What's your training enviro like?
In your classes, do you guys have a relaxed environment or a structured one?
Can people show up throughout the class to join in or once class starts is that it?
Is it very physically demanding? Like could you use it almost as a weight loss program while you train ving tsun?
Do people warm up on their own or do it as a class?
Care to share any warm ups?
Are there certain areas that you guys emphasize more than others?
Do you guys have a school or train out of your basement or garage?
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Kinda the voyeur in me without looking :)
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I'll start.
Our classes have start and stop times but the stop times aren't set in stone. If you show up late, you do some push ups but nothing big. A lot of times our classes go past the 2 hour mark and people will train as long as one of the instructors are there that can lock up.
Our warm up varies on who does it, some of them are more demanding than others but if we really want to get into shape it's something that we'd have to do outside of class. Mind you I'm usually full of sweat so it's fine for me plus I'd rather spend most of my limited time training ving tsun than doing a workout. I'll do that on my own time.
We've got a school and like I've said before that's a real sacrafice on my Sifu's part because there have been too many times that he's paid out of his pocket to teach us.
I'm really interested in hearing some warm ups that you guys do because I'm getting my house at the end of the month and I'm gonna have a basement to workout in finally. I can't wait. Plus we're expecting a baby girl in March so my attendance to class will probably be truncated if not comletely stopped for the first little while :mad:
l8r,
J
Re: What's your training enviro like?
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Originally posted by Jeff Bussey
In your classes, do you guys have a relaxed environment or a structured one?
I think you mean relaxed or formal... our environment is relaxed, but the curriculum is structured.
Can people show up throughout the class to join in or once class starts is that it?
you may show up at any time, but if you miss the warm up, you warm up on your own before you join the class.
Is it very physically demanding? Like could you use it almost as a weight loss program while you train ving tsun?
it's very demanding. a lot of us step in the ring, so we train accordingly. We do have a guy that dropped from 230 to 195 in about 4 months.
Do people warm up on their own or do it as a class?
as a class
Care to share any warm ups?
skipping rope, shadow boxing, medicine ball drills, footwork drills, skip knees, etc.
Are there certain areas that you guys emphasize more than others?
does this pertain to skill set, or conditioning?
Do you guys have a school or train out of your basement or garage?
school. we've got it in sections - the upstairs area is the carpeted, typical dojo-type area which is where the capoeira and kenpo classes are held. In the basement is the gym - we have tatamis in a big room for judo, aikido, thai and bjj, and out side of that area we have several heavy bags and a full size boxing ring. We are working on putting some weights down there. It's a pretty cool set up - basically a bunch of MA sharing and teaching out of the same building.