Karl Gotch - Conditioning For Combat Sports

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"Conditioning is your best hold"

-Karl Gotch

Wrestlers are notorious for being phenomenally fit. The "God of Wrestling" Karl Gotch is notorious for having one of the most rigorous and ingenious conditioning workouts you will ever do.

Conditioning for Combat Sports is the workout Karl designed over the course of a LIFETIME of grappling and coaching to address the sport specific needs of the submission wrestler.

Karl's program aims to optimize the following attributes needed by wrestlers:

Speed
Agility
Strength (explosive)
Endurance
Reaction Time

As Karl says, "Wrestling is a workman's sport, you need no expensive equipment and can practice it anywhere". The same goes for Karl's Conditioning for Combat Sports. All you need is few minutes, the desire to excel, and the knowledge Karl will share with you.

Karl has forgotten more about wrestling and fitness than some modern "experts" will ever know and now you have a chance to sit in as he coaches a student through the workout of a lifetime.

Can you climb a rope? Can you climb a rope UPSIDE down? This is the ORIGINAL video that launched a revolution.

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[Rhypes99]

matt furey is a conman

[adirandom]

pretty tough for an old man

[Dynaman21]

@OtterpopSlaughterMop Gotch describes him in the video as merely being someone who came to him to learn hooks, but Gotch decided he had to get his conditioning up to snuff. Sadly, Gotch's wife died and he apparently lost all interest. No names were given sadly enough.

[Electronic91Videos]

@OtterpopSlaughterMop

I also wonder who is that dude.

[EMT22637]

@Rhypes99 yes he is, thank you for posting.

[OtterpopSlaughterMop]

Has anyone ever figured out who that guy was Gotch was teaching in vol. #1?

[blystyryng]

definitely! part of the most universally respected martial arts styles is to emphasize training the body as a weapon -first-, and then you understand more fully how an implement/weapon works.

and the worst thing you can do to a group of people is brandish a weapon; most smart groups will just swarm you before you have a chance to use it or one can break away and sneak behind you. and if people are resisting authority, you don't want to look like an authority--that's just ASKING for them to freak

[natesway1]

If I lived in a country where carrying and using hand guns or blades for self-defence is allowed, I would certainly carry a gun and a knife, but I would still learn unarmed combat, because as mention before, weapons can let you down, become lost or worse be used against you. Sometimes deploying a weapon when the situation is uncalled for can land people it deeper shit, but it can make a group of attackers think twice.

[natesway1]

I practice Krav Maga as it is all about self-defence from a position of disadvantage; armed assaults with blunt or edged weapons and close range threat or attack with firearms (Where the aggressor draws a gun at conversation distance with the intention of shooting and killing)

[natesway1]

Athough this not the main subject of the thread, I think it bares mentioning since wrestling or other forms of unarmed combat is the only thing law abiding UK citizens can count as the primary tool for self-defence.

[blystyryng]

yeah, i agree. laws are intended to compromise and end up providing convenience/safety to more people than they don't. current weapons laws only inconvenience the people who want -all- the laws to help them; you break one and lose the law's protection. criminals don't care about the law's protection, so it only makes it tough on many levels for real citizens.

[natesway1]

Incidental weapons allowed only in UK law; no authorisation to use taser or mace for the general public, for any reason and no brass knuckles allowed, which is shit.