Dec 30 - instep

★ when throwing a knee, always pull back to stance unless you land forward and throw right after
★ always block with the instep of the shin, bone on bone will hurt you both

Dec 28 - switch

★ when pulling a switch, move the right foot out to a 45', not straight ahead
★ try doing the switch on the 45' when jumping rope



Major Lazer is Switch and Diplo

Dec 23 - grunt (here you are all equally worthless)

★ don't breathe out and spit, but grunt to exhale, and don't sound like a pu$$y. I think I sound like the guy in Drowning Pool (RIP)



★ after kicking, use the leg momentum to sling shot back
★ when jabbing, step forward but keep the back leg planted
★ on the uppercut, bend the legs a bit and DIG
★ after a knee you can shoot the knee back into stance

Spinning Elbow Combo




(in the American army the regular infantry in slang are sometimes referred to as grunts)

Dec 21 - move around

★ move around when you skip, to work on your footwork

strengths

Research tells us, on the other hand, that most highly successful people across a variety of fields—from arts to athletics and science—succeed by maximizing their strengths, not by focusing efforts on their weaknesses.

A recent book by management guru Marcus Buckingham makes this essential point: great businesses (and managers) play to their strengths. They don’t get bogged down in efforts to make themselves less weak in particular areas. Instead, they find ways to compensate for weaknesses and take full advantage of strengths.

Michael Jordan longed to be a baseball player and could have spent untold years working on becoming a decent player. Fortunately, he returned to the NBA and to his very special talents.

Dec 14 - reload

When you take the kick
★ turn your front leg out, be on the ball of your foot
★ step the back leg back into bull stance
★ return the kick
.
.
When taking a right lead hook
★ pull the right arm in to guard
★ bend the legs, bring the knees together sort of (counter force)
★ explode out and return



as much as I love Ministry I'm really loving this new Reboot track, if you aren't bumping by 3:00 in, f★★k off, don't wait for further notice, you suck forever :)

Dec 8 - use your range

★ use your range on punches, stop jamming yourself
★ feel a bunch of jabs landing follow in with a knee
★ overhand left if you see an opening

Dec 1 - elbows and uppercuts

★ pivot the back foot on right kicks. (holy sh!t what a difference)

defensive UPPERCUT
★ step back with the back foot, land and at the same time hit with the rear uppercut, then right hook as you rotate out, then a cross

SPINNING ELBOW
★ jab, jab
1) fake a missed jab and step lead leg right or hook
2) spin and land inside the opponent's feet, below into the body or uppercut-elbow through the guard



I want to meet Ming Tran

Nov 28 - T T N G - elbows ศอก

my spelling might be off, and I'm using Google translator, I know these aren't translated right except 1,2 maybe

★ cutting elbow - ศอก ตัด - ṣ̄xk tạd
★ forward elbow - ศอก ตา - ṣ̄xk tā.
★ uppercut elbow - ศอก หมัด สอยดาว - ṣ̄xk h̄mạd
★ spinning elbow - ศอก ฟัน - ṣ̄xk fạn

★ practice snapping punches back, don't force them hard
★ move faster in sparring, less pauses in offense


went to the pow wow today and saw my peoples

Nov 28 - things to work on

★ follow up down low
★ follow up with a knee in close instead of a kick
★ quicker hips on the kick
★ look at his chest more
★ quicker clinch into double hands "plumb (sp?) clinch"
★ be looser to not gas at the end

★ bring some warm up music to listen to

Priming

Read this in Blink

It made me think about thinking of words to 'prime' myself before training etc....

Imagine that I’m a professor, and I’ve asked you to come and see me in my office. You walk down a long corridor, come through the doorway, and sit down at a table. In front of you is a sheet of paper with a list of five-word sets. I want you to make a grammatical four-word sentence as quickly as possible out of each set. It’s called a scrambled-sentence test. Ready?

