Different / Alternate Training Ideas

[Chris Nagel]

Scrap on Bodywork:

Its all to do with levels distance and direction whether youre outside or in. you need a wider stance in than you need out. Ive always found using a large tire good for standing on while doing body work on the pads, its a laugh.

[Chris Nagel]

Balance...

my point was not so much on the issue of power but of making contact with the target and the point about legs is correct. Let's not forget if you do lean over with a cross it can be a long way back to your centre and be balanced.

Scrap, in terms of the jab try it sitting on a chair. take the legs out of it for the moment. Just make a fist and push it out straight. Now do the same thing but turn your shoulder/chest with it.

Try sitting on a fit ball and doing it or get some hand pads put them round your knees and shadow box on your knees through isolating the feet you get good upper body movement in balance.

[Chris Nagel]

Perception and balance...

Heres a thing you can try, Stand on your good leg with the other of the floor in balance. Then shut your eyes, what happens next is the primory reason for you not improving your speed, understanding it is the key.

I call it the Oral principal of balance, every thing I try reverts back to it. Keep getting some amazing results. Wonder if theres anybody out there, whos working in the same field.

Actually it shows, our balance isnt to good because off our eyes. The motorization of the body is affected by the eyes ears and mouth and neck posture and the inabiltey of the two eyes seeing the same.

Scrap I am intrigued by this. The exercise standing on one leg with your eyes shut is basically a proprioception exercise. As far as I'm aware sensory nerves in the ankle for example, tell the brain that there is movement - once that movement reaches a certain point the brain then releases an impulse to contract the necessary muscles to maintain balance. The muscles generally overcompensate then the same thing happens on the opposing side. The greater the movement on either side means the poorer the balance is and has more of an effect on the equilibrium of the inner ear which detects the amount of movement and the velocity of the movement produced in the head.

The same principles can apply to multiple dynamic movements. The way I understand it, is that if you can decrease any additional movements apart from the desired ones, including head movement the muscles will receive the correct signals from the brain to produce the optimum movement.

Basically for effect, and for you to feel what happens when you eliminate a primory sense what causes the problem. The head is at the top of the body for a reason, and its not so you take a better photo, different animal types have radar in different positions in their head for a reason, also different size attributes for doing so to alert the brain. I dont know about other speices, but our eyes are the only sense that doesnt go directly to the brain, and both eyes dont see the same thing. Eliminate the eyes and make the muscle neurons adapt to speed qiucker, thats one way. there are others md hit on one, non movement of the oral cavety, the head.

[Chris Nagel]

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[Youngblood]

I'd like to see Duran work the bag with his head, if there is any footage anywhere. Likely more just for chit n giggles.

[Chris Nagel]

I haven't seen it for myself, but I heard it first from Scrap, and later it was confirmed by Ron Lipton. Scrap said it's practicing the same motion used in slipping, hence you're not just playing Woody Woodpecker on the bag.

Perhaps it was also to strike fear into his opponents. Imagine an ex-con as terrifying as hell walk up to the bag and use his head to bang away at the speed bag in machine gun rhythm. Don't wanna mess with that mofo, something's not right about him...