Hi
Not really a workout more of a play session, i picked up a single 4kg dumbell (the heaviest in the shop) to do some shot putting with, i heard it can help develop more powerful strikes.
Did mostly standard putts a few where feet together to affect the core more finished it off with some overhead throws.
It made a nice mess at the local football pitch!! oh well.
BUSTER
Monday 29 December 2008
The truth
I like many others out there developed an interest in “real” self defence through Geoff Thompson, I followed his teaching’s as if they where gospel, he seemed to be the only out there to my knowledge with different views, I had no one else to make a comparison with and with my limited knowledge of fighting I didn’t know any better, I think there is a great danger with totally believing someone tells you, this isn’t an attack against Geoff or any of the other leading self defence instructors out there this is simply a rant that has been on my mind for a while now.
I presume there are a lot of people out there who are in a similar situation to myself, by that I mean very limited experience of the street, for me personally this amounted to some scuffles at school, I have been lucky to have been able to diffuse most situations that I have encountered and unlucky to have lost some possibly valuable fight experience, I have however had countless what I call “confrontations”, this is partly due to my work in retail security, whilst these have brought about some exposure to adrenalin, fear etc they are most definitely a world away from what I guess a real fight is.
So who is right out there? There is now a plethora of “real” self defence instructors out there, a lot have followed on with Geoff’s views about the fence and pre-emptive striking and some have different approaches.
For a while there it seemed to seen as credible as an instructor in all things real you had to do a stint on the door, whilst I’m sure this guarantees exposure to some of the nasty elements of society it is in the end a specific role, there is an element of discussion when dealing with punters on the front door that may lead itself to deliver that pre-emptive strike, there usually is a uniform which lends itself psychologically to an air of authority which may be useful in defusing of situations, I’m only presupposing all of this, I have never done a stint on the door, I’m not denying that if done well would provide excellent exposure especially if the door was hard one, I would be a fool to make such a ridiculous statement that doing the door is a waste of time, maybe if I had more bottle I probably would do it myself, my issue is it just seems that some of the techniques/tactics proposed seem mostly door specific.
So who to believe? I rather foolishly slagged off a 2d dan black belt in taekwondo because of his claims that he could kick people in the head in a fight, who the f**k am I to make such a statement? I really regret this; I feel that I could have learned a lot from this bloke, my head was stuck in my own little world where only a punch to the jaw would work, whilst kicking someone in the head may not be the most efficient of techniques, if he can pull it off then hats off to him, I think a read a post by Nick Hughes where he kicked people in the head?
The more I think about it there is certain things that I feel are true, this truth doesn’t come from my experience rather from the sifting through of posts, articles all written by noted instructors that I trust to tell me what is real and what Is bollocks and from the limited training I have received from said instructors.
When it all goes pear shaped banging a guy in the head repeatedly till you get the desired effect seems the way to go, notice I didn’t say with what, it’s a personal preference could be a palm, fist, elbow, your c**k if so endowed! My preference is now the palm, after reading all the information I didn’t fancy a broken wrist or some ------- teeth lodged in my knuckles especially as I deal with junkies a lot, looking at what I have just wrote it seems all so simple that little statement, maybe the best things always are.
You have to train physically really hard, not only to develop the physical attributes that may help you succeed in a fight but also the mental attributes of spirit, aggression and tenacity, this training should push your limits maybe not all the time to avoid over training but some of the time the training should make you tremble in anticipation and possibly make you puke!
Hard physical training should be augmented by skill work, there’s no point of training the techniques under pressure all the time, the technique deteriorates into mediocrity, the skills should be developed in isolation first then integrated in training sessions where they are worked under pressure.
Learn to hit f**king hard, a key message from Geoff Thompson simple and to the point.
How is the average joe to make the distinction between the good and the bad out there? I believe the forum is a useful tool I really do, like all forums however personal opinions come into play and objective viewpoints are lost and mad rambles like this one find their way onto it! I guess in the end you have to trust your gut and use your noggin and hopefully come up with the right answers, hopefully the above list will garner approval from the great and wise and not the humiliation of thinking I finally cracked what I need to do and finding out I’m way off track (has happened before!).
