Class this week and Training

A bit of an announcement:

This Sunday, Chris will not be at class. Thus, I will be running the show.

What this means for you:
Prepare to drill! There will be very little technique demonstration. I will be working people on stuff we have done before and drilling out the imperfections. What we will be doing will have quite a bit of light sparing. For those of you who have put in the extra time after class to work with me on my drills, it will be very similar to that stuff. It will be fairly open, but I have a few specifics I want to touch on.

Circular Striking-
Level Changing-
Ground fighting Vocabulary-
Surviving a ground and pound-
Mobility-

I am very excited to have some time to work some drills and move people closer and closer to "sparing". Everyone last week was very safe even though I gave them open reign to punch me in the face. Trist, Victoria, and Jason were all very controlled and safe. The outcome was more reps, more fun, and more learning!

Jack Depsey once said about sparing: "Although some exercises help condition and others speed improvement, there’s one all-important activity that assists both. That activity is sparring.  There is no substitute for sparring. You must spar regularly and often to become a well-rounded scrapper, regardless of what other exercises you may take.  Sparring not only improves your skill, but it also conditions your body for fighting by forcing your muscles to become accustomed to the violent, broken movements that distinguish fighting from any other activity."

In the dark catacombs of the Survival Academy Vault, I found a video of a real fighter training.

Rocky Marciano.

When you are watching this keep in mind: Fighters of his day fought WAY MORE than they do now a days. They couldn't dedicate 20 hours a day to heavy cardio and lifting because they were getting to close to fight night and wouldn't recover.

Put that into your mind for a second: Too Much Exercise can actually prevent you from being an effective fighter.

Where we fight, we must consider that. If you go to our class (or any other) trying to learn self defense, you must balance your exercise and fitness so that you are always in fighting condition. Becoming a sloth, or over doing it, could spell disaster to you if you had to defend yourself. The last thing you want to be when a guy tries to hurt you is sore, tired, or wounded.

So how did Rocky train when fights happend multiple times a year? You might be surprised!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fsGIq0t6YY&feature=player_embedded