01 him was worried she always
02 from are Florida oranges temperature
03 ball the throw toss silently
04 shoes give replace old the
05 he observes occasionally people watches
06 be will sweat lonely they
07 sky the seamless gray is
08 should now withdraw forgetful we
09 us bingo sing play let
10 sunlight makes temperature wrinkle raisins

That seemed straightforward, right? Actually it wasn’t. After you finished that test—believe it or not—you would have walked out of my office and back down the hall more slowly than you walked in. With that test, It affected the way you behaved. How? Well, look back at the list. Scattered throughout it are certain words, such as “worried,” “Florida,” “old,” “lonely,” “gray,” “bingo,” and “wrinkle.” You thought that I was just making you take a language test. But, in fact, what I was also doing was making the big computer in your brain—your adaptive unconscious—think about the state of being old. It didn’t inform the rest of your brain about its sudden obsession. But it took all this talk of old age so seriously that by the time you finished and walked down the corridor, you acted old. You walked slowly.

This test was devised by a very clever psychologist named John Bargh. It’s an example of what is called a priming experiment, the effects of priming aren’t trivial.

Two Dutch researchers did a study in which they had groups of students answer forty-two fairly demanding questions from the board game Trivial Pursuit. Half were asked to take five minutes beforehand to think about what it would mean to be a professor and write down everything that came to mind. Those students got 55.6 percent of the questions right. The other half of the students were asked to first sit and think about soccer hooligans. They ended up getting 42.6 percent of the Trivial Pursuit questions right. The “professor” group didn’t know more than the “soccer hooligan” group. They weren’t smarter or more focused or more serious. They were simply in a “smart” frame of mind, and, clearly, associating themselves with the idea of something smart, like a professor, made it a lot easier—in that stressful instant after a trivia question was asked—to blurt out the right answer. The difference between 55.6 and 42.6 percent, it should be pointed out, is enormous.

Nov 25 - watch if he's a lefty

★ If the opponent is fighting left, don't circle into his power. (dumbass)
★ be looser, not so tight (it will cause you to gas easy)
★ if he's quick and slips from your kicks, fake one and chase him down

Nov 22 - 4 styles

:::4 Styles of Fighter::::

★1. Aggressive - swing kick, hook, cross, hook, swing kick
★2. Elusive - combo A - jab, cross, slip, slip
combo B jab, slide, cross, slide, swing (keep the front foot planted
combo C - jab, cross, slip, slip, slip, back, swing kick

★3. Counter - jab, parry, jab, cross
★4. Tricky - a combo of all of them, including looking into the guys eyes, like they were doing in the UFC

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Inside Outside Game /////////////
★ smother using your fists to move out of a corner
★ if smothering, watch out for kicks, block a kick and return with a leg

★ When punching, use the two front knuckles, it keeps your wrist aligned with your forearm to prevent injury.

The Tiger Woods Effect

The Tiger Woods Effect as posted at The Frontal Cortex Blog

Posted on: November 17, 2009 12:42 PM, by Jonah Lehrer

Success is intimidating. When we compete against someone who's supposed to be better than us, we start to get nervous, and then we start to worry, and then we start to make stupid mistakes. That, at least, is the lesson of a new working paper by Jennifer Brown, a professor at the Kellogg school.

Brown demonstrated this psychological flaw by analyzing data from every player in every PGA tournament from 1999 to 2006. The reason she chose golf is that Tiger Woods is an undisputed superstar, the most intimidating competitor in modern sports. (In 2007, Golf Digest noted that Woods finished with 19.62 points in the World Golf Ranking, more than twice as many as his closest rival. This meant that "he had enough points to be both No. 1 and No. 2.") Brown also notes that "golf is an excellent setting in which to examine tournament theory and superstars in rank-order events, since effort relates relatively directly to scores and performance measures are not confounded by team dynamics." In other words, every golfer golfs alone.

Despite the individualistic nature of the sport, the presence of Woods in the tournament had a powerful effect. Interestingly, Brown found that playing against Woods resulted in significantly decreased performance. When the superstar entered a tournament, every other golfer took, on average, 0.8 more strokes. This effect was even more pronounced when Woods was playing well. Based on this data, Brown calculated that the superstar effect boosted Woods' PGA earnings by nearly five million dollars.

Brown argues that this phenomenon is caused when "competitors scale back their effort in events where they believe Woods will surely win." After all, why waste energy and angst on an impossible contest?

