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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2006 22:59:27 GMT
I was just wondering what kind of training schedules you guys follow.
For me its: -3 days a week in the gym. I usualy practice with my sword on my tire-pell to warm up for the gym.
-1 day a week rapier fencing practice -1 day a week heavy rattan in full armor
Also minimum 1 hour historical research research every day. You have to train the mind too.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2006 3:59:18 GMT
I'm out of training now, but when I trained it was like this:
Stretch as soon as I get up Sunshine shake Jog 2-3 miles Go to gym - workout with free-weights about 5-6 hours (eatting MetRx shakes and bars all the time, middle of the day I have some lunch, depends on what I was in the mood for) Proceed to Aerobics room (empty around 4 or so) practice TKD for 2 hours minimum Go home Shower Stretch again (actually I stretched all the time, but these are the two solid concrete times I always stretched) Eat Study (about two hours) Sleep
Plus I often used my MP3 player to listen to audiobooks on biology, chemistry, etc. while I worked out.
This was when I was about 15-17. That was about as close as I got to being a pro martial artist. When I wasn't attending seminars or tourny's (or competitions) I'd be doing this. I still did most of this even when I was at a seminar or other.
Plus I had to teach TKD class every monday, wednesday, and friday.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2006 17:18:19 GMT
4 - 5 days a week.
Aikido 3 days a week Kun Tao & fillipino knife fighting 1 day a week And Iaido/kenjitsu 1 day a week when ive got time.
At the same time Im trying to get trough college =P
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2006 22:55:08 GMT
Nowadays I stretch 4 times a day 7 days a week(or at least try to, I have trouble keeping to a routine, so usually it's 2-3 times a day 5 days a week). Once in the morning, once in the evening, and once before and after each workout. I try to workout at least a little every day, though some days I miss, and I usually don't have time for the full thing, which is silly cuz it takes less than 20 minutes to do my workout(which you will see in it's entirety when my website is up).
I also goto my Aikido practice as much as I can, usually between 3-5 days a week, and on at least two of those days i'm going to multiple classes. My sensei is great, in that he incorporates a lot of systema and recently some wing chun into our practice. The latter I appreciate greatly, as Aikido is particularly difficult against someone trained to use noncommitted strikes.
Other than that, I do at least 30 minutes of solo longsword drills a day, and i try to once or twice a week get together with friends for paired drills and sparring.
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Post by rammstein on Dec 16, 2006 23:11:55 GMT
I'm not participating in anything now other than modern fencing 3 times a week. I do stretch constantly, at least 10 times a day. Flexibility is important to me, and I feel the need to maintain it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2006 1:45:47 GMT
Modern fencing 3 timesa week is excellant. The skill realy carries over into rapier. You still develop good distance and timming for other sword forms. Just make sure you fence with your off hand too.
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Post by rammstein on Dec 17, 2006 2:11:21 GMT
of course. I am ambidextrous when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, but I lack the strength that I have in my left hand. Still, it is not rapier, though it does develop great reflexes. needless to say, I greatly prefer fighting southpaw. As a rule of thumb lefties are used to fighting righties as there are so many righties and so few lefties. Righties are only used to fighting other righties. But when two lefties fight, it gets very akward and often times we make silly mistakes that neither can take advantage of because we've never fought lefties before ;D! Left > Right Right = Right Left Left
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2006 3:11:53 GMT
I first learned to fight right, even though I am a southpaw. Later I learned to fence left, and it came very naturally to me. With a longsword, I am ambidexterious, though I usually reserve fighting left for my tougher duels - it does confuse people pretty well.
That said, since power in cutting comes from the bottom hand, when I longsword fence right, my technique is more powerful. When I go left, I'm a hair more fluid, but a hair less powerful.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2007 5:01:34 GMT
Hello all, I must say about the only excersize I get is walking around in the prison I work in doing my various duties and assignments. I was walking the track for a while but my left ankle and knee have been really bothering me lately (an old injury reserfacing) so I had to stop. But I have been on a diet. In 5 months I have gone down from 345 to 316lbs simply by limiting my sugar and carb/starches intake.
But as for the sword, I study and train with my sabre alittle bit every day. For years I have loved sabres and off and on studied Cooke's Cavalry Tactics and the Sabre Drill in it, practicing it with my sabre. I took a long spell away from it after selling my sabre when I got out of reenacting some years ago. I got re-interested in it when recently I bought Cold Steel's Fighting with the Sabre and Cutlass. It is a neat two disc set and inspired me and re-awakened my interest and love of the American Cavalry Sabre. In the last couple of months I have gotten four sabres; a Cold Steel 1860 Hvy Cav sabre(actually a copy of the 1840 Cav sabre or something close), an Ames Sword Co. 1862 Lt. Cav. Sabre, and two from MRL (a U.S. and a C.S. one). The Ames and the MRL are so close and almost identicle I am convinced the same people made them, Windless. The Cold Steel Sabre has a sharp edge. I am going to put one on the Ames sword. The two MRL ones I will leave dull and use them as practice and sparring sabres.
