The Two Sifus – Head Injuries 1 – Doing The Right Thing For The Brain
Young people sometimes believe they are “bullet proof and invincible.”
The death of boxer Patrick Day due to brain injury.
Eliminate the gloves in MMA. The role of gloves is to protect the hands.
How many times can you take blows to the head, over and over?
Why does your shut down when your head is taking blows?
Bare-knuckle boxing is apparently making a comeback.
Heavyweights wear 10-oz gloves.
The Successful Fight Teams started to go with reduced sparring and lighter with sparring in 2009.
The old-school ways of Muy Thai Kickboxing’s – Stand there, come in straight and bang.
Headgear means you can hit harder… it’s role is to prevent cuts.
Good sleep is incredibly important.
Sifu Mike changed his diet to Keto-style diet: more raw foods, low carbs, more fat. His weight has dropped (now 179 pounds) and his sleep has improved.
Sifu Mike MacDonald, Santa Barbara, is a lifelong martial arts with over a dozen black belts and is a former MMA fighter. He is a coach to grappling competitors, Chinese Dragon Parade dancers, and MMA tourney participants, http://SBMartialArts.com
(Sifu Mike) You have two choices, you can agree with me or be wrong.
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The Two Sifus – Head Injuries 2 – Asian Etiquette, Full Contact
Sifu Mike is 40 pounds lighter due mostly to dietary changes.
Pancrase, Kickboxing,
Boxing gloves.
Take advice from people who care about you and have some expertise.
The most fragile organ in the human body
401(k): you don’t find old people telling young people that it’s okay to deplete their 401(k) while they are young.
And you rarely find old people telling young people to “tough it out” when it comes to permanently injuring their body (and brain).
So, why do we let “win-at-all-cost” coaches, broken systems like the scholastic and pro sports systems, and “invincible” younger athletes, make pivotal decisions about health, wellness, and the sustainable human brain and body?
What is so great about our current system?
Rarely does a full-contact coach tell you to go full contact. The science is there, you are going to wear down the body… and mind.
In the middle of a fight camp, we wear our guys down. But it’s more about conditioning and cardio. In your anaerobic workouts, you fight through your tiredness. You don’t need to take punch after punch.
“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” General George S. Patton
Per one BJJ purple belt I met, “The key to financial success is to avoid getting married.”
Asian Etiquette: The assumption of responsibility.
Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, everyone of us played sports and things were very competitive. It was the period of the Cold War.
The Two Sifus – Head Injuries 3 – The Key To Win
Blood, Sweat & Tears is a jazz-rock Canadian-American music group. They are noted for their combination of brass and rock band instrumentation.
One of their big hits: You Make Me So Very Happy.
It’s okay to shed blood sweat and tears, but not brain and future.
The sacrifice doesn’t have to be your brain,,, and your future.
“I’ve gotten hurt more in yoga than in martial arts…” Or, better put, “Yoga opened up areas of compensation and released pain and dysfunction that had been hiding in my system.”
It’s now easy for Sifu Mike to tell kids to train smart. They get it.
Endurance training is important. If you can outlast the opponent, that’s a big advantage.
The more physically healthy you are than your opponent, the better chance you have of winning.
The idea is to find the key to be able to win.