Martial Arts
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ellyssianDespite all attempts otherwise, I'm beginning to get hooked* on Legend of the Seeker. Curses, foiled again!
Anywho, that was mostly just random updatia. =)
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aequitaslevitas and I really need to get back to doing some regular workouts. We're leaping into quick sparring exchanges more often, but we really need the full workout or we're only doing a tiny percentage of the work. The easiest way to picture what we do is to think of Kato and Inspector Clouseau, except tempered a wee bit. =)
What we need to be doing is some stretching so I can gain back the flexibility I lost almost a dozen years ago with that chiropractor, and some strength and cardiovascular training.
We did get some opportunities to work out outside before the weather turned cold ~ I look forward to picking that up again in the Spring, because there's really not room enough in the house for one to do iai do practice, let alone two. We ran into similar difficulties with some of the baguazhang exercises. While we can do some of that, the circular stepping has to get packed down to fit in the space we have. Of course, we've been working on the capoeira, and that also takes a lot of space... oy.
The Jeet Kune Do practice, however, emphasizes putting odd martial arts but otherwise everyday situations into practice. So tonight, as commercials came up, we'd practice while sitting on the couch. And when the credits rolled, we began sparring over and around the couch, then on to the ground. We haven't really done any practice with ground fighting of any kind, so that was interesting.
Afteraequitaslevitas almost took out my knee from where he landed on the floor (after I assisted him in getting off the couch backwards and somewhat upside down), I worked around him, got him in a hold, and took him the rest of the way back down.
And much fun was had, except by Deb, who probably looked upon us as an observer might look upon the Inspector and Kato.
First, a fun little scene out of a movie (i.e. highly stylized choreographed stuff):
A nice, slow game so you can really see what's going on:
A faster game ~ with more participants ~ from Brazil:
A nice mixed game, although watch the two who come in right around 0:56 or so...
* I've skipped out on three episodes or so, but watched a few more seconds each time. This time, I watched most of the episode. For shame! =)
Anywho, that was mostly just random updatia. =)
aequitaslevitas and I really need to get back to doing some regular workouts. We're leaping into quick sparring exchanges more often, but we really need the full workout or we're only doing a tiny percentage of the work. The easiest way to picture what we do is to think of Kato and Inspector Clouseau, except tempered a wee bit. =)What we need to be doing is some stretching so I can gain back the flexibility I lost almost a dozen years ago with that chiropractor, and some strength and cardiovascular training.
We did get some opportunities to work out outside before the weather turned cold ~ I look forward to picking that up again in the Spring, because there's really not room enough in the house for one to do iai do practice, let alone two. We ran into similar difficulties with some of the baguazhang exercises. While we can do some of that, the circular stepping has to get packed down to fit in the space we have. Of course, we've been working on the capoeira, and that also takes a lot of space... oy.
The Jeet Kune Do practice, however, emphasizes putting odd martial arts but otherwise everyday situations into practice. So tonight, as commercials came up, we'd practice while sitting on the couch. And when the credits rolled, we began sparring over and around the couch, then on to the ground. We haven't really done any practice with ground fighting of any kind, so that was interesting.
After
aequitaslevitas almost took out my knee from where he landed on the floor (after I assisted him in getting off the couch backwards and somewhat upside down), I worked around him, got him in a hold, and took him the rest of the way back down.And much fun was had, except by Deb, who probably looked upon us as an observer might look upon the Inspector and Kato.
First, a fun little scene out of a movie (i.e. highly stylized choreographed stuff):
A nice, slow game so you can really see what's going on:
A faster game ~ with more participants ~ from Brazil:
A nice mixed game, although watch the two who come in right around 0:56 or so...
* I've skipped out on three episodes or so, but watched a few more seconds each time. This time, I watched most of the episode. For shame! =)
