As a young man, judging by your picture in CST , I think you'd benefit from from your mentor, Coach Sonnon. From what I can read, which isn't everything he's written, Coach Sonnon has not made...
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As a young man, judging by your picture in CST , I think you'd benefit from from your mentor, Coach Sonnon. From what I can read, which isn't everything he's written, Coach Sonnon has not made...
Thanks for the info on certifications. My Sifu talks about lineage being important but the real deal is not who your teachers are but what you can do. I'm looking for certification just so I can get...
Hey Bao
Thanks for the reply.
Clubbells are cool but are oh so spendy. I have a pair and I think they are good for ballastic fullrange/wider range of mevements then are avaiable by DBs or BBs.
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Hi
When it comes to working my hands /forearms the old standby is arm grabs but I,ve been doing a couple of other exercises. I'm concentrating on finger joint strength, grip strenth, and forearm...
Still think at my level of ability that position is more important then speed. If I have position I'm less likely to fish when blocking,you know -try to block but miss or block too fast and miss....
Hey wong fei hung
I haven't seen lots of styles but I'd agree with what you say. Some seem close like wing chun, closer still like cimande or sera, and ****her away like Eagle Claw/Northern Shaolin...
William-never said being weak and slow was a good thing, so don't know how you infer that. Some people have too much imagination and not enough common sense.
Ironfist-as long as technique is good...
WELL SPEED IS IMPORTANT BUT POSITION CAN BEAT SUPERIOR SPEED. NOT FAST ENOUGH, THERE MAY BE A WAY TO DEAL WITH THAT. WHEN FIGHTTING CAN YOU CONTROL THE DISTANCE SO YOU CAN'T BE REACHED BY YOUR...
Lo han kuo or momodica grosvenori is from the Kuangtung and Kuangsi provinces, I think those are in the part of China that boreder Vietnam, Thailand, Burma. It has a sweet flavor neutral properety...
wrist strength
Besides pinch gripping plates-a 25lber for 5-7 on a preacher bench is my max-try strap curls. Get a thin rope, tie it around a plate, get a gripper, pinch it shut on the thin rope , and do curls....
The contentment one has
when he knows that he has enough, is abiding contentment indeed. Te-Tao Ching, Chapter 42
technique is not important. Technique is what makes martial arts different from each other and different from brawling.
I think superior position beats superior speed. Position makes one protected/covered/shielded and it's easier to respond to the movement of the opponents.
It's cool reading this stuff. Makes me realize how intellectual one can be. Last time I was hit with a punch (kick, elbow, knee, headbut,etc) it hurt. I'm not sure if they were strong or weak,...
I guess it's just the coyote/monkey/prankster in me that thought of that thread, knowing it would cause a lot of blah blah blah
Of course one needs strength, the more the merrier. Of course we get...
These might help:
Periodization Training For Sports by Tudor Bompa
Modern Trends In Strength Training by Charles Poliquin- this is great
Supertraining by Mel Siff
Articles by Ian King
Articles...
Thanks for the replies
I still think a "I will kill you and whatever happens to me doesn't matter" attitude in a fight, along with skill and softness are more imporatnt ingredients then strength....
As I've trudged the martial arts path I've found it personally fun to be able to do lots of fingertip pushups, 100 plus regular pushups, lots of pullups, dynamic tension exercises, 20 rep squats,...
Good luck in your studies. The whole acupuncture thing has blossomed, I have a buddy who trained with Dr. So at the New England School when the cost was less then 3 grand. So in 30 years most tuition...
check out a number of web sites on pencak silat to find at least some answers to some questions.
Portland has a bunch of good schools.
1)Bak Shaolin ying Jow pai at the VA. 2)Jook Lum Bamboo Temple S. Mantis in the China Town cultural center with Sifu Kao-also tai chi in the beginning3)Sifu...
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ALT is one of the markers for hepatocellular injury, the other two being AST and LDH. ALT can be high due to an acute problem such as recently acquiring Hep A , Hep B , or taking too much...
Acupuncture definately can make the pain of an acute migraine go from 10 to a 5 . Treatments between attacks will help you to feel the pain of migraines decrease from frequent to infrequent to...
The difference beween the moderator on the exercise forum and formerc is that on the exercise forum there is rarely if ever, as far as I have read, comments along the lines of prove this...
Instead of a moderator who focuses on prove this or that, why not find a moderator who is a practitioner of Chinese medicine, tui na, chi gung. Would not this make sense in a forum on Chinese...