BUSTER
I presume there are a lot of people out there who are in a similar situation to myself, by that I mean very limited experience of the street, for me personally this amounted to some scuffles at school, I have been lucky to have been able to diffuse most situations that I have encountered and unlucky to have lost some possibly valuable fight experience, I have however had countless what I call “confrontations”, this is partly due to my work in retail security, whilst these have brought about some exposure to adrenalin, fear etc they are most definitely a world away from what I guess a real fight is.
So who is right out there? There is now a plethora of “real” self defence instructors out there, a lot have followed on with Geoff’s views about the fence and pre-emptive striking and some have different approaches.
For a while there it seemed to seen as credible as an instructor in all things real you had to do a stint on the door, whilst I’m sure this guarantees exposure to some of the nasty elements of society it is in the end a specific role, there is an element of discussion when dealing with punters on the front door that may lead itself to deliver that pre-emptive strike, there usually is a uniform which lends itself psychologically to an air of authority which may be useful in defusing of situations, I’m only presupposing all of this, I have never done a stint on the door, I’m not denying that if done well would provide excellent exposure especially if the door was hard one, I would be a fool to make such a ridiculous statement that doing the door is a waste of time, maybe if I had more bottle I probably would do it myself, my issue is it just seems that some of the techniques/tactics proposed seem mostly door specific.
So who to believe? I rather foolishly slagged off a 2d dan black belt in taekwondo because of his claims that he could kick people in the head in a fight, who the f**k am I to make such a statement? I really regret this; I feel that I could have learned a lot from this bloke, my head was stuck in my own little world where only a punch to the jaw would work, whilst kicking someone in the head may not be the most efficient of techniques, if he can pull it off then hats off to him, I think a read a post by Nick Hughes where he kicked people in the head?
The more I think about it there is certain things that I feel are true, this truth doesn’t come from my experience rather from the sifting through of posts, articles all written by noted instructors that I trust to tell me what is real and what Is bollocks and from the limited training I have received from said instructors.
When it all goes pear shaped banging a guy in the head repeatedly till you get the desired effect seems the way to go, notice I didn’t say with what, it’s a personal preference could be a palm, fist, elbow, your c**k if so endowed! My preference is now the palm, after reading all the information I didn’t fancy a broken wrist or some ------- teeth lodged in my knuckles especially as I deal with junkies a lot, looking at what I have just wrote it seems all so simple that little statement, maybe the best things always are.
You have to train physically really hard, not only to develop the physical attributes that may help you succeed in a fight but also the mental attributes of spirit, aggression and tenacity, this training should push your limits maybe not all the time to avoid over training but some of the time the training should make you tremble in anticipation and possibly make you puke!
Hard physical training should be augmented by skill work, there’s no point of training the techniques under pressure all the time, the technique deteriorates into mediocrity, the skills should be developed in isolation first then integrated in training sessions where they are worked under pressure.
Learn to hit f**king hard, a key message from Geoff Thompson simple and to the point.
How is the average joe to make the distinction between the good and the bad out there? I believe the forum is a useful tool I really do, like all forums however personal opinions come into play and objective viewpoints are lost and mad rambles like this one find their way onto it! I guess in the end you have to trust your gut and use your noggin and hopefully come up with the right answers, hopefully the above list will garner approval from the great and wise and not the humiliation of thinking I finally cracked what I need to do and finding out I’m way off track (has happened before!).
BUSTER
Wednesday 17 December 2008
17/12.08 WED
Hi
Run (same distance as before)
6 min 55 secs there (pace was way off, decided to push it on the return journey)
5 min 50 secs back (wohoo!!)
Sprints
There is a area a couple of hundred metres long near my house with lamposts down one side.
Sprint to first lampost walk back and continue to the end.
10 reps each of
Molly pushups
Situps
Wide push ups
Reverse Crunches
Finger tip pushups
BUSTER
Run (same distance as before)
6 min 55 secs there (pace was way off, decided to push it on the return journey)
5 min 50 secs back (wohoo!!)
Sprints
There is a area a couple of hundred metres long near my house with lamposts down one side.
Sprint to first lampost walk back and continue to the end.
10 reps each of
Molly pushups
Situps
Wide push ups
Reverse Crunches
Finger tip pushups
BUSTER
Monday 15 December 2008
Got my pressies!!
Hi
Finally got in touch with the landlord and managed to get all but one of my parcels, he's going to have a look for the other one!!
In ths spirit of Xmas heres a nic pic!
