> Hi Terry,
>
> Thanks for the kind words. :)
>
> Explaining Softwork and Hardwork is a little difficult but I shall
> attempt to do so in a digestible format. Before I do though I would
> like to stress that this is not my system and is something I have
> borrowed from Scott Sonnon.
Understood on both counts.
>
SNIP

> The way we train now involves working on one skill or group of
> skills
> at a time and working them from a static (predetermined) drill
> through dynamic (random factor) drills through to limited sparring
> and then right up to integration into all out sparring. Problems
> can
> be encountered at any point in the continuum and one can move
> through
> it backwards and forwards as circumstances dictate. We don't move
> onto anything else until everyone has the skill working under a
> light
> sparring level of pressure. Note that these are not "phases" that
> are
> moved through but a natural process of intuitively increasing skill
> level.
>
> Now we don't get through working on more than 3 or four skills in
> any
> class with this system but what we work on, we make sure that we
> can
> actually perform. Everyone stays focused because the dynamic drills
> where we spend alot of our time force you to stay focused of get
> hit.
With you so far:)
>
>
> I believe all learning to be context based. You can do all the
> footwork drills you want but if you are doing your drilling under
> at
> least a token level of real fight pressure then you are not
> developing the actual skill. By the same token, someone who gloves
> up
> and insists on training "hard" and basically spars all out the
> whole
> time exposes themselves to unnecessary risk of injury and will
> never
> increase their biomechanical efficiency.
Agree again.
>
> The RMAX method has revolutionised my training. I sincerely believe
> that I have made more real gains in the last 12 months or so than
> in
> the preceeding 9 years of training.
I'm just about to read it, thanks.
>
>
> Now, an article. This one is a good start although the whole
> Magazine
> is a goldmine. Just because we train in old martial arts, I feel
> that
> we shouldn't neglect cutting edge sports science to help us attain
> our goals and stay healthy.
Absolutely. As a by-the-by, sometimes 'new sports science' isn't always
new. My late Sifu (Tan Siew Cheng) told me that as jumping plays such an
important part in the Beggars Art (Light Jumping and Zombie Jumping) it
was traditional for young students to be made to wear small bags of sand
tied around their ankles and were sent out on a prescribed cross-country
course every day which involved several miles of running and the jumping
of many obstacles. Over a period of time the weights of the bags were
increased. Of course I know this is not unique to the Eastern arts but I
remember how everyone thought it was really cool that the Great Ali used
to wear weights for a similar purpose in training so that he would float
like a butterfly in the ring. BTW, I'm not knocking the great man
because I am a great fan of his. Just makes you wonder if anyone back
then was doing the stuff I am just about to discover:)
Thanks again,
Terry
>
> http://www.circularstrengthmag.com/26/sonnon2.html
> Cheers,
> Stu.
>
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