Training with a log.

Hi everyone.

I recently purchased the book Ultimate Combat Conditioning For The Street Warrior of amazon(which I am still waiting for) and the front cover had a guy training by marching forward with a log on his shoulders and doing forward maching squats so I thought that it should be a great way to train. incidently I happen to have a log on had as we recently had the tree at the front of my house. Here's some pics of me and the log:

Hope this helps but I can't get it onto the back of neck so i'll have to figure out how to do this. But even marching for a small amount of time really gets the heart pumping.

Mario Kart 2 - Teaser (Rémi GAILLARD)

Best Books on Boxing

Hi,

I have just recently started boxing(got is as part of my gym membership) anyways even though I have never been in a boxing class before I have been practicing martial arts on and off for years and recently started doing kempo and ninjutsu but I have read many many books on the subject of fighting throughout the years and it was until about a year ago that I started looking into boxing. Anyways my strikes especially my right hook were awesome. All the stuff I had read and practiced at home worked a treat.

The reason for this is that my whole life I always stayed away from boxing because I believed that it relied purely on strength so that it would be the bigger man who would always have the advantage. Anyways about a year ago I witnessed a fight at a bar or somewhere I can't remember where. Anyways if you have ever done martial arts you are probably taught to do blocks and punches in a choreographed fashion but a real fight is never like that it always to guys coming in and throwing hay makers so I started looking for books on amazon on the topic of real street fighting and funnily enough a real awesome booked popped up that started my journey for becoming a really effective at self defense and being able to box appears to be one of those methods because boxing teaches you how to hit really hard and and if you have power you can end a fight very quickly as the longer a fight drags on the more likely you are to get seriously hurt no matter how good you are.

My All Time Best Books On Teaching You How to Box Properly Are:

This book began my journey in boxing. I still look at this book every week because it is complete in teaching you how to hit with power and it has taught me how to do this better than every other book I have every read(there is only one book that goes into more detail and it is referred to in this one!).

It teaches you how to throw the jab, straight, hook and uppercut with extreme power. It teaches you about the important of having the right footwork and given you examples of when they have been applied by the greats of boxing. It also has an incredibly good list of recommended reading. Basically if you get just one book on boxing then get this one.

This book is the best book ever written on how to hit hard. It goes into scientific explanations than anyone will understand on how to generate extreme power with your punches. Now it's no wonder that this book is so great considering that it was written by one of the best boxers of all time and a guy so good that when he was like 79 he floored two guys that were trying to mug him.

If you get this book and the one above that will be all you need to learn how to hit hard. Now this book is hard to find and if you have trouble finding it I can help you find a good copy at a good price. But you seriously need to read this book because like Ned Beaumont said it's like reading an essay by a guy with a PHD in knocking people out.


This is the follow up from Ned Beaumont first book. This one is great because it covers concepts about powerful hitting that are rarely covered by other books and martial arts classes and that is how timing and distance all come into play when if you trying to knock people out (which you should be trying to do anyway).

It also covers good defensive strategies that the first book didn't talk about and some weird punches that could come in use(but always really on the basics) in the ring or in a real fight.




I personally love this book but this is something more for advance boxers. For those of you who don't know champ thomas was apparently a very good boxer and while there is no record of him since Ned Beaumont gives him the thumbs up then that's good enough for me and after having read this book I love and am working on applying it's principles.

Now the main reason I love this book is because it teaches a snake like unorthodox boxing stance which the author calls the stonewall and that has been been successfully employed by boxers in the modern age like Floyd Mayweather Jr. The stonewall is awesome and stuffs a lot of people up and it's a natural defensive stance but you can still hit hard from it. It has some really good exercises for developing heavy hitting and goes into detail about how to stand and shows some new ways of throwing punches. Now while certain things in it are unpractical most of it is simply awesome.

Now you might ask what on earth is a book by bruce lee(who wasn't a boxer) doing here. Well the truth of the matter is that bruce lee was a very good boxing and that boxing was a very big part of what he did and if you look at the lead lead stance that he presents on page 35 it looks remarkably similar to the stonewall. Now while only about 1/3 of this book will be of use to you that 1/3 is worth it.

