Disclaimer: This is the first part of a new installment on sparring. In this first post I'll outline the general idea and make an introduction. More specialized and practical posts will follow. Everything comes at a cost. This can be an increased risk of injury, unfavorable anatomical adaptation, or simply a missed opportunity of doing … Thoughts on Combat Training: Smarter Sparring Part I weiterlesen
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Thoughts on Training: Pressure Fighting Series
So over the course of the last weeks, I've been dealing with all kinds of counters to standard attacks in the classes I taught. Countering goes well beyond the defensive side of things, though. Even and especially pressure fighters need to be able to counter any potential counters (here, fighting becomes a game of chess, … Thoughts on Training: Pressure Fighting Series weiterlesen
Thoughts on S&C: Switching Gears
Today, after a gruelling marathon T & T* session, Chris and I hit the gym to finish our last [5/3/1] cycle for quite some time. Over the course of the last 9 weeks, we did three such cycles. Since our version of 5/3/1 is [quite a modification] of [the original program], we decided no skip … Thoughts on S&C: Switching Gears weiterlesen
Poland 2012, #1
So I've been here in Poland for two days now. Didn't yet have a chance to do any training whatsoever. So I compensated by eating lots of food, mostly sugar and fat. Great way to begin a deload week.Anyhow, today I met Jakob, chief instructor of the Ronin TeakwonDo group here in Warsaw [www.ronin.waw.pl]. Spent … Poland 2012, #1 weiterlesen
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