This months challenge: busting a sweat

[Alan H]

To be honest, I don't do much sweating in my kilts, apart from the occasional hike. I feel bad sometimes for being one of those folks around here who endlessly discusses the minutiae of THCD and often post pics of myself just posing to show off an outfit because I know this drives poor Alan to distraction.

As my way of making it up to him, I accepted this months challenge.

My usual workout is Chinese kung fu and the uniform down at the club most definitely does not involve a kilt! Here's a few pics of me working up a sweat at home in my Sportkilt while practising on my wooden dummy. I hope this doesn't break any forum rules

Just the hands moving:


Stepping around for another move:



I couldn't resist one posed photo, but my excuse is that this one shows my sweatiness the best


To be honest, a kilt isn't that great for this kind of workout because of the kicking, which I had the decency NOT to take pics of Still, it was kind of fun for a lark

If I wanted to do more working out in a kilt, I think it would be more fun to do some Scottish backhold wrestling. Does anyone know of a group in the Toronto area?

That is bluidy AWESOME!

Hey ecklarkb is looking to do some backhold wrestling in Scotland next year. He's a Brazilian jiu-jitsu green belt, and they do a lot of floor work, not so much upright, but still. I bet he'll do well. I'm thinking that some basic Judo training would do a fellow well, if he wanted to try some backhold.

[eclarkhb]

That is bluidy AWESOME!

Hey ecklarkb is looking to do some backhold wrestling in Scotland next year. He's a Brazilian jiu-jitsu green belt, and they do a lot of floor work, not so much upright, but still. I bet he'll do well. I'm thinking that some basic Judo training would do a fellow well, if he wanted to try some backhold.

Purple belt Alan! :-) In Brazilian Jui-jitsu Green belts are typically for kids only, adults are White-Blue-Purple-Brown-Black, which is usually about a 10 year journey.

And yes, judo would help with backhold wrestling, there's several judokan's who have gone to Scotland & tried backhold wrestling. The biggest difference obviously is the grips & the fact that with backhold wrestling whoever hits the ground first loses. so there's quite a bit of technique & skill around twisting yourself in the air (like a cat) & getting your feet under you to make the other guy hit the ground first. But with that said, all the hip & foot work from judo would help a lot.

And the kilted kung fu pictures are cool!

[CMcG]

Alan and eclarkhb, thanks for the ideas re: judo and backhold wrestling. I did a bit of judo back in high school and have also done some BJJ, so maybe backhold wouldn't be too hard to pick up. It sure looks like fun!