Hey all. I just thought I would throw something out there and see what people thoughts are.

I am a reasonably big guy by western standards. I am about 6ft and weigh about 85kg. I am pretty flexible due to my TKD training and pretty strong due to all around exercise and being a heavy type fighter. Training in Japan I am nothing short of massive. Half of the people I train with are about 20kg lighter than myself and as a result they are pretty damn speedy. They seem to work around the fact "If Tony gets even one hit in, I'm screwed" so they dodge past my punches or jump in and out with hits.

After training with these guys for what is approaching 2 years now I am getting to be able to use techniques they were using on me and find that I am getting a lot quicker without having to sacrifice any of my weight and power.

As a big frigging white guy training in a dojo full of much smaller Japanese guys I am training against my heavy body type learning light fighter style techniques and it seems to be working pretty damn well.

Does anyone else have any experiences with working against their body type. Be it a light fighter learning heavy techniques (see the crazy Thai guys practicing muey thai) or a heavy fighter working on light techniques (see me point sparring people half my size and twice my speed).