Rob, I'm curious about your mma workouts. I'mn a life long martial artist, and I'm always looking for better ways to work solo. Are you working with a partner? Where are you getting your workouts? I mean ...you had me at elbow combos!
--Lonnie
P.S. Add to your reading list, if you haven't already: Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller. A must read for any body involved in martial arts.
Hey Lonnie, hope all is good with you. Yep, these days I've a small group of 4-5 folks I work out with a few times a week. Half the time we do pseudo Crossfit style stuff programmed by a friend who used to work at one of the boxes and the other half I'm introducing them to basic MMA stuff I've learned over the years. Not "getting" the workouts from anywhere, just putting them together on my own. Generally try to do something in each of the "ranges" - kickboxing/clinch/ground - mixed in with some general conditioning. Like the above workout was a couple rounds on the thai pads of jab-rt elbow, jab-cross-left elbow. Real simple stuff as I'm playing "instructor" so to speak. Showed some footwork for a basic judo hip toss and worked those body mechanics with bungee cords and partners, then some thai roundhouse kicks, again on the thai pads. Finished with some medicine ball ab work, laps and chinups. So that's the long answer to an easy question - no, not working solo. Though when I do solo work, one of the best tools I've found & used is the Bas Rutten MMA Workout. CD/DVD set that works combinations, I used it for shadowboxing & heavy bag work all the time. Good gear - http://www.basrutten.com/hex/dvds/mma-workout-cd-and-dvd.html And this was us messing around at one of the workouts last fall https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150973902230514.769960.846430513&type=3 Thanks for the book recommendation, much appreciated. Any more ?s, feel free to hit me here/email/etc...
Sorry, that last link was prob wrong, you can try this https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150973902230514.769960.846430513&type=3&l=90858eebf5
Thank for the recommendations. I have a background in Jujutsu and American Kenpo in formal training. In reality, I've been a bouncer and a bartender for years. I've broken up fights, been attacked, protected people from violence, and been targeted for retaliation when people take all that shit personal. There has always been a disconnect, like an itch I can't reach, in my mind between the arts and the experience. So I questioned the training I was getting like I would any other belief system. It was that book by Mr. Miller that put what I was thinking so beautifully.
You want to get a Martial Arts instructor scorn? Ask why. Why do you train one way, and then spar another way? Why do we do that drill when it has no real world benefit? My favorite ...why do I have to do 50 pushups as punishment for hitting you in the face, Sifu? I didn't go back. I didn't do the pushups either.
I train in the arts for protection when it really matters. I'm either fortunate or unfortunate enough to know what real violence looks and feels like.
That's a sidetrack. I saw elbow combo and loved the images in my mind. Shadowboxing is ok, but contact is way better.
Been lucky to deal with instructors quite the opposite, who encouraged questioning. But I've never really done "traditional" stuff. Boxing in college, JKD concepts in Hawaii, Judo and Daido Juku Karate in Japan, and a smattering of stuff picked up here and there... "If you want to learn how to fight, you must practice fighting against someone who is fighting back!" - Burton Richardson, one of the most gifted and generous coaches I've had the privilege of being taught by... shaped a lot of my approach to fighting and training.
Rob, I'm curious about your mma workouts. I'mn a life long martial artist, and I'm always looking for better ways to work solo. Are you working with a partner? Where are you getting your workouts? I mean ...you had me at elbow combos!
ReplyDelete--Lonnie
P.S. Add to your reading list, if you haven't already: Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller. A must read for any body involved in martial arts.
Hey Lonnie, hope all is good with you. Yep, these days I've a small group of 4-5 folks I work out with a few times a week. Half the time we do pseudo Crossfit style stuff programmed by a friend who used to work at one of the boxes and the other half I'm introducing them to basic MMA stuff I've learned over the years. Not "getting" the workouts from anywhere, just putting them together on my own. Generally try to do something in each of the "ranges" - kickboxing/clinch/ground - mixed in with some general conditioning. Like the above workout was a couple rounds on the thai pads of jab-rt elbow, jab-cross-left elbow. Real simple stuff as I'm playing "instructor" so to speak. Showed some footwork for a basic judo hip toss and worked those body mechanics with bungee cords and partners, then some thai roundhouse kicks, again on the thai pads. Finished with some medicine ball ab work, laps and chinups. So that's the long answer to an easy question - no, not working solo. Though when I do solo work, one of the best tools I've found & used is the Bas Rutten MMA Workout. CD/DVD set that works combinations, I used it for shadowboxing & heavy bag work all the time. Good gear - http://www.basrutten.com/hex/dvds/mma-workout-cd-and-dvd.html And this was us messing around at one of the workouts last fall https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150973902230514.769960.846430513&type=3 Thanks for the book recommendation, much appreciated. Any more ?s, feel free to hit me here/email/etc...
ReplyDeleteSorry, that last link was prob wrong, you can try this https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150973902230514.769960.846430513&type=3&l=90858eebf5
ReplyDeleteThank for the recommendations. I have a background in Jujutsu and American Kenpo in formal training. In reality, I've been a bouncer and a bartender for years. I've broken up fights, been attacked, protected people from violence, and been targeted for retaliation when people take all that shit personal. There has always been a disconnect, like an itch I can't reach, in my mind between the arts and the experience. So I questioned the training I was getting like I would any other belief system. It was that book by Mr. Miller that put what I was thinking so beautifully.
ReplyDeleteYou want to get a Martial Arts instructor scorn? Ask why. Why do you train one way, and then spar another way? Why do we do that drill when it has no real world benefit? My favorite ...why do I have to do 50 pushups as punishment for hitting you in the face, Sifu? I didn't go back. I didn't do the pushups either.
I train in the arts for protection when it really matters. I'm either fortunate or unfortunate enough to know what real violence looks and feels like.
That's a sidetrack. I saw elbow combo and loved the images in my mind. Shadowboxing is ok, but contact is way better.
Been lucky to deal with instructors quite the opposite, who encouraged questioning. But I've never really done "traditional" stuff. Boxing in college, JKD concepts in Hawaii, Judo and Daido Juku Karate in Japan, and a smattering of stuff picked up here and there... "If you want to learn how to fight, you must practice fighting against someone who is fighting back!" - Burton Richardson, one of the most gifted and generous coaches I've had the privilege of being taught by... shaped a lot of my approach to fighting and training.
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