Training can be extremely hard especially when your doing it on your own. If your unmotivated then you wont train hard. Simple fact. If your training on your own you might have to incourage yourself to get motivated. For me, I play videos of people tricking and martial arts demonstrations. For other people it could be something entirely different. Listening to music or actually doing some light training before doing the heavy stuff.
But the best way to get yourself motivated without a doubt is having a partner. Nothing beats having a partner. That person who can spot what your doing wrong and corrects you, that person who always incourages you to push yourself that little bit further. If it was'nt for that person you would have finished what you were doing earlier to have a rest.
Their is another reason why people perform better when they have a training partner and its not just the fact that you will be ridiculed as a pussy for quitting or having someone to critique you. It's competition.
Face it, we love competition.Whether it's who can run faster, who is better then who in games, who can eat the most. Generaly who can do X,Y,Z better then someone else. Everyone wants to be the best at what they do.
Let me ask you a question? When you train, and in this case I'm goin to say with wieghts. Do you want to prove that you can lift the same or even more then your partner? If the answers yes then its for a competition purpose.
Noone wants to be seen as the weak one even thought your lifting nearly you and a half in wieghts over your chest or withstanding your face being pummeled in. In order for anyone to improve competition is needed. If your better then someone, you need to train to keep that edge. If your partner is better then you, then you train hard to be better then them. It will always come down to competition.
Warrior Dynamics have a fair share of internal competions. We constantly try to outdo eachother and there are many in the group who have the advantage (we have trickers, parkour practioner, juggler and a variety of martial artist). But we dont see this as a weakness. This is fuel to improve oursleves. But being in a group like ours we don't let this competition stop us from improving eachothers skills, we help eachother by teaching eachother how to do the moves. We even look at other groups and aim to be as good as or better than them.
If you have a competitive nature. don't think of it as a bad thing. Think of it as a method of progression.
Monday, 28 March 2011
Saturday, 26 March 2011
When to use it?
Last night I went out with a few friends. The first time I've been out in ages and this night I saw a fair share of fights. One of these altercations were between the group of people I was with and it was all over a miss understanding.
Two of the people I was with were messing about continual splashed drinks on the guy next to them. This guy thought he was being spat at. Why he came to that conclusion, I do not know.
Even though the guy in my group apologised we were followed by the accuser who im going to call McDouche and his friend. McDouche was constantly offering the guy that was in my group out. He kept on saying stupid shit like "Its not the first time I've done this" and "You don't know who I am". Those statement always proved how dumb someone is.
Anyway im getting of topic. Good on the the guy he didn't go and fight him but two peolpe in the group are close friends of mine who I consider family. While one of my friends were talking to McDouche to try and calm the situation down. At times it looked like McDouche was going to attack my friend. I started thinking if he got attacked I would have to step in. But heres the conflict. Martial arts are use for self defense and protection. That didnt stop me from anaylising the situation on the best moves to use to finish off McDouche and his sidekick (pretend to walk away and turn with a spinning elbow clean to the head.
I'm not the confrontational type of person, but if somebody attacks my friend while I'm around I feel obligated to step in. Although I am glad that it turned out that way and noone got attacked. Even though things got elevated more by one of the girls in the group using her crutch to hit McDouche in the head. The funniest moment of that event.
If McDouche decided to hit the girl for that it probly would have ended the same way a different event in the night ended. A guy push down a girl infront of the doormen and four doormen floored the guy and stamped the guys face in. If that was the case in situation with McDouche then I would without a doubt intervene.
Is that when I'm spose to use my training? when others are in danger? If that the case then I did good.
Ian
Two of the people I was with were messing about continual splashed drinks on the guy next to them. This guy thought he was being spat at. Why he came to that conclusion, I do not know.
Even though the guy in my group apologised we were followed by the accuser who im going to call McDouche and his friend. McDouche was constantly offering the guy that was in my group out. He kept on saying stupid shit like "Its not the first time I've done this" and "You don't know who I am". Those statement always proved how dumb someone is.
Anyway im getting of topic. Good on the the guy he didn't go and fight him but two peolpe in the group are close friends of mine who I consider family. While one of my friends were talking to McDouche to try and calm the situation down. At times it looked like McDouche was going to attack my friend. I started thinking if he got attacked I would have to step in. But heres the conflict. Martial arts are use for self defense and protection. That didnt stop me from anaylising the situation on the best moves to use to finish off McDouche and his sidekick (pretend to walk away and turn with a spinning elbow clean to the head.
