Nice Ironbear24, just take it easy and train when you can, all the best for your health.
Good stuff, I'd say maybe a little bit more hips into your punches but depends on what specifically you were training with them.
Awesome location, would looove to have a tree I can hang the bag up from.. so much more room to move around.
And I know the feeling... of itching to train but not being well enough or waiting to find out if they give the go ahead..
Hips don't lie, I'll definitely try to incorporate that more into my punches. Yeah I enjoy the spot too, it's an olive tree so it's fun hit the bag with a good strike, causing lots of olives to fall down.
Main thing I'd say is just practice moving in and out of range with that combo, rather than doing it stationary. Unless you do that as well, and this was just a video of practicing the combo stationary. In which case, good stuff
I do it while moving occasionally, but for this video I wanted to see if shin was correctly hitting the bag, and if my foot was rotating correctly. Sometimes it moves to just 3,o clock rather than 6, resulting in a mediocre kick. I definitely should work that into my training thought since obviously people just don't stand still and let you hit them.
If only they did things would be much easier lol. Thanks for the input it's greatly appreciated.
Hey Big Guy! Long time no hear.
The health thing is a pain, that's for sure. But you know you have to be smart, bro. You have to be.
And you KNOW what you should be doing instead of bag work when doctor's orders are in play.
Two things.
You should be stretching. A lot of loooong, slow stretching. And concentrating on a diet that fits both your current not-quite-sure medical status and your fitness needs for kicking some serious ****.
Will do! The diet is definitely a problem right now, I'm used to eating like I'm weight lifting and training hard at least 2-4 days a week. Now since things slowed down I've put on some fat. I need to lose it for the summer!
What style are you actually training at the moment? I know you've done kenpo, San shou and judo I can never keep up lol
I've done kenpo karate, Shou shu which is basically an off shoot of kenpo. I often just call it karate because deep down that's what it is. When you remove all the fancy silly animal names and terminology it appears to be a lot like kyokyushin karate mixed with Judo. From what I've seen seen it has some resemblance to Goju Ryu as well, must be the chinese martial art influence or something.
The Judo I do outside of the shou shu dojo isn't really "legitimate" lessons, it's at this local Buddhist temple, the people who run that host lessons at the temple because they love the art. They also love to teach, we each contribute what we can to keep it going.
Good to see you on here, IB. Keep doing whatever you (reasonably) safely can, big guy! Take care of yourself and don't let the limitations from your health frustrate you into either quitting or doing something that makes it worse.
Oh I've tried quitting before out of frustration, it lasted a few days. I just didn't feel right and my stubborn nature wouldn't allow it, I eventually just got back to doing it because I didn't want to lose to the difficulty that is martial arts. I wanted to meet the challenge.
I hope to get cleared soon because they want me to start fighting in competitions.
