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Throwing solo training for cheap
ByThis is how you do it. He even tells you how to get a free resistance band. I’m finding that this type of training is crucial for your throwing. You just can’t get enough reps with a partner. And you get strength training to boot. Another thing to add to this setup is a kickpad at the base of whatever you have the tube tied to. With the kickpad, you can practice sweeps with the feet at you off-balance with the hands. Give it a shot.
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14 Comments
July 20th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Thanks for the video. It is a really good idea
July 21st, 2008 at 2:00 am
Awesome. We have that setup thanks to a blown rear tire and preinstalled posts along the terrace. I have been doing the 2nd exercise because the rear deltoid and associated musculature is really hard to hit from that particular angle. Thanks, Dave!
July 21st, 2008 at 2:19 am
People should use rubber band “dynamically ” which means that one should practice movements that covers all possible angles not just one position. One another thing is to move “slowly” and then after a while practicing speed where one can feel comfortable.
July 21st, 2008 at 2:34 am
Strength is good, even if you’re doing CIMA. The kind of drill shown seems like it could be a valuable tool, for developing strength and understanding more about technique.
It’s important to understand what it doesn’t train, also. It doesn’t train one to feel what uke is doing, because in this case, uke is a wall, which is doing precisely nothing. It doesn’t train one to “follow the weak line” because there isn’t one, it’s a freaking wall, after all.
Doing 100 reps of this will be excellent conditioning and strength training. However, if you want to refine technique, I would recommend doing fewer reps, doing them more slowly and mindfully. Apply ideas from CIMA, like silk-reeling, and connecting upper and lower. Doing 100 reps of poor technique will simply make your bad habits that much harder to change.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:39 am
I’d like to make my opponents arms stretch like that.
July 21st, 2008 at 10:06 am
Judokas in Taiwan have been doing this kind of drills with bicycle tubing for decades. It’s no secret, really.
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 am
The only way to throw the wall, is with the help of the floor. Even then, some walls are unthrowable.
Seems like building strength will make it more difficult for the floor to help you. It would be better to let the floor do the lifting.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:20 am
These posts are pretty crappy considering how this blog is about internal martial arts. Why don’t you just quit tai chi and practice judo? It obviously sucks if you can’t use it.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
because there is something he can learn through the judo, i dont like traditional weapons training because its not relevant for combat today, yet i still do it because i find it useful for whole body use (you have the weight of the weapon to work with (helps me connect my own better) and the same goes for its momentum), and combative distancing
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
i personally don’t want to own or carry a gun so trad weapons seems interesting. you learn some and anything you pick up from a book to a pen can be useful as an improvised weapon (like in the jason bourne stories). i don’t want to indulge in self defense fantasy but that seems handy.
on a tangent, i saw a cool story recently where senior citizens in the u.s. are learning “cane fu”. they carry a cane but can use it for self-defense (somewhat).
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Tools separate Us from the Animals
With the notable exception of our cousins, man has used tools/weapons to multiple his efforts. He has gone beyond his own body and extended outward, causing a bigger brain and the ability to do calculus.
I personally do weapons because of my hero, Fred Astaire. He went beyond his body, beyond his dance partners and made inanimate props come alive.
Hmmm…I wonder if it had something to do with the monkey suit he wore in most of his movies.
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:29 am
any person who thinks weapon training is outdated does not have a good weapon teacher.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Thats a nice video idea,
but in some shots he seems to be ‘off-balance’ - that is to say that he is leaning forwards to counteract the pull of the tubes… if this was a person, their weight would be going with gravity and leaning like this wouldnt be all that useful IMO. Its cool though, all you need is a Wing Chun Wooden Dummy to put the tubes on and you have total training!
July 25th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Tommy,
Yes, he is leaning like that and that’s a large part of the training. The throwing arts work by you joining your center to theirs and then pulling forward. By yourself, you are off balance but with a partner you are balanced. Throwing is different from doing a solo taiji form. The lean is absolutely necessary for the throw to work. hope that helps.