|
|
CMD Can Make You Smarter! |
|
 CMD Can Make You Smarter & Make You More Resilient To Negative Stress!
By
Rodney King RSME
The Physical Expression Of CMD
CMD is a great way to get in shape and stay healthy. Because of the physical nature of CMD you will invariably build muscle strength, while conditioning the heart and strengthening the lungs.
But probably the most important benefit of sustained physical training through CMD, is that it gets your blood pumping optimally, which in turn makes your brain function at its best.
In addition the part of your brain that enables you to dream and make plans is also the same area of the brain that governs movement. Moving your muscles produce proteins that are released into the bloodstream and travel to the brain- where they end up playing a crucial role in higher thinking functions. The side effects of treating the body with good physical exercise, is that it can transform your mind in positive ways.
Carl Cotman, Director of the Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia at the University of California, Irvine, has found a direct biological correlation between movement and cognitive function. The benefits of physical activity are far reaching and the scientific evidence is clear- physical activity is crucial to the way we feel and think. It also cues the building blocs for learning in the brain to take place.
In addition physical activity can positively affect mood, decrease anxiety and increase attention. Physical exercise has also the ability to guard us against the negative side effects of stress (Ratey 2008).
High levels of sustained stress as many people today have to endure in their life and work, erodes the connections between the billions of nerve cells in the brain. It is well documented that chronic depression shrinks certain areas of the brain. Exercise is an antidote to these negative side effects of stress. Exercise releases a cascade of neurochemicals and growth factors that has the ability to reverse these negative side effects while physically bolstering the brains infrastructure (Ratey 2008). In 2000 researchers at Duke University in a New York Times article unveiled their study showing that exercise is better than Zoloft in treating depression.
|
|
|
CMD's Positive Effects On Mind & Body |
|
 Utilizing the Crazy Monkey Defense Program for Physical and Psychological Health and Well Being.
By
Christopher K. Bishop RN, BSC (in nursing)
The Martial Art (MA), Crazy Monkey Defense Program (CMD) has been in existence for around a decade at the time of writing and was born out of a purely functional basis. However through its evolution and development it has both reinforced its functionality by being utilized in Unarmed Combatives training for Special Force military units, chosen by combative athletes to give them an edge in training and competition, as well as being used to improve the practitioner’s health, wellbeing, relationships and career. It is the objective of the following writings to outline some of the CMD’s benefits to a person’s health and wellbeing through physical and psychological channels.
Aspects of many MA’s are now widely used as a form of exercise to improve a person’s physical health and well being with many martial artists around the world feeling the physical benefits of training. So mainstream is MA for exercise, that many modern gymnasiums or health clubs incorporate some form of MA in everyday classes such as circuit training, or isolating it completely in classes such as ‘cardio kickboxing’, or ‘boxercise’.
Numerous high profile reports by medical governing bodies have effectively demonstrated that exercise is good for a person’s physical health. They have identified that in the long term, physical exercise generates protection against a plethora of somatic complaints, which includes coronary heart disease, hypertension, cancer, diabetes and osteoporosis (Burke 2007).
As a Martial Art, the CMD can be utilized purely as a fitness regime. Physical benefits of training in the CMD yield the benefits of exercise and sport which includes improvement of both aerobic and anaerobic endurance. As a participant’s heart rate is elevated for the majority of training session, this gives rise to an aerobic fitness base and conditioning of Type I slow twitch, or endurance, muscle fibers. Consistent training will improve the cardiovascular systems, leading to an increase in life expectancy, enhanced immune system, and reduce the risk of cardiovascular related diseases and stroke. Due to the often explosive nature of striking in CMD, the anaerobic system is used which increases the participants blood pressure and heart rate beyond that of the aerobic base and conditions the Type II, or fast twitch, muscle fibers. Again, the health benefits are similar to those of mentioned above (Enamait 2004).
|
|
|
CMD Mind, Body & Kick-Ass Spirit! |
|
By Dr. Richard G. Salamone, Ph.D.
As I turned 50 this year and reflect back on my martial arts training, beginning with wrestling in middle school, and later being exposed to Tae Kwon Do, Kung Fu, Shorinji Kempo, Jeet Kune Do, Brazilian Jiu Jistu, and no-gi grappling, along the years, all of which focused primarily on the fight and/or competition game at some level.
Then I had the good fortune of training a Slovakian martial artist and special forces instructor in wrestling who, in turn, exposed me to the Crazy Monkey Defense (CMD) Self Defense System several years ago. Unique in its logical and practical approach to the stand up game, particularly boxing elements, the approach, process, and goals of training are distinctive and set it apart from other martial arts training systems for both the client and coach.
Traditional martial arts training focuses on instructing groups of students in a typically rigid, overly structured, and competitive environment; a one-size-fits-all approach that tends to be instructor-centered. CMD takes a more individual and flexible path. In CMD, individual and small group instruction translates into intensive coaching and more frequent and systematic feedback, resulting in more rapid fine-tuning of skill and progression. This custom, client-centered approach, along with the CMD philosophy of somatic learning, allows for more freedom and experimentation by the client to develop skills.
|
|
|
Biology of Crazy Monkey Defense! |
|
By Dr. Fred Stevens PhD.
I have been training in Crazy Monkey Defense (CMD) for 2 years now. During this time I have found myself enjoying training immensely, getting fitter and reveling in the sheer pleasure of a sparring based training environment, this experience has ultimately lead me to become a CMD trainer-in-training. In this article I would like to examine why CMD has such a beneficial effect on people from a perspective both as a martial artist and professionally as a scientist specializing in the biological effects of stress.
I believe that CMD has had some major “knock-on” effects in my life, I feel more able to respond calmly under pressure and generally more confident because of this! I am sure that I am not the only person to have experienced these effects from CMD, just talking to other people in the gym, meeting other students on courses and reading the forums I have found many similar stories – in fact within CMD experience of beneficial effects on other aspects of the students lives seems to be the norm and not unusual. However, like many people within the CMD community I have a previous martial arts background, 20 years worth of several different flavors from the “joys” of competitive fencing through to the idealism of the internal martial arts – aikido and tai chi - and with a large dose of the macho fantasy of the “real” martial arts world of JKD, MMA and Eskrima.
|
|
|
Sparring Through Life (Part 1) |
 Introduction
Have you ever thought of sparring as a personal tool for change? I don’t mean it in a self-help kind of way. I mean as a real tool for positive change? This series of articles entitled ‘Sparring Through Life’ will try and capture the positive life, mind and body changing qualities of sparring. I say try, because we can write all we like about sparring, but unless you get in their and experience it, and experience it with the attitudes I will describe in this and subsequent articles, you will never understand what I am writing about.
Part 1
Any one who has trained in the martial arts will be very familiar with the physical techniques of the style, system or training they have received. In many cases especially in the more modern perspectives of martial arts, this seems to be all that people know these days or even care about.
It’s a shame really, as I feel much is lost when there is only a focus on learning the physical technique and its subsequent application. The physical expression of martial arts is merely scratching the surface of what martial arts can really offer each one of us. The physical techniques of martial arts pale in comparison to what truly can be learnt through sparring- about oneself, the environment that surrounds each one of us, our place in society and in the broader ecology of life.
The first thing that is apparent is how so many people practicing sparring feel that what they are learning is really only about winning and dominating the other person with their physical will.
|
|
| << Start < Prev 1 2 Next > End >>
| | Results 1 - 5 of 10 |
|
