Kev
Level 6 Valued Member
Here’s the thing though. Gama wrestled for 5 hours everyday which is hellish by any measure of physical exertion and he also lifted weights. Don Draeger I think was the first person to write about dands and Baithaks and no one payed them any notice. Bruce Lee had illustrations of them among his effects which were found after he died. As for Furey critics have pointed out his physique on the front of his book which eschews all weight training was from when he was a committed iron head. Subsequent claims by the author and courses he has sold claiming you can become as strong as a chimpanzee by doing chin-ups all day go beyond hyperbole and into the realms of complete ignorance of the differences in chimpanzee physiology and anatomy. I like high rep bodyweight stuff. A Kushti wrestler recently squatted 600lbs and only did Baithaks according to Jamie Lewis on Chaos and Pain blog. But again I haven’t met a grappler whether he was a sambo practitioner, Judoka or whatever style you care to mention who wasn’t a complete bear due to grappling. I experience this every week as a judoka. Guys with pure python strength and they really only grapple. I’m pretty sure Geoff Neupert has talked about this too with his own experience training grapplers.
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