Alan Armstrong

Regarding Gymnasts eating meat, doesn't effect their flexibility if they started stretching out under professional supervisor since the age of five years old. If it is known that flexibility is an issue for a gymnast, then cutting down on products that are known to be causing high uric acid levels in the body (inflammatory foods) need to cut down on meat products temporarily and eat more leafy green food, to balance the PH level in the body, or to eat fruit and vegetable anti-inflammatory foods. Why is it that to detox the body, it is always plant based remedies and never with animals? Gymnastics is about performance, their muscles are there because of the sport they are in and not for how big they can make their muscles look. Being a Vegan isn't the same for all of them as many have very different ideas and views on the subject. Some Vegans only eat animals that died of natural causes or if the food came from a tree it must have fell first and not picked off. Other Vegans don't eat meat or fish but some belive fish is ok. Yes there are Vegan bodybuilders that say they don't eat meat, that a criticized by other Vegans for not being honest. To be a Vegetarian, Vegan or Meat-eater or a consciences objectors everyone makes their own mind up, what they think is best for them. Yes, flexibilities are also connected with a host of other factors such as, past traumas, inherited genes, stress levels, inflexible attitudes, holding on to anger and past resentments, accidents, age, overstraing muscles on a regular basis, inactivity, alcohol abuse, insufficient amounts of water consumption on a daily basis, unbalanced diet... Many nimals are injected with growth hormones and antibiotics, which is passed on down the food chain to humans. Plants are not immune either, due to pesticides. Fish with high levels of mercury. One day mankind will look like giants with eyes that glow in the dark.

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If Bruce Lee is the serious side of Chinese martial arts then Jackie Chan is the (other) comical side. This could be described as the Yin/Yang of Chinese martial art cinema.

Yes singularity6 you are right on the hiking and walking is meditative/mindful combining the deep breathing while consuming insects, one with nature.singularity6, Your rural hiking is actually one of the best ways to meditate. To truly meditate, it is better to abandon the process of trying. It is better to just sit by a riverbank and peacefully watch things pass by, the same with thoughts passing through your mind, this is meditation, the act of doing nothing, as everything naturally moves through time. Nature flows naturally, like water does, learning to flow naturally without judging or divisions, just be aware.

Boxing skills. Karate techniques. Ornamental Kung Fu. Extreme TKD tricks. I was brought up in the developing your skills age; learn the trade not the tricks. Times have changed, now learn the tricks of the trade, as opponents haven't learned how to stop what they don't recognize also the world is always on the lookout for the new or next best thing. It is if the world is spinning faster and everyone on it. Martial arts were developed slowly, over centuries, handed down from one generation to the next; why things have changed so fast. Could mixed martial arts eventually absorb and destroy all traditional martial arts? Perhaps in the future traditional martial arts will become like endangered species that will need to be listed and preserved?

What does strength mean to you. Those that build incredibly big muscles that can pick up heavy weights, may find it difficult to do a cart wheel or hand stand and those that do yoga can bend themselves incredible well, yet lack the strength to lift weights. Gymnasts and those that do calisthenics seem to build muscles through their movements using gravity as opposed to machines and mechanical devices. It is proven that vegetarians are more supple primarily due to their green vegetable diet where as the body builders consume red meat to build muscle are not as flexible. Both vegetarians and meat eaters use supplements to balance out the gaps in their diets. Where do you belive the beneficial balance is for martial artists when it comes to food and exercise? Attitudes to using weights has changed, it was once thought that to have too much muscle was counter productive for martial artists. We could thank Claude Van Damme for his part in changing the myth of big muscles reduces flexibility. Also to thank Emin Boztepe for breaking another myth, that big muscles reduces sensitively enhanced fighting techniques. Or Arnold Schwarzenegger breaking another myth that those with big muscles lack intelligence. More and more women have taken up the physical challenges that were mostly set aside for men; first with Yoga and now everything else... Women are proving to bust another myth, being considered as the weaker sex.

If you have the ambition to do it, then go for it; all the power to you.

Tone; not only what you say but how you say it. Attending a language conference, the speaker asked "How would you ask someone out for lunch" there were many polite, long drawn out replies to the question. I raised my hand, the main speaker pointed at me, I stood up and said "Hungary?" There was a genuine pause and a look back from the main speaker, of what do you mean. So I repeat the word again "Hungary?" Well then the penny dropped and the rest of the attendees caught on also. Tone and intonations together can get ideas across very quickly, without all of the verbal misuses. (As with Wing Chun efficiency; if it can be done with one move, then do it) At this language conferences I was just the driver and not a professor of English, just "hungry" from the long drive there. English professors similar to martial artists, it is possible to like the subject too much and draw things out than seeking for efficiency and effectiveness. There is beauty in simplicity in a pen or a boxing glove just depends who is holding or wearing it.

A potential new student should watch a class or two before any type of commitment. Then perhaps join in a class, to understand what will be expected. It might be too physically demanding, then a fitness class of some kind might be advisable before signing up. Everyone walking through the front doors of a dojo will have a different history; martial arts isn't for everyone.

I'm planning on getting a Yoga tan this summer!

