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Originally Posted by kuri
In case you guys don't know Dave runs a gym in Taiwan, and is quite experienced in Chinese internal martial arts.
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Thanks for the plug!
I found JPF by searching for info on the NASM cert. There's more info on JPF about the cert than anywhere else. Weird, eh?
I came to these conclusions about the differences in the trainings after going through a Tom Kurz phase where I was enamored with dynamic stretching and warmups. The whole "Stretching Scientifically" thing.
He and others are correct that dynamic warmups and stretching are missing from most MA schools and they should be included. I agree with that. But after doing a lot of that type of stretching, I came to the conclusion that traditional static stretching and some of the traditional warmups also had a lot to offer a student learning taijiquan, the main art that I teach.
For example, a lot of my beginning students are de-conditioned so dynamic stretching and warmups are almost dangerous for them. I want them to slow down and hold corrective static stretches along with doing body weight squats and horse stance for time.
Combining the traditional (horse stance and static stretching) with more modern strengthening exercises (planks, lunges, body weight squats) has given me the best results so far. Slow and easy builds them up faster.
I save dynamic stretching and warmups for later when my students show more motor control.
Again, thanks for the warm welcome. I hope that explanation made sense.