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
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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
★ 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
Thursday, November 26, 2009
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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
★ 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
Sunday, November 22, 2009
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.
★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.
Friday, November 20, 2009
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.
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.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
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!
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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!
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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
★ 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
Monday, November 9, 2009
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...
(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...
Monday, November 2, 2009
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
★ 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
★ 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
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