***cough cough choke choke*****

That hypothesis is certainly possible, but I'd argue that the superstar effect has more to do with "paralysis by analysis" than with decreased motivation. I'd bet that playing with Tiger Woods makes golfers extra self-conscious, and that such self-consciousness leads to choking and decreased performance. The problem, then, isn't that golfers aren't trying hard enough when playing against Tiger - it's that they're trying too hard. I wrote about this mental challenge in the London Observer earlier this year:

Scientists have begun to uncover the causes of choking, diagnosing the particular mental differences that allow some people to succeed while others wither in the spotlight. Although it might seem like an amorphous category of failure, their work has revealed that choking is triggered by a specific mental mistake: thinking too much.

The sequence of events typically goes like this: when people get nervous about performing, they become self-conscious. They start to fixate on themselves, trying to make sure that they don't make any mistakes. This can be lethal for a performer. The bowler concentrates too much on his action and loses control of the ball. The footballer misses the penalty by a mile. In each instance, the natural fluidity of performance is lost; the grace of talent disappears.

Sian Beilock, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, has helped illuminate the anatomy of choking. She uses golf as her experimental paradigm. When people are learning how to putt, it can seem daunting. There are just so many things to think about. Golfers need to assess the lay of the green, calculate the line of the ball, and get a feel for the grain of the turf. Then they have to monitor their putting motion and make sure that they hit the ball with a smooth, straight stroke. For an inexperienced player, a golf putt can seem unbearably hard, like a life-sized trigonometry problem.

But the mental exertion pays off, at least at first. Beilock has shown that novices hit better putts when they consciously reflect on their actions. The more time they spend thinking about the putt, the more likely they are to hole the ball. By concentrating on their game, by paying attention to the mechanics of their stroke, they can avoid beginner's mistakes.

A little experience, however, changes everything. After golfers have learned how to putt - once they have memorised the necessary movements - analysing the stroke is a waste of time. The brain already knows what to do. It automatically computes the slope of the green, settles on the best putting angle, and decides how hard to hit the ball. Bradley Hatfield, a professor of kinesiology and psychology at the University of Maryland, has monitored the brain wave activity of expert athletes during performance. (Because the subjects have to wear a bulky plastic cap full of electrodes, Hatfield can only study golfers, archers and Olympic rifle shooters.) While the brain waves of beginners show lots of erratic spikes and haphazard rhythms - this is the neural signature of a mind that is humming with conscious thoughts - the minds of expert athletes look strangely serene. When they are performing, they exhibit a rare mental tranquility, as their brain deliberately ignores interruptions from the outside world. This is neurological evidence, Hatfield says, of "the zone", that trance-like mindset which allows experts to perform at peak levels. (As the corporate motto says, the best athletes don't think: they just do it.)

Beilock's data further demonstrate the benefits of relying on the automatic brain when playing a familiar sport. She found that when experienced golfers are forced to think about their putts, they hit significantly worse shots. All those conscious thoughts erase their years of practice. "We bring expert golfers into our lab, we tell them to pay attention to a particular part of their swing, and they just screw up," Beilock says. "When you are at a high level, your skills become somewhat automated. You don't need to pay attention to every step in what you're doing."

This is what happens when people "choke". The part of their brain that monitors their behaviour starts to interfere with actions that are normally made without thinking. Performers begin second guessing skills that they have honed through years of practice. The worst part about choking is that it tends to spiral. The failures build upon each other, so a stressful situation is made more stressful.

Nov 17 - step

☆Watch and time that front step and respond

Nov 15 - 8 lessons expanded (redux)

(1) MOVEMENT AND DEFENCE
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3 Elements of Defence
1. Evade
2. Parry (+slip)
3. Block

★:::Evasion:::

This leads to 5 types of movement
1. step
2. double step
3. slide
4. fade
5. counter fading

These are used for attacking and defense where

Attack ==== Defense
Step ===> step back
double step ===> slide
slide ===> fade

2. Parry (+slip)
Like a go between evasion and blocking, you can redirect with your forearm, **remember to slip move your head, rotate from the hips so you can counter with a kick

3. Guard
You do this to
1. Trade
2. GTFO = Get Out

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★ An opponent will always start with a step, then double step

★ 3 types of kicks
- high for range
- mid with power at the end
- close - using the shin for speed

★ use your arm to gauge distance

★ 3 Elements of Instinct
1. Control
2. Initiative

I missed these guys in August....f★★k!

