Originally posted by Chu-Chulain
What kind of training regime do most people have or reccomend?
What sort of breakdown in activity is appropriate between:
Basics (kicks, blocks, strikes, stances, etc.)
Maneouvers / combination moves
Techniques
Forms/ Sets
Sparring
Stretching
Cross Training (weights, aerobics, etc.)
Other??
Personally I am interested in advancing to Black Belt and teaching, which has always interested me.
If I may I'm going to change your break down somewhat.
- The stuff you are trying to learn
- The ciricullm (forms, sets, techniques etc.) that you use to practice the stuf you are trying to learn
- other exercies to learn "the stuf"
- other good stuf (stretching, weight lifting etc.)
The point I am trying to make here is that what I feel one should be practicing is not the curriculum per se but rather use the curriculum to help you train whatever it is you want to train. For example, if you wanted to focus on posture you could use short form 1, universal form 1 (AKKS I believe), your own form, a green belt technique line, point sparring, etc. If you wanted to work on your attitude you could do contact sparring, go for a grappling session for 30 minutes with no breaks, practice long form 3 by yourself for X times without taking a break. The curriculum is not the ends but one of many means.
For our "other good stuff" category spend whatever time is appropriate. Their are *many* different philosophies on how much time should be spent strength training and how you should go about doing it, for example. I would prefer that that is left to the individual but stretching before formal classes are popular almost all schools and probably a good idea too.
Did that help with what you were actually asking at all?
Originally posted by Brother John
"train more than you sleep"
That was a quote from the creator of the art Kyukoshinkai Karate-Do. I kinda like it, not really workable in today's pace of life, but wouldn't it be great?
Until you laugh at yourself years later and wonder at how amazingly uninteligent your training was by your standards now. A little moderation mixed in with long term comitment and thinking quality before quanitity will go a long way (no I am not speaking from experience, I don't think their are many people with the motivation to train 16 hours a day, and if their are I'm not one of them).
