SevenStar

I personally prefer the old school way. The body's primary energy source is the carb while you are exercising. next is fat, then protein. (while resting, 70 % of the atp production comes from fats, so the order is fats, carbs, protein) you are increasing your secondary source, but completely cutting the primary... Also, I've known people who stopped their carb-free lifestyles. Guess what happened? They gained the weight back.

It will always be that way. The body's bones respond to impact and weight bearing - that's why weight bearing/impact exercises are recommended for people to do - it builds up the bones. The bones respond to the stimulus by fortifying themselves - they become more dense. The "big * bump" you see is calcium - deposits made by the hand in response to a stimulus or damage it had - if the people in question have ever broken bones in their hand, that's one reason the bump may be there.. the bone may have enver been reset, and what you see are the calcium deposits from the body repairing itself.

I've actually asked Royce a little about it. He says it's mainly to aid in digestion... that was the primary purpose. The combinations of food in the gracie diet make digestion easier for the body. It was actually developed by a guy who was a student of the gracies, and not the gracies themselves. IMO, this and other macrobiotic diets are WAY too complicated. I'm sure they provide benefit, but dayum...

right now, I've only done amateur stuff. but I may be doing a pro mma fight (FFC) sometime next year - maybe next summer, and also some semi pro boxing.

I'm not quite as ancient as lucky - I'm 27. rock, what are your MA goals?

IMO, burpees aren't that bad. before the term burpees was coined, we called them squat thrusts. I'd rather do those than run any day.

groin kicks aren't always that effective in an altercation though... I've taken them and not felt them until after the fight, once the adrenaline stopped. I know others that have done the same. Also, to an throw jabs and rights froma boxing stance, which isn't exactly square. With chin down and arms coming out straight, the neck may be hard to hit...

A KO is is generally caused by trauma to the brain - the head is shook violently, the brain impacts the skull and you go night-night.