Nov 14 - kicks n stuff

★try front kicking after a swing kick or hand combo

Nov 10 - this is a throwdown, CLench MOB

CLINCHING

★ use the lead knee the opponents leg out to throw them off balance, (or throw an inside knee) then pull on their neck to throw them off balance
★ reach under the opponent's elbow to lift and throw a knee, or scoop underneath and triangle choke

Nov 9 - movement and tricks

Kicks tricks Kix trix

(1)
☆ Pattern the opponent with regular low leg kicks
☆ bring the kick to his shin, then Arsenio the shin back and around and front kick

(2)
☆ Pattern the opponent low, using your eyes looking low
☆ Kick high

(3) Bullets (matrix)
☆ Pattern the opponent with regular low leg kicks
☆ slide the leg, then kick underneath to get the bag leg

(4)
☆Pattern the opponent with regular low leg kicks
☆ land the kicking foot where he can't see, and chop the back leg

(5) if there was a 5th one I can't remember

MOVEMENT (try moving on diagonals too)







I should have started learning MT when this came out...

Nov 2 - most dense part of the bone

★ in your shin, the most dense part is the bottom just above the foot. I believe this is the part you would want to hit with too.
★ when you catch a high kick, you hook with the opposite hand, aim for the dense part near the foot joint

Nov 2 - block with both arms

unless they are tied up, in which case you can't tap out either!!!

★ Block kicks with both arms and the fleshy part of your forearm
★ turn your leg way the hell out almost 90' when blocking. Makes sense, it gives you more time to block. Remember to look for what's after that or counter

Oct 27 - sweep!

When you take a kick
★ take it, return right away with:
★a kick to the lower leg to sweep
★a kick to the upper thigh
★follow with a cross or hook

When you catch the kick
★ to make the opponent fall back, secure, lift, push and sweep the leg from behind
★ to make the opponent fall forward, secure, step to the leg side, grab behind his head or by the arm, twist him down and sweep the leg forward

★remember to keep a hand on your face, keep your proper form

Oct 25 - 8 lessons 7 words

1. Defense and Movement
2. Punches and Knees
3. Elbows and Kicks (8 limbs)
4. Mental Development
5. to be updated

1) 1) 1) 1)

★ Keep the front foot straight ahead so the rotation to a kick has less travel distance
★ jack the back leg out for momentum to move back for defense
★ you can parry with your forearms, you want to parry with the opposite forearm because it takes less force
★if you parry with the same hand, you do it so you can hook over top
★ if you parry with the opposite hand, it's to set up a kick
★when parrying, slip the head straight back

2) 2) 2) 2) 2) 2) 2)
Jab - there's 3 of them
1. Regular
2. leaning over and hitting upwards, to make the opponent hit his own face when he parrys
3. high

Cross
★ bend down into it, to be able to raise back for the hook

Hook - after the cross bring the leg back

Combos
Combo3 - 1,2, hook, jab, cross - the hook jab is supposed to be light, so you can go heavy on the cross

★After a hand combo, step back into southpaw
★ after a combo, step back and bounce forward into another
★ change the timing mid combo to make the opponent drop from his shell

Knees - bring the grounded foot up to your toes to raise and get power

3) 3) 3) 3)

Elbows on the slashing elbow, the elbow is brought up then down
Kicks bring the kick straight up like a soccer kick, then turn it down for a chop to the legs

Oct 22 - twist 'em out

★ Twist those feet especially for the right cross. Don't step and lean in so much on the jab because then you can't extend and get power on the cross.
★ keep the jab higher at chin level
★ when hooking try turning the hand so the palm is perpendicular to the floor, or try hitting with the two lead knuckles.



I got my hips stretched out today, gawdamn it was so painful I wanted to puke.

Oct 20

★ remember to slip more
★ when you chase after a missed swing watch out for a side kick, don't look at buddy's face
★ after landing a jab hook, swing low
★ when throwing a kick think about getting caught and pulling out, collapsing
★ when about to throw a kick watch out for a front kick

I caught three guys with 'The Warhead' tonight :)

Oct 19 - tricks

★when you evade, always parry as well
★parry with the same hand to just parry, use the opposite to return something

★There are 3 leg tricks, (err about that)...1, is like the Matrix - where you bring the leg slow to bring up the guard and slide through underneath for a sweep 2. 3. I forget


★switch, bring the left leg up like you're going to kick, then push it back in a superman motion and hit with a straight left. Twist the hand in the appropriate direction to break through the guard...I think I'll call this 'the Warhead' :) for now.