The reason I have always liked this because is because one I am a very big fan of bruce but I have always like bruce lee's fighting style. In the movies he had a very elusive but powerful way of fighting and that is represented in this box by his use of the feint and riposte. Bruce lees method of boxing was very much like a savateur or  fencer which is very good if your outside game is lacking.

Another book by the master. This book is great because even though it covers techniques which are considered illegal in boxing(like the backfist) the amount of detail that it goes into about general fighting strategy to the correct method of throwing the basic boxing punches makes it worth the while.

Like about the use of correct foot work, what is a stop hit and how does it work. What useful lesson from boxing and fencing(if you didn't know the jab was invented by a boxing named Jim Driscoll and he got the idea from fencing. In actual fact a jab is supposed to be how a fencer would fight without a sword. This book is massive at 300 pages and is very much worth the price.

There are others but these are the main ones that come to mind because I refer to them the most so hope you enjoyed this post and I hope this article helps you to improve your boxing skills.

Gman Signing Out

Best Audi Mechanic in Melbourne.

Hi everyone,

I myself, Got my first car about 2 years ago It's a 1993 Audi 80. Now while I got the car at a very good price I have had a crap load of trouble with it because I have taken it to bad mechanics who either didn't know what they were doing or overcharged me for their work. I won't go into details but it was Lube Mobile who overcharged me as they charged me $853 for labour on a heater core and Auto Dynamics in Cheltenham didn't use the right size of of either a nut or washer when they replaced the thermostat on my car.

Now after throughout all this debacle that I have had with my car there has been one mechanic who always gave a great quote with a great price and who always got the job done to my satisfaction and that is James from Audvolks (http://www.audvolks.com.au/site/). This guy and the crew at Audvolks are amazing and there is no other mechanic I would trust with my Audi. When they fix it it stays fixed which is what almost every other mechanic has failed to accomplish.

Go James and Audvolks you guys are legends,

Cheers,
Gman

Pushing Past Your Own Limits

Hi everyone.

It's funny but I have watched people and people often wonder why other people seem to get ahead of them in life, love and numerous other things. I myself used to blame everybody around me for the predicaments that I was I when the truth of the matter is that I was responsible for it. Now while it may be true that we may not create the problems(or perceived problems) around us, how we handle those problems definitely affects their outcome.

Often people do nothing because they don't think anything can be done or they may think that there is nothing they can do or that it isn't their responsibility to do something. I believe that in this world we are all responsible for our lot in life and even though there may be events that aren't your responsibility if you treat it like they are then you will be motivated to fix it as opposed to if you act like it's not your fault then you won't be motivated to do anything.

If you want to be able to push past your own limits then you need to accept the fact that your responsible for your life and that your fate is in your hands and that if your life sucks then it's your fault so if you want a better one then you should be doing something to get it. Join a gym, train hard, kick ass in your job and be all you can be.

Cheers,
Gman

The Strong and the Weak

I recently remembered an interesting quote whose source I won't reveal because it's too comedic but whose essence is just a true in the real world is the following:

"There a two types of people in the world. There are the strong and the weak. The strong cry against fate while the weak succumb to it."

What this basically means is that the strong don't believe in fate. They don't give in to despair, they don't care about what rules the world imposes on them(this don't mean you should sacrifice your integrity), they laugh in the faces of the nay sayers and threaten to ram their words down their throats. I like to think I am the strong.

Then there's everyone else and they are the weak(also called the sheep). They accept their lot in life. They believe in silly ideas like "men are always pigs", "nice guys finish last" and a whole bunch of other silly ideas. These people almost always think their realists but the truth is if you think about it these people bow down to the world's notions and how can anyone who submits to the will of others that are unreasonable ever truly be the strong.

Life is about exploding towards your goals whatever they may be with faith and fire like a cannonball exploding through a castle wall. Don't let the nay sayers keep you down and go after what you want but just don't sacrifice your integrity to do it. The ultimate test is to get what you want without giving in to temptation.

So when all is said and done which are you? The strong or the weak.

Gman Signing Out.

Inspirational Nelly Song

Hi everyone. There is inspirational song of this album called Heart of a Champion. I tried to have the youtube video but youtube won't let me embed onto my blog. Anyway checkout the song as it's awesome.