bushido_man96

I think Pittsburg will take it, though. Warner has been a great story this season, but I think it ends in Tampa with a loss.

I had a classmate that used a stomp a lot. I just usually ignored it, but it worked for him from time to time.

I guess once you get used to making the transition, then it wouldn't be a big deal. Just practice.

In my experience, "take a break" has been equated to "never coming back." Too bad, really. That is a problem with society today, I think; we try to shelter everyone from failure.

I used to spend some time on it, but haven't much recently. I would do some hang clean and some power clean, and sometimes clean and jerk. I have done barbell and dumbell versions. I like the exercise, I just haven't done it in a while.

I agree with this kind of set up. If you want to work a technique, doing it this way will help you integrate the focus technique into the rest of your training. I think Maywether as an example is a bit skewed. This guy is a professional athlete and fighter, who would have spent upwards of 8 hours a day training, most likely 6 days a week. The typical Martial Arts practitioner doesn't have that kind of time to devote to training. On the flip side of that arguement, you could look at George Foreman's jab when he fought Michael Moore at age 40 something, and when he fought Ali or Frazier when he was younger. I wouldn't say that his jab was better, but he could still win the title.

I think the heirarchy makes sense. I wouldn't use the work "perfection," for the fact that we just can't be perfect. Like tallgeese mentions, the term "mastery" can be difficult to describe, as well. It comes in so many forms, that it is hard to discern at times. Ali was a master fighter. But he may not have been a master trainer. However, in relation to the approach that you use as an example, this may be alright; its just a matter of finding what it is you can master. However, there are different ways to come into this mastery. Presentation of techniques will usually follow a level of difficulty; simpler techniques before the tougher ones. Kind of like mathematics, though, the tougher techniques should build off of the simpler ones. For example, side kick, back leg side kick, spin side kick, jump side kick, etc. You probably shouldn't be doing a back leg side kick until you get your front leg side kick down, and on and on. However, I don't think that it is necessary to master the front leg side kick before moving up to the back leg side kick. I think that once you get to the understanding level, then you can begin to build on the skill learned, but you still continue to revisit the previous skill(s), in order to continue your improvement.

That's pretty cool; a celebrity drop in. Maybe he'll do a class with you guys sometime.

Contacting your lawyer is a good idea. However, I think a lot of people think that if they say "I'm not saying anything until I speak to my attorney" means that they get to go free. Not so. What happens then is the officer only has what he saw to go on, and what other witnesses, victims, or participants said or were caught doing. So, in the end, all involved may get arrested and charged. Then, you get a ticket, most likely with a court date on it (that's when your attorney gets to show up), and possibly a bond to post before leaving jail.

I don't know. I would like to take it to my DT buddy, and work it over that way, to see what I could (or couldn't) do with it. What one could do is after the deflection, move forward as deflecting, and then spike that elbow right into the attacker's centerline, to create some space, and jar them good. You could also look for available targets for that elbow spike, too. I think a downward trajectory palm strike might be something to consider, too. Again, seeing targets would help you decide.

Good point, Joe. There is a lot to be said about improving quality of life, and overall health and well-being are the two keys.

As far as the form goes, your technique is good. Now, you should work to make it faster. Speed brings power. This will make a good from, excellent. You know the techniques, now you need to make them pop. The sparring looked fairly controlled between the two of you. One thing I would mention is not to head hunt for the sake of head hunting. Punches to the body are good, too. I would also try to put a bit more zip on the sparring techniques, too. The board break techniques looked good, technically, too. Again, I would emphasize focusing on speed.

I see things differently from my instructor, as well. Its one of those things that actually keeps me going. I do what we do at class, but also try to make things my own way, too.

One thing that we do agree on, the training should be difficult. I think that one should get stronger doing the MAs.

It is interesting. The difficult part for me would be learning to counter and punch with my hands from that position.

It appears that we tend to view the terminology differently. For example, TKD is known for its kicking, especially high kicking, spin kicking, jump kicking, etc. Olympic TKD competition has allowed some of the fancier kicks to thrive in a competition-based environment. However, I don't believe them all to be practical in self-defense scenarios. There is a difference between efficient and effective. Something can be effective (jump 360 degree roundhouse kick to head, that makes contact), and something can be efficient (right cross to the jaw). But just because something is effective, doesn't mean that it is efficient.

That's a good one, too.

It looks like it has some nice choreography. It won't be short on cinematic embellishment, either.

I'm not saying that a black belt shouldn't be a very dedicated individual, or that he/she should be soft. I do think that they should be fairly fit, and be able to hold their own. I just think that there is a difference between training to fight, and training to survive. We also have to have an idea of what we are. Are we teaching fighting/self-defense techniques, or are we personal trainers? Should every Martial Arts school be doing the 300 training regimen? Some things, a person has to do in their own, I think.

1-17-09 15 mintues of stick work in the morning. 10 minutes with double, and 5 minutes on the single. The muscles were feeling pretty good from the week's workout.

Couldn't the soreness just be the result of the micro-tears in the muscle fibers? Tearing that stuff could just, you know, hurt.

Take it to a tailor, and see if they can repair it for you. Where I live, the dry cleaners also do tailoring and hemming, etc. I would try somewhere like that. Welcome to KF!

Fitness is very important, no matter who you are and what you do. Like you say, being at 100% of both would be preferable, but if I had to choose one if I had neither, I would probably want to start with the fitness.

I agree that great skill is developed. I have never disagreed with that idea. No, you really can't train every technique you know in each training session. But, you shouldn't have to, either. But, it is important to cover more than just one technique per session, in my mind. I think that it is important to work a technique, build the technique, and then work with applications with the technique. All the while, you work in those reps. You might not hit 10,000 within 3 months, but you will have a good idea of how to do it, and how to apply it.

I saw that. When I saw the time stamps, I didn't know if you saw mine yet or not. But yeah, we're pretty much on the same page there. The bottom line is, we all tend to see things differently, and we tend to have a preference for the way we see things. When others start to agree with us, they come along with us. Thus divisions, and thus, politics.