Working your game

Had a corker of a roll with adam last night, then watched him as he had another quality roll with Doug afterwards. Adam's way of playing is very much a gameplan stylee, he knows what he has to do to maintain or improve each position and works with that in mind. While frustrating to fight against it's excellent having someone who is so 'methodical' in approach - even if it looks anything but methodical - to train with.

It got us talking about the idea of game rather than techniques and how we go about imposing our game.

Persistant aggression being one major point, not going hell for leather but constantly pushing. Something I am sometimes guilty of neglecting, letting people get too far into a dominant position before fighting them off.

Changing your pace throughout a roll or sparring match. Too many people 'one gear' through their entire careers when this is often the key to their predictability.

Working from positions of strength. Look at the mechanics of the situation, are you strong? Not looking at this in a 'Hulk, smash!' way but from a standpoint of efficiency. Look at making everything work to your full advantage.

Learn to play against game not techniques. This is similar to hitting through someone's punches, rather than getting caught up in the details all the time understand the bigger picture and you are more able to spot the vital changes from the red herrings.

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Rodney King Seminar August ’06

We’ve got Rodney coming back over in August for a weekend seminar followed by a 3-day SOMA Warrior workshop.

Seminar is on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th August and costs £50 for STWA members and STWA Affiliate clubs, £60 for non–STWA members. Full membership on mymalife.com qualifies anyone as a member.

The SOMA Warrior™ workshop runs Mon–Weds (7th–9th) in the evenings and will cover many aspects of using somatic education and performance psychology to improve performance, inside and outside the gym. The SOMA Warrior workshop costs £50 on it’s own. Anyone who attended the weekend seminar gets a £15 discount.

For more details on the SOMA Warrior programme, visit Rodney's personal site. Here’s a brief explanation.

‘The SOMA-Warrior™ program is a unique blend of cutting edge martial arts and fitness training- fused with sport and performance psychology. It is a program for creating positive change within, using expressive movement. At anyone time the SOMA-Warrior™ approach can be viewed as healthy lifestyle change, life coaching, mental game training and a stress management program. We are all unique energy systems; energy is the form and expression of aliveness. How we express that energy will determine our overall health of both our body and mind.’

Email Phil for more details on how to book your place and pay your deposit. A non-refunable deposit of £20 secures your place. Deposit is due by 3/6/06, balance is due by 8/7/06.

See you all there.

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Check out Rodney's blog

STWA Head Coach, Rodney King, has set up a blog at www.mymalife.com/rodney covering the CM Life programme. Looking at how training and the lessons learnt from it can be expanded out into your life. It's well worth a look.

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