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Andrew,

you alive?? the food poisoning wasnt that bad was it...

jon.

i'd say good luck with it, but honestly it doesnt jive with me now...

i spent my late teen years with a mix of straight edgers, pot-head and alkies, so ive seen all sides of it, and experimented...

Ok now its (nearly) 2008 looks like this blog thread is coming to a close...

I called this "Steppin up" as i wanted to up my level of training from 3x a week hobbyist to 5-6 days a week, sometimes...

hey dan,

cheers, hope you had a good xmas as well mate... too much coriander, it's a concentration thing, more coriander meant relatively less lemongrass, galangal, chilli etc in the paste...

Groundwork

Troubleshooting the Rubber guard + MMA tactics (LOL)
Spiders Web

Finished the whole book now... handy i got this blog so i can go count roughly how many hours its taken, we've been...

funny, i know the head instructor there. or i should say i knew him like maybe 6-7 years ago...

there's an SBG gym in manchester, i'd definitely go check that out

i think gloves can benefit the wing chun fighter in a ground and pound situation, or sorry, wing chun can benefit the gloved fighter, as you use forearm contact and elbow position to control limbs...

the best training i've done for every aspect of martial arts ability is combining functional drills/scenario sparring type training, with conditioning. we do circuits like 1 min mount escape, 1 min...

I've seen the dvd of the seminar, and i thought it was a bit was a bit ****.

well i guess one thing is it's not always either or... but you're right, the thing is to do some training and see how it makes *you* feel, or get a more objective measuring stick like competition or...

MMA

warm up
round of shadow
round of pummelling - taught to a newbie whos also an old friend :)

then we did a bunch of rounds of takedowns:
double leg
single leg
two more variations

Aaaah i just found they had the one i lost on there as well :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBFFJ1cVxcg

That one I did get on film and bits went into the hilight i put on here before... I was...

Someone found a clip of me on youtube :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yVgfrXLgc

This is the submission match from the last tournament I did where I choked the guy out, but the person with us...

Groundwork.

Did sweeps from Jiu-Claw

Things have been pretty crazy recently for whatever reason, so not much training going on...

1. Escrima

did about 5 mins of chi sao with someone before escrima started, aaah memories...

then, more hitting, trying to get cyclical motion on #2 strikes, not as easy as for #1. hit, hit,...

Led Zeppelin

yes, i was one of the 20,000 out of 2 million people who applied for tickets :D

the gig was awesome, not just some ageing rockers, they were at the peak of their game. best rock...

yeah i read this book. quite nice. got me interested in reading more about learning theory in psychology and made me take up chess again.

had me wondering just how tough his tai chi training...

internet forums like banging your head against a wall?? never :D

like i said... jewels among the dirt... no jewels this time :rolleyes:

fair enough :)

cool.

so, what did you make of it? i'm interested :)

no, i didnt.

please quote where i "just chose to believe the system version" ?

i didnt chose to believe the systema version, i dont even know or care what it is. i've read and forgotten a bunch...

er, no, you can't be serious? i dont believe anyone could be stupid enough to think the slo mo knife sparring etc they do is real or supposed to be real? correct me if i'm wrong bob10? i just assumed...

yeah well theres the typical martial arts history bull**** going on.

the shockability and softwork dvds are almost identical to what they do in systema. look at how sonnon strikes and how mik and...

have you met vlad in person?

scott sonnons stuff is more out of systema than sambo. he went to russia because of sambo and then discovered systema, although i think its a slightly different line to mikhail, vlad, etc.

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