An Immediate vote....come on guys.

[donnydarkoIRL]

I'm struggling to think of camp ideas. I guess it'd be easier to think of something with a few more details. Have you guys picked a location - are you going away or is it more just that you've commited to train together as a group for a while.

There are a couple of venues and we've got a group of guys, agreed on the training we will do

If you're going away what's the countryside like around there and what facilities do you have available? Do you still have to work or are you taking time off? If you have the whole day off you could use some non-training time to study videos and go through tactical ideas.

Well we all live quite close to the City. I'll be working so I'll be in the City Full time. We'll meet for roadwork in the mornings and for training after work. Plenty of facilities, I've got all the gear we need and weather permitting some beautiful runs and facilities.

One thing I find I don't have much time is to really think about / study in normal training is strategy. You can to a certain extent while training but you also have to keep warm, keep moving and train so I find I only have time to nut out simple concepts then.

I understand. Do you think it would be helpful to set out a schedule of tactics, strategies and ideas to be worked on, before each session?

Also taking some recent tape of your sparring so you can all critique each other might be good too. Not to mention taping sparring you do together - reviewing it and aiming to improve set things in the next session. I've been doing this weekly with a training partner in my gym and I think it has helped me a lot.

We've recently started using this technique. I'm not sure how much it will help the less expierienced guys, but it definitely helps me personally.

I guess it could be a good time to exchange ideas on physical conditioning, stretching etc. Maybe you could all bring a few ideas on these things, maybe a book or something your friends might not have seen and go through them together?

Good luck with the bout if you're competing by the way too.

Thats not a bad idea.
The entire idea is to benefit from each others expieriences and varying backgrounds in the soprt, so thats right along my train of thought.