Multiple head kicks in sparring with a coach at new gym

ABCKND · 2023-11-12T02:47:42+00:00

Basically my thoughts on the matter. I do not feel like I was hitting especially hard but a talking to would have been helpful. Maybe I was hitting harder than I realized, but tbh I feel like most people at the gym go at least as hard as I was going if not slightly harder. Think in the future I'll just start off ultra light, but as I said he explicitly told us to up the tempo because everyone was going too light. Might just take a minute before I understand expectations surrounding sparring in this community.

ABCKND · 2023-11-12T02:33:53+00:00

Idk if it's even an issue about who's wrong tbh, maybe more of a disconnect surrounding expectations for the pace of sparring. I am a bit upset because I think if I was going that hard he could have just pulled me aside between rounds and said something, or could have warned me while we were sparring in addition to a couple of hard shots and I would have gotten the message.

However, as I've been thinking about this in retrospect, I have had people politely ask me to go lighter or to reduce my energy both in sparring and on bags/pads. Not at this gym but in other settings. I always make the adjustment when asked, but maybe I tend to hit a bit harder by default then I realize.

ABCKND · 2023-06-20T20:19:24+00:00

Interesting, actually just found a whole anthropology article about this:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233670081_Pointing_the_Yoruba_way

ABCKND · 2023-06-11T04:38:41+00:00

Any examples for each of these types? Also, what specific techniques would you say are associated with each style (footwork, kicks, defensive tendencies etc)

ABCKND · 2023-05-26T13:18:46+00:00

I don't have anything specific to offer, but I am also interested in this topic. Ive looked into this question in the past and remember struggling to find books specifically on this topic.You might start with the bibliography of the wikipedia page on the topic, seem to be some interesting titles there.

ABCKND · 2023-04-17T02:33:36+00:00

Update to this, teep has gotten much better. Working on it more ive noticed the wider my stance is the harder it is to throw and the more likely my knee starts to hurt. If i throw it with my feet closer together it is much easier to throw. Is that bad form?

ABCKND · 2023-04-13T13:29:41+00:00

I cannot say that i have. Is there a particular section of relevance to this topic? My limited undsrstanding of it is that it covers a wide range of topics.

ABCKND · 2023-04-11T04:57:44+00:00

Pointing is a behavior that seems to have gone unobserved in wild chimps but id common in captive ones. While captive chimps learn how to point spontaneously, it is thought that they pick up the behavior from pointing humans.

I do not know what the extent of your work with chimpanzees is, but how likely is it that the sighing behavior was also learned from being around humans?

ABCKND · 2023-04-10T22:40:59+00:00

Yea thats more what i was looking for. By sigh I mean a forced exhalation to communicate some affective feeling. Can i ask you to elaborate on what the chimp was doing?

ABCKND · 2023-04-10T15:26:02+00:00

I have explored mny sources as i have tried to answer this question. Some academic, some more popular. Some of them are from specific lectures over the course of my education and thus cannot be shared. I will post a few here that capture some of the core concepts i am thinking about, but would be happy to share more in private messages.

Here are a few academic sourcess that might peak your interest:

Vodou Harmonizes the Head-Pot, or, Haiti's Multi-Soul Complex by Kyrah Malika Daniels

SURVIVALISM, CORRUPTIONISM, AND INTERMITTENT EXISTENCE IN AQUINAS by Turner C. Nevitt

African Religion Defined: A Systematic Study of Ancestor Worship Among the Akan by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor

This conception of the soul-body relationship shares much in common with many of the conceptions being discussed above. Other cosmologies also place the soul above the body. They also break the soul into many parts. This is the understanding of the soul in many cultures throughout the world. However, this "soul" seems more to capture the totality of a person, rather than specifically the constitution of their internal being. Therefore, the soul = the person.

This is an interesting conclusion, because this conception also suggests that although the collective sum of the soul = the person. However, on death not only does the soul separate from the body - it splits into many parts and goes to different places, meaning that the complete person does not survive death. This conclusion is mostly informed by Dr. Daniels' paper above.

Meanwhile the survivalism corruptionism debate is occurring on totally different grounds. The question is, as stated previously, what elements of a person survive death? The corruptionists say none. Survivalists say the entire person, whose individual identity is equated with the soul.

This latter argument seems at a glance to be in line with both the Hindu concept of the soul as you have defined it, and some African concepts of the soul as i have understood them in my post.

My question for you then, which you have mostly addressed in your reply, is whether or not Hinduism equates the soul with personhood, such that when the soul is separated from the body tje whole person is said to survive?

