Over the last while, I’ve been trying to focus my effort on streamlining my kempo practice to come up with the best nucleus of material. My beef with the ‘million and one is better’ school of kempo stems from several sources. First, despite what Hock Hockheim says, Hick’s law (and Fitts Law) are still robust predictors of the effect and the size of the effect of a preponderance of choices on reaction time. Continue reading
Resistance training? Here’s the way.
As part of my Post-Baccalaureate program at Bridgewater State College, I completed coursework related to a wide variety of physical activities, and as part of the my efforts to increase my knowledge of resistance training, especially in regard to sports, I picked up the book Explosive Lifting for Sports by Harvey Newton. It’s a great resource for using resistance training to increase your effectiveness in other areas.
The book begins with a basic overview of the terms and ideas, and clearly defines and differentiates between strength and power, and describes techniques for training for each. It also explores weightlifting and plyometrics, and gives ways to combine them for better results.
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Tagged Explosive Lifting, NSCA-CSCS, Power, Resistance Training, Sport Specific Training, Strength
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Not Kempo, but a pretty good kata performance.
I thought the person (blue belt, I think) doing the Circle of the Tiger in the previous post did a pretty good job. I was especially pleased to see that the form was done in a pretty ‘by-the-book’ fashion. This was in contrast by the unseen, but unfortunately not unheard off-screen Bruce Lee / Strangling a Cat festival nearby. This always disappoints me about tournament kata, in that everyone turns into something like Michael Bolton stubbing his toe repeatedly, providing a long drawn out kiai for every move of their form. This next video is of a green belt performing the Ryuei-Ryu (say that ten times fast) kata Pachu at a tournament. I sure hope this lady won.
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