Pure fencing, yes if they have something they can use as a weapon. But otherwise a lot of the skills dont carry over. They'll be as good as any other in shape person their age. That said, about half the fencers i know also practice some form of martial art, and most of the remainders were interested in learning. And it absolutely makes it easier to teach ma
what i am saying has a little more subtlety to it. i didnt say people who ARE on a diet. what i meant, ill say it in different words this time is...look at what they eat. i may say i want to lose weight but if i go to Mcdonalds all the time, i dont REALLY want to lose weight. the same is true of martial arts. i have found most people are more interested in an activity where the effort is minimal and they are able to show up for work the next day and have all their friends and co workers believe they are a bad a$$ because they do karate. they want the image not the actual result from hard work.
But then being on a diet, is the same as signing up for an art, lots of people say they are going to do both, but attending is the same as actually going on a calorie control diet, plus you can eat at McDonald's a lot and still lose weight, so that doesn't make any sense at all.
Yeah, I'm often amazed by how hard it is to get some groups to follow directions when they first get together.
It's my understanding that this doesn't develop much strength beyond the point at which it's held. The muscles aren't trained to any other position if the arm and leg are stationary in the exercise. Is there something new I haven't caught up on?
I'd say a closer comparison (for my earlier point) is whether their diet supports the notion they want to lose weight. If someone starts a diet that has some evidence, history, or even hype of being useful for weight loss, they probably are trying to lose weight (unless there's another thing they use that diet for). If they are on the "dine out at night, wherever you want" diet, and aren't following any guideline that they believe to be useful for weight loss, it's unlikely they intend to lose weight.
While I haven't tried anything exactly like Jobo is describing I expect it's pretty effective for someone who has the grit to cope with the discomfort and enough body awareness to figure out how to use this technique to get a full body workout. I know from my own experience that timed static holds can be very effective at improving strength - no movement necessary - and I've seen nothing in the scientific literature to contradict this.
Not only are they extremely uncomfortable, but they’re extremely boring. People want to move. Mike Boyle said something along the lines of he’d love to have his clients plank for hours, but people would be bored out of their minds and quit immediately.
The problem is that you don't have ADD otherwise you would have noticed the little dots on the floor...oh look, there is a staple on the floor...I wonder how it got there ..someone could have stepped on it..I hate being in bare feet, I'm surprised I like karate because you go barefoot all the time....I really enjoy karate...hey look there are little dots on the floor, and there is a staple over there.
Now that you put it that way, maybe I do have ADD. Stuff like that goes through my head during times like those. Along with calling myself every swear word in the book because I want to stop the exercise.
) and (again based off of my experience) PPCT always seemed to breeze over the combative(s) portion so that the pressure point portion of the system could be over emphasized.
Yes your missing something, possibly from my description, isometric increase strength for about 15 degrees each side of the point of hold,but increase muscle size over the whole muscle, so you Then have the potential to be stronger at all angles, but that's not fundamentally what I'm trying to describe, I start with my arms tucked up close
This needs music, !!!!!
Holds are hard, that's because they are effective, but just doing holds is one dimentional, so an entire session of holds isn't possibly the best work out, isokinetic, Or yielding isometric,moves on thE other hand are both extremely effective and have movement,
Interesting approach, I like it! I didn't fully get what you were doing from your original post but this makes it clear. I may have to give this a try - I really like what I'm doing at present but I don't like the amount of equipment it requires.
I completely agree with this - I feel that for strength training, if you can perform an exercise for 90 seconds or more it's definitely time to increase the resistance, and even shorter duration/higher load may be called for in some instances.
Specifically, what makes MMA less than ideal outside of a ring when compared to classical Wing Chun? This is of particular interest to me as a long time WC guy that trains in MMA now.I feel that most systems offer something but ultimately it is up to how it is presented, practiced and how the student chooses to absorb it. If you teach it like it is simply a way to stay healthy and the combative/defensive aspect does not appear and even if it is, is it realistic? From the student perspective you can also have a student who is studying it just to study it and regardless of how it is presented they would not be likely to use it effectively as a form of defense. You can also have someone who can use tai chi in the park to wreak havoc.
I have had the opportunity to experience a wide variety of systems. Two that come off as less than stellar (to me) are Budo Taijutsu and PPCT. My X-Kan was always instructed as being "way to dangerous" to spar with (okay
So to reiterate I think Wing Chun is great and it can be a great combat system but there are a lot of factors that take into account beyond just the system. I think MMA is great but in a practical, outside the ring situation maybe no so much.
You're one of the ones I'd look to for an informed answer on this. I seem to remember reading about results of partial-motion exercises (doing only part of a bench press, for instance - the part that's easiest to do), and that it didn't produce strength across the full range of the exercise, as doing the full-range exercise would do. The article I remember was something preliminary - is there more complete information on that now?
If it's in your head, it's ADD. If you say it out loud, it's schizophrenia.
