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Ben C.
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| David Black Mastro wrote: |
Judo, wrestling, & BJJ--now there's three methods that certainly complement each other.
Ben, what kind of wrestling did you do--freestyle, or Greco-Roman?
I've noticed one very interesting thing about grappling training in Russia--if you do judo, you have to also do wrestling, and if you do wrestling, you also have to do judo. That might account (at least in part), why the Russians are so good at both arts, as well as MMA.. |
David, I did freestyle wrestling for a while as a kid at a local youth centre. I really enjoyed it and wanted to stick with it longterm but the program disappeared and there are unfortunately very few places to do wrestling back in Australia. Many years later while I was doing BJJ, my team was very fortunate to have the Australian national wrestling coach come train with us (I've forgotten his name but he was from Belarus and was a medallist at the world championships in greco roman). It was only for a couple of months but it was good experience. One of my teammates stuck with it and by chance caught the attention of a visiting Japanese coach and got recruited into one of the top Japanese universities. Now he is monster and finished 11th at the worlds representing Australia last year but unfortunately didn't receive a spot to compete in Beijing.
in regards to the Russians, from what I can gather there is a very close connection between judo, sambo and wrestling. In russia. Sambo was derived from Judo and in russia both seem be done at the same time. Pretty much all the top sambo competitors were also top level judo guys too. Russian wrestlers seem to train more specifically just for their sport but it seems fairly obvious that the Russian style of judo is heavily influenced by greco-roman wresling based on their preference towards pickups.
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Gary Teuscher
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I have not done much for training since tearing my rotator cuff, labrum and bicep tendon about a year and 1/2 ago. Surgery was 9 months ago, I'm about where I can start truly working out again.
Dropped a 750lb yoke in strngman training - one arm let go when I dropped it, the other forgot! 
Oh well, I guess the stupid arm deserved what happened to it.
Unfortunately since then I've been rather sedentary, my weight has stayed close but I'm sure muscle mass has went down and body fat up.
Looking forward to getting back on a bit of a training program again though.
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Bill Grandy
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| Posted: Fri 19 Dec, 2008 8:52 am Post subject: |
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Physical fitness and proper diet are incredibly important to me for my martial arts studies. I don't go overboard; I don't lift weights or go to any extreme lengths. But jogging, medicine ball work outs, joint excercises and of course fencing all play into my overall level of fitness. I also don't do any fancy diets: I try to avoid processed foods when possible, I make sure I don't eat too much of any one thing, and I use common sense. Been doing this for years, and so far I've managed to stay in excellent shape. I won't win against a lot of people in pure strength, but I can wrestle well enough against people who are much bigger than me but less technical, I can fence for long periods of time without being winded immediately, and, most importantly to me, I feel great on a daily basis (something many of my friends the same age can't say, unfortunately).
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