| How often do you train? | | As the title says - how often do you train?
For me, I train at the dojo 3 times a week usually. If it was up to me, without other family commitments and such, I'd love to be there 5 times a week. But 3 times a week is all I can manage right now.
I do some other training at home to make up for it - usually some slow kicking once or twice a week, stretching every second or third night, and my weekly fitness requirements (5km run, squat kicks, pushups, situps).
How about you?
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| | Currently I'm quite fortunate in that I'm working from home which makes it much easier for me to get to training (not sure how long this will last). Although I do often get quite busy with work and can't get away from the desk at times.
If I'm very busy I will get in 2 sessions at hapkido and 1 at taekwondo. On a good week I can get in anything up to 6 sessions at hapkido and 1 at taekwondo - Most weeks lately I'm getting to hapkido 3 or 4 mornings and of course 1 taekwondo class.
One day I'd love to be able to take a couple of months and just train full time - It's been something I have kept in the back of my mind the last few years. Ultimately I would love to do this overseas somewhere, possibly in Korea. Now slightly more bruised than before. |
| | For me I only get to training once a week. Main reason is that for the past year I've been working through loosing a lot of weight which was affecting my fitness levels as well as breaking through the mental barriers that were holding me back.
I'm at the point now where I'm confident enough in myself in both mind and body that I hope to increase to 2 times a week for 3 weeks and in the 4th week of a month to go 3 times.
I'd also love to be able to take a couple of months off and train full time, but for now I'll train as much as I can. |
| | I train 3 times a week during the season. If training/game or off season is called of i will train 5 times. |
| | For those that can't guess, Jayden is talking about the football season clashing with hapkido training Now slightly more bruised than before. |
| | I personally train 2-3 nights a week just to keep fit. Now I am hoping to fight in August I will be training 5 nights a week. If you are just starting out, 2 nights a week with a day or two rest between each session. |
| | Not as often as I should, and less frequently than I'd like  Been very ill recently, working back up to a few classes a week. I used to do ninjutsu twice a week, wing chun once, tai chi twice a week. Right now it's tai chi and shotokan once a week each. When the student is ready, the master will appear |
| | I usually train 4 days a week, averaging about 7.5 hours a week between Hapkido and Gongkwon Yusul. I occassionally take a night off if I feel my body needs a rest or I have something else important on but other than that I rarely miss a class. Might try and step it up a notch soon and try to start doing Jeet Kune Do as well, but we'll see if the body can keep up. I don't do anything outside of classes, as far as fitness or my own training goes. Never really been interested in training alone, just don't enjoy it. I'm there as much for the great people I train with as I am for my own progression. Pencak Silat
Hapkido
Gongkwon Yusul |
| | I've been feeling really proud of myself over the past couple of weeks. I set myself a goal of increasing my training to 2 times a week which I have met and now, after rearranging a few personal commitments I'll be now able to increase to 3 a week. If all things go well and my body and cosmic forces allow me I've set another goal of 4 times a week by years end. |
| | I recently thought to myself a challenge to train every day of the week for a week, regardless of style, just to see if I can do it if I put my mind to it. Then I'll review my priorities and whatnot. I so seldom feel like training as much as I enjoy it usually once I'm there, I want to see how I do. I came close a while back, between tai chi, wing chun, and feng shou, think I was on five days out of a week lol it felt great. No growth in comfort, and all that. I need to push myself more. When the student is ready, the master will appear |
| | Excellent challenge there, I've had similar thoughts. My biggest problem is my own mind. Like you, once I'm there it's great. It's just pushing myself past the procrastination part of my mind and get there. I've surprised myself on the odd occasion where I've struggled with 'I wont go, yes I will, no I wont' and have done it all the way home and then like I've snapped out of trance or something looked around and said to my minds eye 'wow, I'm at he Dojang, when did that happen'.
'No Growth in Comfort' - Excellent quote there, couldn't agree more. |
| | I like the quote too, I think it's one of Iaian Abernathy's, or Geoff Thompson's. Got a bunch of those quotes to fling about lol
The mind, really, is THE only challenge, for me. I'm not particularly healthy but people in worse shape than me have done martial arts to get healthier. There's really no excuse but fear.
That's a fun story, I'll remember that when I'm having doubts in the future  When the student is ready, the master will appear |
| | I think it's all about making it part of your routine. I struggled for a long time to go to training regularly, and even though I usually ended up going there was lots of 'can I really be bothered today?'. I don't really get that any more, it's just part of what I do. I know that Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights, as well as Saturday mornings, I have training. If anyone asks if I'm free those times, I tell them I'm not. When you make it a priority and part of your routine, it's easier to keep going regularly. Just think of it like work or school, it's somewhere you have to be, but it's always more fun than either of those things. Pencak Silat
Hapkido
Gongkwon Yusul |
| | I've guaranteed I wouldn't get jobs a number of times by saying I absolutely couldn't work Friday evenings coz that's when ninjutsu was. I remember the very first time I missed ninjutsu - it was because of work. The boss promised me I'd be back in time, was working in Newport anyway (where ninjutsu was) but I wasn't allowed back. Think I quit the next day lol.
