From: Badger_South
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Question abt Crazy monkey
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 08:01:30 -0400
Message-ID: 3is381pnqrsse57i9f36qgjd26rut726e9@4ax.com

On Wed, 11 May 2005 11:27:57 GMT, kirks_bi...@YOURCLOTHESoperamail.com
wrote:

>On Wed, 11 May 2005 07:13:14 -0400, Badger_South <Bad...@South.net>
>wrote:
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>>I'd suggest practicing the facing exercise with the tennis ball in the
>>center. The idea with the squared hips and stepping is that it's like the
>>stance in tennis - highly mobile.
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>Don't know that one - certainly not on my copy of the Denmark seminar.

You put a tennis ball down on the floor and face it with the squared
stance. Then you step around it. The key is you use the toe-in step, i.e.,
keep your stepping foot perpendicular to the arc of the circle - the
natural tendency is to let your toe angle outward. Then, after you get
comfortable using the CM stance and tuck with the stepping around the
tennis ball, you shadow box, also.

>In any case, at this stage, after years of being on the ball of your
>feet, CM feels...uncomfortable. Which is all well and good I guess.
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>>>Oh - and that shit just *kills* the on the traps / shoulders :-)
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>>That's a -good- thing!!
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>I would think  being in pain before you even launch a strike would be
>a bad thing, but to each their own :-)

Well I don't have any pain in that position. Are you sure you're doing it
right? The shoulders are trying to touch the ears. Maybe add some shoulder
shrugs with light dumbells to your routine? Since I've been doing this
posture (high shoulders) for years, maybe I've gotten used to it...

>That's above all else is my biggest reservation so far - the stance is
>just unnaturally painful.   I know you don't keep the CM stance 100%
>of the time (? only in defense ?) but..damn... I tried shadow boxing
>like that for 3 minutes today inbetween sets of deadlifting...it hurt
>more than the friggen deadlift ;-)

Well-l-l, you should be doing the CM stance and tuck all the time until it
feels natural, then you don't worry about it as much - your body can get
back into it quickly. Maybe if you get into the stance, but then back off a
little to do your shadow boxing, then over time, try to back off less?

-B

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