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01-30-2009, 07:16 AM
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Dojo: Belgrade
Location: Belgrade
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Home Exercises
Hi can you give me advice for home exercises?
What you usually practicing at home during the day?
I need advice for some practicing, for strength,speed,endurance,etc....
Also I want to give all compliments to Mr.Stephan Stunden.
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01-30-2009, 07:55 AM
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Dojo: Big Green Drum (W. Florida Aikikai)
Location: West Florida
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Re: Home Exercises
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Srdjan Savic wrote:
Hi can you give me advice for home exercises?
What you usually practicing at home during the day?
I need advice for some practicing, for strength,speed,endurance,etc....
Also I want to give all compliments to Mr.Stephan Stunden.
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First, I suggest asking your instructor what will fit best with your training approach. Failing that or in addition, I would recommend these, which cannot hurt:
http://bodymindandmodem.com/KiEx/KiEx.html
Mind you I don't care for the video presentations precisely as they are demonstrated as they are a bit "stiff' and not as plainly core-driven as from the hips they could be -- but they give the general idea. Best advice -- strive for smooth alteration between feeling loose and feeling coiled.
I would modify the tekubi furi slightly to include shaking over the head as well as at the waist-level and throwing the arms down forcefully and loosely in between.
For me I added to that regimen the twenty jo suburi, 31 jo kata, and the basic sword suburi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clLJS_3axg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUYVU33wVsU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCYyqvlMu8o
These took me through two naval deployments aboard ship, plus "shadowboxing" both sides of various techniques.
The deck-apes made fun of me --- until I started swinging the staff ...
Enjoy.
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Cordially,
Erick Mead
一隻狗可久里馬房但他也不是馬的.
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01-30-2009, 07:57 AM
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Dojo: Wherever I happen to be
Location: Zaragoza
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Re: Home Exercises
Ken and jo suburi + tanren uchi gives a lot of solo work. Good luck!
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01-30-2009, 08:58 AM
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Location: Massachusetts
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: Home Exercises
Are you looking for just "strength,speed,endurance,etc." or for something to specifically develop aikido skills? If the former, I think I'd combine aerobic exercise with strength training.
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01-31-2009, 04:55 AM
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Location: Winchester
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Re: Home Exercises
Quote:
Srdjan Savic wrote:
Hi can you give me advice for home exercises?
What you usually practicing at home during the day?
I need advice for some practicing, for strength,speed,endurance,etc....
Also I want to give all compliments to Mr.Stephan Stunden.
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You could try isometric/isotonic training which can be done anywhere at anytime. It does not require any equipment and DOES work to build internal power in a shorter time than most methods.....
Its something that has tended to be forgotten about, but is used in Goju ryu Karate and Chinese systems....
I started just by curiosity when I was 15/16 years old and found I had an advantage when I started to get interested in M.A.
Tony
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01-31-2009, 02:34 PM
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Dojo: Tsubaki Kannagara Jinja Aikidojo; Himeji Shodokan Dojo
Location: Renton
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Re: Home Exercises
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Srdjan Savic wrote:
What you usually practicing at home during the day?
I need advice for some practicing, for strength,speed,endurance,etc....
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I practice a kind of breathing meditation where I focus on having relaxed and full breaths as a way to generally relax. Then I shift my focus towards different parts of my body and feel how they move as my lungs expand and contract. Here I'm basically trying to balance the tension in my body. For me it's a centering activity before I practice kata or when my body aches from a tough day at work.
In practicing kata, my sense is that it is basically like shadow boxing. I imagine another person attacking and act accordingly. I did this a lot when I was trying to learn particular techniques and I found it helped a lot in learning the basic form so when I did practice with another person on the mat I could focus more on internal structure and balanced movements, etc.
Not that I'm particularly fast, but for speed I focus on relaxed movements and having good reflexes. It might sound silly, but I will take something lop-sided like a hammer and with my arm held in different positions, I will let the hammer fall off to the side of my hand and try to catch it before it hits ground. I like this kind of practice because not only do you have to be quick in response, but you have to use fine-motor skills as well. I credit this kind of practice for helping me to react quickly and appropriately when things have fallen at work (I work in finish carpentry so it's bad when most anything falls) and I think this has had a general benefit as well.
...For what it's worth.
Take care,
Matt
Last edited by mathewjgano : 01-31-2009 at 02:37 PM.
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Gambarimashyo!
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02-01-2009, 07:53 AM
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Location: Florida Gulf coast
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Re: Home Exercises
Think of the warm up excercises as solo training.
Keep your structural alignment, relax, extend, keep weight underside, and move from your center.
Tenkan, tenkan, tenkan.
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Lynn Seiser PhD
Yondan Aikido & FMA/JKD
We do not rise to the level of our expectations, but fall to the level of our training. Train well. KWATZ!
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02-01-2009, 11:20 AM
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Dojo: Aikido Academy USA of Alhambra
Location: Los Angeles area, CA
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Re: Home Exercises
Can't recommend yoga enough. It helps with almost any physical, mental, or spiritual discipline.
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train as if the tengu will never visit, execute as if they already have
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02-01-2009, 01:42 PM
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Location: Glasgow
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Re: Home Exercises
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Lynn Seiser wrote:
Think of the warm up excercises as solo training.
Tenkan, tenkan, tenkan.
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sorry to edit your post but the above is what my sensei says too. the warm up exercises at home are great, I find they make me feel much better after doing them if I can't be bothered going for a run or cycle. after a day in front of a pc, you need to loosen your muscles and stretch. anything that gets the blood circulating is good in my opinion.
a bit of ki breathing works wonders for relaxing the mind and body too.
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