Anyway, since getting sabres once more I have been studying the material almost every day, practicing with the swords at home and sticks or my hand when at work (when no one is looking). I love it and think that sabre fighting or training (real combat sabres, not light olympic sport sabres) is a very interesting Martial Art. It is neat how when you practice and you begin to see how your movements become more controlled and close in, and your control and effeciency with your weapon improves, your confidence improves. That is a good feeling isn't it? Take care, Freebooter
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2007 11:47:26 GMT
Hi Freebooter, in the end every person is only competing against themself, so every step forward you make is a big step In the last SCA tornament I attended there was a guy fighting from a wheelchair who was missing his leg below the knee. You gota respect that. Keep up the progress.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2007 14:13:30 GMT
Hello again, Dang Tsafa, he does indeed deserve respect and has mine! My father lost a leg at mid thigh in Korea in 1950 and my mom's friend across the street was pinched between two cars while getting her jack out to change a tire by a drunk driver. She lost one leg at her upper thigh and the other was horribly mangled. She survived and persaveared and remained the wonderful, kind lady she was to the day she died, never let it get her down. So I know what a one legged person goes through and they have my repect.
Anyway, what was he fighting with, medieval, katana, cav sabre? Did he wear any sort of armor? And how did he do? Just curious.
Here is something funny pertaining to having one leg that happened to me and my dad on a trip, although off topic I reckon. My dad loved his liquor. Liquor and wooden legs do not go very well together. He, my brother and sister, and myself were on a trip once and dad and I stopped at a McDonalds along the interestate in the Carolinas to use grab a bite and use the men's room. It was the weekend and the place was packed and we had to park in the farthest part of the parking lot. Ol' pops was a bit inebriated to say the least and had to walk along, thowing out that old heavy woodend leg with each step, with his hand on my shoulder for balance (That leg was the old, heavy lifelike type with a hinged knee that stayed on his thigh or "stump" by suction).
Well we go into the men's room and do our business and I hear an awful commotion, banging, thump, and my dad cussing, etc.. I look and dad had fallen down due to the fact that his danged wooden leg had fallen off. The suction that held it onto his thigh or stump had let loose. Here he was laying on a McDonad's restroom floor, with his wooden leg hangin out of the bottom of his pants leg, the wide "thigh" of the wooden leg having caught in the pants bottom keeping it from falling out of the pants. I started to help him to get his pants off, saying that he needed to do so in order to put his leg back on, that I would run to the car to get his suction sock for his stump, etc., etc.. Him being drunk, he started berating me and hollaring at me to take him to the car, that he was not disrobing in a public restroom while wallering on the filthy floor, etc..
He got louder and louder, people came investigating, etc.. Seems like the whole floor was taken up by my dad and that wooden leg, which seemed to be ten feet long at the time. My sorry arsed brother was cracking up, telling people that Hoss Cartright, pointing at me of course (I am built about like Hoss Cartwright and he always called me that), had everything under control. Finally, out of desperation and to shut my dad's loud mouth, I finally hooked him under each arm and drug him out of the bathroom, through McDonalds, between the tables, across the parking lot, to our car, all the while with an extra four feet or so of woodend leg hung up in his lower pants leg dragging along behind him. EMBARRISSING!! I bet you that my face was as red as my beard was at the time! Now just picture that, and all the while my dad, in his very educated yet inebrebriated speech, coaching me along, blaming me for it all, my brother laughing, pointing at me calling me Hoss Cartright, etc. (I think my sister hybernated in the back floor board of the car during it all ).
Don't get me wrong, my dad was from some of the finest old Blueblooded, "Landed Gentry" families of Old Southern Maryland, and when he was sober he was a polished gentleman, highly educated, intelligent, interesting, and very well spoken. I loved my dad with all my heart and was proud of him as a veteran and as my dad of course and miss him terribly now that he is gone, but by Jove when he was like that he was a royal pain in the ol' arse!! I reckon at the time it was funny to all but me.
I just thought you would get a kick out of that since we had touched on the subject of "one legged" people. Take care, FB
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Apr 11, 2007 16:45:39 GMT
Hi guys. Back on the original topic. Sorry about the late entry to the thread. I know a few of the guys here have various training regimes. My gig is as follows: Hevy but breif weight training once every five to six days. Two workouts to work the whole body so the same muscles are worked every 10 to 12 days. Dirt bike riding 2 to three times a week. 45 mins each. Call it cardio Lower back and core exerecises 2 to 3 mornings a week. Practice cutting twice a week or whenever we buy something in a big enough box to play with. I work with my brain so I like to get active after work. With the combination of weights, dirt bikes, and swords I always have something fun to do after work and keep fit.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2007 18:55:18 GMT
This was an SCA tornament. So he was in full armor, covering head, elbows, knees, throat. He was fighting sword and sheild. Once he got into the list (that means fighting area) he did not try to move around. He let his opponet come to him. He through his shots at full power and the shot that where thrown to him were at fullpower. His defense was good, he eventualy took a headshot and lost.
In SCA tornaments, if you get hit in the legs, the fight is not over. You drop to your knees and fight from a kneeling position as best you can. So fighting a man who has no use of his legs is very common for us. Unfortunaly this is a real case.
Story about your Grandfather was like something out of a movie!
Brenno, you are keeping yourself in good shape. I would be good if you could find a fencing school and do that once a week too. It may not be historical, but it will teach you basic footwork, distance and timming. That is where I started.
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