coincidentally, this topic came up last week in another forum I post on - It was a thread about how we got started in MA. I'll just copy and paste my reply: I guess I'll put mine up here...When I was about six, I was watching kung fu theater (can't remember which movie) and I saw a guy kick down a door - I wanted to be able to do it too. It looked soooo easy. I knew I could do it. So, I went into the bathroom, locked the door and did a flying side kick (well, a sloppy attempt at one) at the door - it was still standing. I kicked the door repeatedly trying to knock it down. Eventually, my mother heard the noise, woke up and rushed to the door. She told me to unlock it, but I refused - I wasn't coming out until I kicked it down. She ended up having to pick the lock - then she took a belt to my * for not doing what she told me to do. A few weeks later, we got a new kid in my class - carlos. he was a bully. I was his victim. he beat me up a few times, so my parents bought me the upside down speed bag on a particle board stand and my dad started teaching me how to box. Carlos tried to mess with me sometime later, and I beat him up easily. I then took his shoe off and threw it in a nearby kerosene heater - he never messed with me again. After the incident, my parents decided I needed to channel my energy somehow, and gave me the choice of either karate or gymnastics, since both were close. I chose karate. The school was chuck norris' karate studio... I looked them up on the web recently - my sensei from all those years ago is still teaching there. Anyway, I trained regularly up until blue belt, then I got burned out with it and quit...worst mistake I ever made. Even though I had quit, I was getting plenty of practice - I was the "bully killer" at my school - if a friend was being picked on, they told me, and I'd beat up whomever was picking on them. That went on until 7th grade, when we left va beach. My seventh grade year, I was the new kid in school and the city - naturally, I was the one to pick on. I ended up fighting a guy in the gym. His friend tried to jump in, so another kid in class jumped in and helped me out. We ended up becoming friends and worked out together. I met a few other guys into martial arts as well - one was training in tkd, one was training in snakefist from an old guy in his neighborhood, and another trained kendo and sai. We trained together up through 9th grade, when I transferred schools. I'll skip over high school - I played football and ran track, but that was it. I wanted to wrestle, but my mother was against it - she saw a report on 20/20 about an insurance company that went out of business without telling anyone. One of their clients was a kid who wrestled on his school's team. He got his neck broken and the insurance company wouldn't cover the claim - that story scared my mom sh!tless, and dad didn't want to override her decision. Alot of the guys that played football were on the wrestling team though, and the coach lived around the corner from me - he used to let me work out with the wrestling team when I had time. My first year in college, I took karate for an easy PE credit. through that class I met my next teacher - yuichi kurokawa. He was friends with the guy teaching the class and was the instructor of a martial arts club that was on campus. yuichi was raised in kumamoto, japan - I've never heard him name the style he trained in - he merely calls it "traditional japanese karate" but he is one of the fastest fighters I've ever met, and had amazing power for his size, so I never questioned him. Training with him was awesome. It was all drills and fighting. He knew shotokan kata and several kata from other styles, so he would help me when I was learning kata in the karate class I was taking. However, the only two forms he taught were sanchin and taikyoku shodan. He liked taikyoku shodan for enforcing basics. Other than those two forms, it was all drills and fighting. On fridays, a judo brown belt came in and taught grappling. It was during my time in this club that I fought a challenge match - some marine ***** came in talking about how great he was. I got picked to fight him. I beat him, but afterward, he checked his face for bruises then started kissing himself in the mirror...go figure. He never showed back up. I wish he woulda though - the ***** BIT me during the match. I also competed in several point and forms tournies during this time. I would win in forms, but usually took second or 3rd in sparring because I would get penalized for excessive contact. With yuichi, we sparred hard, and that's what we were used to. in 1996, yuichi ended the club, because he was traveling back and forth to japan. I continued to train with him when he came in town, but wanted a place to train regularly. This is when I found a thai boxing school in the city. They taught muay thai, jun fan, taiji, wing chun and kali. I trained in muay thai, jun fan and kali. I did that for about two years - this is where I had my first two ring fights. At this time, there was no sanction in the city. The matches were held by a local instructor (coincidentally, it was the same guy I took the class from at the university) I won both fights. my head gassed up, and I invited pretty much everyone I knew to my third fight - by the time this fight happened, we actually had a sanctioning body - I got my * handed to me... In front of everyone I knew. to this day, a few fo my friends still rib me about it. Not too long after that, the thai school went out of business. this was 1998. I needed a place to train, and found a longfist school not far from where the thai school was. I had always had an interest in kung fu, so I trained there. I loved it at first, but it eventually grew old to me. I thought there was too much of a focus on forms. We only competed in point and forms tournies. In one particular tourney, I hit a guy and knocked him down...excessive contact... point taken away. I ended up getting beat by a guy who jumped in the air and hit me ON TOP OF MY HEAD with a backfist. I was like wtf? because if that were real, that technique would not have helped him. It was at that point that I decided to stop competing in both point and forms tournies. We did continuous sparring and grappling at the school, but not as much as I would've liked. I ended up running into some shuai chiao guys (but they were 8 hours away from me) so they recommended that I work the SC things they taught me and in the mean time took up judo, as it seemed like the style in my area that would help with SC the most. So, after four years I left the longfist school and started judo. I decided to go the extra mile and started bjj as well. The judo coach at one school was a three time national champ. The coach at the other was like 3rd in the world at some point. The other has competed at the world games - they were all very competitive. I loved it. My first shiai was the state championships and I took 2nd in my division. I've entered several shiai since then. A short itme after, a thai boxing coach began teaching at the judo/bjj school, and I began training it again as well. This is where I am now. I've been fighting and entering shiai, and plan on making an mma debut this year, probably in the ffc.

I don't know that book, but wong kiew kit is indeed legit.

I agree on running. I need wind for the ring, so I do it but running is the absolute bane of my existence. If I were superman, running would be my kryptonite!

Lucky's regimen is similar to mine. There are some differences though - I don't do weight training on my neck - all of my neck development comes from neck wrestling. I do several rounds of clinch drills. I cut out hard sparring about 7 days out, not 5. lucky didn't mention running - I try to run about 3 miles three days a week. I should be doing longer distances - about 5 miles - but I'll worry about that later. As far as weights go, I'm all about them. For legs, I do squats - nothing else. (well, deads, but I'll address them later) Squats IMO are tops for leg strength. The rest of my leg training comes through bodyweight exercises - pistols, squats, calf work and jump squats. The only weight bearing chest exercise I do is the flat bench press. I don't worry with *IMO* unnecessary exercises like inclines, declines and flyes. The rest is pushups. My armwork is minimal - one day a week, and I do barbell curls and tricep pressdowns. for shoulders - military press. For my back and pretty much every other muscle in my body, I do deadlifts. Those six exercises comprise pretty much my whole weight training regimen. Recently, I checked out pavel tsatsouline's routines and have been doing a few other movements, like cleans, snatches and swings. lucky is right on with diet, but I tend to go with 2g or protein per pound of bodyweight. I won't give any diet advice though, as you are only 15.

yeah, for overall skill development, you'd be better off with a double end.

there's more to it than that, though. If there wasn't, then there would be no need for weight classes.

that's cool - imo though, you should still do head level uppercuts, as they aren't quite the same as an uppercut to the body.

