"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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wildchild

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Does working your core muscles push out your abs to make them apear bigger? Also to a boxer do you think it would help them have more power in the punches...thanks for your advice
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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Alpine

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The core is the link between what you hit with and what makes it powerful, ie your hips and good grounding. Therefore it is potentially the weak link in the chain.

So it's not so stupid to squat for harder punching combined with necesarry bag work and sparring. The squat build hip power and stablising muscles that make up the core (this includes lower back, not just abs).

Turkish get ups with weight are proably the best allround core developer. Remember some of the best fighters in the world have very strong cores, however many of them have a total absence of the washboard effect.
 

wildchild

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Is your core your abs, lower back, muscles inside between ur ab and back and also your ass muscles? Also alpine my thai boxing instructor has trained in wing chun Im gonna get him to show me a few things. How you getting on with it?
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Create Reality

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There are muscles inside the hips too that are responible for your core movements.
 
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