I'm not the confrontational type of person, but if somebody attacks my friend while I'm around I feel obligated to step in. Although I am glad that it turned out that way and noone got attacked. Even though things got elevated more by one of the girls in the group using her crutch to hit McDouche in the head. The funniest moment of that event.
If McDouche decided to hit the girl for that it probly would have ended the same way a different event in the night ended. A guy push down a girl infront of the doormen and four doormen floored the guy and stamped the guys face in. If that was the case in situation with McDouche then I would without a doubt intervene.
Is that when I'm spose to use my training? when others are in danger? If that the case then I did good.
Ian
Friday, 25 March 2011
Tricking in choreography
It seems that the new thing in martial arts fight scenes are the incorporation of tricking. So far I've only seen mediocre attempts in this (Dragonball and Tron, I'm looking at you) it is very rare that I see a a fight scene that integrates fighting and tricking so well in a big budget production. Every time I do see choreography that combines the two its always from groups that have an interest in martial arts and have a martial arts and tricking background. Usually on YouTube.
It may be that the performers are not tainted by big budget movie studio's who spot trends and apply them to their movies just for the sake of being current. For example, the beginning of Casino Royale. Daniel Craig was chasing a freerunner. At the time Casino Royale was released free running and parkour were becoming popular in the mainstream. So what better way to show that the movie is current then to put a freerunning chase scene in the opening of the movie.
This is apparent with tricking now. Any Western martial art movie puts tricking in the movie for the sake of it. In the 2010 movie Tekken, Jin (who is not Japanese in the movie for some reason seeing as his parents are) does a lot of tricking. Yes I understand using tricking can make the fight scenes more flashy, but when its done just to put tricking in that's when I have a problem. I could go on about how the games Jin does not use any tricking elements in his fighting style and how the movie sucked, but we would be here for awhile and plus I got things to do today.
This leads me to the purpose of this post. If your are going to put tricking in a fight scene, it needs to be done right.
These guy accomplished this in spades. Every movement seemed like it belonged. Execution was not forced and overall the fight left me want more. Choreography was outstanding and fluid and you can tell that these guys understand the craft of martial arts, tricking and film making.
It may be that the performers are not tainted by big budget movie studio's who spot trends and apply them to their movies just for the sake of being current. For example, the beginning of Casino Royale. Daniel Craig was chasing a freerunner. At the time Casino Royale was released free running and parkour were becoming popular in the mainstream. So what better way to show that the movie is current then to put a freerunning chase scene in the opening of the movie.
This is apparent with tricking now. Any Western martial art movie puts tricking in the movie for the sake of it. In the 2010 movie Tekken, Jin (who is not Japanese in the movie for some reason seeing as his parents are) does a lot of tricking. Yes I understand using tricking can make the fight scenes more flashy, but when its done just to put tricking in that's when I have a problem. I could go on about how the games Jin does not use any tricking elements in his fighting style and how the movie sucked, but we would be here for awhile and plus I got things to do today.
This leads me to the purpose of this post. If your are going to put tricking in a fight scene, it needs to be done right.
These guy accomplished this in spades. Every movement seemed like it belonged. Execution was not forced and overall the fight left me want more. Choreography was outstanding and fluid and you can tell that these guys understand the craft of martial arts, tricking and film making.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
ULTRA COMBO FINISH!
Respect where respect is due. These guys know how to do cinematography and do it extremely well. Creating there own ultra combos. They have done what martial artist and fighting game fans thinks about.
I personal enjoyed the button combination skit at the beginning. Lots of innovation with these guy. If you see something similar like this from us, it would be a homage. This is the type of level we want to exceed.
I personal enjoyed the button combination skit at the beginning. Lots of innovation with these guy. If you see something similar like this from us, it would be a homage. This is the type of level we want to exceed.
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
The principle of a punch.
I was sparring with a friend who isn't a martial artist but likes to spar as a method of keeping in shape. He likes to box and he has pretty quick hands when he's on the bag. A majority of my punches connected to the body and punches to the head made it past his guard without him blocking until the last second when it was already too late. Although he did make contact on me (after all I'm not a superstar Martial artist) it almost felt like I was anticipating his movements I didn't read it at the time but thinking about it now there were things that I noticed that gave me a warning sign.
