New Martial Arts Drills to Keep Your Students From Getting Bored With Repetition

I've known Helen for years and she's been in charge of a Kuk Sool Won class for the past two. Helen's great, she's tough, she's smart, and her school turns out responsible martial artists that can throw one of heck of a punch. I was in the area and due to take Helen out for lunch, so I showed up early and attended one of her late morning classes. I was a little surprised; it's been a while since I've done any Kuk Sool Won training and I certainly didn't remember some of the drills we were using. After we'd showered and settled down at our favorite Thai place, I inquired about it.

"So what's up with the machine gun sidekicks?" I asked. "Isn't that usually more of a Tae Kwon Do exercise?"

With machine gun sidekicks, you stand on one leg and throw a kick while jumping up just enough to let the force drag your standing leg forward. This makes you move in the direction of your kick, though it's not a traveling move, like jump kick. Helen had started us on one side of the dojo and made us move across the floor. If you're not used to them, they can take a real toll and even sitting in the air-conditioned restaurant, I could feel the burn up my thighs.

"It keeps things interesting," she smiled and when I confirmed that she just wasn't being a sadist, she continued.

"If you want keep your students interested, you need more than just the normal or traditional martial arts drills. People get bored with just a set that they do every time they come in, and after a while, doing the same repetitive exercises will stop having the effect that it had at the beginning."

"Makes sense," I agreed. "So what other drills do you like to use with your students?"

"I like pulling drills from a bunch of different places," she replied. "Ones that make you travel are good, because you know everyone's exerting themselves the same amount. Crocodile walks, where you lie face down and move across the floor without letting your torso touch the ground, help with body control and general strength training. Don't underestimate basic exercises like lunges to get you warmed up.

"One of my favorites is having everyone stand up straight, put their hands behind their head and lift up one knee to touch their chest before lowering and doing the other, sort of like you're marching. Doing about 25 reps of each leg gets you warmed up and is terrific for developing kicks."

I winced, rubbing my sore muscles. "All that and you still run a class afterwards."

"You bet." She grinned. "Trust me, it makes for much more entertaining practices."

Yoshi E Kundagawa is a freelance journalist. He covers the mixed martial arts industry. For a free report on Martial Arts Drills visit his blog.

Improve your Mixed Martial Arts training with the display of skill repetition

In order to develop our skills training in mixed martial arts, it is essential that you create a system governed brain training of our abilities that a repetition of scheduled so that enough in itself.

The complexity of the techniques of martial arts, or for that matter any fighting technique, is particularly demanding in need of constant reinforcement to lift the slow and cumbersome conscious level of incompetencethe level of unconscious competence of athletes who lived "in the region."

When learning a new movement research has shown that qualified the first 6 hours, the most important for conservation. During this time, the skills training in a very precise and deliberate under controlled conditions must focus on quality of execution (this is the best technology, design), because this is when the new neural pathways formed and strengthened.

Therefore, if theThe execution is needed, then the proper channels to set for the technology. But the training and the repetition of attention is not paid if the correct version, so that the poor performance of skill and practice with the form then the path formed and strengthened the combat sequence in the poor martial arts technique and subsequent low .

The essence of martial arts and learn to fight makes absolutely repetition skillsWhile there is no substitute for hands-on mechanical drilling of a movement of martial arts in tablets or a partner, time and energy requires very high and may be essential and therefore the threshold for the average development of students.

Most people train in martial arts, both to improve Muay Thai Kickboxing, mixed martial arts, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, karate, judo and wrestling, train as a hobby, and for reasons of theirlifestyle, apart from their daily affairs. Consequently, time, energy, able to pierce the right skills back to being difficult if you do not have career problems or are young and rich can afford to take time.

However, it is another method that we use, has shown that to improve the skills and impressive engine performance. Several studies have shown very strong view that the proper use of visual and motor behaviorRehearsal (VMBR) Training will cover both the improvement and maintenance and engine performance by learning skilled movements. These techniques have become routinely used by athletes worldwide.

The technique seems from the way our brain brings back the memory of something that you think or to work a bit '. During this process the brain uses the same regions, and so, from a system viewer, we can gain movement skills or memory.

However, it isrequire that actually performs the ability to start and can be completely immersed in the sense motion.

For a detailed discussion of research supports this phenomenon and methodology, check out my blog article on this topic on my blog site below.

By integrating this technology in your martial arts training program will provide additional funds for the acquisition of competence, the repetition, forConservation and improvement of services outside of the gym or the dojo. A period of 30 minutes of a quiet few hours, without interruption, during the day is all the performance required for growth in your training mixed martial arts.