so i just started cross-tarining...

Wai Jia: The Kung Fu Forum Wing Chun
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drop me a line on those tapes. This whole weekend was pretty much all muscle memory work on my ground game. I learned a few very valuable lessons. Fitness is your number one asset in fighting. After I did the bull in the ring drill I could barely fight the last round of people, I mean I was barely moving.

My ground game has totally gone up an extra level this weekend and I also learned that I almost always go for submission before I control the situation, which is something that I am working on now. I am going to work my way in step by step by the books to get my position and control then go for the submission. When you do it that way on the ground they have little chance of beating you because you already have superioir control, position, and technique.

I am interested in developing my ground game a bit further to learn how to fully deal with it, but by no means want to become a full time ground fighting. I am a striker, and I am fast. I am not very big so naturally my attributes are better for striking, plus I like to stay on my feet just incase…

My eblows and kness are shredded but feel better today actually from ground fighitng outside on the grass all weekend. I got some freaking sun burn too :mad:

I think that going to a seminar of stuff like this is good for any martial artist. I recomend you guys pick up a bit o ground fighting if you ever get the chance to, so you can at least build attributes for it and you can at least know the basic concepts. Which btw remind me of wing chun about positioning and control…

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it’s no different than striking on that topic - size has it’s advantages in striking and in grappling, but a bigger grappler is by no means a guarantee of being a better grappler.

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I disagree size does matter, Im about 150lbs and I had a 250lb resisting opponet that had got me in the mount. He was smart about it and got in a high mount so I couldn’t oompa (sp?) him off. It was near impossible for me to handle someone on the ground that knew what they were doing and had about 100 lbs on me.

I am fast on my feet and with striking, its my natural attributes. I have no problem going to the ground, but for me its more advantagous if I stay on my feet.

I learned A LOT about ground fighting this last weekend. Some stuff I already knew and trained and other stuff was new to me. Fitness, size, and attributes do matter. Thats why they have weight classes in competitions.