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Naru:
So how do you win a wrestling match with a tree?
I've seen the mui tai tree kicking thing, but wrestling a tree?
How do you improve grappling with a tree?

shorthair:
You grab hold of it and try to bring it to the ground.

Regarding muay thai, this seems to be one of the many grunt-effort ways of learning to harden your body. Not elegant. Tai Chi, and related practice*, are far more effective, as well as applicable to life, vs fighting.

*I happened upon this progrom a little while ago where all the dude had to do was touch you to paralyse a limb, stun you so that you would immediately fall and need to be caught, or even kill. He could also heal. You know, like in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

RayB:
8000 and 0 fighting a tree.   I'm 8000 and 0 versus my office chair.

ChadTower:

It's all relative.  When we moved into this house, I had a mid level bodybuilder friend help.  I was powerlifting at the time.  When we tried to move the piano, he had trouble keeping an end lifted (the thing is probably 800lb, 100 year old upright).  I walked over and did it easily.  He looked a hell of a lot better than I did physically but wasn't nearly as strong.

To me, physical strength was always most key in how you could use it for practical purposes.  It's all well and good to be able to wrestle a tree, and when that fateful day comes when the trees are after my kids, I'll really wish I had spent hours hugging the maple in my backyard. 

shorthair:

--- Quote from: RayB on May 27, 2007, 11:40:56 am ---8000 and 0 fighting a tree.   I'm 8000 and 0 versus my office chair.

--- End quote ---

Are ya sure on that?


Chad: you start off right - body-builder friend is all about looks - then run countre in the second part....because you have faith in the use of weight equipment. Not that you couldn't use that stuff to get REALLY strong. But you'd use it differently.

Of course, the most often over-looked element is flexibility. Even with a tremendous amount of stretching, most weight-trainers don't have even a tenth the flexibility of those utilising functional exercises, and may only be as strong in a limited number of ways. So it's actually contextual. How broad a context do you want to be able to function within?

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