Author Archives: Wally

Threatening Range

Critical distance is how far away your partner can be and still hit you effectively.  Threat range (just made that phrase up, but sounds good) is how far away you can be and still hit your partner effectively.  It’d be … Continue reading

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Basics

Jump rope.  Squat.  What could be finer?  It was fun today to watch who got slowed up by the squats, who got slowed up by the jump ropes and who got slowed up by shortness of breath.  (There may have … Continue reading

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Threatening Range

Critical distance is how far away your partner can be and still hit you effectively.  Threat range (just made that phrase up, but sounds good) is how far away you can be and still hit your partner effectively.  It’d be … Continue reading

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Theme of the Week: Critical Distance

Critical distance has always been difficult to state clearly for me.  The most concise definition I can come up with is: the distance between you and your partner at which they can strike you effectively.  To steal from another sport, … Continue reading

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Fun

What is “fun”?  Let us delve, friends. Is time spent reading a book fun?  Is an all night dance party fun?  Is laying in the dark listening to music fun?  Is doing 50 box jump burpees and 50 burpee pull … Continue reading

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