Training

[shep]

I feel like an amature. I train two sessions a week (and due to shift work I sometimes miss one of them) for 1.5 each session. Plus any courses I can get to go on during the year. I also practice at work most days during quiet spells. My collegues are very use to seeing me perform various techniques!!

[oneya]

Just lazy use of language and definitions on my part.

Tim

Ah, English based.!



oneya

[Wado heretic]

I am using the time as I am to the extreme as I am sure I'll just regret it in the future if I didn't take this opportunity to see what my physical peak really can be.

A good observation Tim; at the moment I am getting the occasional private lesson with my grading Instructor so he can go over the finer details. During my practice I am also keeping repetitions of the same technique to a minimum, except for the one I go over for 20 minutes. I am hoping this will minimise the potential impact of bad technique occuring through repetition. The one I go through in detail I start with slowly and break down to it's individual componants and it's not until the last five minutes I go hell for leather with it. I am also using mirrors and making notes during my breaks in between the 20 minute blocks which I then make sure to revisit before the start of each training session. Not sure it'll truly limit bad habits happening but it's the best I have come up with so far, do you reckon it's enough or any tips you have that might help further?

That's an interesting approach Monkey mind; I might steal it. I already find myself going wide around corners though or practicing my balance on the bus by standing, that get's a weird look from the bus driver when I am the only person on the bus beside him/her. Were you professional Muay Thai fighter with a schedule like that or in a similar situation as I am as a student?

At the moment a trick I am trying is the with a wave master XXL. The standard model I can move with pure strength, so what I have done is weighed it down to a point where I have to be conciously using technique to even budge it. It's around 320 lbs or just over 22 stone at the moment and it won't even move unless I am performing by best Gyaku Tsuki.

[majin29]

I'm only doing one formal class per week but I'm stepping up to 2 shortly. I cannot get enough of Wado. I train about 20-40 minutes every day- sometimes more if I'm working on combinations and kata. I should do more cardio and weights but I still have body mechanics to work out in some of these waza. I'm getting better. I'm still really really new to all this.

[monkey mind]

That's an interesting approach Monkey mind; I might steal it. I already find myself going wide around corners though or practicing my balance on the bus by standing, that get's a weird look from the bus driver when I am the only person on the bus beside him/her. Were you professional Muay Thai fighter with a schedule like that or in a similar situation as I am as a student?

Neither, really. When I moved to Thailand I had some money saved up & wanted to see what it was like to really dive into my training. I trained nearly full-time for a while & I fought professionally but I'd hesitate to say I was a professional fighter. My ring experience was very limited and in any case it was never about training to fight, it was more about fighting as a boost to my training. In fact, most of my training wasn't in sport Muay Thai but in Muay Boran - old-style Thai boxing with few, if any, rules. Good stuff but over the long haul I much prefer wado.

[mspain]

That's an interesting approach Monkey mind; I might steal it. I already find myself going wide around corners though or practicing my balance on the bus by standing, that get's a weird look from the bus driver when I am the only person on the bus beside him/her. Were you professional Muay Thai fighter with a schedule like that or in a similar situation as I am as a student?

Neither, really. When I moved to Thailand I had some money saved up & wanted to see what it was like to really dive into my training. I trained nearly full-time for a while & I fought professionally but I'd hesitate to say I was a professional fighter. My ring experience was very limited and in any case it was never about training to fight, it was more about fighting as a boost to my training. In fact, most of my training wasn't in sport Muay Thai but in Muay Boran - old-style Thai boxing with few, if any, rules. Good stuff but over the long haul I much prefer wado.

Monkey mind,
Where are you in Thailand?

MSPain

[monkey mind]

Monkey mind,
Where are you in Thailand?

MSPain

Down the street from the Chili Bell, right behind the ballet studio :)

[mspain]

Monkey mind,
Where are you in Thailand?

MSPain

Down the street from the Chili Bell, right behind the ballet studio :)

AHA !

[Wado heretic]

Can see why you would do so and I suppose you should when you have the chance. Rarely get opportunities like that twice in your life.
Apparently their exist Kata in some regional variations Muay Boran; would you know whether that is true?

[monkey mind]

My only exposure was to Muay Chaiya & I never saw anything like kata there.