I do sometimes, or sometimes i put hand weights in me hands aswell, but its down to preference, the lighter weights dont commonly pratice this,|||No. If you do that your pretty much guranteed to hyperextend your elbow. Thats not the point of shadow boxing. Shadow boxing really is to perfect your form when throwing punches, snapping the punches with good form and bringing them back, keeping your non-throwing hand by your chin, staying on balance while throwing, keeping your chin tucked, %26amp; eyes up (you should be in front of a mirror) .|||yes|||Depends who%26#039;s shadow it is.|||personally i dont. I only do short sharp jabs.
Even if doing a hook i still do short sharp movements. You still get the same exercise from it. Plus if you go %26quot;full court%26quot; as it were and use all your power you could be in danger of causing damage.
HTH|||no why would u thats what the bag is for shadow boxing is to c the way u move and the try to correct it|||save it for the real thing|||I throw with power but I only extend my elbow about 95%. Don%26#039;t risk injury by hyperextending.
The real work in shadow boxing is in snapping the hands back.|||No you shouldn%26#039;t throw punches at full force. You do run the risk of hyperextension. The key to throwing to punch during shadow boxing is to #1 perfect your form #2 pull back your punch as fast as you had thrown it. Keeping correct a stance of even weight distribution (50/50 on each foot) relaxed shoulders + knees slightly bent, are all key points to throwing a good hard hitting punch.|||no|||Just use short crisp movements on all your punches. No need pulling a shoulder socket over extending your arm during practice.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Do you just sit things at the bottom of Shadow boxes?
Or is there a way to mount them in the center?|||Although I%26#039;ve made many of my own shadow boxes, I have also purchased a couple, and they came with Velcro to attach items inside. This is also what I use in my custom built ones, if it%26#039;s something I don%26#039;t want to damage by permanently mounting.
If you%26#039;re planning on mounting paper items you don%26#039;t want damaged look in the scrapbooking section of your craft center for archival mounts for a variety of ephemera applications.
Either way, you can attach items to both the bottom and back of your piece!
I hope this helps!|||I don%26#039;t know why they are called shadow boxes, but I have seen items mounted on the back-glued, maybe. You can also sit things on the bottom|||no u dont.. cause its shadow..?
If you%26#039;re planning on mounting paper items you don%26#039;t want damaged look in the scrapbooking section of your craft center for archival mounts for a variety of ephemera applications.
Either way, you can attach items to both the bottom and back of your piece!
I hope this helps!|||I don%26#039;t know why they are called shadow boxes, but I have seen items mounted on the back-glued, maybe. You can also sit things on the bottom|||no u dont.. cause its shadow..?
Is kata similar to shadow boxing?
i thought katas are stylised self defence against imaginary attackers,then why is tkd katas are so lame useless in a real fight and the practioners of some katas looks like a stand-up comedian clowns when they demonstrate it(add the heeeyah!huuuuu!screaming in there)?|||Shadow boxing is done for cardio purposes (i.e. punching, moving, watching form for holes in the defense and such, getting used to the moving around that it takes in the ring). the only simularity is that they both can be done for some sort of conditioning. (Shadow boxing isn%26#039;t used exclusively, it gives you more cardio for a fight, helps you remain fluid in your motion and getting you used to the constant movement needed, but it doesn%26#039;t allow you to block punches better, or deliver strikes better, or take on multiple opponents, it is just for cardio and footwork purposes).
Kata is done for a variety of reasons, very few of them are done in the same way of Shadowboxing. Most people who think so either do not understand kata, or don%26#039;t understand Shadow boxing.
Some of the reasons for Kata:
One:it is a repeatable, teachable way to maintain and keep the techniques of an art.
Two: it conditions your body for the art, gets you used to sometimes awkward feeling moves, helps you build the muscle and body control to perform these moves, and to develop yourself that doing them feels natural. To help you get comfortable with the performing the techniques.
Three: Generally along with preserving the art itself, it contains techniques of art, including hidden ones or ones that may not necessarily be readibly noticed. More importantly it contains important fundamentals for some arts, stances, ways of moving, transitions between techniques that while under no stress can be tweaked to do properly, without having the stress of sparring associated with it. (In Kata if someone is dropping a hand or moving wrong they aren%26#039;t getting tagged). But there is important details in the kata, that can completely change a technique by understanding it totally.
Four: It teaches self discipline.
There are other things, personally I understand them and their uses, and think for somethings it is definately very good. I think they should be the basis of a teaching, but not the concentration of an entirety of a class. Meaning you go in, work on Kata, maybe some one step kata, etc. and that is all you do.
