There haven’t been many updates to the weblog lately, however don’t fear, I’ve been busy working exhausting behind the scenes. I’ve simply recorded an important dialog with Matthew Kreuger of the Strolling with the Tengu podcast. “A podcast exploring basic writings as they relate to the fashionable martial artist.” We coated all types of subjects together with warriorship, philosophy and naturally, martial arts. Matthew goes to be my visitor on the following episode of the Tai Chi Pocket book podcast, so look out for that, coming someday in October.
One of many issues we talked about was how Matthew has built-in Shuai Jiao throwing strategies into the standup element of his Brazilian Jiujitsu coaching. This can be a actually fascinating strategy, as you usually see BJJ built-in with wrestling or Judo, however mixing it with the arise Chinese language jacket wrestling model just isn’t one thing I’ve seen earlier than.
Shuai Jiao comprises loads of solo workouts for conditioning the physique, and my ears pricked up when Matthew stated that these workouts had actually helped him with a again damage that had dogged his coaching.
Matthew has been a learning from the web faculty of Sonny Mannon, co-founder & Head Coach for Guang Wu Shuai Jiao. I appeared him up and located this primary introduction to Shuai Jiao heat up workouts video that he did in 2020.
Having simply adopted alongside these workouts I can see how they profit the waist, core and decrease again space. But additionally the pliability within the legs – my hamstrings and calf muscular tissues had been significantly stiff the day after! That video follows on into this one, which is about ‘belt cracking’.
Belt cracking is much less about stretching and extra about creating that explosive shake that you simply see in loads of Chinese language martial arts, generally referred to as Fa Jin. It’s fascinating stuff, however in Shuai Jiao you’re usually not attempting to hit with it, you’re utilizing it to disrupt the opponent’s construction to create openings. You’ll be able to see some functions of it on Sonny’s Instagram account: