bushido_man96

Time to play catch-up again: 12/29/2011 Kicks on clapper pad: front and back leg rounds, rev/spinning hook kicks; around 5 reps of each, on each leg. Kicks in the air: side kicks and back kicks, using the wall for support, no set down between kicks, focusing on lock-out. A few sets of 5 each leg, each kick. 12/30/2011 Max Out Squat: warmup: 45x5, 135x5, 205x3, 225x2; work: 315x1, 325x1. I'm good with that, considering the work I've done on form this year. Overhead press: warmup: 45x5, 95x5, 115x3; work: 135x1, 145x1, 155x1, 165x1, 170x1. Felt good about 170 lbs, but after having my form reviewed, it was really a less than stellar performance. I'll go with it as a max effort, but am going to deload and work on form, to get it right. Some good news from my instructor: he is planning on doing some morning classes after the new year, a few times a week. This will be great for me, as my days off always change, as well as my shift. The classes will be around 5 people, but it will still be good to work out in a class room setting. Pretty excited about this; I just hope it sticks. 1/2/2012 Deffley A Squat: warmup: 45x5, 135x5, 205x3, 225x2; work: 265x3x5 Bench press: warmup: 45x5, 135x5, 155x3, 185x2; work: 230x3x5 Barbell rows: warmup: 95x5, 115x3, 135x2; work: 165x3x5 Stretch: standing/kneeling quads, toe touches.

I agree with tallgeese. As long as you take good care in your practice, it should be fine. I can't think of any reason why one couldn't practice Wrestling for as long as many others practice Eastern styles.

But action is always faster than reaction. That's what I don't like, even if I know how to counter a punch and use their momentum against them. Its hard to know what they might do.

Suplex is awesome. Best, throw, ever. I love a good suplex.

If your life is in jeapordy, then you should do what needs to be done to defend it. If you can run away, then great. If you have to fight, then you have to take what is presented in the chaos of combat. I see many responses like, "I'd break something." But these responses leave out the fact that the other guy is thinking something, too.

in a scale of 1-10 how hard woud it be for someone to give a head kick in the respective catagories -decent martial artist -good martial artist with very respectable kicks - extremely good athlete,lets say a bb in tkd(no mcdojo) very solid fighter, and i am not having ideiasIt appears here you are trying again to quantify something that can't really be quantified. You are also adding in so many variables between skill sets and athletic ability that makes it even harder to establish a base line. I guess one thing you could do is watch a myriad of fight footage, both street fights and professional fights of varying levels, and then do a statistical analysis of the kicks thrown, landed, and that cause knockouts. You could also figure the percentage of total techniques that kicks thrown are (depending on if you count knee strikes as kicks will affect the stats). What's important is training for the proper strategies and tactics, and fitting the proper techiques to them when necessary.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it sounds to me like you are trying to attach a "level" to someone in the same vein that role-playing games might do to characters. It really isn't the same thing, and it becomes tough to really quantify a "skill level," in my opinion. Skill level can be high, but experience can be low, and vice versa, so it really can get tough to try to quantify things like this.

Western stylistic tend to fizzled with age because they stop training as much, mainly because they stop competing. You see old man "eastern" stylists whoop on younger stylists because they aren't usually pro level athletes. You don't see 50 year old Boxers competing because the pro game is a younger man's sport. There are some fellows that train western styles forever, but most don't because their competition careers are over.

I'm not sold on it, but those strikes look real. I'm with MP, though; not my cup of tea. I've seen this before, where a professional NFL punter kicked one of the guys in the groin. Ouch.

I agree that its hard to quantify confidence. Someone can train and compete all their lives, but not have confidence in the chaotic environment of a street fight. Some people may not train in MA at all, and have great confidence in a fight. Everyone is different.

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12/27/2011 Max out Bench press: warmup: 45x5, 135x5, 155x3, 185x2; work: 225x1, 245x1, 275xf, 265x1, 270x1, 275xf. I good with 270. Barbell rows: warmup: 95x5, 115x5, 135x5; work: 175x1, 180x1, 185xf. Max is 180 12/28/2011 Max out Dead lift: warmup: 135x5, 225x5, 315x3; work: 400x1, 405x1,1; however, I was not able to reach lockout on either of max efforts, so I am going to try again next week, and see where I get. So hitting 400 by years end was probably pushing a bit much, but we'll see where I end up next week.

Pretty brief article there. But, I think his idea of breaking the techniques and tactics associated with them in early, and adding as they go along in rank, is a better alternative than avoiding them altogether at lower ranks.

And that's a good thing. I'm just thinking more along a worst-case-scenario line of thinking, in case you would need to escalate to a weapon.

Not a bad way to look at it here.

Being sore is not a bad thing. But, along with the soreness, recovery is important. Its also good to push yourself beyond your limits every now and then, and then come back to a more regular training level. Monitoring recovery time is a good way to decide when to go harder, and when to lighten it up a bit.

I agree here. When it comes to teaching techniques, I think keeping releases and whatnot fairly basic, and making sure to incorporate lots of striking into the releases. Lots and LOTS of striking. If you plan on having them use some kind of weapon, like car keys or something similar at hand, work on getting those things handy, or even get used to just carrying them when walking in parking lots and the like.

I think this would be the best way to go. Are you affiliated with an organization? If so, look to the headquarters for some advise, as well. Sorry for you loss, and I hope things work out for you.

A good alternative could be oral presentation, perhaps done in a demostration setting with a partner to demonstrate concepts and ideas.

It depends what you mean by rhythmic. Makes it v rhythmic IMO. I've never seen any other style do it (although Karate team kata comes close) but in ITF we have team patterns. Since sine wave dictates the pace, they look v rhythmic and you can almost match the moves to a metronome. I compete in both individual and team patterns and to get the pacing right for competition, I do actually keep a count in my head as it keeps the moves on the beat. Also allows you to do some pretty cool things when doing the pattern in a group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eos9sP0_KvU (but in team patterns sine wave gets over-emphasized and the movements slowed down to make sure the group looks identical) In terms of rhythm, all I described above was "normal motion". There is also "fast", "slow", "continuous" and "connecting" motions and when I explain these to beginners, I personally talk about fitting it to full-beats and half-beats. In all honesty, it'll probably be over-emphasized right through the colour belts because they'll want to see you using your legs. Then as you progress beyond, you'll learn to make the movement more concise. Its not all that bad anyway. Regardless of whether you really like it or not, there is a lot more to the style than the sine wave. You'll most likely have to do sine wave to grade but you'll get a lot more out of the style than just this funny movement. I should probably be more specific here. When I talk about a rhythm, I don't necessarily mean like a beat in music. I think of the differing rhythm throughout the form. Maybe rhythm is the wrong word. When I do forms, there are some sets of moves that combo together, and some that are more individual in nature. In the sine-wave forms I have seen, these combos are killed because each move becomes independent of the other moves. So I think more like a fight rhythm, where there are combos, then maybe some setup moves, then combos. That kind of idea.

Yep, I'm afraid of being hungry. So I'm that guy.

100% in agreement on all counts! Thanks, Motana. By training on ways to deploy your knife, you can become more comfortable with drawing it, and making accessible as a first reaction, should it need to be one. Just something to think about.

I would not want to try to learn without any kind of instruction at all. It would be very difficult. I don't think having vids and youtube should be the route only route to go, especially if instruction is available. I also feel that the more experience one has in Martial Arts already, then the more beneficial other media sources become. I'm playing the devil's advocate here, with a likley extreme scenario. However, I do think sometimes a scenario like that can pop up, perhaps that there isn't a school to learn from, but the school doesn't cover the skill set a student is really wanting to work with. In the end, I agree that having a teacher is better, by and large (as long as it isn't a bad one).

They are generally referred to as "Idori" techniques. This is my Daito-ryu instructors group performing it at an embu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBk9wK6fh44 Love the scenery there. Awesome place to train. They appear to be very comfortable moving that way. I'm sure it comes with some time, too. Thanks for sharing it.

Man, lost to the Raiders. As a Chief's fan, that's just the worst it can get. I mean no offense to Raider's fans; they know as well as I do what it means to lose to the other. The rivalry is so rich and deep, and means much to the old AFL. One more week. Hopefully, we go out on top, and Orton gets to take his parting shots at Tebow and the Broncos.