07-22-2017, 10:14 PM
Maximum Learning Speed 5.5g
-Chaosvrgn said this here
Quote:This is craaaaaazzzzzzy. Like, crazy enough for me to wanna yell PLACEBO! at my own results. First off, my mind is clear and sharp as f*ck today. Still a bit of brain fog resulting from the insanity that I've put my body through for the past year (3-4 hours a day of training, plus DMSI, plus work), but it's waaaay above baseline.
Second, we did a drill during my private lesson that I aced -- I mean, literally aced -- in about 20 minutes. Here's why that's so profound to me -- the drill involved something I absolutely HATE doing and have avoided it throughout my entire martial arts career. And that's "fighting in the pocket."
For those who don't know, "fighting in the pocket" means fighting on the inside, or within your opponent's reach, as opposed to fighting on the outside and moving to attack when necessary. See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-51k67wXXoM
We did a very similar drill as the video, except the coach was holding thai pads instead of gloves so I could counter as hard as I wanted. Make no mistake, however, he was slapping the shit out of me with the pads when I messed up.
I was quite reluctant to do this, as I prefer fighting very defensively. I usually don't have to fight on the inside because of my height (being six feet), but we've had some tall mofos join the gym lately and start giving people a hard time, so he was preparing me for that situation. I have very strong and fast powershots (cross / hook / uppercut) and I generally bait you in and slam you with a combination of powershots until your will breaks XD.
However... I ended up rocking the living F*CK out that drill in about 25 minutes, to the point where the coach couldn't even keep up. At the end of the session, he was just like "damn, you were on your crazy A game today, chaos."
Also, I'm getting this crazy motivation to keep watching training videos and start learning more and more strategy.
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