Kembudo-Kai Kempoka
Senior Master
If we define "formative experience" for the sake of this conversation as a time you got unexpectedly tooled, what happened, and how -- if at all -- have you modified your approach to training because of it?
Example: There's a story of Bruce Lee getting dumped all over the Green Hornet set by Gene LaBelle. Rather than simply kvetch, BL took on the study of grappling and added it to JKD/JunFan.
Personally, I remember a brawl I got into as a bouncer in which, with excellent form (if I do say so myself), proper execution, and appropriate mechanics of motion, I laid into an aggresssor on counter-attack, hitting him many times as hard as I could, only to make him madder (side note...I weighed 180 slim at 6'4", he close to 300 & beefy). This was not the first time I had to use my skills in my job, but it was the first time they didn't drop the other guy. This gentleman was a salty old NCAA wrestler, Olympic Judo trainer, and hard-core kick-boxer from the Urquidez glory days, and had a history of training much harder (read "with more intensity and harder contact") as a wrestler and kick-boxer than I was accustomed to.
Spooked me that I could thwack someone and have anything in the universe happen other than them falling down, so I took to strength training and the heavy-bag (to weigh more, & hit harder), Thai boxing (to get used to being hit, trading blows in a clinch, and thicken my skin a bit with that training genre), and the purposeful academic study and Kenpo application of the generation of power in athletic activities (biomechanics of power movements and ballistic motions of the upper and lower extremities; applications of plyometric theory to specific physical activities, etc.). Subsequently, I weigh from 225 to 240 (depending on diet, training regimen & water intake), hit much harder, and now neurotically obsess about a whole slew of entirely different issues.
My formative experience was making a large man angry with moves that should have stopped him, and the "oh, no" flush that follows, with the training adaptation being the addition of resistance training and study of "complementary electives".
So that others might learn from our mistakes and/or the experiences that have shaped us, do any of all y'all have some formative experiences that drove training adaptations which have significantly changed the way you train, or express your training? What are the adaptations or personal evolutions & insights, and how might a reader expect to benefit from them? (Yes, I know the above means I got my butt kicked...please, let's try to stay genuine and edifying during the self-disclosure of our responses).
Sincerely,
Dr. Dave, DC
Example: There's a story of Bruce Lee getting dumped all over the Green Hornet set by Gene LaBelle. Rather than simply kvetch, BL took on the study of grappling and added it to JKD/JunFan.
Personally, I remember a brawl I got into as a bouncer in which, with excellent form (if I do say so myself), proper execution, and appropriate mechanics of motion, I laid into an aggresssor on counter-attack, hitting him many times as hard as I could, only to make him madder (side note...I weighed 180 slim at 6'4", he close to 300 & beefy). This was not the first time I had to use my skills in my job, but it was the first time they didn't drop the other guy. This gentleman was a salty old NCAA wrestler, Olympic Judo trainer, and hard-core kick-boxer from the Urquidez glory days, and had a history of training much harder (read "with more intensity and harder contact") as a wrestler and kick-boxer than I was accustomed to.
Spooked me that I could thwack someone and have anything in the universe happen other than them falling down, so I took to strength training and the heavy-bag (to weigh more, & hit harder), Thai boxing (to get used to being hit, trading blows in a clinch, and thicken my skin a bit with that training genre), and the purposeful academic study and Kenpo application of the generation of power in athletic activities (biomechanics of power movements and ballistic motions of the upper and lower extremities; applications of plyometric theory to specific physical activities, etc.). Subsequently, I weigh from 225 to 240 (depending on diet, training regimen & water intake), hit much harder, and now neurotically obsess about a whole slew of entirely different issues.
My formative experience was making a large man angry with moves that should have stopped him, and the "oh, no" flush that follows, with the training adaptation being the addition of resistance training and study of "complementary electives".
So that others might learn from our mistakes and/or the experiences that have shaped us, do any of all y'all have some formative experiences that drove training adaptations which have significantly changed the way you train, or express your training? What are the adaptations or personal evolutions & insights, and how might a reader expect to benefit from them? (Yes, I know the above means I got my butt kicked...please, let's try to stay genuine and edifying during the self-disclosure of our responses).
Sincerely,
Dr. Dave, DC