Martial Science

I am in something of a dilemma.
You see earlier today my scales told me this.
I should simply rush out and buy that cheesecake, but a part of me doesn’t want to. That part of me is looking forward to my lunch of a sandwich of home-made wholemeal bread and lean ham with liberal quantities [...]

Following on from the earlier post about the different types of movement I thought it might be interesting to look at how we pass from type one to type three, some of the pitfalls that may be encountered, and some strategies for helping others overcome those pitfalls.
The first thing we need to know as instructors, [...]

There have been some interesting theories as to which finger you should lose if you had to choose.
Lets look at the facts of the situation.
Grip strength comes from the medial side of the hand and lessens as you move laterally (did you read the list of definitions?) which basically means your strength is mainly from [...]

I haven’t forgotten part two of “Movement”, you know, the bit that is actually relevant. I’ve just been a bit busy recently…
Anyway, something that was mentioned at REVOLUTION recently got me thinking.
When I worked in Orthopaedics I attended a fascinating lecture by Prof Frank Burke from the Derby Hand Unit. He was (he’s [...]

All numbers represent KCal unless otherwise stated.
Ei – Eo = F
Mean Ei per day = 1287.5
Eo per day = 2500
Therefore mean F = -1212.5
Diet duration =4 days so far.
F = -4850
Or in real terms a weight loss of 5lbs.
I think a celebratory glass of sugar-free beverage is in order.
Dieting is a piece of cake.

This has to be the vaguest title I could come up with for this post.
Sorry about that.
A conversation on a forum I frequent got me to thinking about the different categories of movement and how we should understand them all.  At least it got me to thinking that if I was going to expand on [...]

Warming up serves a number of purposes, I’m going to look more closely at two of them.  I split my classes warm up into two parts, each one specifically designed to target one of the purposes for the warm up.
Warm up part 1 – Increased Heart Rate.
Getting your heart rate up increases the amount of [...]

I have a tendency to use medical terminology without realising I do, and so I thought it might be helpful for me to provide a glossary. I’ll try to cover all the terms I’m likely to use but I’ll almost certainly forget something. Feel free to shout at me if I use obscure [...]

Merely mentioning the words “diet” and “science” together conjures images of (no longer Dr) Gillian McKeith forcing overwrought, overemotional, overweight people to stare at their own poo as if the answers to the universe were somehow contained within.
I’m not going to make you do that.
I’m going to take a much simpler approach.
I’m going to start [...]

As a martial artist of some twenty years training I have more than a passing familiarity with techniques that work.  I know how to apply them, and more importantly I know when to apply them.  On the instance that a techniques fails to work I am usually able to figure out what I did wrong [...]