I think Kata is a great way to introduce techniques, then sparring/randori and a variety of other tools should be used to fully understand how and when to use a technique, and how to tweak it.
For example, Kata in Judo is used all the time, though not necessarily the multistepped way that there is in the system of Judo%26#039;s kata. But generally we show the kata version of a throw, so that a person can understand and feel every bit of the fundamentals. Then we tweak that version to show how you would do it in competetion, we have our students randori (free sparring) and let them make that technique their own. Later on for belt testing they have to do the kata version again. (usually performance in randori or competetion denotes when someone is ready to be advanced in rank.
So do techniques in any art that come from the kata, there may be some way to tweak it or change it to make it more applicable, but the fundamentals of the technique are within the kata, it needs to refined and tweaked for an individual so that they know how to do it for them.
So I think Kata can be a good tool when used properly with everything else. I think to make Kata the sole basis of your teaching is to deprive you students of how to learn how to effectively use the techniques contained within a Kata.
At least that is my take on it...|||Improperly used kata is lame and useless in a fight. Most schools that teach TKD unfortunately do not even understand the applications of the kata they teach. Kata is mock fighting and should not be %26quot;stylized%26quot;. The applications need to be understood and broken down for the students to understand. The individual moves and combinations need to be detailed and practiced with different opponents often. Kata is merely a way of practicing and learning the moves in detail. Kata is only one part of several tools to teach with and to learn. It is an important part none the less.
I would never endeavor to teach without using Kata. I%26#039;m not above altering some of the repetition in some of the really long Kata that repeat every move to the four winds. It is important to understand the application as soon as the student is ready.
Edit:
Judomofo has more patience with your question than me. He has broken it down better than I have heard on here ever.
Thanks to him for being patient and thorough!|||Judomofo has it down pretty well. Kata%26#039;s alone will not teach you to fight. You can learn to fight without Kata%26#039;s. But you will will have many more limitations to deal with odd situations.
Kata%26#039;s (or forms in Kung Fu) help put the moves and techniques into your muscle memory, where you do not have to think about the technique itsself, or what comes next. You can not fully understand this without sparring/fighting. Starting with drills taken from the forms, you learn what it is that you are actually doing, then when sparring, you learn when to use that technique.
It takes three main things to become a good fighter:
Techniques (forms or Kata%26#039;s)(no opponent)
Applications (Drills)(cooperative opponent)
Experience (Sparring)(resisting opponent)
Fighting TMA%26#039;s and MMA both use these same fundamental basis%26#039; to create a good, well rounded fighter.
Some TMA%26#039;s eliminate the last one, therefore they will not be as prepared as they think,.
Some MMA schools try to eliminate the first one, which limits their abilities in the other 2.
For example, A boxer will learn a short combo, say Jab Jab Hook. They will learn this as shadow boxing to get the combo in their muscle memory. Then they will use a willing helpfull opponent (or coach) to drill the combo against a moving person. Then they will practice it with a resisting opponent in a set environment. This is repeated over and over and over, giving the boxer a strong set of moves that have been learned so that the actual thought process during a fight is on the fight itself rather than the techniques.
This works with all Martial Arts, and is the way that they should be trained if you want to learn to use it to protect yourself.|||Lol, No. Kata is to Martial Arts what Shadow Boxing is to %26quot;Fighters%26quot;.
Katas incorporate defense moves. Knowing the defense move improves your form in Katas. Katas improve your defense moves. The idea of course is to train your muscles memories to react instinctivly when needed.
Lol, Yes, some forms of Power Breathing are %26quot;unsettling%26quot; at times however it serves it%26#039;s purposes as well in the art.|||Kata is like shadow boxing. It%26#039;s just the tkd katas rely more on principles than actual techniques that would work. (stopping a punch with a kick, blocking then counter etc.) Don%26#039;t forget that tkd is antiquated. Our opponents no longer wear armor, which is why a lot of the strikes in punches in both tkd, karate, kung fu sometimes seem to leave you so vulnerable.|||Katas are much like shadow boxing. You are practicing your techniques without a live opponent. Much like boxing you should also apply the same techniques with live partners. his is very valuable in the learning process.
