Some Sparring

[sanjuro_ronin]

i've been out of the game for so long id feel like an asshat trying to offer any criticisim or advice on your sparring. but i do think you should squat more.

lol !
Too perfect.

[WinterPalm]

i've been out of the game for so long id feel like an asshat trying to offer any criticisim or advice on your sparring. but i do think you should squat more.

also i really like the music choice. i could see naplam death being born out of that song which gives me warm fuzzies.

At least you're honest.

I rarely get around to weight training what with kickboxing several times a week, bjj several times a week, then doing my conditioning...it just never factors up there as all that important. I do get to roll with guys much bigger and stronger, including randori...so that has to count for something.
Maybe if I squat more I will hold my hands up better?

[uki]

This thread has gone in a magnificent direction I might add.

and who would've thought you sparring could have such lasting implications to martial artists across the forums.

No, juggling metal balls is not martial arts.

i like calling it a martial arts adjective.

Hand eye coordination and motor reflex skills are something worth having, but certainly not all you need for martial arts.

true, which is why it is not the only thing i do. i'd be willing to place money on the fact that if you juggled nine pound iron balls daily for a few months that you'd be an even better martial artist than you are right now... like adding a new and flavourful spice to an old and bland recipe.

Oh well.

perhaps you should stand like a mountain and blow like the wind the next time you spar... i personally don't like to expend extra energy in performing movements that i do not need; of course this is my particular angle of the vision. tigers like to stand still until the pounce...

I think I hit a nerve here Uki...

of course... we all got them.

feeling like you might secretly be a LARPer?

in all honesty... i have no idea what you are referring to, really.... what's with the acronym? i have seen it around the boards.

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

Maybe if I squat more I will hold my hands up better?

squatting more makes everything better.

[David Jamieson]

Larpers

Often found in wooded areas or in open fields on occasion.

[MasterKiller]

squatting more makes everything better.

Squatting improved my Call of Duty 4 headshot percentages.

[uki]

Often found in wooded areas or in open fields on occasion.

ah ha.... nope, not me... does playing dungeons and dragons as a youth count?

[SimonM]

My appologies Winterpalm. I'll take my continuing games with Uki to a different thread if you would rather have something resembling serious discussion.

[lkfmdc]

Uki isn't training for anything. He doesn't spar, he doesn't take martial arts classes nor is he a sifu.

He juggles balls, with his tongue. That's his kung fu - ball juggling.

there, fixed that for you.....

[sanjuro_ronin]

there, fixed that for you.....

Back to the tea bagging thing eh?

[GreenCloudCLF]

Just a little clip from the other day.
I've been trying to work more on the knees in the clinch rather than throwing so the takedowns are pretty minimal in this session.

Highlights to look for:
1) Adjusting of the pants
2) The spinning backfist
3) The superman punch

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IhuWHA_WWc

Hit up the tanning booth. Unless blinding your opponent with your whiteness is part of your skill. You are whiter than your gloves... j/k

[TenTigers]

1)keep your guard up

2) although spinning backfist is a good "bail-out" you need to set it up offensively more. Hands dropped during this as well-see #1

3) target your strikes, too many of your flurries were only to his guard/forearms, rather than to specific targets (unless you were doing a Rocky Marchiano techniques, wher he would pummel his opponents' arms, and then when they couldn't hold them up, he would go in for the kill.-which you most likely weren't)

4) too much separation. Go in and stay in and finish him. Never give your opponent chance to recover, physically, or mentally.

5) mix up your strikes. Too much headhunting, not enough body blows. You are becomming too predictable, and then you will be open

6)attack the attack, don't play so defensively. You block, step back and then try to go in, rather than shutting him down immediately and finishing.

7) follow up, follow up, follow up

8)spin backfist to a spin kick was counterproductive. You were in, then you lost it by stepping back and throwing a telegraphed long range sweeping kick. Use your kicks to set up yuor hands, use your hands to set up your kicks. Learn to throw the spinning hook kick at closer range-check out vids of Kyokushin fighters. They drop their opponents with these from a closer range.
Of course if you do this poorly, without a good set-up, you can be hooked and swept, so it is a skill that must be understood.

9)keep up the good work!

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

Squatting improved my Call of Duty 4 headshot percentages.

i had cancer once, but squatting got rid of it.

the doctors said it had more to do with the bone marrow transplant, but i only did the transplant to prove my girlfriend wrong when she said i wouldnt do it. what do the doctors know anyway. they probably don't squat at all.

[GreenCloudCLF]

i had cancer once, but squatting got rid of it.

the doctors said it had more to do with the bone marrow transplant, but i only did the transplant to prove my girlfriend wrong when she said i wouldnt do it. what do the doctors know anyway. they probably don't squat at all.

Anyone who is squatting is wasting time that can be used doing deadlifts...

[TenTigers]

"Anyone who is squatting is wasting time that can be used doing deadlifts..."

you obvioulsly have never been to a public toilet in Hong Kong.