MaartenSFS wrote:It's not about producing localised muscle... It's about being forced to use your whole body to move the extra weight. It's not holding stone locks. It's strapping weights to your arms and legs and moving slowly. It develops the tendons. You can choose not to believe me, though. Your loss.
The boxers I've been sparring with are ripped. I still punch harder.
johnwang wrote:MaartenSFS wrote:How do you let your students choose which throw to learn?
Most of my students will start from "single leg" because I'm pretty good at it myself. After I had used "single leg" to take my new students down one after another, they will have faith in it.
In general, you let your new students to wrestle as early as possible. On the mat, even if they may not know any throwing skill, their body will like to repeat a certain move that they may feel comfortable with. You can then help them to develop throw towards that direction.
For example, one of my students liked to use his left leg to hook his opponent's right leg from outside. I will then teach him how to use his
- left arm to pull his opponent's right arm back,
- right hand to push his opponent's neck/head to his left.
That will be "削(Xiao) - Sickle hooking".
MaartenSFS wrote:I train with weights all the time, but stopped doing the Taiji form. I do line drills holding dumbells and the same drills in Zhanzhuang slowly with weights strapped to my wrists. I've already put videos out of some of the traditional training methods.
Can you fucking read? I said that I train with weights to force myself to use the whole body (meaning many muscles) to do the work and stregthen the tendons. I just said I'm not trying to develop isolated muscles and focus on tendons, not that we shouldn't develop ANY muscular power. You are acting like a real cunt. Where is your evidence? I haven't seen fuck all from you.
John's brick method is the same. It produces real, practical power FOR fighting, not for lifting weights. All internal arts train like this or with heavy poles, etc. That is if they're training for fighting...
Want to be traditional get a stone lock.
Using bricks for tai chi empty hand form is a monumental bullshit halfway house training method that ends up with the worst of both worlds. straight up load of crap. Bullshit that completely misses the point.
I would say the focus on "health" was
secondary to usage "fighting" which later changed to be more focused on "health"
not necessarily good for usage "fighting"
suckinlhbf wrote:
Think train for "fighting" may get the "health" part. Train for "health" will never get the "fighting" part. But need "health" to train for "fighting".
Not all practices would I say are really healthy
toughen the bone, and deaden the nerves to feeling pain
allow the body to feel and adapt to getting hit
being afraid of getting hit, and not feeling the pain if one was hit
One training from southern mantis is to round the back to pack the ribs together so can get a harder hit, and build up from there. Have to know how far to go to reduce damage.
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