It wasn't just with my friend that I noticed this. I have sparred with a lot of people who's main sport is boxing and the results were more or less the same. I was either evading or blocking a majority of the attacks that were thrown.
So this got me thinking. Have I reached to such a level that I do not have to think of blocking or evading and my body just goes into auto pilot or is it a natural progression to people who do martial arts. Do martial artists (and when I say martial artists I include Boxers) have a sixth sense.
Without even knowing a member of Warrior Dynamics showed me a video on YouTube. This video had similar video in the suggestions and coincidentally that video answered my question.
It's all down to how you throw the punch. Its common for some Boxers to telegraph there punches. Not saying all Boxers do it but it is a prevalent trait. It also explained why I made more hits then my fast punching friend. While he either rolled his shoulders before he punched or recalled his arm before he throw a punch, my brain was reading his movements. I became aware of which arm was going to try and hit me. Due to my Wing Chun background my movements tend to be forward, punching from the centre line. This alone gave me the advantage.
So the principles behind punching is how you punch. The less tell tale signs you use the better fighter you will be.
Ian
It wasn't just with my friend that I noticed this. I have sparred with a lot of people who's main sport is boxing and the results were more or less the same. I was either evading or blocking a majority of the attacks that were thrown.
So this got me thinking. Have I reached to such a level that I do not have to think of blocking or evading and my body just goes into auto pilot or is it a natural progression to people who do martial arts. Do martial artists (and when I say martial artists I include Boxers) have a sixth sense.
Without even knowing a member of Warrior Dynamics showed me a video on YouTube. This video had similar video in the suggestions and coincidentally that video answered my question.
It's all down to how you throw the punch. Its common for some Boxers to telegraph there punches. Not saying all Boxers do it but it is a prevalent trait. It also explained why I made more hits then my fast punching friend. While he either rolled his shoulders before he punched or recalled his arm before he throw a punch, my brain was reading his movements. I became aware of which arm was going to try and hit me. Due to my Wing Chun background my movements tend to be forward, punching from the centre line. This alone gave me the advantage.
So the principles behind punching is how you punch. The less tell tale signs you use the better fighter you will be.
Ian
Saturday, 19 March 2011
Warrior dynamics remake The Matrix
2 and a half days. No budget. Half the crew, inpromptu locations and no rehearsal time. This was the weekend that the Warriors remade The Matrix.
The weekend was fun and some great spur of the moment locales where found (the bullet dodging scene was filmed on a rooftop). Unfortunately all the Warriors could not attend due to other commitments but the Warriors who did attend did aweosme.
Asten did a great job stealing the part of Morpheus and editing the footage in less then a week, sacrificing sleep in the process. Mike played a convincicing Agent Smith, Laurence had the most work load during the weekend being Neo, Karl acted the part of a souless robotic agent to a T and Ian managed to secure some good locations. We are aware that it would sound good with music but the purpose of this short film was for a competition and we had restriction. We could not use copyrighted music.
If you havent checked out the video yet.
For more antics of the Warriors click Warrior videos
We Hope you enjoy Warrior Dynamics first short film and look forward to more short films on the way.
AHOOOO!
The weekend was fun and some great spur of the moment locales where found (the bullet dodging scene was filmed on a rooftop). Unfortunately all the Warriors could not attend due to other commitments but the Warriors who did attend did aweosme.
Asten did a great job stealing the part of Morpheus and editing the footage in less then a week, sacrificing sleep in the process. Mike played a convincicing Agent Smith, Laurence had the most work load during the weekend being Neo, Karl acted the part of a souless robotic agent to a T and Ian managed to secure some good locations. We are aware that it would sound good with music but the purpose of this short film was for a competition and we had restriction. We could not use copyrighted music.
If you havent checked out the video yet.
For more antics of the Warriors click Warrior videos
We Hope you enjoy Warrior Dynamics first short film and look forward to more short films on the way.
AHOOOO!
New sampler
Ian is working on his new sampler so keep an eye out for the finished product. To see a teaser of the showreel just click here.
Whats in that can?
