Makes me wish I was a teenager again so I could be a part of all this brave new world we’re in. Damn.
“Poor is the pupil who
does not surpass his
master” - Leonardo Da
Vinci
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=“-1”>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SevenStar:
It’s not uncommon for people to puke during their test [/quote]
What’s the purpose of this? It’s like doing squats until you puke, it’s hardcore, but not as effective as other methods?
Iron
The purpose is to see if you can execute when you are tired. After you can no longer execute, the purpose is to see if you simply have the heart to continue defending as best you can.
That little bit might be the difference between a win and a loss, whether the street or ring.
Puking is what happens when you are out of shape. It’s not like just doing calisthenics till you vomit, that’s just mean.
MonkeySlap, what do you mean younger? We have a 48 year old that went through a line of 13 people to get his blue belt!
Right on MP.
"Just because I joke around sometimes doesn’t mean I’m serious about kung-fu.
" - nightair
Excellent article. It really opens your eyes to “how deep” you have to dig during a fight or training. I know I will think of this article when Im doing sets of 40 gwa-sows.
Shaolin36
Does anybody happen to know the Lion Den’s MMA competition record? Perhaps as it compares to other fight stables?
-ZC
“The thorn pricks only those who would harm the rose.”
Grading for my yellow t-shirt(2 and a half years into kung fu) was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.It was a 3 and a half hour physical which included pushups sets of 75,situps,crunches,legraises etc sets of 100,carrying each other arround the class 10 times with your arms,bunny hops arround the block,chain pushups,block pushups,sprints and a whole lot more.My body gave in 3 quarters of the way through and I had to finnish with sheer will power.I had to get picked up afterwards as I couldn’t drive myself home.
I also couldn’t go to work the next day.
Then 2 days later we had our anitiation with the seniors,they basically beat the tarr out of us for an hour,we were bleeding,bruised and battered,out shirts were torn off and we had kick and punch marks all over our bodies.
I was extremely proud when I passed it.
Today it’s still one of my most cherrished accomplishments.
“You’re Good Kid Real Good,But As Long As I’m Arround You’ll Always Be Second Best See”.