I think Bushidomofo hit it on the head.|||That%26#039;s basically what it is... Choreographed shadowboxing. By doing Kata repetitively over a period of time, your techniques become ingrained in your muscle memory. The idea is, that when you re attacked, you ll automatically select the right move to defend yourself, without even thinking about it. Some people enjoy Kata and some don%26#039;t. Hardcore, traditional martial artists enjoy kata because it links them to martial arts traditions that go back for hundreds of years. If you%26#039;re not into tradition, then join an MMA gym. There%26#039;s something out there for everybody.
Kata is done for a variety of reasons, very few of them are done in the same way of Shadowboxing. Most people who think so either do not understand kata, or don%26#039;t understand Shadow boxing.
Some of the reasons for Kata:
One:it is a repeatable, teachable way to maintain and keep the techniques of an art.
Two: it conditions your body for the art, gets you used to sometimes awkward feeling moves, helps you build the muscle and body control to perform these moves, and to develop yourself that doing them feels natural. To help you get comfortable with the performing the techniques.
Three: Generally along with preserving the art itself, it contains techniques of art, including hidden ones or ones that may not necessarily be readibly noticed. More importantly it contains important fundamentals for some arts, stances, ways of moving, transitions between techniques that while under no stress can be tweaked to do properly, without having the stress of sparring associated with it. (In Kata if someone is dropping a hand or moving wrong they aren%26#039;t getting tagged). But there is important details in the kata, that can completely change a technique by understanding it totally.
Four: It teaches self discipline.
There are other things, personally I understand them and their uses, and think for somethings it is definately very good. I think they should be the basis of a teaching, but not the concentration of an entirety of a class. Meaning you go in, work on Kata, maybe some one step kata, etc. and that is all you do.
I think Kata is a great way to introduce techniques, then sparring/randori and a variety of other tools should be used to fully understand how and when to use a technique, and how to tweak it.
For example, Kata in Judo is used all the time, though not necessarily the multistepped way that there is in the system of Judo%26#039;s kata. But generally we show the kata version of a throw, so that a person can understand and feel every bit of the fundamentals. Then we tweak that version to show how you would do it in competetion, we have our students randori (free sparring) and let them make that technique their own. Later on for belt testing they have to do the kata version again. (usually performance in randori or competetion denotes when someone is ready to be advanced in rank.
So do techniques in any art that come from the kata, there may be some way to tweak it or change it to make it more applicable, but the fundamentals of the technique are within the kata, it needs to refined and tweaked for an individual so that they know how to do it for them.
So I think Kata can be a good tool when used properly with everything else. I think to make Kata the sole basis of your teaching is to deprive you students of how to learn how to effectively use the techniques contained within a Kata.
At least that is my take on it...|||Improperly used kata is lame and useless in a fight. Most schools that teach TKD unfortunately do not even understand the applications of the kata they teach. Kata is mock fighting and should not be %26quot;stylized%26quot;. The applications need to be understood and broken down for the students to understand. The individual moves and combinations need to be detailed and practiced with different opponents often. Kata is merely a way of practicing and learning the moves in detail. Kata is only one part of several tools to teach with and to learn. It is an important part none the less.
I would never endeavor to teach without using Kata. I%26#039;m not above altering some of the repetition in some of the really long Kata that repeat every move to the four winds. It is important to understand the application as soon as the student is ready.
Edit:
Judomofo has more patience with your question than me. He has broken it down better than I have heard on here ever.
Thanks to him for being patient and thorough!|||Judomofo has it down pretty well. Kata%26#039;s alone will not teach you to fight. You can learn to fight without Kata%26#039;s. But you will will have many more limitations to deal with odd situations.
Kata%26#039;s (or forms in Kung Fu) help put the moves and techniques into your muscle memory, where you do not have to think about the technique itsself, or what comes next. You can not fully understand this without sparring/fighting. Starting with drills taken from the forms, you learn what it is that you are actually doing, then when sparring, you learn when to use that technique.
It takes three main things to become a good fighter:
Techniques (forms or Kata%26#039;s)(no opponent)
Applications (Drills)(cooperative opponent)
Experience (Sparring)(resisting opponent)
Fighting TMA%26#039;s and MMA both use these same fundamental basis%26#039; to create a good, well rounded fighter.
Some TMA%26#039;s eliminate the last one, therefore they will not be as prepared as they think,.
Some MMA schools try to eliminate the first one, which limits their abilities in the other 2.
For example, A boxer will learn a short combo, say Jab Jab Hook. They will learn this as shadow boxing to get the combo in their muscle memory. Then they will use a willing helpfull opponent (or coach) to drill the combo against a moving person. Then they will practice it with a resisting opponent in a set environment. This is repeated over and over and over, giving the boxer a strong set of moves that have been learned so that the actual thought process during a fight is on the fight itself rather than the techniques.