I went over my uncles house and in his fridge was a drink. This drink had a picture of Bob Marley. I am deadly serious. Eveywhere on the can indicates that there is something in this drink. A drink that makes you relaxed and with a name like Marley's Mellow Mood, it has to make you wonder. On further inspection of the can I found a warning. "This product may cause drowiness. Do not consume up to two hours before driving or operating machinery". What is in this can?
Is this drink insinuating that there are some sort of narcotics in this drink. The can is sure doing a good job of that. A picture of Bob Marley which along with being associated with music is also associated with weed smoking. I don't smoke yet alone weed but mellow, relaxed, reduces stress and relieves tension all sound like side effects of weed smoking to me.
Does this drink contain weed. I have to say no but as a graduate in Marketing I do believe this is an excellent marketing tool. Get people to buy your drink by hinting that your drink contains an illegal substance for the price of a bottle of Pepsi. It taps into the peoples emotions of 'if im told I cant have it, I want it even more'.
I might have to buy a can just to see if it works....for research sake
Is this drink insinuating that there are some sort of narcotics in this drink. The can is sure doing a good job of that. A picture of Bob Marley which along with being associated with music is also associated with weed smoking. I don't smoke yet alone weed but mellow, relaxed, reduces stress and relieves tension all sound like side effects of weed smoking to me.
Does this drink contain weed. I have to say no but as a graduate in Marketing I do believe this is an excellent marketing tool. Get people to buy your drink by hinting that your drink contains an illegal substance for the price of a bottle of Pepsi. It taps into the peoples emotions of 'if im told I cant have it, I want it even more'.
I might have to buy a can just to see if it works....for research sake
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
On the month of December 2010 I lost a dear friend of mine. We spent so many hours playing together and his time was tragically cut short. It was so unexpected. He contracted the YLOD and drifted to the eternal slumber. I will miss you PS3.
Yes my Playstation died and as a gamer this is not a good thing and if you share my passion for games you should now how I feel. PROFOUND SADNESS!
What a time to break down as well. I bought Scott Pilgrim vs The world, waiting on a pre-ordered copy of Marvel vs Capcom 3 and waiting for Hard Corps to be available on PSN for download. I waiting in anticipation and I was looking forward to the next few months of nothing but high class games. Then tragedy struck. While half way through watching Scott Pilgrim my PS3 suddenly shut down. Thinking it was just a loose connection I played around with the wires but to no avail my PS3 just did not want to turn on but instead gave me a flashing yellow light followed by 3 beeps and a constant red light. At this point I knew that it was my PS3’s time.
This happened after a course of unfortunate events, my radio got stolen out of my car, a postman reversed his van into my car and now the death of my 60gb Launch model PS3. What have I done to deserve all this misfortune?
I was looking forward to playing Marvel vs Capcom 3 as well. I pre-ordered the game a good 7 month before release. To this day I still haven’t played MVC3 and its still in its wrapping, taunting me, mocking me. Sad times.
After 4 years and I’m only now getting YLOD, that’s one hell of a good run.
PS3 Sunrise March 2006 – Sunset December 2010
PS3 Sunrise March 2006 – Sunset December 2010
Ian
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Here come the WARRIORS!!!
OUR MISSION:
To create dynamic, authentic martial arts action in films and television shows where the action compliments the story and the characters authentically.
We are a young dynamic group of UK martial artists who share a passion in designing and training fight choreography for film, stunts, martial arts, gymnastics, tricking, parkour and circus tricks.
We would like to share this passion with the world. dynamic, authentic martial arts action in films and television shows where the action compliments the story and the characters authentically.
We are a young dynamic group of UK martial artists who share a passion in designing and training fight choreography for film, stunts, martial arts, gymnastics, tricking, parkour and circus tricks.
We would like to share this passion with the world.
To create dynamic, authentic martial arts action in films and television shows where the action compliments the story and the characters authentically.
We are a young dynamic group of UK martial artists who share a passion in designing and training fight choreography for film, stunts, martial arts, gymnastics, tricking, parkour and circus tricks.
We would like to share this passion with the world. dynamic, authentic martial arts action in films and television shows where the action compliments the story and the characters authentically.
We are a young dynamic group of UK martial artists who share a passion in designing and training fight choreography for film, stunts, martial arts, gymnastics, tricking, parkour and circus tricks.
We would like to share this passion with the world.
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