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Qigong Preparation and Warm-Up

• Learn to release the tension and enter your training with complete focus
• Coordinate your neuromuscular system through deep breathing and rhythmical movements
• Massage the internal organs for health and learn how to brace for heavy loads with diaphragmatic breathing

 

Kettlebell Techniques and Applications

Review Key components from volume 1:

• Conditioning in positions of strength and positions of Extreme Compromise
• Shuffling: Learn distancing and controlled movement
• Lateral Shuffling: Evasion for counter-attacking
• Weaving: Slipping with follow-ups
• Dragon Twisting: Assorted take-downs

Rotations: Strengthen the abdominal obliques while maintaining a tight guard; Overhead rotations is an advanced core strengthener; develop the muscles used in "short-range" striking.

Bagua Circular Stepping: Precise footwork and base lays the foundation for positioning in all forms of movement. For martial arts, evasive footwork and continuous movement develops pinpoint accuracy and balance. As a form of exercise this pattern loosens every joint in the body. This takes your spatial awareness to another level!

Hook Swings: Train the stance and torch the abs, grip and arms; develop rock-like stability in your movements.

Lateral Swings with pivot step: Centerline practice develops great body control while blasting the lats and obliques; simple and powerful as a self-defense maneuver

Rotations with Iron Wall: This kick defense trains every aspect of the abdominals through its tri-planar stabilization; try this and you'll never lie down to train your abs again!

Catch & Sweep: This devastating throw is a great way to train flexibility and build powerful thighs. Your legs will come alive!

Clean & Drop: Strengthen and loosen the hips; shows how a powerful stance can repel would-be attackers.

Alternating Snatch: A great metabolic conditioner; and a surprisingly effective tactic for self-defense.

Screw Press: This old-time classic builds a thick, powerful waist, and lays the foundation for brutal hip and shoulder throws.

 

General Conditioning and Agility for Martial Arts and Impact Athletes

Multi-Level Slipping: For pronounced hip strength and flexibility, this is a killer and will challenge everyone; drop sets for the hard-core!

Towel Swings: 5 levels different levels, from beginner through advanced, this is an amazing core and grip strengthener; grapplers will throw their opponents around with the strength developed here.

Duck Squats and Walking: Develop "springy leg" endurance and freedom of motion in all ranges and directions.

Duck Walk and Press: An amazing whole body coordination exercise, this makes all your lifts easy by comparison.

Side to Side Creepdown and Press: This goes well beyond basic training and will open your hips like no other drill.

 

Dynamic Flexibility

Shoulder Dislocates and Figure 8: Opens the chest and keeps the shoulders supple and pliable-very important for grapplers.

Side-to-Side Creep Down/Cossacks stretch: Fundamental for applying low stance applications such as grappling and take downs, blocking, tackling, etc.

In this DVD, a whole new way of understanding strength training for martial arts emerges. The lifts are taught from the perspective of practical application. For the first time, see step-by-step how to use kettlebell training to prepare your body most effectively for the specific demands of martial arts and impact sports.