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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.

^ Or stash them away from you. Like at the corner store.

Something that might help with your running is to not use one monumental goal, but several small goals throughout the year every month or so. Let's say for example that I plan on being in a marathon next year (I do, by the way). If I focus all of my effort on that single goal, I'm probably going to burn out pretty fast or just get bored. Instead, I'm going to set several small goals throughout the next year. For example, my calender has circled next weekend for a 5 mile race. I can run 5 miles fairly easily, but it's something to keep me focused. There is a handful of similar races circles throughout the next year of different lengths and other conditions (including a race up a local skyscraper). It helps if you find your local running community (you can probably find it from a google search pretty easily), and you can probably get to know some people, and beating them in small races will help motivate you through the months Something else that could help is to divide up the way you work out by month (I'm about to describe periodization if you want to look up more, but also my own exercise program). My goal for the month of July might be to increase how quickly I get off the line to my running pace. So, I might divide my exercise week up like this: Monday: Series of 'burst' drills, where I go from a dead start, hit the start button on my watch, and time how long it takes me to get into my rhythm. Record and track over the month. Tuesday: Arms, Shoulders, Upperback Wednesday: Regular distance run Thursday: Abdominal, Oblique, Lower Back, Hips, etc Friday: Series of 'burst' drills Saturday: General Upper Body Sunday: Off I'll do that for a month, and then change up what I do on Monday and Friday, or maybe even just do distance runs, or just lift weights, or just use a bike, or change the terrain I'm running on (like going from running on side walks to beaches), or stopping at certain distances to do push ups on the side of the road, or so on. It helps keep your muscles from getting used to what they're doing and helps keep you from getting bored. Or you could cheat and get someone to go running with you. Also, record and track EVERYTHING. It gives you an amazing amount of motivitation to sit down and go look at how much you've improved over the months. All of that aside, I run (obviously), lift weights, and do some other crazy things

How would this be set up? Like one of use giving an introduction in our style to members, or what?

It also looks a bit like old school Western boxing. Big guard, little footwork, focus on power shots over wearing the opponent down.

Pretty sure I got it. Fundraiser doesn't mean charity, but I get your point. OK, donation box. OK....

So, we've established that it is possible to use MMA as a fundraiser, but does no one have ideas on how it could be done?

Right, but if there's already a venue, what could be do to make it more a source of revenue.

So, there's a bit of a story behind this question (if anyone wants to know I'll tell you, I just doubt anyone cares), but basically, does anyone know how I could use MMA as a fundraiser? There are local venues that I'm going to be contacting in a few days to see if we could coordinate through them, I'm just not sure how we could make an MMA event a fundraiser and wanted some suggestions before I sent any emails. Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is the wrong place.

What I was going to say. That's the value of toys like this. Sure, you can say "well, I hit the bag for 5 minutes longer than yesterday, so that's probably an improvement", or "Well, in my MMA fight today I cracked three ribs, that must mean I'm improving!" but a tool that lets you quantify those numbers can be good too. I read an article on a classical Iron man website (some blog, I don't remember) and it was speculating on why isotonics (lifting weights and body weight exercises like push ups) took off compared to isometrics (pressing your hands together as hard as you can). The Isometrics should have been hugely popular since the strongest man alive during the period when isotonics were becoming popular was Charles Atlas, who would routinely tour the country following other strong men, and do his own feats. And than theirs. Better than them. And he pretty much never lost competitions to anyone. And some of his feats of strength have only recently been matched or surpassed. Compared to Isotonics, which had few advocates, except for folks doing Indian Clubbells. So, why did Isotonics become popular according to the author? Well, you can actually measure progress. Doing a 5x5 with 60 lbs will work today, but in a month or two, it wont be enough. But a 10 second exercise today will produce basically the same amount of burn in a year if you're doing it right. It's really just a matter of being able to physically measure your progress.

(note to mods, I had no idea where this should go, but this seemed like the best choice, sorry if there is any inconvenience) So, this is something that has been (indirectly) brought up before around here: What makes for good media in the Martial Arts? A while ago a user posted a link to their youtube channel, and there was quite a bit of criticism about this and the other thing that the user was doing in there videos. A few other people have posted links to videos or articles they found interesting, and there is a current thread about good phone apps. But, what makes some aspect of martial media good? What makes for a watchable youtube video, a readable magazine article, a phone app, or what ever?