What I'm doing now is writing down everything I've done in class as soon as I get home to keep track of what I've been shown, so I can practice more at home, so it becomes more an every day thing, but some days I happen to go somewhere else to do it. Will see how it works out. Learned my first kata last night so that'll help with the at home training When the student is ready, the master will appear |
| | How long did you do ninjutsu for Panda? How did you find it? Pencak Silat
Hapkido
Gongkwon Yusul |
| | I totally agree with you Andrew. I also struggled with motivation to go to training for a long time especially after long work days or late nights before Saturday morning classes. Now it is just so much a part of my routine that it feels a bit strange when I don't go to one of my usual classes. Now slightly more bruised than before. |
| | Ninjutsu is my personal record, about a year and a quarter. I loved it until my enthusiasm for it abruptly disappeared :/ In my mind I know it's awesome but my heart just isn't in it anymore. It was interesting and fun, teacher was just the right amount of crazy, great people there for the most part. I remember feeling reallly antsy and in some instances nauseous when I missed wing chun it was so ingrained. Karate is only a fewminutes walk from me though so there's little excuse.
Incidentally, you can call me Dan I just didn't know what username to use and a friend calls me panda When the student is ready, the master will appear |
| | I know what you mean Michael. I'm taking tonight off as I'm heading to Hobart to do some Gongkwon Yusul this weekend and I don't want to be too run down before I even get there, feels weird to not be going though, haha.
Nice to meet you Dan. Ninjutsu looks really interesting. They don't seem to have any techniques that are profoundly different from other systems, but they seem to have an interesting way to putting them together. There's an academy in the city in Melbourne I'd love to check out one day, but I'm reluctant because I'm already trying to keep up my progression in Hapkido and Gongkwon Yusul, and now probably starting Jeet Kune Do, I don't have time for another one! Lol. There are too many good martial arts around, too much to learn. Pencak Silat
Hapkido
Gongkwon Yusul |
| | As you say there are mostly common principles. I mean you'll find locks from aikido and some kung fu in ninjutsu, after all ninjutsu is part kung fu, the main thing that separates ninjutsu from a lot of what I've seen is the way it flows. Aikido is very flowy too but ninjutsu flows differently somehow, it's fluid but it's tighter and less flowery (no dis to aikido, I love its beauty) if you know what I mean.
Some martial arts will clash, like I'm struggling to unlearn my "square on" approach from wing chun to adopt the "side on" approach in shotokan, but if you're doing hapkido already (no idea what gongkwon yusul is!) I don't think it would be too alien to you. If you do try it let me know what you think, even though I don't do it anymore I pimp it to anyone who's interested in martial arts lol When the student is ready, the master will appear |
| | how I wish to have 3 times a week training... currently I am struggling to have 2 a week. |
| | every little helps When the student is ready, the master will appear |
Scott, Tactical Zen Self Defence Systems | | I train every day, some days however it will just be going through patterns and technique based things.
I also do a lot of research and development in order to present the best training that I can.
I am currently training very hard for a grading next month, then in Feb next year I am attending a Combat Course ran by Ernest Emerson in LA. with respect,
Scott Cheasley
Tactical Zen Self Defence Systems.
www.TacticalZen.com |
| | just a thought for all,,,,,is practicing in your head any different from physically training? and if not would you have more time?..... maybe get a session in on the train while travelling to work! |
| | I do that sometimes Matthew. Was in bed last night reading the last of my karate basics book, it ends with combinations. It was 5am, I couldn't really start taying my kara on the landing, so I did it in my head a few times.
I read this a good while ago so can't remember the sources, but a study was done on visualisation, with groups of basketballers. One group practised, the other group visualised, I think another group visualised AND practised. The visualisers improved the most. Another one I read about was where a group of people went to the gym, and another group literally just dedicated time visualising. The ones who simply visualised still got stronger! It sounds mental but the mind's an amazing thing, I think if you can concentrate hard enough you can achieve a lot. Repetition builds up mental familiarity as well as the muscle memory after all.
I finally made it to the second class I've been meaning to get to. They did some stuff that got my attention, like pronouncing some Japanese wrong (you'd think people who trained under Enoeda would know better), but it was a great workout, so will see if I get any fitter soon. When the student is ready, the master will appear |
| | Yeah I've heard the same thing Dan, I think a few studies have shown that visualising technique can help improve your physical ability. I definately find that if I've got a grading coming up or something and want to really nail a pattern, if you don't have time/space to actually do the pattern, run through it in your head a few times. At the very least you won't have to try so hard to remember the sequence while you're doing it and you can focus on your techniques more. Pencak Silat
Hapkido
Gongkwon Yusul |
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