This works with all Martial Arts, and is the way that they should be trained if you want to learn to use it to protect yourself.|||Lol, No. Kata is to Martial Arts what Shadow Boxing is to %26quot;Fighters%26quot;.
Katas incorporate defense moves. Knowing the defense move improves your form in Katas. Katas improve your defense moves. The idea of course is to train your muscles memories to react instinctivly when needed.
Lol, Yes, some forms of Power Breathing are %26quot;unsettling%26quot; at times however it serves it%26#039;s purposes as well in the art.|||Kata is like shadow boxing. It%26#039;s just the tkd katas rely more on principles than actual techniques that would work. (stopping a punch with a kick, blocking then counter etc.) Don%26#039;t forget that tkd is antiquated. Our opponents no longer wear armor, which is why a lot of the strikes in punches in both tkd, karate, kung fu sometimes seem to leave you so vulnerable.|||Katas are much like shadow boxing. You are practicing your techniques without a live opponent. Much like boxing you should also apply the same techniques with live partners. his is very valuable in the learning process.
I think Bushidomofo hit it on the head.|||That%26#039;s basically what it is... Choreographed shadowboxing. By doing Kata repetitively over a period of time, your techniques become ingrained in your muscle memory. The idea is, that when you re attacked, you ll automatically select the right move to defend yourself, without even thinking about it. Some people enjoy Kata and some don%26#039;t. Hardcore, traditional martial artists enjoy kata because it links them to martial arts traditions that go back for hundreds of years. If you%26#039;re not into tradition, then join an MMA gym. There%26#039;s something out there for everybody.
While shadow boxing,has anybody ever been knocked out by their shadow,.or has it ever went to the judges?
For some reason my shadow sucks and I always beat the hell out of it! Are you sure you want that pillow fight?|||Nope dont do shadow boxing it%26#039;s a no win situation|||Nope xx
I am looking to buy a 'shadow box' with a scotish thistle or purple heather. It can also be cermaic (3D affect
preferbly small - oval ,round or square.|||Have you considered making your own? This way you get exactly what you want, have something to be proud of and proud to pass on for generations, and it can also be lots of fun making it yourself.|||i agree. make your own.|||try some antique stores... online and it%26#039;s always fun going to look round the proper shops too...
good luck
good luck
How do I make a shadow Box, for my prize "BRAN Muffins?"?
you need several empty boxes of branflakes, some tape and a piece of saran....
for complete instructions, send 4 boxtops from branflakes to PO box 41833 POST 90123
;0|||you need 4 pieces of wood of the same size, about a 8-12 inches wide. nail them together to form a square. then insert bran muffins.|||uhhhhmmm get a shoebox and put them in it,.
for complete instructions, send 4 boxtops from branflakes to PO box 41833 POST 90123
;0|||you need 4 pieces of wood of the same size, about a 8-12 inches wide. nail them together to form a square. then insert bran muffins.|||uhhhhmmm get a shoebox and put them in it,.
I plan to join a boxing gym when i turn around the age of 18. Is that too late for me?
Although I am joining at 18, I have already practiced the basics of the jab, the straight right, the left hook, my stance, footwork, shadow boxing, and defense for at least half a year with an instructor who I am related to, but have not recently been visiting. I have also gotten some sparring sessions in. I%26#039;m not trying to become a professional fighter but at least a solid fighter. Is joining at 18 still a good time?|||It%26#039;s definitely not too late for your goal, since you don%26#039;t plan on going pro. You%26#039;ll be way ahead of other beginners in view of your practice. But why wait? You can join at 16 with parental consent. If that%26#039;s the problem, then just do everything you can to stay in shape, and keep practicing what you have already developed. Good luck to you!|||To have fun it%26#039;s not to late, to go pro it%26#039;s too late. It takes years to develop a skill. If your planning on going on for 5 years of practice minimum then go for it. Report Abuse
|||Not at all. I once met a boxer at 32 and he was fighting his first pro fight with no amatuer experience at all. As a matter fact you could turn pro without any amatuer matches. It all depends on if you are ready. Make sure yo get yourself a good manager do not do it for more than 10 years.|||never to late to join
|||Not at all. I once met a boxer at 32 and he was fighting his first pro fight with no amatuer experience at all. As a matter fact you could turn pro without any amatuer matches. It all depends on if you are ready. Make sure yo get yourself a good manager do not do it for more than 10 years.|||never to late to join
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