I didn't realize they had a site until just now. This is the guy: http://www.memphiskendo.org/html/instructor.html

lol, yeah it sounds like *. anyway, check these guys out: SWKIF New Orleans Kendo Club Tulane University Reily Center Th 8:00-10:00pm Su 8:30-10:00am Contact: Frank Anselmo (504)488-6341 maybe they teach iaido as well.

why only to people who take kung fu? The non CMA guys have pretty much the same techniques you do...

Assuming you are doing the technique right. you may be doing nothing more than training bad habits into yourself. Even in the case that you are doing it right, you still won't be as powerful, necessarily, as the person not in seclusion has other training aids, such as weight training. I think the whole "solo training in the mountains" thing is nothing more than a MA fantasy propogated over the years - it's nostalgic. I'd love to test the theory though. If scottnshelly decides to do it, I REALLY want to meet him before he goes. We will compare (as best we can) how strong our techniques are. After he returns, we will compare again.

not necessarily...Actually, the opposite is usually true. We tend to be strong, but not have as much stamina, unless we do plenty of cardio. We do hit like tanks, however. that applies to big guys in general, not just chubby guys. And MANY people, regardless of size are affected by pressure points differently. That's why I don't like the idea of focusing on them for self defense training... how are you training bone breaks? As for wearing them down, that's a valid strategy in the ring, but sucks for the street. you want to end it ASAP - before any other factors can come into play. size matters. but, skill matters too. It's hard to give a definitive strategy because all people fight differently, so what works on one big guy may not work on another. If you have a good, hard leg kick, use those to set up an entry. Big guys have a lot of weight, and if the weight is focused on one leg (i.e. while he's punching or getting ready to) a leg kick can be devastating.

I think your monday weight regimen is a little backwards... big biceps are pretty - I've got them too - but they will develop naturally when you do other exercises, specifically back and lat exercises. the biceps are pulling muscles and will work when you do pulling exercises. you are doing more bicep work than chest work - your pushing motions in grappling (since you are a judo guy somewhat) are aided by a strong chest. more chest work, less bicep work. Also, there is a lack of tricep work - that is fine, however, as tris will get worked to some extent while doing bench presses. If you are trying to get big arms (which it sounds like you are) you need to do two things 1. eat ALOT because it take calories to gain, and the arms are the hardest muscles on the body to increase the size of 2. tricep work. TRIcep - there are three muscles there, where the BIcep is only two... There is also a lack of leg work in your program - can you do front squats with weight? I noticed that one day per week you do 60 bodyweight squats. up those. do them at least twice a week, and do more than one set. you can also add jump squats and pistols there. These exercises give your legs explosive power. on tuesday, you are doing more back work than ANYTHING else in your regimen - why? As for the shrugs, I'd work them on shoulder day, personally. As for the martial part of your training, I mentioned this before in another thread - lose the solo technique practice. If you do decide to keep it, then work combinations DAILY. time yourself in three minute rounds and throw combinations, putting it all together. do this shadowboxing and also on the bag. Move around when you do it - train your footwork. hit the bag more than once a week. this is where most of your striking power will be developed.

yeah, I feel what you're saying. I think it's more the style than the person BECAUSE of the training methods. the training methods are key, as you said. styles like mt, bjj, kyokushin, boxing, etc. are known for having rigorous training methods. Other styles are more hit and miss - some of them may train hard, but not all of them do. Then, within those that don't you have a few people that train hard themselves... IMO, that should be changed. imaging the level of MA everywhere if all styles were known for hard training...

afaik, it's not verifiable that ANY jujutsu came had chinese influence. people say it did, but I don't think there's solid proof.

they can indeed shift weight fast. He's not gonna check the kick though. A thai boxer will, no doubt, but not a boxer - at least not from the outset. he'd eventually catch on, but hopefully you'll have his legs wobbly by then.

lol, calm down dude. I'm not trying to pick on you, just pointing out something. You haven't posted your workout though - what is it?