Your favorite part of training?

So what’s everyones favorite, or what do you specialize in?

Forms.
Heavy bag.
Push hands.
Sparring.
Plum flower posts.
Practising moves,armlocks,take down.
Weapons.
Practising blocks,punches,kicks.
Shadow boxing.
Meditation.
…ETC…

My best part is Mook yan jong,wooden dummy,iron dummy.
I also really like sparring with class mates, thats fun.

"So what’s everyones favorite, or what do you specialize in? "

I prefer sparring,because thats the kind of training where you can use all your knowledge.

And I prefer Escrima ( Stickfight ) partner exercises.

Thinking.
So many MA’s do so little of it.

Or watching the Gracie Self Defense CD-Rom :D!!!

Technique work and sparring. Notice we’re talking about our favorite part, not the most important part :wink:

sparring and practicing kicks.

and just flowing around is pretty fun too.

My favorite part is martial-arts based strength training and conditioning.
And reading about martial arts. Sparring is fun if I’m properly up for it.

-FJ

My Favorite part bout training

The sweat and the feeling of accomplishment after a good 3-4 hour training session.

Specifically my favorite things are Sparring and partner drills.
although I do love forms and solo technique practise as well.

In class - conditioning, All of Shuai Shiao throwing!! when u feel that u improve in skill, all chat between class mates, kicking the puching bag, the feeling when you made the class without puking, bleeding or really really hurt! Aaaand, the nr one favourite part iiiis:
The shower after traing. Is there anything sweeter?

:smiley:

Originally posted by Kristoffer
The shower after traing. Is there anything sweeter?

Getting home, your parents are out, you make a quick phone call and get to shower with your missus.

So yes, there is.

all sparring practices (not the ones where you know what your opponent is about to do).

My all time favourite thing ABOUT training is:

Fallin asleep because i’m physically worn out not mentally (as in after work).

Drinking a can of coke after workout, it never tastes as sweet as when i get home real tired and drink a big coke ahhhhhhh

Sakuraba gets his smokes after workouts i get my coke :wink:

Favourite part of training???

hmmmmm, sparring, techinque and patterns def.!!!

:smiley:

I love sparring the guys and winning…it doesnt happen all that often. But its great to see them wince in pain…:stuck_out_tongue:

Umm, and the feeling when youve completed a LONE session of training and the first drop of cold water that ebters your mouth…that my friends is not describable, but if you think it is, please feel free to fill me in.

Yeah. thats about it.

Tae Li
:wink:

uuh..I meant a LONG seesion not lone. hehe sorry.

Tae Li
:wink:

Favourite part of training?

That’s definitely, when I’m walking back to the locker room, my muscles are all tired, I’m warm all around and I can feel the endorphine rushing trough my veins. Awesome feeling.

I’ll second that. It’s always great to know you’ve learnt something new also.

uhhhhhhh i forgot to mention one thing, since someone said “showering” i just had to mention our Sauna room, it ruuuullleeeess, almost everyone goes there (it’s a unisex sauna). It’s incredibly relaxing to be in the sauna after a hard workout and just chill out (it comes in handy too when you gotta make weight for a tourney). But it’s not just relaxing, you dont get a lot of time to talk to the people that train with you, lots of people just shower and leave and you dont talk in the shower (and if you do it’s only to people of your own gender so i’d not talk much to the girls in class). But in the sauna everyone stays for an extra 20-30 minutes getting relaxed and talking, it’s really nice to ge to know the people your training with better.

So i’m adding that to my list, relaxing your muscles in the sauna while getting to know your training partners and teacher (nice to talk to them in a more relaxed mode then in training too) better.

Only thing i can imagine better then the sauna would be a hot tub or “Jakoosy” (no idea how to spell that). Man would that be relaxing after a hard workout.

It’d have to be…

(1) Laying the smack down on my instructor. That wonderful endorphin rush when you finally land a perfect counter or take advantage of a miniscule opening in his defence/offense and lay a sweet one in. Doesn’t happen often. Hardly ever in fact.

But it’s sooooo worth it.

(2) Sparring. At any level, though preferably with seniors who are much better than me. It’s the best way to learn.

(3) When a technique comes out purely on instinct, and strikes/applies without thought.

There’s much more, but those are the pick of the bunch :smiley:

When I sparred a yellow belt some time ago and I completely dominated him! :sunglasses:

mine would have to be going slowly through forms with other classmates, 2-man drills, and drumming. :slight_smile: i also like chatting with my simo for a few hrs after training, and sleeping for about 5hrs when i get home. :smiley:

my favourite parts of training are:

(1) finally realising/understanding something about my style. When you finally see/understand something you feel like such a jack a s s because of what you’ve been doing before. For a while you feel better, then there’s the next obstacle to cross.

(2) watching my Sifu demonstrating/explaining something. It makes me feel very lucky to have stumbled across such a wealth of knoweledge after wandering lost for so long.

(3) having a chance to talk/train with my Sifu. Most of the things i really have to think about and don’t understand for a long time afterwards though :frowning:

my worst parts:

(1) trying to learn something new and getting corrected all the time. I feel like such a dunce!

(2) starting to practise new Hard Qigong exercises. Until you get used to them they are a pain in da a s s! (or wherever ur training:D )

david