breathing breathing breathing

[j]

in boxing/fighting, you really don't want to leave your mouth open. unless, of course, you want it dislocated.

i no alot about meditation, and when breathing you should inhale with the word sooo, and exhale with the word "hom". its the natural mantra of the body
sounds weird, but that is the natural sound your breath makes, also if you ever read into the triple warmers,each part of the body is relieved by a sound, the head by hahh(like a laugh sound, go figure) the throat by "hall"(thats why the mints are called halls, it clears your throat) and the lower body is soo i want to say. let me no if this makes sense

ever wonder why the buddist monks go ommmmmmmm?
thats the sound of your exale, basically. but you only hear the exale. all togerther, their saying "so ommmmmmm".
thats why cows are sacred in India. they say the mantra backwards moo instead of oom. each part has its own meaning. feel the O part in the back of your throat, like the back of your head. then once ur at the m, ull feel it on your lips, like it travels through your whole body.

one thing, bro, you do not need to make any certain sound when breathing. that goes for meditative and normal states. first, i would really need to know what meditative system you are using. next, who is teaching you? without proper guidance, bad things can happen.


also, you need to check with a traditional chinese medicine practitioner to really learn about the meridian and organ system in that particular perspective. the sound "haa" you mention, is actually related to the heart. this sound has the most potential of depleteing excess heat from the body. depleting excess heat means cooling down and literally helps relieve anger in that way. anger - is an excess of liver "energy" and a deficiency of heart "energy".

hopefully i wrote that down right. it can get a bit complicated beyond the basics.

[lilaznjoker]

know so much o.O.. are you asian? ichi the killer pic. and also...

didn't really answer my question


he said you have to exhale sharply and expend all your air. all of it. becuase for me when i exhale sharply i don't expend all my air. i just exhale some air sharply with the ch sound. but yeah. he said to exhale and expend all your air to throw 1 punch. as for combos. divide your air supply evenly so by the time your combo ends, then you will have expended all your air.

so what you guys think? i know other poeple in threads mentioned exhaling air when throwing a punch but no one really said to expend all the air.

[GoodBoxfella]

you yawn because your brain is not getting enough oxygen. that is why you yawn when you are tired, because there isnt alot of blood being pumped to the brain, and therefore the brain signals the body to yawn to add more oxygen.

Very interesting info I never knew this before, thanks. But is there a way to prevent this, is there something I can do? Because this yawning thing is a bit of a hazzard and doesn\t let me breath effectively and the right way.

[lilaznjoker]

get more sleep

[GoodBoxfella]

I do, that's not the problem. The guy said it's because not enough blood and oxygen is going trough my brain.

[short_hook]

I think proper breathing helps a lot in boxing. It will help you feel comfortable in the ring.

[lilaznjoker]

he said you have to exhale sharply and expend all your air. all of it. becuase for me when i exhale sharply i don't expend all my air. i just exhale some air sharply with the ch sound. but yeah. he said to exhale and expend all your air to throw 1 punch. as for combos. divide your air supply evenly so by the time your combo ends, then you will have expended all your air.

so what you guys think about exhaling ALL of your air when throwing 1 punch. or expend it evenly if you throw out a combo but at the end of the last punch, you should have used up all your air. what you guys think? is this the right way?

[fraidycat]

so what you guys think? i know other poeple in threads mentioned exhaling air when throwing a punch but no one really said to expend all the air.

You run the risk of hyperventilating if you breathe out completely on each punch. That said, breathe as you need to. If you're gassing out, try breathing more often or more deeply; if you start getting dizzy, you're getting too much oxygen, i.e., hyperventilating, so rein it back a little.

As for "proper" ways of breathing, there are two schools of thought on this. The first is diaphragmatic breathing, which is most likely the opposite of the way you normally breathe: let your stomach flop forward relaxed when you breathe IN, making room for your lungs to expand. This can add up to 30% to your lung capacity -- my wife is a professional, world-caliber soprano soloist (seriously -- symphony chorales, commercials, world tours with theatre and opera companies) so I know of what I speak, here; she taught me this trick when I started running and it doubled my endurance. The trick to breathing this way is, if you get hit with your stomach relaxed, you're So use it at your risk; it's cheap, quick power but it can cost you.

The other thought is to keep your abs somewhat tense all the time, and practice running with your abs clenched to some degree, eventually building up your endurance so that you can sprint uphill with your abs cranked down, at which point you should be able to fight with your abs tight. My coach swears it's possible but I still can't do it and I've been working at exactly this trick for about six months. As it stands right now, I switch to diaphragmatic breathing when I get outside long attacking distance and "sneak" a few big, deep breaths before my opponent engages again; I also breathe this way between rounds.

I breathe out through clenched teeth when I punch, and I have a tendency to bite down when I take a punch, also. I've had my nose broken twice so I don't breathe so well through it.

EDIT: My big stumbling block as a fighter, at this moment, is my inability to keep pressure through an entire round. I can make a guy's life a living hell for about 15-20 seconds at a time and then I need to break it off, retreat, cover up, and grab some air. My goal is to be able to go 3 full rounds in my opponent's face and just stay on him like the Tasmanian Devil or one of those zombies on 28 Days Later, and not give those tall ****ers a chance to jab me off. When I'm in somebody's face, right in there where he can smell the garlic on my breath -- "a fistfight in a phone booth," as one sparring partner calls it -- he's mine; it's just incredibly demanding to stay there for any length of time. Breathing is the key to this, I know. When I get this problem solved, I'll let you all know how I did it.

[lilaznjoker]

You run the risk of hyperventilating if you breathe out completely on each punch.

When I get this problem solved, I'll let you all know how I did it.

wow . thanks lotta info. for sure though get back on how you breathe while fighting in the phone booth when you figure it out. hyperventilating sounds reasonable if you expend all your air each time you punch but the boxer i talked to said you'll get used to it. as of now. if not expending all your air. how much air do you exhale when you punch? small short sharp exhale?

[fraidycat]

how much air do you exhale when you punch? small short sharp exhale?

About that, I guess. I throw a lot of punches; I'm a swarmer/infighter. Well, trying to be. I should say: at the moment, I've had the most success as a swarmer/infighter and I'm trying to get good at it.