GJEC
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LOUGHBOROUGH ENSHIN
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Post by GJEC on Dec 10, 2013 11:19:13 GMT -5
I tried the 'paleo' gig for a while and also the 5:2.
Looking back, I don't know why. Since dropping out of hard training I've gone back to a sensible mix of all food groups and haven't yet grown another ear or put on a few stones.
So I eat as I did as a child. Fresh fruit and veg if possible, fresh bread and meat from a local butchers.
Gary
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jared
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Forge your body into a weapon!!
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Post by jared on Dec 10, 2013 19:03:28 GMT -5
Ok, I have seen this a lot in beginners, and yes as a green belt you are a beginner. All your training up to black belt is preparing you to learn the art.
So, here is my advice. If you are gassing easily I bet you are too tense, relax your shoulders and control your breathing.
Do not strike for power, focus on speed and technique. The power will be there when you need it.
Ask your instructors for help with footwork or look at some youtube instructional videos. Less can be more if you do it right. A easy one is as they jab block with your revers hand and step around their front leg and you have an open strike and they have to turn to face you. This block and move must be simultaneous, not block then move.
HANDS UP!! If you are getting kicked in the head get them up and keep them there.
You say you have trouble kicking, so don't throw difficult kicks. inside leg kicks and knees can be a great equalizer if you are fighting a faster opponent, a couple good ones will slow them down.
You are shorter so get inside, this may be difficult to understand but try to get under your opponents guard like post your forearms on the underside of theirs and push them slightly up, then you just have to worry about knees and descending elbows.
Hope this helps,
Keep on Training!!!
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residentrenzo
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Post by residentrenzo on Dec 11, 2013 9:15:35 GMT -5
Bullseye!! That's exactly what Sensei's always teling me again and again. Thing is I can't control my body so I get tense whenever I get to fight, breathing is rushed... dunno why is that. You mean block a left hand jab with my right hand? (the gyaku tsuki hand?) kinda hard to picture in words, would you have a video link I could check out, please? Hands up yes, true... but they lower when I fall for a feint and/or blocking body shots. Even then, I get tired and can't keep them up. Im staying too much on opponent's kicking range. I'd need more specific strategies on footwork, not just generic stuff like "move to their blind side" that's why I'd love to try Enshin someday Kyokushin seems more lineal, so short slow tanks like me have it though... plus being short means getting kicked in the head a lot Knee strikes are forbidden; whenever I accidentally get a shot on opponent's knee, I get complaints and angry looks. Inside kicks are no-go too, 'cause my aim is so bad I end up hitting the crotch (already happened now everybody's teasing me about my "Renzo-geri to the crotch" technique Standard mawashi geris on the outside thighs don't seem to slow them down. I try to sweep them (we never practice ashi barai) cannot pull it off even against lighter opponents. I don't that have many functional options, need to develop tools but don't know what to worK on & how. What I try and still CAN'T do is get inside, strike a combo, and get out of kicking range safely. I'm just too slow. Renzo.
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Post by meguro on Dec 12, 2013 2:37:11 GMT -5
About your guard, you could try working the speed bag to develop the endurance necessary to keep your hands up, or when you run, do so with your guard up and throw combinations. If you are dropping your guard to block body shots, change your technique: use sabaki, fore-arms and shins. A shorter, less mobile fighter, once inside (provided we're talking about knockdown style karate) ought to stay inside like a tick.
On sweeping, check out the Nicholas Pettas in Tokyo thread. Pettas talks about countering rear leg mawashi geri with a sweep and countering front leg mawashi Geri with sabaki in the video. Also, watch his use of forearm and shin blocks.
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Post by Ros on Dec 12, 2013 3:01:04 GMT -5
Being told to relax when sparring might be great advice, but if you're anything like me you might as well be told to fly. Relax, really? How on earth can you relax with all that adrenaline, feelings of inadequacy and not wanting to look a t**t going on (plus lots of other feelings if you're at a promotion test)?