Happy Xmas
BUSTER
11/12/08 Ton ups
Hi
I first did ton ups as the combative guys call them at one my first training sessions, i think i nearly puked then, only did one round of them this time going to add a round every time i do it though.
Each exercise ten reps
Burpees
Pushups
Frog situps
Tuck jumps
Narrow Pushups
Crunches
Squat jumps
Wide pushups
Hand over knee sit ups
Sqaut thrusts
Time 4min 16 secs
Some cable work
Punch out drills 10's
Both hands, black bands
200 reps
Straight shot
Double black bands
50 each side
Plank 1 min
BUSTER
I first did ton ups as the combative guys call them at one my first training sessions, i think i nearly puked then, only did one round of them this time going to add a round every time i do it though.
Each exercise ten reps
Burpees
Pushups
Frog situps
Tuck jumps
Narrow Pushups
Crunches
Squat jumps
Wide pushups
Hand over knee sit ups
Sqaut thrusts
Time 4min 16 secs
Some cable work
Punch out drills 10's
Both hands, black bands
200 reps
Straight shot
Double black bands
50 each side
Plank 1 min
BUSTER
Thursday 11 December 2008
11/12/08
Hi
Stressed to the max with this lost present thing, seems like the landlord has gone and had himself a free Xmas on my behalf!
Not really trained too much this week, training tonight, been trying to get sets of situps and pushups done in the morning, at least it's something!
Been reading through old books i have, found one by Peter Connsterdine called Fit to Fight, a really good book more to do with the mental attidude born out of hard training.
Still waiting on Grapplefit DVD, hopefully should be here soon.
BUSTER
Saturday 6 December 2008
DOH!
I'm an idiot i ordered peoples Xmas presents from Amazon and had them all sent to an old address!!
I'm trying to get in touch with the landlord but it doesn't look good, what's the chances of me seeing my stuff again????
SAD BUSTER
I'm trying to get in touch with the landlord but it doesn't look good, what's the chances of me seeing my stuff again????
SAD BUSTER
4/12/08
Run
6 min there
6 min 18 back
Can't remeber where i get this workout, set your stopwatch and record the time over a set distance and then stop it and try to beat it on the way back, i failed!
Pushups 10, 10, 10, 10, 10
Situps 10, 10 10, 10, 10
10 pushups then 10 situps keep going till 50 reps each
BUSTER
6 min there
6 min 18 back
Can't remeber where i get this workout, set your stopwatch and record the time over a set distance and then stop it and try to beat it on the way back, i failed!
Pushups 10, 10, 10, 10, 10
Situps 10, 10 10, 10, 10
10 pushups then 10 situps keep going till 50 reps each
BUSTER
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Grapple fit
Hi
Found out about this guy through one of the UFC magazines, seems like he knows his stuff, i have just ordered his DVD, i will post a review after i have viewed it.
http://www.grapplefit.com/index.php
BUSTER
Found out about this guy through one of the UFC magazines, seems like he knows his stuff, i have just ordered his DVD, i will post a review after i have viewed it.
http://www.grapplefit.com/index.php
BUSTER
First workout in ages!
Tues 2/12/08
16kg KB
Two handed front squat 20 reps
Suitcase deadlift 10 reps e.s
Two handed swing 20 reps
Clean and press 10 resp e.s
Snatch 10 reps e.s
Time: 6 min 38 secs
16kg KB
Two handed front squat 20 reps
Suitcase deadlift 10 reps e.s
Two handed swing 20 reps
Clean and press 10 resp e.s
Snatch 10 reps e.s
Time: 6 min 38 secs
Monday 1 December 2008
Oderint dum metuant
Slightly gay i know but i love WWE, watched it since i was a wee one, this is a T-shirt from Triple H i believe, i like the slogan
Oderint dum metuant - Let them hate so long as they fear.
BUSTER
Man Flu
Well after all my talk about getting back into training and i get hit with the "man flu" again!!
I'm popping mega doses of vit c so hopfully be back on my feet soon.
I'm not sure if it's the man flu (shouldn't be not had it that long) but i have lost a shed load of weight recently, a stone at least, either that or my scales are buggered?? Iv been wanting to lose weight but this feels worng? I'm eating like a horse as usual but not keeping my weight steady, i'm off to Boots to get myself weighed there.
BUSTER
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