm waiting to teach her - I'll use Gracies bullyproof program or it's ideas for games.

Idea for the group is that everyone has their own interest. Training and conditional methodology is a great one and could be research from many points of views. My interest is in learning motor skills online and how does the learner get the feedback to build a correct model ( idea of the movement). For the motor skill, I've selected GJJ. About training and conditioning - what would you be interested in? Hojo Undo - kind of what it has been? Or what it should be in state of modern knowledge? Or the variation of current state - comparing different styles?

I would like to second Jissen opinion. Maybe stating that online learning is faster I'd be careful. Faster - in some way yes, but maybe not better. I like to point out the part about having multiple partners. Online learning is just instruction. Practice is old fashion hard work. I am also worried about not having the instructors immediate feedback. It's always harder to unlearn wrong techniques than learn them correct the first time. (But can we get some other kind of feedback than instructors to help us learning - thats an other question.)