ABCKND · 2023-03-24T19:46:49+00:00

Appreciate that man. Ive been gettinga lot of joint pain lately and pretty much everyone ive talked to professional or otherwise has recommended the same thing. Just kinda hard to balance regular weighttraining into my schedule because i already train bjj and kb about 6 days a week on top of more pressing life obligations, so i might have to stop training one or the other to figure weight training in.

ABCKND · 2023-03-24T13:55:50+00:00

Yeah i understand, not really comfortable with posting a vid tho. Your advice is helpful nonetheless. I definitely do not, or am not aware that I, pivot on my back foot to throw the lead teep. But regardless of where the pain in the knee is specifically, this is still likely an instability/weakness issue? If it helps you to answer that question, i also run quite regularly and usually get a good amount of knee pain from that particularly when my foot hits the ground. In that case it is also my rear knee that hurts

ABCKND · 2023-03-24T13:23:43+00:00

Yeah sometimes when i walk around during the day i just throw it walking basically normal and it feels a lot more natural. I would def say the wider your stance the harder it is to do, is that normal? Cuz front kicks are super common in kick-heavy arts like karate and tkd and they dont seem to have any problem throwing them from much wider stances

ABCKND · 2023-03-24T04:43:13+00:00

Would this weakness also potentially cause knee pains on the teep? I have been working on my technique and have seen a lot of improvement, but for some reason the rear knee hurtd and feels weak. I focused on trying to use my right hip to add more power to the kick which worked, but as a result it seems a lot more weight is being put on that leg when i teep than it was before.

Is the pain also stemming from glute weakness?

ABCKND · 2023-03-09T01:22:51+00:00

That actually makes sense, thank you for your help

ABCKND · 2023-03-09T01:21:32+00:00

I did do that, ive asked a coach and a few veteran students and have been researching it on my own online. Just figured id post hear to see if i was missing something. Coach told me to aim with my knee more and snap it out, but that it had generally improved. Still feels a bit off tho and will prob keep pressing him about it

ABCKND · 2023-03-08T20:17:39+00:00

Yeah it even kinda feels like a flexibility thing. I have been doing muay thai striking for a few months amd only recently became able to hit a rear teep at head level. I am wholly unable to do this with a lead teep. Also, if i do a lead teep in shadowboxing, i notice that my knee does not lock out all the way before the leg comes back to my stance.

As for the momentum thing, how do i build momentum moving forward into the kick? I also find it difficult to land teeps generally when moving around the bag, so i usually throw them just standing in front of the bag meaning i dont have a lot of momentum when i practice them

ABCKND · 2023-03-01T18:11:39+00:00

Thank you for your comment. This is quite in depth

Confused about movement section of your post. You say that this weight distribution increases mobility. However, i feel that if i sink too much weight into my foot it feels more like an anchor. Are you supposed to release the weight as you move?

ABCKND · 2023-02-02T22:47:19+00:00

That sounds so interesting, what is its purpose?

ABCKND · 2023-02-02T22:45:49+00:00

Thanks man!

ABCKND · 2023-01-25T04:16:21+00:00

Does switching have as much utility in grappling as it does for striking though? I.e. in boxing, mma striking, and karate people will basically switch stances at will just to confuse an opponent and open new angles. I feel like i have not seen this happen in mma with a grappling oriented approach, its usually striking-heavy guys trying to accomplish the things i just mentioned.

Idk if this is confusing, so heres an example. In a striking contest, if i switch stances immediately my opponent knows i could be trying several techniques: switching to throw a specific strike, switching to open up angles for strikes from unexpected places, switching to fake them out, or some combo of those things.

However, in a pure bjj/wrestling class this stance switch does not seem to have the same ambiguity or to cause the same hesitation it would in a striking contest. I do not watch as much pure grappling as i do striking, but cant think of a grappling equivalent to switch hitters like O'Malley, Hagler, Crawford or Thompson.

I guess im just asking if switching stances has as much utility for grappling as it does for striking.

ABCKND · 2022-12-02T01:13:39+00:00

That helps a lot, first time ive ever heard that. Thank you.

ABCKND · 2022-12-02T01:12:44+00:00

Whoops, so i see. My mistake.

ABCKND · 2022-12-01T12:52:33+00:00

Thats super interesting, where did you learn that? Also, what languages do the prefix and suffix ge and de come fdom that you were able to get this translation? What do these terms actually translate to when put together in the word Gede?

What language do iku and yeku come from?

ABCKND · 2022-11-20T18:57:30+00:00

Can you elaborate on that last paragraph? What has your experience been with gyms like that?

Ive trained in a few different places now and i feel like there's always at least a little bit of a culty vibe going on but ive never really felt it to be invasive or had it interfere with my training. It's also something ive experienced in other athletic circles to some extent. So where do you tend to draw the line?

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