Originally Posted by
David Jamieson
put down the matt thornton book and back away.
exactly how would a bag drill be trained "dead"?
Mitts? pads? How would one go about being dead on these?
No offense guy, but the whole idea of "alive" training is marketing bs.
there is no such thing as alive training. you are either trainingf or you are not.
I train kungfu, i work a heavy bag, thai pads, mitts, sparring, drills, etc.
there is nothing dead about my workout.
There are a lot of people out there who are willing to openly accept blanket statements about places that don't actually exist. these statements are used to prop up training marketed by otehr dudes who wrap a whole new mystic around their brand of pizza.
In training these days, more often tahn not, what is old becomes new again. caveman workouts, nutrition, kettel bells, functional strength work...this is all going BACKWARDS in time to find answers to training scenarios that were destroyed by marketing crap combined with an increasing fat and stupid population who refuse to believe that hard work is what is required to be in and maintain optimal phyicality.
It's easy to sell "alive" to people who have been trained poorly ro who have never trained and can't wrap tehir head around teh effort it takes to become proficient at kungfu.
The schoolboy mentality and errors in thinking around what fighting is is astounding!
But regurgitating other peoples marketing ideas that aren't anything new and pronouncing them as profound and as something that is superior to methods of training that are as old as dirt. Well that's naive.
There is nothing new. Not in mma, not in tma. It's all old. we've been punching each other in the face since the beginning of time.