Wolfman08

No, I wish, but the race's website specifically prohibits that. Awesome, thanks. I just hope there isn't snow on the bleachers. I know.

Is the name of a local race up the tallest building in the city that I'm thinking about doing. It's in about 3 months and I was hoping for some workout advice. Doing stair master is the obvious answer, and I'm going to be doing that, but if that's a major thing I'm doing for three months I'll probably go insane. I was also thinking about doing sets of Lunges/Step Ups with maybe 60 pounds, but I was hoping some folks here could give me some input. And it'll be too cold to go running outside here soon, so there's that. The race is up 40 stories, 870 steps, and goes 633 feet into the sky, if you needed to ask.

Wha... How? Are they just a bunch of kolas mashing buttons or something? How much practice is required to rise that level of incompetence? Insults directed at that company aside, no big deal. It happens that a website hosting company will occasionally delete the forum wholesale. Or, something.

2 minute continuous sparring against a Xing Yi guy cross training in some other style of Kung Fu. At the opening of the match I tried to figure out his defenses from his stance/guard. After that I only remember thinking to myself "Why am I attacking? this is a bad idea, why am I doing this? Why did I just throw a kick, why am I on the ground all of a sudden?" I was slaughtered, and didn't remember anything I did, or why I even did anything in that match. I felt like I had no control over my own actions It still gives me nightmares.

If there's no control, the study is not academically valid. The whole findings of the study could be the result of a series of dumb luck. Maybe the reason why the guy who went down first tended to lose is because his opponent had 50 lbs and a BJJ black belt on him.

MMA Fights are the only way you can control for differences in weight, height, strength, experience, etc. For an academic study of this nature to be published, you would need to control numerous factors, which you cannot do if you use Youtube fights.

Go running. Every so often stop and do push ups, sit ups, hello dollies, etc. You could stop at a certain distance, or whenever a red car passes, or what have you

The study was focusing on the assumption of unskilled fighters, so in that context, it's not a terrible sample. I would still significantly prefer something else, but it is acceptable for a non-academic study. I'd also say that for control purposes, MMA fights would probably work.

You could include things like changing your attack focus. Things like only hitting with your hands, or only with your elbows. Fight with the opposite lead you normally use or a different stance or different guard. More aggressive, less aggressive. Focus on using only your lead hand, only your back hand. Use one or strikes heavily. Close one eye, close both eyes. Focus on a specific target (only head shots, only shots to the ribs). Rooted (don't use any footwork), bounce on your toes. Don't use any blocks, just use evasion. There's a lot of ways to develop this.

OK, so it took me a few minutes of repetition to remember what I was taught about how to do this. This may not help you since you may have already been told this, or this might just be the Cuong Nhu way to do this movement, but it might get the wheels turning, if nothing else. So, you're in your forward stance with your arms forward (in Cuong Nhu it's a low spearhand and a high tiger mouth strike, I'm not positive if this is the case with Shotokan). To start, slowly turn your upper body, slowly transitioning to the load for the next movement. Keep both of your feet on the ground while you turn until your upper body is facing your 6 o'clock. Right now, you should be facing your 6, in a modified forward stance with your feet in line, and your hands in the load for the next strike. Now, hop. Your (current) back leg is going to land slightly in front of your (current) front leg. This basically makes the whole movement a sort of 180 degree turn while advancing towards the rear of the room.

Personally, getting kicked hard encourages me to grab. If I can grab your kick, I neutralize that attack, and I can move closer to you, reducing your ability to kick in the first place. Better option. Third option: shift your torso such that you're squared up to your opponent (that is to say, both of your shoulders are facing him/her). Then, commit all of your weight forward towards the grabbed leg. You'll break the grab and be pretty close to your opponent, which can catch them off guard.

Well, here's the thing: a good personal trainer will go to you and adapt to your goals and any injuries you might have or develop, P90X cannot. Further, P90X costs a $140 (including shipping). If you knew a good personal trainer, they might be willing to develop a workout system you can do in your living room with what you have available to you for $50-60. And I'd surprised if KF didn't have more than one certified personal trainer.

No one is going to care.

I'm tempted to read this to my intro to lit class.

P90X is massively overpriced. You could get the same basic workout by talking to basically any personal trainer. The only thing P90X has over anything else is it's marketing.