IronFist
05-27-2002, 12:05 PM
How's your partner training coming on? Keep us informed!!
Thanks for asking. I've met up with my buddy twice now. I'm trying to get him accustomed to WC punching (he's done TKD for years). We've been doing single hand chi sao, lop sao drills, and each time we meet (twice a week for now) we concentrate on a few particular techniques. Yesterday we were doing pak sao and bong sao. I showed him pak da and bong sao lop da, and then we combined those into a drill using both of them. We went slowly at first, and worked up to pretty fast (but not full contact or anything). We're both cool with going fast and with power because we've both had MA experience for years when we were younger.
I figure in a month or so we can go on to double hand chi sao. We can do it now with no attacking or anything, but we suck so we're sticking to single hand.
Hopefully within the next month or so I can get some pics up (at least of myself) and you guys can see my form.
As for my solo training, that's going pretty well, too, but after working on WC with a partner I can see why everyone is all chi sao crazy. My solo MA training looks like this for now:
Warm up (not really, I believe in being ready to go at any time, which shouldn't require "warming up," a concept I got from Pavel).
Iron Bridge on two chairs for a while, adding a breath or two per day. I suck though, and I'm only up to like 40 or 50 seconds.
SLT 2 or 3 times in the beginning. I guess this could be called a warm up. I do it in front of a big mirror to check my form.
Wallbag training: I do 2 sets of 40 punches on each hand (so like, left, right, that's one, etc.). I'll add like 5 or 10 every couple of days until I get to like 2 sets of 50 or 100. How many do you think is good?
Technique training: In front of a mirror I'll work on stuff like stances, pak da, bong sao lop da, tan da, gan da. All the techniques I just mentioned in YJKYM, turning, and in a fighting stance. Then on the dummy (not by the mirror) I'll work on those techniques and whatever else I feel like doing. I have a tape with the dummy form but I don't like the tape so I probably won't learn from that one. I've also got a Paul Vunak JKD dummy tape which has some cool stuf in it which I can apply.
Periodically throughout my training I throw in stuff like one legged squats (because I feel guilty for taking time off from weight lifting). At the end, when my legs aren't sore, I do Hindu squats, but while my legs are somewhat powerful, they seriously lack endurance so I really suck at these (I get sore from not very many).
Oh yeah, also, air punching. I suck at this too, as I am only able to do 3 sets of 50 (each hand). Whatever, I'll get better in time.
Then just whatever else I feel like doing, one hand pushups, janda situps, ab wheel, other stuff.
Soon I'll resume lifting again. I wonder how much strength I've lost.
Did anyone read this whole thing? Haha. Well, that's an update on my progress. Comments welcome.
IronFist
Thanks for asking. I've met up with my buddy twice now. I'm trying to get him accustomed to WC punching (he's done TKD for years). We've been doing single hand chi sao, lop sao drills, and each time we meet (twice a week for now) we concentrate on a few particular techniques. Yesterday we were doing pak sao and bong sao. I showed him pak da and bong sao lop da, and then we combined those into a drill using both of them. We went slowly at first, and worked up to pretty fast (but not full contact or anything). We're both cool with going fast and with power because we've both had MA experience for years when we were younger.
I figure in a month or so we can go on to double hand chi sao. We can do it now with no attacking or anything, but we suck so we're sticking to single hand.
Hopefully within the next month or so I can get some pics up (at least of myself) and you guys can see my form.
As for my solo training, that's going pretty well, too, but after working on WC with a partner I can see why everyone is all chi sao crazy. My solo MA training looks like this for now:
Warm up (not really, I believe in being ready to go at any time, which shouldn't require "warming up," a concept I got from Pavel).
Iron Bridge on two chairs for a while, adding a breath or two per day. I suck though, and I'm only up to like 40 or 50 seconds.
SLT 2 or 3 times in the beginning. I guess this could be called a warm up. I do it in front of a big mirror to check my form.
Wallbag training: I do 2 sets of 40 punches on each hand (so like, left, right, that's one, etc.). I'll add like 5 or 10 every couple of days until I get to like 2 sets of 50 or 100. How many do you think is good?
Technique training: In front of a mirror I'll work on stuff like stances, pak da, bong sao lop da, tan da, gan da. All the techniques I just mentioned in YJKYM, turning, and in a fighting stance. Then on the dummy (not by the mirror) I'll work on those techniques and whatever else I feel like doing. I have a tape with the dummy form but I don't like the tape so I probably won't learn from that one. I've also got a Paul Vunak JKD dummy tape which has some cool stuf in it which I can apply.
Periodically throughout my training I throw in stuff like one legged squats (because I feel guilty for taking time off from weight lifting). At the end, when my legs aren't sore, I do Hindu squats, but while my legs are somewhat powerful, they seriously lack endurance so I really suck at these (I get sore from not very many).
Oh yeah, also, air punching. I suck at this too, as I am only able to do 3 sets of 50 (each hand). Whatever, I'll get better in time.
Then just whatever else I feel like doing, one hand pushups, janda situps, ab wheel, other stuff.
Soon I'll resume lifting again. I wonder how much strength I've lost.
Did anyone read this whole thing? Haha. Well, that's an update on my progress. Comments welcome.
IronFist