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Post by meguro on Dec 12, 2013 3:13:59 GMT -5
Being told to relax when sparring might be great advice, but if you're anything like me you might as well be told to fly. Relax, really? How on earth can you relax with all that adrenaline, feelings of inadequacy and not wanting to look a t**t going on (plus lots of other feelings if you're at a promotion test)? Help me out, Ros. There is a gap as wide as an ocean separating American English from the original. **= oo, ar, es, il, ou, ea, en, in, or, wi. . .wi?
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Post by Ros on Dec 12, 2013 3:42:41 GMT -5
Hee hee. I was thinking wa but wi would work.
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Post by MMX on Dec 12, 2013 11:04:56 GMT -5
Being told to relax when sparring might be great advice, but if you're anything like me you might as well be told to fly. Relax, really? How on earth can you relax with all that adrenaline, feelings of inadequacy and not wanting to look a t**t going on (plus lots of other feelings if you're at a promotion test)? That is just something that will come easier the more you do it. I remember all the way through Green-Brown belt I would get pretty tense. Sometime between 1st Kyu and Shodan I learned to relax but also maybe because I made it a point to get a lot more sparring in. (light,heavy,pads,no pads,just lots of it)
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jared
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Post by jared on Dec 12, 2013 13:00:30 GMT -5
Bullseye!! That's exactly what Sensei's always teling me again and again. Thing is I can't control my body so I get tense whenever I get to fight, breathing is rushed... dunno why is that. When I have a student that has this problem I will spar with them and when I see it happening I stop, get them back to relaxed and start again.
The block goes like this. The jab with the left hand, you block with a clockwise circular motion using your left hand pushing their jab across their body and cutting off the gyaku tsuki they are most likely following with. as you block you step around that left leg of theirs and essential get a free shot as they try to turn and face you. I like to throw a left leg mawashi to the body or face here, but you might want to try a short right hand to the kidney or lick the leg
I meant a kick using your knee, not directed at their knee.Ok, No, let me try again, a left hand blocked with your left hand circling in a clockwise motion pushing it across their body as you step around their left leg.lol, I meant a knee kick, Hiza Geri, not a kick directed at their knee. Also, If you are having problems kicking too high or too low with the inside roundhouse you might need to change your technique. You cant though it with the same motion as a mawashi to the outside of the leg, you need to turn your hips and kick almost straight through the leg.
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residentrenzo
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Post by residentrenzo on Sept 16, 2014 12:35:18 GMT -5
Hello - Re-reading this post for a refresher. I'm about to order some goodies. Which would be the best book/DVD to start Kettlebells? Simple & Sinister by Pavel?
Osu!
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Post by MMX on Sept 16, 2014 16:18:55 GMT -5
Yes.
Simple and Sinister is a great book. Really all you need to get started.
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residentrenzo
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Post by residentrenzo on Sept 17, 2014 1:59:45 GMT -5
Forgot to mention... getting hit even by lower grades which kinda ticks me off. Short as I am, I need to get real close to strike. Footwork is coming a little better, I think. I can more or less sense and stay outside of kicking range, get in & get out when I want to attack (sometimes there's a high kick to my head but I can manage to dodge/parry). What I do is switching guard (hantai) throw small feints, move around ad best as I can. Whenever I see that little pause that happens before the kick (when my opponent's just about to launch a kick) I move so they can't get a "lock-on" target. When they move in too close, I keep them at bay with a mae geri chudan with front leg (mae ashi). Less strikes received, less given. At least I get kicked less in the stomach.
Arsenal kinda poor... can do mawashi gedan combos... my punches ara fairly good. My chudan and Jodan kicks are slower and are less precise. Almost useless.
Osu!
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shugyo
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Post by shugyo on Oct 11, 2014 10:14:08 GMT -5
Congrats on your successful testing cycle!! *Study your opponent *Study yourself *Make a plan *Carry the plan out
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