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It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go
The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in war!
Holding my hands out open wide. Not catching the drops or trying to hold them. I'm letting them leave their mark and then letting them go.
Just staying sharp. Keeping you safe keeps me in shape.
The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.
In training, there is no winning or losing. There is only learning.
Anticipated spears wound less.
True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.
SHUCHU RYOKU - Focus all your energy to one point.
I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
Those things that hurt, instruct.
throwing the football. But instead
Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.
You fight like you train.
I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing. Now I go to practice slicing without swearing.
The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.
I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
... Parrying, puckishness, and a touch of profanity.
Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.
Catch-and-release, that's like running down pedestrians in your car and then, when they get up and limp away, saying
'Off you go! That's fine. I just wanted to see if I could hit you.'
The best technique is none at all.
Instead of throwing traps into
Kill yourself in training so you don't die fighting.
the beauty of doing nothing
When you strike a blow, do not let your mind dally on it, not concerning yourself with whether or not it is a telling blow; you should strike again and again, over and over, even four or five times. The thing is not to let your opponent even raise his head.
Costis, what do you think you are doing?"
"Sparring, Your Majesty."
"Most people cross swords before they spar and they say something introductory like 'Begin!' before they swing.
I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.
Defeat the enemies strategy.
Never do an enemy a small injury.
Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul
Don't just crit their siticising.
Stillness is training for action.
By combining instinct and technique, I searched for that small zone where I could push myself as hard as possible without injury and the unraveling of the body's systems. Accessing and staying in that small zone is the key to success.
When you are on the ground, only one of you two can be comfortable at any one time. Either you are comfortable or the opponent is. Your job is to transfer the comfortable from him to you in every position
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.
Judo helps us to understand that worry is a waste of energy.
Find your own technique.
The idea is to get as fit as you can and simulate things as closely as you can without getting so knocked around you can't compete.
What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.
All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments.
I never cut for matches, I cut for impact.
To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills
The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
Hitting a ball dead perfect - the only peace.
When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.
Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it is sometimes painful.
Dancing cheek to cheek.
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
playing patience,
Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.
Breathe, believe, and battle.' My former coach, Troy Tanner, told us that before each match. Breathe-be in the moment. Believe-have faith that you can rise above it. Battle-you gotta be prepared to go for as long as it takes.
Parrying like a man who had the greatest respect for his own epidermis.
My philosophy is the same as a Samurai: To hit without getting hit.
Love hard. Fight harder
Don' keep ya guard up when nobody ain't sparrin' with ya.
Virtues, of ...
Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
You have to be disciplined because if you lose your discipline and lose your shape, we're playing against better players, so they'll take advantage.
When you get in a snit, don't hit
rang with proficiency
The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
salami tactics - slicing off layers of opposition one by one.
You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.
sucking on a football.
He who manages the distance, manages the damage.
I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.
on low. Serve and
Kicking ass is surprisingly therapeutic
Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength.
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Practice to beat the best.
See your target. Keep it in your sight. Hit it ... until you hit it.
Exert only calculated force where it will be effective, rather than straining and struggling with pointless attrition tactics.
Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
Never practice without a thought in mind.
Training is a case of stress management. Stress and rest, stress and rest
Being. Not being. Giving in. Holding out. No matter what I do, it hurts.
You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them.
Breathe. Finger on the trigger. Crosshairs centered on the back of his head. He'll never know what hit him. Breathe easy. Easy. That's it. Now squeeze." --from the opening of Bloody Lane
You are what you practice, so what is it that you're practicing?
Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently. This is how we can use our greatest enemy, habit, against itself.
I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.
Play with no fear of failure.
doting, the guy on the sideline at
The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.
In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.
World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached. Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again.
I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.
You double your intensity with skill.
Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game
I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.
But what is a slingshot against a 220 pound male with a sword?
practice makes better
Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.
Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.
There is nothing like practice.
Through courtesy you will take a humble attitude toward your opponent in training & be grateful to him.
To Be Trained Is To Be Strengthened
When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
As always I am focused on training and coaching my team