Tips on how to be a Kickboxing champion
I have finished my Secrets of the Millionaire Mind and is moving on to the next book - The 4-hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris. This book is about somebody who simplifies his work and life procedure, and thus have plenty of time at hand to pursue his activities.
As I read the book, I will come across quite a few ideas which I will share some with you here in future blog posts. Especially really intriguing will be the story of how most of his cold calls by no means get to the intended individual due to gatekeepers (ie. the clerks and secretaries). So he chose to make his calls at 8-8.30am and 6-6.30pm instead of 9am-5pm (when the secretaries were not in office), and ended up obtaining twice the results for 1/8 of the time.
Anyway, I will leave you with an extract of his book, on how he became a kickboxing champion by playing smart, and staying within the rules. Whether you like his way or not, I should give him some credits for playing "smart".
Cheers, everybody!
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In 1999, sometime soon after quitting my second unfulfilling job and eating peanut-butter sandwiches for comfort, I won the gold medal at the Chinese Kickboxing National Championships.
It wasn't simply because I was good at punching and kicking. God forbid. That seemed a bit harmful, taking into consideration I did it on a dare and had four weeks of preparation. Besides, I have a watermelon head-it's a big target.
I won by reading the rules and in search of loopholes, of which there had been two:
1. Weigh-ins were the day prior to competition: Utilizing dehydration tactics I now teach to elite powerlifters, I lost 28 pounds in 18 hours, weighed in at 165 pounds, and then hyperhydrated back to 193 pounds*. It is tough to fight somebody from three weight classes above you. Poor small guys.
2. There was a technicality in the fine print: If 1 combatant fell off the elevated platform 3 times in a single round, his opponent won by default. I decided to make use of this technicality as my single technique and just push people off. As you might imagine, this did not make the judges the happiest Chinese I've ever seen.
The result? I won all my matches by technical knock-out (TKO) and went residence national champion, some thing 99% of those with 5-10 years of experience had been unable to do.
As I read the book, I will come across quite a few ideas which I will share some with you here in future blog posts. Especially really intriguing will be the story of how most of his cold calls by no means get to the intended individual due to gatekeepers (ie. the clerks and secretaries). So he chose to make his calls at 8-8.30am and 6-6.30pm instead of 9am-5pm (when the secretaries were not in office), and ended up obtaining twice the results for 1/8 of the time.
Anyway, I will leave you with an extract of his book, on how he became a kickboxing champion by playing smart, and staying within the rules. Whether you like his way or not, I should give him some credits for playing "smart".
Cheers, everybody!
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In 1999, sometime soon after quitting my second unfulfilling job and eating peanut-butter sandwiches for comfort, I won the gold medal at the Chinese Kickboxing National Championships.
It wasn't simply because I was good at punching and kicking. God forbid. That seemed a bit harmful, taking into consideration I did it on a dare and had four weeks of preparation. Besides, I have a watermelon head-it's a big target.
I won by reading the rules and in search of loopholes, of which there had been two:
1. Weigh-ins were the day prior to competition: Utilizing dehydration tactics I now teach to elite powerlifters, I lost 28 pounds in 18 hours, weighed in at 165 pounds, and then hyperhydrated back to 193 pounds*. It is tough to fight somebody from three weight classes above you. Poor small guys.
2. There was a technicality in the fine print: If 1 combatant fell off the elevated platform 3 times in a single round, his opponent won by default. I decided to make use of this technicality as my single technique and just push people off. As you might imagine, this did not make the judges the happiest Chinese I've ever seen.
The result? I won all my matches by technical knock-out (TKO) and went residence national champion, some thing 99% of those with 5-10 years of experience had been unable to do.
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