"With this video I want to help to get rid of bad warm-ups which can be a time waste at best and an injury risk at worst. So, let's dive in!
The main points:
- Warm-Ups are important.
- A warm-up should prepare both physically and mentally for the specific activity.
- General warm-up exercises like jogging are not time-efficient or task-specific.
- Fitness & flexibility training should be separated from warm-ups.
- Design specific games or do light bouts for a more efficient warm-up.
- Short dynamic stretching and specific drills & games might be sufficient as well.
- Keep warm-ups fun, light, specific, and time-efficient." Obviously individuals may need more individualized approaches to warm ups that may be less 'task-specific' or take more time etc. due to various injuries etc. and everyone should feel free to do what they need to warm up physically and mentally. However obviously we should try and optimize the types of specialized warm ups and we may fine-tune what we personally need but the overall points made in the video are excellent.
For anyone who hasn’t yet seen the following links:
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Some advice on how to start studying the sources generally can be found in these older posts
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Remember to check out A Guide to Starting a Liberation Martial Arts Gym as it may help with your own club/gym/dojo/school culture and approach.Check out their curriculum too.
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Fear is the Mind Killer: How to Build a Training Culture that Fosters Strength and Resilience by Kajetan Sadowski may be relevant as well.
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“How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills” by Rob Gray as well as this post that goes over the basics of his constraints lead, ecological approach.
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Another useful book to check out is The Theory and Practice of Historical European Martial Arts (while about HEMA, a lot of it is applicable to other historical martial arts clubs dealing with research and recreation of old fighting systems).
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Trauma informed coaching and why it matters
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Look at the previous posts in relation to running and cardio to learn how that relates to historical fencing.
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Why having a systematic approach to training can be beneficial
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Why we may not want one attack 10 000 times, nor 10 000 attacks done once, but a third option.
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How consent and opting in function and why it matters.
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More on tactics in fencing
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Open vs closed skills
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The three primary factors to safety within historical fencing
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Worth checking out are this blogs tags on pedagogy and teaching for other related useful posts.
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And if you train any weapon based form of historical fencing check out the ‘HEMA game archive’ where you can find a plethora of different drills, focused sparring and game options to use for effective, useful and fun training.
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Check out the cool hemabookshelf facsimile project.
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For more on how to use youtube content for learning historical fencing I suggest checking out these older posts on the concept of video study of sparring and tournament footage.
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Consider getting some patches of this sort or these cool rashguards to show support for good causes or a t-shirt like to send a good message while at training.














