Originally Posted by Mark E. Hurling
Reply With QuoteWeight: 246.
5 minute warmup on the bike. (Heavy Day)
Overhead Press: 195 x 5 x 3. This was quite a milestone, but I don't consider it a PR because although 190 was my best effort on the peaking before my PR single of 220, it is in fact the foundational work that will get me to 225 this time. Amazingly it wasn't that hard getting all my reps. I was prepared for a few sessions of having to eke out the 3rd reps of the last 2 or 3 sets but not only did I get stronger through the sets, the 3rd rep on all of them after the first set got easier to lock out. Curious phenomenon. It must be like a capacitor feels as a charge builds up in it because I was ready to whoop and do a backflip after the last rep of set 5. But didn't because I can't do a backflip. This was in spite of my continuing sore pecs and/or upper ribs that didn't seem to have any impact at all on this.
Sumo Deadlift: 355 x 1. I was so charged up after the presses I was certain I had 3 in the bag. But apparently the charge left after the first rep because that was it. I used all I had in getting the presses. I am content.
Sully let me say again, great article. Set it next to Mount Rushmore where it belongs. As for the figure 4, I struggled trying to get it right when I did judo and somehow now much later it clicks in. The purple belt I was working with made the mistake of calling it a Kimura. More BJJ influence that I just loathe and all because Kimura used Ude Garami (figure 4) to beat their darling Gracie. So it must be something new and original because the Gracies invented all this stuff. Fucking cultists, it's older than Kano by God knows how many centuries who included it in the canons of judo. I not so diplomatically explained that to him and probably am now thought of as an old school ass hole. I'll still dribble his young ass up and down the mat.
Jon, those are all elements of what we teach too, although my own farts have always been entirely fortuitous but are always loud enough to measure on the Richter scale and bring down the house, or dojo as it were. Some of the ways we use these distractions is to most often cause a disruption or loss of focus on the attack or hold. An attacker using a wrist grab has his attention focused on his grip and possibly the other hand for a strike. A foot stomp sends his brain's attention down to his foot while his brain and CNS divert to a polling loop at both ends. This makes it hard for him to follow up or resist a counter. Another element we use is to disrupt the balance or stability of the attacker. Same wrist grab but this time step into him and drop a shoulder into the sternum moving his base and sending his brain and CNS along with his equilibrium into a different polling loop. Master Bellman doesn't use those IT terms to explain it, but that's how I translate how it works.
