everything wrote:SO....
what are the reasons for loosening up/warming up your arms like this?
and I assume the rest of your body, too.
Well, I believe that's the million dollar question, and the key criticism that Mr Morris has of Mr Portal's use of his exercises - that they are just being done as exercises and an end in themselves.
Mr Morris writes: "The Zoom in Zoom out concept
Every drill or exercise I engage in is brief and is immediately tested in a live contextual environment. I don't wait days , hours or even seconds to check out the transfer effect. In other words, if I am engaging in isometrics so to increase the frequency rate of neural firing for say a left hook I don't wait . I immediately transfer that rate of explosive firing to an actual left hook . And that's why Portals movement stuff is shite. In that, there is no context being established between what is being practiced and why .Its just exercise nothing more nothing less .No different if you like to the cross fit shite that's out there."
As to the point of the exercise, I believe Mr Morris addresses it in another post:
"Arm Swinging .Or how to develop heavy hands
What ever type of arm swing you engage use your ,feet , legs hips, spine and head(micro) to generate the free swing of the arms/arms. Not only aim for speed but try to get as much blood into your hand/hands as you can . In other words try to make your hands and arms feel heavier than they were before you engaged in the exercise . Indeed immediately after the swing hit a bag or someone (open or closed ) and you will get a sense of what it's like to punch heavy or the dead blow hammer effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_blow_hammer You could also try swinging wearing a loose boxing glove so that you can feel the glove wanting to fly . Water is another way ie try to spin dry your hand .Do the exercise with some form of purpose and not just as a movement."
and
"I see Portal is thieving again . The arm swing though isn't so weird if you know what you are looking at and why.And those familiar with Chinese double saber will recognize this double arm move , or who have bought my nunchaku dvd, or watched Rickson Gracie working out on the beach in Choke. I showed Portal this move along with some other arm swinging moves when I was in Berlin.The idea of this exercise and many others like it is to transfer the momentum of the entire body to the free arm or leg (Conservation of momentum .As the mass decreases the velocity increases)
However when I showed Portal this move he just couldn't get it. Indeed McGregor, when he is actually punching doesn't understand the principle of using the body(legs/hips /spinal engine to throw the shot ie if the limb wasn't attached to the body it would fly across the room. The exercise is to increase the speed of the limb by applying the laws and principles of force and motion(conservation of momentum /angular momentum /angular velocity etc ) to the body As well as to strengthen the elastic comonents of "shoulder" connective tissue so that the chances of injury are reduced and there is the potential for an additional "elastic" snap at the end of the shot .
Exercises, neural drills etc are pointless if you can't make the transfer to real world ,real time situations . In other words, it's just some weird fucking drill. But what the fuck do i know ..http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/co ... t-10974494
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