Jeremy Stewart

First class is Tuesday.

Oh for sure. From a teaching perspective, I try to keep an eye on the interactions of my students. I clip no it alls right in the bud.

I'll take that on board, Tyler. I always ask my female students. Never once have I thought to ask the males.

From a western perspective, in a group class setting, senior students are expected to give training advice. One reason is in anticipation of them being teachers themselves one day, another is kru's eyes can't be everywhere at once. I personally don't mind it, if I find it valid. If I don't find the critique valid, I just tell them that's the way I do it.

Absolutely mate, if I don't train I am in way worse pain than if I do. I'd do just about anything for a decent nights sleep.

Thank you. I haven't done much research. I think a reset of my circadian rhythms would help. Years of night shift really threw my sleep out of wack. Chronic back pain etc doesn't help. Through into the mix interstate truck driving and you've got a recipe for bad sleep. I truly don't believe there's much that could be done to improve my sleep unless the aches and pains lessen.

I'm like you, Tyler. I read your description of your sleep. I'd be lucky if my sleep totalled 4 hours. I sleepmpretty hot too, it's winter here, if you can call Queensland's winter a winter, but I still manage to sweat the bed out every night.

Lots of forward pressure, like Tyler said.

For sure. I just can't be, monkey see, monkey do. Everything has to have an explanation.

I know. I'm just fan boy #1. I had read things weren't good. I prefer the 33sec one to the chivas one. Sometimes, I like rose coloured glasses.

I use pad holding as an aid to teaching visual cues. Everyone should learn pad holding, I reckon. At some stage that is.

I'd dance naked in the moonlight and sacrifice chickens to the dark lord if Wangchannoi was number 10.

I think and I'm just putting this out there. Maybe other female fighters aren't as lucky as Sylvie. In the respect they don't have the support of a great husband. It would be awfully difficult, if not impossible to do what Sylvie has done without that kind of support.

I love blunt force trauma. Vote#1 Dieselnoi.

A lot of people do hold their breath when under exertion and exhale afterwards. This maybe is okay for single repetitions of heavy exertion. I will contend to be efficient at something one has to breathe (obviously), my point above was to agree with Tyler. No wonder they had trouble as inhaling on the strike is very different. You may be right and we are conditioned to exhale in whatever we're doing, be it boxing, weights or kicking a footy. I guess, I was trying to get across a different idea and that idea was getting hit whilst hitting. Leading to getting winded which like you said can get you dropped. I wasn't attempting to say the general's idea was incorrect.

Plus we all exhale as we smash the bag. Ishhhh.

Exhaling on striking is physiologically normal. Or actually you do it with any exertion. It has nothing to do with traditional martial arts moving away from actual combat. So no wonder you guys are struggling with it. It's not a natural thing to do. Just to clarify my thoughts here, I would like you to bear in my mind the exhalation on striking isn't just a release it also is defensive in nature, so you don't get winded in a counter strike scenario. We all know how much that hurts.

Changpuek Kiatsongrit. . I'm a huge low kick fan.

Wangchannoi Sor Palangchai is my favourite.

I reckon he's the best. I watch him and I get the shivers.

This may be the one you're talking about. With regards to Dieselnoi.

You only gotta look at Charlie Zellenoff, 270 something and 0, all in his mind of course. And then you've got those absurd claims, on dubious self defense advertisements. Such and such, ex special forces, 600 street fights and no losses. This kind of clap trap might have something to do with them thinking they need to validate themselves with bullshit.

I'd be very surprised if it occurred among women. With blokes, I guess it would be a way of fitting in within what they perceive as an aggressive environment. From the outside looking in, it would be hard for them to understand friends hitting each other, and it's kinda accepted that men are "The street fighter" so this scenario, whilst it makes no sense to us, makes sense to them.