John Shepherd

Thanks for your comments. I actually share some of your views and have been talking to the web guys to improve accessibility. Improvements have been made in terms or new links, special features has now become articles for example. We also want to make the video area easier to navigate.

Jenny,

Thanks for your comments. If you have any topic suggestions please let me know.

John

John Shepherd

Thanks for your comments, I'll look into some martial arts information and articles. It was always the aim with the majority of articles in the area to make them as easy to understand and as practical as possible (aka with simple sports science).

Jim,

Thanks for your comments.

I wrote an article on peridodisation for PP a while a go and discovered some models applicable to martial arts. And the use of specific measures of performance, these involved specific physiological responses to martial arts training (I think it was Judo). This enabled specific preparation to be systematically planned. Interval training was key.

Although the tests required physiological testing you could probably come up with some more everyday ones of your own - number of kicks able to be performed in 15 seconds for example.

General training is not going to (obviously) directly improve performance. To get the greatest results you need to develop a 'sports body' that creates power, has the correct flexibility and speed, for example, for your sport. A sprinter would get little benefit from endurance running,

Not being a martial arts expert makes it difficult for me to give further comment. However, a boxing coach that I know always brings the core of his training back to the fight. So circuits exercises and agility drills, sprints and weights are performed over 'rounds' 2 - 4 min usually. This makes for very specific interval training.

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