awesome training skid!!! you’ve definitely come into your own.
when’s the next comp?
Fantastic, Skid, and a great model for me on my next cycle, especially with the boards.
Well done and well deserved. There will be no looking back now, it’s a one way street now!
Thanks all. I love how supportive this forum is!
Chest is sore, but energy is good. Having to hold myself back from doing squats early. I think I have spent a good long while beating myself up with volume and actually inhibiting gains by incurring more fatigue than I could recoup.
I’m going to stop thinking and stick with the plan and if I hit a plateau, then I’ll engage the brain to figure out what to do.
I obtained a Super Hero name from a playtime app on facebook and I’d really like to use it as my handle - “The Charming Albino” - but I think I’d have to start a new account in order to use it…
haha what facebook app is that?
“What is your Superhero Name?”
I’m beccoming interested in aikido for myself and my son. The only thing in my area is a Shintaikido dojo, which seems to be an amalgam of aikido and other MA’s. I’d like the opinion of the MA practitioners to comment on whether this would be fine or if it’s better to go for straight aikido. The nearest pure aikido dojo is not too far away, but this other place is within biking distance (a salient factor as I am frequently without a car).
Thanks for your comments.
Skidbino- Awesome training these days. Is that you setting off those earthquakes lately?
Nah - it’s transmission of stress along the fracture lines between here and the big squatters in Maine.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
awesome training skid!!! you’ve definitely come into your own.
when’s the next comp?:)[/quote]
Probably not till August or December. Closest meets are Rancho Cordova and Sacramento and that’s when they’re held. Maybe sooner if I can find a pick-up meet somewhere near. That Walnut Creek push-pull one a while back was a dry hole - never happened. Flakes.
Edit:
And it seems the USPF meet director just resigned and canceled all the meets remaining for 2009 - so one of the above meets just went off the table.
editedit:
Power lifting in the Bay Area sucks.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
I’m beccoming interested in aikido for myself and my son. The only thing in my area is a Shintaikido dojo, which seems to be an amalgam of aikido and other MA’s. I’d like the opinion of the MA practitioners to comment on whether this would be fine or if it’s better to go for straight aikido. The nearest pure aikido dojo is not too far away, but this other place is within biking distance (a salient factor as I am frequently without a car).
Thanks for your comments.[/quote]
How much tumbling and breakfall experience do you have? and do you know how it affects your back?
I haven’t trained aikido but I do know breakfalls and tumbling kill me.
As far as the mixed vs. pure styles, my first dojo 25 years ago was a mixed style and it was great. Now I’m in a pure style and it is also great. I believe more depends on the instructor and your relationship with the school (other students) than the “pureness” of the style.
2009-4-27
Squat Day - 5’s wave (1 day early)
Squats
work sets
265x5
285x5
300x6
High Box Squats (23" box)
335x10
355x10
365x10 (future sets start at this weight)
Cooked. Abs later or tomorrow.
I wasn’t supposed to squat til tomorrow, but I was in a 2-1/2 hour meeting at work that completely pissed me off, so I trained to reduce the “choke-that-mrfr-till-he’s-cyanotic” feeling.
It worked.
I’m going to reduce the height of the box by an inch in successive sessions and replace with pull-throughs when I get burned out…or maybe alternate the two movements each squat session. Was getting light-headed on the full squats which is why I cut it short. I was good for more - perhaps 3 reps, the last of which would have earned me my nickname here. In the videos, my knees are coming in pretty badly so I went to the box squats to focus on
- keeping elbows under the bar
- keeping the knees out
- keeping head driven into the bar.
The good news is that I’m getting deep enough.
edit:
My stupidly high box squats. I, a math major, cannot add: I thought I was making a 19" box - a reasonable height for a high box - instead I made a 23" box. I still got some good back work out of it but it probably did nothing for my hindquarters.
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My granmama can do 365 off a 23" box and she’s been dead a year…
I think your a little hard on yourself. They were at least 1/2 squats.
Mebbe so, mebbe so. I’m bringing that box height down at least about 2 inches right off the bat though, maybe 3.
Did you say Akido???
Ok first, nice pressing nice pr’s
second nice squating-you charming albino.
Did you say Akido?
You want to look at some ukemi-how to fall video’s I played judo pretty seriously for years, from as a kid to over 30- and ukemi -r falling can hurt and its pretty rough.
But flying and making others fly is fun as hell.
I like akido- it is part of where sport judo comes from, its ancient and pretty dignified.
and has a good bit of good clean nasty punishment.
this kung fu akido you speak of , I don’t konw to much about.
Go watch a class at both places, see which one you like, wasn’t your boy taking some kind of karate earlier.
he might like it.
kmc
I like the way you set up that video. Squatting towards the white light… “don’t go into the light dude!”… kinda like having a near death experience everytime you squat eh?
There’s some incentive… You should get a spotter dressed like the Grim Reaper next time you squat… that would be cool!
hey skid. regarding the aikido thing, I wouldn’t worry too much about breakfalls and stuff at first. You and the fruit of your loins should watch at least 2 training sessions before you decide. If its a good dojo, this will not be a problem. you want to watch how the teacher interacts with the students, and whether or not the students appear to be having any fun. The good thing about most martial arts is that both the flexibility and mobility will be drilled into you early, so if you aren’t comfortable rolling and stuff, you’ll learn how to stretch properly to be able to do it.
I played judo for about a hunnert years and loved it to death. When you first start, your level of enjoyment will be 100% about the instructor, thats why you have to watch a couple sessions first.
just my $0.02
old lardass
I fully concur with MJ. If the students seem to be having fun and enjoying things, they’re not getting the discipline they need. Watch out for places like that.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
2009-4-27
Squat Day - 5’s wave (1 day early)
Squats
work sets
265x5
285x5
300x6
High Box Squats (23" box)
335x10
355x10
365x10 (future sets start at this weight)
Cooked. Abs later or tomorrow.
I wasn’t supposed to squat til tomorrow, but I was in a 2-1/2 hour meeting at work that completely pissed me off, so I trained to reduce the “choke-that-mrfr-till-he’s-cyanotic” feeling.
It worked.
I’m going to reduce the height of the box by an inch in successive sessions and replace with pull-throughs when I get burned out…or maybe alternate the two movements each squat session. Was getting light-headed on the full squats which is why I cut it short. I was good for more - perhaps 3 reps, the last of which would have earned me my nickname here. In the videos, my knees are coming in pretty badly so I went to the box squats to focus on
- keeping elbows under the bar
- keeping the knees out
- keeping head driven into the bar.
The good news is that I’m getting deep enough.
edit:
My stupidly high box squats. I, a math major, cannot add: I thought I was making a 19" box - a reasonable height for a high box - instead I made a 23" box. I still got some good back work out of it but it probably did nothing for my hindquarters.
editedit:
My granmama can do 365 off a 23" box and she’s been dead a year…[/quote]
Dude, nothing is for naught.
One question- It might have been the camera angle, but it looked like you were listing a bit to the right? In any case you were exploding of the box!
On another note, don’t feel bad-- my dead grandma does deadlifts on a pine box from a 6 foot deficit.