Groinstrike

That sucks, maybe put out a personal ad were you could get some training partners????

6/7 20 min takedown drills 30 min sidemount pressure drills/mount pressure drills 45 min freeroll 5 min in horsestance being beatin with a kendo sword.

6/6 Warmup consisting of takedown drills Drilled mount/sidemount pressure 45 min freeroll

4 days a week MMA/Bujin Bugei Jutsu(Modern Combative System)-Brown belt(2nd Kyu)

Tennis racket with the thin edge would hurt like crazy, lightweight and easily accesible. tried to find a appropriate Jim Cornette video to post, but they were all to offensive

Big Trouble in Little China Caddyshack Wayne's World Boondock Saints Only the Strong

Yes, gi until furthur notice!!!

Do not drink memory of technique into oblivion. Cause I want to train BJJ bad, like so bad. I'll do my best, picked up some awesome takedown drills and spider guard stuff.

This is totally normal, find some guys at your dojo, make sure you can trust their control, and ask them if they would like to pick up the intensity in sparring. That should give you the buzz your looking for.

6/3-6/4 Nice warmup in the form of a police physical aptitude test, great time on the mat with Tallgeese. Tons of good training and good times, feel like i picked up some good stuff in a really eye opening experience of true BJJ.

6/2 2 mile run Stick work left handed knife sparring and disarms gun disarms hyperextended elbow during gun disarms(Thanks Sensei)

6/1 stadium steps Sparring, focusing on trapping and clinch got hit in the face with a superman punch.

5/31 3 rounds boxing with local personal trainer 45 min takedown drills 30min freeroll from standing abs benchpress

I may have paraphrased that line from lee, he does say on pg. 208 of Tao of JKD that "IF people say Jeet Kune Do is different from "this" or "that", then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please dont fuss over it" What lee meant by this can be debated, i believe that he didn't want JKD to fall into the rigid structure of martial arts, he wanted JKD to encompass everything and the only "style" that should be attributed to it is the personal self expression of the martial artist.

I have a major problem with this concept. I will grant that Bruce Lee was a fantastic martial artist and the overall concept of JKD--that you should always be advancing your art and learning and building on what you know--is a good one, but this line is always thrown about in discussions about JKD. I hated it the moment I saw it quoted with Bruce Lee's name next to it and I've hated it every time someone has mentioned it since then. I don't want to derail the thread too much, but I will say that just because something doesn't work for you now doesn't mean you should "throw it away", and just because something does work for you now doesn't mean it will always work for you. I feel that the very statement of "throw away what doesn't work" is counter productive to the entire ideal of always working to advance your art and building on what you know. I believe what is meant by this, is not to necessarily discard anything that doesn't work for you right now. What i believe is meant by this is to be wary of techniques, stances, forms, etc. that do not directly contribute to your efficiency as a martial artist. Beware of techniques that have either become outdated or overly complicated. Just my opinion however.

Our instructors try to make it a point to intimitade during testing. Fear and intimidation are two tools that are used by martial artists to achieve their objectives(hit the other guy). THe sooner we learn to recognize these reactions to fear and doubt, the sooner we can learn to control them.

According to "The Tao of Jeet Kune Do" Bruce Lee says we as martial artists should strive to be without style and without form. This can be interpreted a number of ways. I believe that this means we should only belong to one style... the style of effectiveness. If a technique is not effective or can be made more effective, it should either be discarded or modified. IMHO we should all strive to be the most effective martial artist we can be. If you find Kata to be effective in self defense by all means practice kata, if full contact sparring is your thing, do that. The important thing is that the concepts and techniques that you are practicing in your kata or sparring are not full of "classical mess". As you can tell by my post our school is heavily influenced by Bruce Lee and the idea of Jeet Kune Do. Our system has changed quite a bit from its inception in 1993. We are always experimenting and changing techniques and if we find something clunky or unwieldy, we discard it. So what i guess im trying to say is, don't get caught up in "style". Learn what you wish, learn what works for you, throw away what doesn't. It unnerves me when people say that Jeet Kune Do is a style, JKD is an idea and a mindset. Mr. Lee himself said that if any of his ideas become outdated or unuseful, they should be discarded as well.

Slingshot guard? I am not familiar with that one.

That is one of the most awesome and out of control things ive ever seen.

5/30 1.5mile run 3rounds boxing Bench press

Everthing in moderation, even moderation.

TG, only working gi once every month has greatly impeaded by progress with it. Im hoping to start working with it more.

called up Bryan, we got a good roll in with Gi, wore me out.

5/27 60 min freeroll, focused mostly on grips and half guard 20 min boxing combinations

Its up in the self defense forum, under the gun disarm thread.