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Archive for February, 2010

Feb
25

Learning How To Fight Means Learning Responsibility Too

UK Sports BlogBoxing

When you’re faced with an overly aggressive person, you probably won’t react very well unless you have some training to help you deal with the situation. The ability to “calm the raging beast”, so to speak, is a useful skill that anyone can learn. Unfortunately, like most skills, it can let you down on occasion.

Sometimes, generally when alcohol is involved, there’s literally not a thing you can do to diffuse a tense situation. Sad to say, there are times when you need to learn how to fight, and knowing how might just save your life.
Occasionally, someone will confront you with passive-aggressive behaviors. These include things like calling you names or trying to bully you. In these situations, you don’t need to get rough with anyone. The way to handle yourself is with words, not fists. But if you are really in danger of falling victim to bodily assault, you have to know something about self defense. There’s no way around it: to be fully secure, you have to know how to fight.

There is an important skill that most police (or others who deal with violent people) possess. That is, the ability to judge at a glance if a situation is potentially troublesome. This sort of ‘survival skill’ requires you to figure out how most people act when they are just having fun, so you can avoid misjudging a situation. You don’t want to get physical with someone who is only playing around, right? If someone is accosting you with some good-natured name calling, you shouldn’t hit him, it’s that simple. On the other hand, you need to be able to recognize when name-calling is simply the first step towards escalating the level of violence from verbal to physical.

It is never a good idea to go around looking for a fight. But you should always be ready for one, if the situation dictates it. When you find yourself in dangerous places where people are drinking, this caveat is doubly true. It’s triply true when the alcohol is inexpensive, plentiful, and relatively un-regulated. In cases such as that, you have to be careful because there is a level of danger that is always present.

On the other hand, nobody wants to go around half-cocked at all times. Staying clear-headed and calm is something you should strive for. But this may mean limiting your alcohol consumption, or abstaining altogether. It does you no good learning how to fight if you are the one who flips out on other people at the drop of a hat. Learning to fight should go hand-in-hand with learning how to act in a responsible manner.

The good news is, it is easier than ever to learn how to fight and learn proper punching technique because there are plenty of reputable places on the web where sober-minded people congregate to discuss serious issues such as this.

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Feb
21

A Few Putting Secrets

UK Sports BlogGolf

This article will discuss golf instruction tips for putting.

How frequently have you been frustratingly close to sinking a putt just to come up short?

Or maybe you have only just missed the hole to view your ball go crusing past adding a rediculous amount of length for the return golf putt.

A great deal of games happen to be lost on the putting green and more often than not it has been because of the inaccurate distance, rather than the direction of the ball.

A lot of novices swiftly get a feel for the direction the ball will travel, even on sloping greens.

You’ve perhaps viewed it personally in cases where a newcomer to the golf game places the golf ball within just inches of the golf hole on a sloping green repeatedly.

What we do not witness quite so often will be the ball stopping just a few inches past the golf hole when they miss.

There are several things that will come in to account while identifying the length a ball could travel on the green, to the slope, to the preparation of the green along with whether or not this is wet and slow or dry and fast.

It can have a very big difference with respect to the time of the day with the greens getting faster as they dry off from the afternoon sunshine.

Therefore understanding the distance of a putt is without a doubt precisely what you really should focus on in order to get your ball to go in that hole.

Once more it all comes back again to practice and there is absolutely no better practice than on the day of the tournament in the conditions that you will be playing in.

You should make an effort to have a couple of practice putts just before you start play to be able to ‘dial in’ your length.

One thing you need to always remember; the golf ball will never drop if it does not reach the hole.

May seem way too apparent to even require mentioning doesn’t it, but more often than not putts will come up short.

At all times aim for the rear of the hole so that, provided you have your direction correct, you will have a chance of making the putt.

Remember the old saying: “Drive for show, putt for dough.” It is an old saying because it is true. Be sure and get good golf putting instruction so you can win all the dough.

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Feb
19

Females Competing In BJJ And Mixed Martial Arts

UK Sports BlogMMA

In 2009, Gina Carano and Chris “Cyborg” Santos became the first women to compete in the main event of a major (and televised) MMA event during the August 15th Strikeforce show in San Jose, California. Major MMA organizations, including the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Pride Fighting Championship, had been operating for 16 and 12 years respectively at the time of the Carano vs. Cyborg fight. Meanwhile, in the Brazilian Jiu-jitsu community, women such as Kyra Gracie have recently taken the grappling and MMA world by storm by not only receiving her black belt and multiple world titles, but also with her beauty and charm. It has been almost 20 years since Brazilian jiu-jitsu came to international attention.

Brazilain Jiu-Jitsu and mixed martial arts are sports that are ruled by men. Most gyms in the United States have only a handful of women that train, especially when the gym is not located in a larger urban area. However, as jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts become more popular, thanks to fight organizations like the UFC and cable television shows featuring MMA, more women are becoming involved in the sport and understanding the benefits.

Jiu-jitsu is an art created for a smaller fighter to defend themselves against a bigger opponent. It is an art that focuses on technique, manipulating balance, and leverage, rather than strength and size. This fact alone makes jiu-jitsu a fantastic martial art for women to practice for both sport and self-defense. With good training, a woman can defeat the inequalities of size and upper body strength between men and women in a fight, especially against an untrained attacker.

In self-defense situations, jiu-jitsu and MMA are fundamentally suited to helping women get out of dangerous situations on the ground, allowing them to not only block incoming strikes, but also prevent sexual assault by moving, striking back, and submitting their opponent on the ground. Every women’s self-defense course should incorporate the ground techniques employed in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and MMA.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu St Louis and MMA can also be fantastic ways for a woman to stay in shape. These sports demand a person to gain and maintain cardiovascular endurance for rounds of fighting, static all-over body strength to hold positions and control opponents, and dynamic strength to push, pull, punch, kick, wrestle, and sweep. Many people serious about jiu-jitsu and MMA end up cross-training with additional exercises such as running, yoga, and weight-lifting.

Brazilian Jujitsu and MMA can also be great emotionally. To prevail in these sports, it takes determination, endurance, and perseverance over mental and physical failures. These sports can bring a great sense of pride and accomplishment. Additionally, the intensity of the sport creates friendships and bonds between people at the gym; many people gain a second family.

So why has it taken so long for women to start participating in these sports? And, why has it taken so much time for women to get the same respect as men in the sport? For many women, it is very frightening to walk into a male-dominated gym and try to compete. In addition, Brazilian Jujitsu and MMA are sports with very close contact both standing and on the ground. Some women are uncomfortable with close contact on the ground with men and are afraid of being in positions that could be viewed as sexual. Other women are not comfortable with striking or getting hit. However, women who have joined the sport will affirm that in most gyms, people are great teammates and are willing to help you. The sport is not sexual in nature at all, just as high-school wrestling is not sexual. Good gyms do not tolerate harassment of women.

Women still do not get the same respect as men in these sports, especially in MMA because they are perceived as not being able to keep up with with men. In some ways this is true: A woman will generally not have the same upper body strength and dynamic strength of a man of the same weight and experience and, therefore, will not generally be dominant. However, it should be remembered that every other sport is also categorized by skill and/or weight and gender. Sports change when the physical and mental state of the competitors change. Strategies need to be different, training needs to be different, and the final product ends up being different. Hopefully in the near future, people will realize that, although maybe a little different, women’s jiu-jitsu and MMA are valuable and exciting when the competitors are of high quality and training.