From the overwhelming none response to this topic, then to assume creative intuitive stretching isn't widely used. While repeating regimented stretching is favored by most? Stretching intuitively doesn't mean stop everything for one hour, then stretch, then go about your business. Creative intuitive stretching can be done here, there and every where, wherever or whenever you want, one minute or moment at a time or all day if the urge to do so is there. For this methodology, the least amount of restrictive clothing the better, for many, this could be problematic, due to dress codes or uniforms. Intuitive creative strengthening by day and stretching by night might work better for you. Flexibility needs strength, two important components for all martial artists.

This also sounds similar to, keeping the sodiers fighting on the battle field or getting them back in to the war as soon as possible.

The nearest I know and have seen to make the whole body as a human weapon is in Muay Thai Boxing the furthest away being Tai Chi Chuan.

I would never have bothered looking in to professional therapy techniques or theories, or the nutritional effects of food, if not for hitting rock bottom and ended up in cardio rehab; eight years ago. The cardiac rehabilitation did put me back on track but realistically way better than ever. The technology regarding heart issues that saved my life, gave me a very up close look, knowing there are solutions to heal and ways to prevent health problems occuring and simple methods to enhance ones health, is reassuring to know.

Explained; as what is going on with your hip flexors.

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Not only look in to their eyes, strike them every time they blink.Eventually they will figure it out and not blink and if they do blink and you decide not stike they will get confused or start looking away. Now you know something more that intimidates them about then they know something about you, how intimidating you can be! This is wearing down the opponent on another level, usually due to demoralizing or imposing your will against theirs. Three views from Wing Chun3 Things YOU MUST DO to Face Fear & Intimidation in a Fight | BUILD CONFIDENCE! Street Fighting Psychology: WHY THIS KID LOST!!! 3 Body Language Cues for How to Fight and Win https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezjUQVFhZzM 3 Alpha HACKS That Make YOU Appear INVINCIBLE!

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At ten/eleven years old or there about, having long hair was very fashionable for a boy. Then out of nowhere a local bully at eighteen years of age, pulled me backwards to the ground. Staring up at him while on my back, I pulled my self up to only bounce my head back down sharply hitting the concrete floor, with the back of my head. I hadn't notice that he had one foot standing on my hair. Laying there completely helpless and in a type of shock. He eventually let me go, the experience was unforgettable, as it happened almost fifty years ago.

A healthy mind in a healthy body? A healthy body with a healthy mind is important also. Mind and body health. Being healthy fit but not using the brain. Or using the brain so much so that health suffers from the lack of physical activities. This is why as martial artists we cannot help but to look up to and admire Bruce Lee. Yes nutrition for muscles but also nutrition for the brain. Read for instance some of the books Bruce Lee read, such as Krishnamurti. Which books or authors do you suggest reading; that martial artist can develop from intellectually? (excluding MAist books) The body only does what the mind tells it to do, therefore intelligent fighters need to have the skills to fight, intelligently. Are you balanced physically and intellectually as a martial artist? WHEN PHYSICAL SKILL MEETS INTELIGENCE Watch Vasyl Lomachenko's weird & unusual boxing training methods Vasyl Lomachenko's "Super Human" Training | The Glitch in The Matrix Explained VASYL LOMACHENKO SHOWS FREAKISH ACCURACY WITH THIS COOL TENNIS BALL TECHNIQUE!

In extreme cases of loose skin, surgical removal is an option. Removing excess skin is also removing unnecessary weight. Look at this way, the more loose skin you have the more it tells you how much you have gained; less of one thing means more of another. It's the engine under the hood and not the body work that counts.

Keep up the good fight sensei8For me over training isn't intelligent training. Over training is over compensating due to insufficient training in the past. Food/fuel needs to be looked at and balanced with training. Food efficiency as in cutting out the unessentials is similar to martial arts philosophies. Yes unessential foods consumed for the enjoyment shouldn't be discarded or banished from the dining table forever; these are after all comfort foods. Just like friends that helped us out in the past so some foods should also be viewed this way; by keeping in contact but not letting them moving in to the house, by compromising your lifestyle. Invite new food friends to the dining table that enhance your values and goals; I know vegatables aren't very good company while watching a movie but seeds, certain nuts or dried fruit are still very far from suffering. Four fruits a day is recommend, these are better than anything found at a cinema food kiosk.

What is body sculpting to you. For me, it is training to balance my body to not only look fit body but to have a healthy body that looks proportional. Un-proportional for me, is to have any type of limbs that don't look like they fit the main body. An example could be any number of possibilities, one that comes to older looking men is to have a big belly with thin arms and legs; something I should look like for my age. I don't look un-proportional due to body sculpting exercises. As not looking top heavy or middle heavy or only looking lower developed. Today we have many choices to what we look like structurally. Too much of any one type doesn't appeal to me, thin, fat or muscular; I'm opting for normal overall proportions. Overall proportional muscles with agility, flexibility and a normal working cardiovascular system. As I'm not competing or looking to break any world records; just maintaining my human vehicle to keep it running and ticking over is a smart option for the older crowd. Super models and actresses know about body sculpting to maintain their on screen image for as long as possible. Body sculpting is an option, just for those that have never really given this subject any thought, then this is just an introduction for you. Do you give an consideration to body sculpting in your workouts? What body type do you consider best, for martial artists?