Hey,
The important parts are bold. Please skip the rest if you're not interested in my sad life.
So, I was checking the absolute beginners thread, and everyone (especially Eddie) was talking about how important it is to master the warm-ups.
My problem is: Most of the warm-ups require a training partner, and I have none. I have one partner who wants to train, but I'm pretty sure he won't want to drill the warmups. Is there a way to do the warmups by myself? Without the aid of a grappling dummy, that is. Any techniques/exercises/drills I can "make do with"?
Now, the boring part (skip it if you're not interested, I just want to give you guys an idea of how things work here):
Personally, one of the things I find most fascinating about 10P is precisely the warm-ups. In my school, we warm-up for 7 minutes. Every. Single. Day. And it's always the same, in this precise order:
20 Jumping Jacks, 10 squats, 10 push ups.
Repeat once.
Then we go:
20 straight crunches. 20 oblique crunches to the left. 20 oblique crunches to the right.
Then we shrimp. 10 times to the left, 10 times to the right.
Then we do neck stretches. 10 times chin-to-the-chest. 10 times ear-to-the-shoulder. 10 times chin-to-the-shoulder.
Then we do hip escapes. 20 times.
Then we do the Ukemi. 10 times.
Then we rest for 10 seconds.
And then we "stretch". Left leg. Right leg. Both legs. Butterfly. And we end with a type of stack/static granby. I don't know how to call that in English.
Now, according to the warm-up thread: "The main purpose of the beginners classes at HQ is to master the warm ups, so that the transition to the advanced classes is as seamless as possible. "
I assume the beginners are required to learn all the moves/techniques present in the warm-ups, is that correct? Only after learning the warm-ups, beginners... begin?
If that's the case, that's marvelous. 10P warm-ups are a wonder to me. I mean, you guys are drilling techniques for the warm-ups. And most of the techniques you guys are drilling, "taking for granted" to some extent, are part of the Black Belt program at my school - which means a normal student would take at least 1 year to learn (we only begin the Black Belt and No-Gi program after getting blue, which takes from 8 to 20 months if you go at least twice a week and show good progress).
So, basically, in my school, if you want to start No-Gi and start to learn the techniques you guys use for warm-ups, you need to train, AT LEAST eight months. Also, what you guys learn for the warm-ups, is part of the black belt curriculum of my school. Finally, when we begin NoGi, we only have one class a week. One. 6 days a week, and only one is dedicated to NoGi.
Thus, it is almost impossible for me to do the warm-ups with my partners. I've been training for three years now, which means I'm still halfway through blue.
Help?
