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alex

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« on: October 17, 2004, 06:11:03 AM »
Does anyone have any resources for solo training techniques?

I don't have anybody to train with at the moment. For the most part, I've been 'shadow boxing' various knife, stick and empty hand drills, and I do feel it helps my body mechanics and flow, just by visualizing my training partner and focusing on the movements.

I don't feel my sensitivity is really helped by training like this, for obvious reasons, but I don't have any alternative right now. Obviously I can still do conditioning work and general exercise (push ups, sit ups etc.)

Is there a recommended way of doing what I'm doing? Is it unusual to do this?




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« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2004, 07:03:29 AM »
Ahem, Alex.  Please forgive the advertisement, but the first four tapes of our first series are aimed at solo training.

Yip!
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« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2004, 08:31:17 AM »
lol OK. Thanks Crafty I'll have a look right now



EDIT: You mean the Real Contact Stickfighting series right?

The product info links for the videos don't seem to be working right now, are the videos available in PAL format? I live in the UK.

Thanks again.

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« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2004, 08:58:20 AM »
Yes, the RCSFg series.  As for the tech glitches, I will inform Cindy and our Webmaster.

pretty_kitty

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« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2004, 09:28:49 AM »
Seems to be working fine now...

http://dogbrothers.com/index.php
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alex

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« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2004, 10:02:45 AM »
Hmmm maybe something's up at my end. When I click on the video links themselves (not the clips) I get this:


Not Found
The requested URL /oscommerce/product_info.php was not found on this server.


Apache/1.3.31 Server at dogbrothers.com Port 80




Here's the link:

http://dogbrothers.com/oscommerce/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=31

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« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2004, 04:15:22 PM »
I second Crafty in the video series!  Another thing you can do is if you have a heavy bag, use it has a partner.  I do a solo stick workout each day warming up with shadow boxing, then moving to the bag and then to the mat for some ground stick work.  

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« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2004, 03:30:30 PM »
Alex,

Where are you finding that link?  It's an old one from a previous version of our website.

Try:
http://dogbrothers.com/index.php?cPath=23

Our video clips are not currently working but our webmaster is on it and says they will be up and running by tomorrow.
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« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2004, 02:40:13 AM »
Thanks Kitty that's working.


I was on another page - click "Multimedia" from the site map on the left of the main webpage.

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« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2004, 09:40:15 AM »
OMG!  You're right!  I just fixed them.  Thanks for the head's up.  

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