Inosanto and Bustillo teaching method

[Groin Grab]

There is a lot of controversy about dead drilling, alive drilling and live training or alive training etc. etc. what ever you want to call it resistance training who cares. I agree with what Monkey just posted concerning balance between the two. For me I progress the fastest when I take one aspect of my fight and drill it over and over again. For example my ground game has improved the most by focusing on one situation then taking a three - four move combination wether it be escapes or submissions and drilling it and improving on it for hours each time trying to make everything a little tighter smoother or flow better then I find when I'm grappling live and the situation comes up it's just automatic I'm able to move and flow right into my next escape counter or submission automatically and it works. I was having a problem with my boxing I was sparring a ton but I kept getting hit because I was trying to counter my opponent while I was standing in the same place in stead of using my foot work to moving off line and then fire off my counter. My boxing coach kept yelling at my to move to the side instead of standing still in front of my opponent while he attacked but even when I could clearly see that's what I needed to do it would never happen because I had never drilled it and that movement and reaction had not been burnt into my muscle memory to become an automatic reaction and no matter how much more damn sparring I did that night I still continued to get jacked up off those counter attempts. For the next two weeks all I did was have my guys throw at me starting with a jab and moving into more and more combos and all I did was work on improving my foot work by circling and stepping of line then throwing my counters. After probably 15 hours of DRILLING when I went back into sparring and Live training it would just happen automatically and I no longer got hit as much.

[Chad W. Getz]

It's like we are all reading a report about a subject done by different people. Same topics, different interpretations. No way as way, but if we concentrate on making what was "no way" or what is "no way" as the "way". than what do we have? On the same note, if we concentrate too much on what one person percieves to be "no way", we could make his "no way, a "way. Dogma.

It's funny, I just typed in Dogma in the search engine and came across a site which had this phrase:
"In the beginner´s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert´s mind there are few.