H2H General Knowledge.
1. Never under estimate anyone
2. Big people cause Big problems, Size matters.
3. Athletes make the best fighters, because they have attributes.
Attributes are athletic qualities, strength, speed, timing, balance, rhythm, coordination, conditioning etc. If sports came easy to you as a kid, you had attributes. If you run into a big, strong aggressive athlete, with high pain tolerance, a strong will and a bad attitude, you are going to have your hands full, and I don't care how many Black belts you have.
Put an ax handle in the hands of former Pat’s player Rodney Harrison and get between him and his loved one's and see what happens. He will pounce on you like a jungle cat and beat you like an unwanted step child in seconds even if he had no fight training at all. He can do this because he has attributes.
Bruce Lee (Founder of Jeet Kune Do) wrote;
” The individual is more important then, any established style'
What this means is, build the person, build strength, learn to understand and judge distance, work on timing and don't bother trying to memorize flowery routines and pre-determined patterns.
Test and evaluate your performance
Testing will verify and help you draw honest conclusions of your performance and progress. Speaking of verifying?
When I invite folks down to train it's not to beat the shit out of them...NO!!! I am verifying attributes in real time. I’m checking to see if this guy can judge distance, does he have timing? Does he know how to coordinate his breathing with his movement? Does he have a working knowledge of tools to attack? Basically how does he move?
And he gets to check me out, if you understand distance, you will get hit less, if you understand how to coordinate your breathing, you can fight longer, if you understand timing, fakes and broken rhythm, you have game.
This will be as apparent as playing B ball and you win 26-6. No one got hurt but something definitely got verified.
This method of training is what I suggest when you get with your buddy, neighbor, wife, kids whatever. As we move forward I will discuss techniques based on your personal attributes.
If you were an athlete at age 10, you are still and athlete at age 60. Sure you lose that first step, get tired a lot faster, and have a tough time twisting with that beer belly, but you don’t all of a sudden become an uncoordinated clumsy klutz. With the exception of injury or illness.
That’s why you hear about the 65 year old who punched out some 26 year old punk, and that’s why some Black belts get their ass kicked in bar fights. Just because you can spin around with some flying back kick and break a piece of pine with some screaming kei, don’t get that confused with some big pissed off dude who is bent on your destruction and can move.
We will discuss high % techniques and how to spar a bit later, but if you guys are really serious about learning FREE with a couple of buddies, you will need some gear.
Free’s for me, but cheap is ok. Go to Job-lot or something and get some cowhide gloves, (some have fur insulation…Nice) you might find them in the out of season bin maybe 6-10 bucks. Opposed to Everlast, or Ringside where a good middle of the road boxing glove will run about $60-80. But you want to be able to grab as well as strike. Boxing gloves are not ideal for what we want.
Go to Dick’s and get a boil in water plastic mouth piece, maybe $3-5. Lacrosse head gear is good, see if these are off season prices as well, or crag’s list, yard sales, anything will do that has a mask. You will need groin protection, and elbow and knee pads. If you got the $$$ do what you want, I personally think the stuff is WAY OVER PRICED and you can go cheap, but that’s your call. Some may already have this gear laying around, even better.
You are ready to start. see ya in a bit.
1. Never under estimate anyone
2. Big people cause Big problems, Size matters.
3. Athletes make the best fighters, because they have attributes.
Attributes are athletic qualities, strength, speed, timing, balance, rhythm, coordination, conditioning etc. If sports came easy to you as a kid, you had attributes. If you run into a big, strong aggressive athlete, with high pain tolerance, a strong will and a bad attitude, you are going to have your hands full, and I don't care how many Black belts you have.
Put an ax handle in the hands of former Pat’s player Rodney Harrison and get between him and his loved one's and see what happens. He will pounce on you like a jungle cat and beat you like an unwanted step child in seconds even if he had no fight training at all. He can do this because he has attributes.
Bruce Lee (Founder of Jeet Kune Do) wrote;
” The individual is more important then, any established style'
What this means is, build the person, build strength, learn to understand and judge distance, work on timing and don't bother trying to memorize flowery routines and pre-determined patterns.
Test and evaluate your performance
Testing will verify and help you draw honest conclusions of your performance and progress. Speaking of verifying?
When I invite folks down to train it's not to beat the shit out of them...NO!!! I am verifying attributes in real time. I’m checking to see if this guy can judge distance, does he have timing? Does he know how to coordinate his breathing with his movement? Does he have a working knowledge of tools to attack? Basically how does he move?
And he gets to check me out, if you understand distance, you will get hit less, if you understand how to coordinate your breathing, you can fight longer, if you understand timing, fakes and broken rhythm, you have game.
This will be as apparent as playing B ball and you win 26-6. No one got hurt but something definitely got verified.
This method of training is what I suggest when you get with your buddy, neighbor, wife, kids whatever. As we move forward I will discuss techniques based on your personal attributes.
If you were an athlete at age 10, you are still and athlete at age 60. Sure you lose that first step, get tired a lot faster, and have a tough time twisting with that beer belly, but you don’t all of a sudden become an uncoordinated clumsy klutz. With the exception of injury or illness.
That’s why you hear about the 65 year old who punched out some 26 year old punk, and that’s why some Black belts get their ass kicked in bar fights. Just because you can spin around with some flying back kick and break a piece of pine with some screaming kei, don’t get that confused with some big pissed off dude who is bent on your destruction and can move.
We will discuss high % techniques and how to spar a bit later, but if you guys are really serious about learning FREE with a couple of buddies, you will need some gear.
Free’s for me, but cheap is ok. Go to Job-lot or something and get some cowhide gloves, (some have fur insulation…Nice) you might find them in the out of season bin maybe 6-10 bucks. Opposed to Everlast, or Ringside where a good middle of the road boxing glove will run about $60-80. But you want to be able to grab as well as strike. Boxing gloves are not ideal for what we want.
Go to Dick’s and get a boil in water plastic mouth piece, maybe $3-5. Lacrosse head gear is good, see if these are off season prices as well, or crag’s list, yard sales, anything will do that has a mask. You will need groin protection, and elbow and knee pads. If you got the $$$ do what you want, I personally think the stuff is WAY OVER PRICED and you can go cheap, but that’s your call. Some may already have this gear laying around, even better.
You are ready to start. see ya in a bit.
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