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the best music video I’ve ever seen

Natalia — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 03:27:53 +0000

I am glad I’ve started dancing bachata social dancing, because I don’t listen to pop radio, and then I would have never heard that song and would have never gotten to this video.

P.S. If you don’t listen to pop radio either, this song is currently number 1 in all pop charts everywhere.

Training for Balanced Results

ds — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:34:47 +0000

Reminiscent of Natalia’s article, “What Are You Training For?“, take a look at these two videos:

I really like these two demos. Not only because they portray talented martial artists who are able to engage with control and intensity, but because they represent two opposite ends of a spectrum. I like to call that that spectrum, skill acquisition vs skill application.

Kata, forms, and body-mechanics exercises, are great for developing and honing one’s movements. Especially for unfamiliar movements, slowness, sensitivity, and repetition is crucial. This is the same whether practicing with a cooperative training partner, or practicing solo. You can also study strategies and sequences within kata, historical “case studies” if you will, to expand your repertoire.

On the other hand, one can be fight-ready with very few techniques, by practicing with aliveness and spontaneity, and developing a fighter’s mentality. In other words, by “sparring”. But sparring too much can also be a distraction if that’s all you do. Having a narrow range of skills is like having a few “one-trick-ponies”. How far will that get you, knowing that any smart opponent will hit your weakest skill set first?

On that note, here are some veteran UFC fighters, testing their abilities for the first time in the US Marine Corps Martial Arts Program. The UFC fighters are the ones with the coloured helmets. (Scroll to the beginning if you want to watch the entire clip.)

You can only get good at what you train for… so, what are you training for?

Does this look good?

Natalia — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:56:49 +0000

I am not so sure…

Here is the link to Ido Portal post about this side effect of their training program.

Opinions?

If you don’t know what Ido Portal is, it is highly successful fitness movement based in Israel. Check our blog post about them here.

Watch a guy in red underwear teach self-massage – best YouTube channel ever

Natalia — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 23:47:04 +0000

This is now seriously my favourite YouTube channel. Very straighforward and hilarious self massage techniques. The whole concept of “you have tendinitis because your tight muscles are pulling on your tendons” was just too simple not to say to yourself “Duh!”.

Anyhow, I was laughing outloud throughout the whole series and I didn’t even get to “How to do an enema” video. If you have any muscular pain or chronic problems whatsoever, do yourself a favour and check this guy out. I particularly liked the knee issues and the elbow tendinitis videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVvBBhtiFPMuGDdqkdF4LhA

And here is a video for tennis elbow issue with the best hand drawn diagram ever