★try jabbing and hooking more like David Tua

I won the push up contest yesterday, then won the 'iron man' today doing plank. I was waiting for it to go down to the last 2 then let the other guy win but he dropped out too quick. Then I found out after that people were trying to beat me because I won the push up contest.....wtf.....

I won a sports drink. Freud would have a f**king field day with this pic.

31 SECONDS

this is from an online article about trading psychology, but it made me think of Muay Thai...

Some people do this through constant and unrelenting affirmations which they practice on a regular basis several times a day until the messages get through. It takes approximately 21 days of consistent and dedicated practice to change a habit. It takes 21 days of constant, dedicated repetition for one positive message to get entrained into your nervous system.

Too bad you couldn't do things in 31 seconds....



This makes me think of stance and technique

What is required to change your belief system about yourself is to truly see yourself as successful. It is like taking a photograph of yourself right now and then stepping back and looking at how you would like it to be if you were living up to your full potential. For beginners, try this simple experiment: Right now, pay attention to how you are sitting in your chair, the look on your face, how your shoulders are positioned, your posture and demeanor, and how you are feeling about yourself. Be radically honest about it. Take a snapshot of it in your mind. Now - stand up and walk away from the chair to the other side of the room. Look at the empty chair and picture yourself sitting in that chair as the person you would like to be. Picture how you would look and feel if you had everything you wanted. Keep taking snapshots of success in your mind. Keep doing it. Now, walk back to your chair, sit down and be that snapshot of success and fulfillment and true esteem of yourself. How does that feel?

Oct 17 - The Slip

★....remember to slip.....
★ slip the head to the side
★ slip back

★ If you notice jab to the forearms to make the opponent parry down too far

Oct 14 - what to do

★....When the freight train's comin'....
★ stamp down and swing to the ribs
★ stamp down and knee
★ Bailout - fake one side, then overhand and move to the other
★ When getting attacked smother using the gloves and then front kick

Oct 13 - remember remember

Remember in sparring to practice what you learned !!! (dumbass!)



★ After the right swing, swing the leg back and hit with a right cross instead of the left hook
★ don't push straight ahead after a combo, push to the side and slide and swing / combo away
★ when you see the left hook land swing kick
★ after a clinch push off and hit a couple of times


What his push kick in the first/second verse, pretty bad ass.

Oct 10 - catching kicks // getting caught

★::::: When you catch a kick :::::
☆ step over slightly, away from the kick to reduce it's power, turn your back into it, then catch it tightly, slide your hand down to the ankle and throw him away
☆catch, punch forward with your chin down and sweep

★::::: When you get caught kicking :::::
☆ turn your leg completely over leg over and pull it out
☆ turn your leg up and jab your heel into the opponent
☆ collapse your knee and grab around the opponent's head
☆ jumping knee with your other leg

Oct 6

☆ Time the jab or response coming in and hit back with an uppercut and cross
☆ return after receiving a kick
☆ watch the shoulders for hints of movement
☆ watch the feet, if they are moved too close he can't move properly so attack





Li Xiao.Long - if he were around today I wonder if he'd have any tattoos

Oct 5 - dig

☆ When punching the bag, punch it and make sure it stays out, and keep it out to strengthen the shoulders, same thing after hitting with a kick, hold it out.

☆3 elements of something
1. control
2. intuition
3 I'll get back to this :)

☆ Swing those hips when kicking, it really works (adds power and whip).
☆ throwing hooks to the body, dig with the palms up.

Reminds of this band I saw at Ozzfest

Oct 4 - from the beginning (There was Jack)

☆ stance - keep those legs bent
☆ hunch the back and sway back and forth, moving the gloves slightly open and closing. Keep the jab hand turned out

☆ Tiger stance - involves jumping no pouncing in movement, useful for getting out of corners, and chasing

☆ Bull stance - moving with shorter steps and wider stance

☆ keep your eyes open - practice splashing water in the bath or shower near your face

☆ In defence, there are 3 options
1. Move out of the way
2. Parry - remember to slip as well, slip away from the bunch, only use the shoulders to slip not legs so you can still kick
3. Block

☆ in close throw a front kick, if it gets caught pull your leg out on a diagonal and swivel the hips
☆ When getting attacked smother using the gloves and then front kick