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6/27 am: private spent working on de la riva work. 20 min free roll pm: Drilled clinch work, pummel to double leg. Pummel to double unders and move to back. 10 min free work from clinch Drilled closed guard to hip bump sweep via collar grip. Finish with collar choke. Moved on to bump, partner posts, triangle. Finishing triangle from stack effort. 45 min free roll.

6/26 2 mile run

6/25 2 mile run pull ups neck shoulder press curls squat abs

Yeah, once you've got trap-age going on, you're in a tough spot. Start by getting close, I like under hooking the trap side arm. Drive the leg forward to facilitate this. Bend the knee and wrap the top of the foot to the front of his quad. This configuration helps lock in some balance. That and the underhook give you options. Head will post in his neck socket area of the grab side. Push his head away with this, it will help prevent a lot of takedown efforts, primarily the step thru sweeps. Be ready for trips to start coming in. I always try to immediately get the foot down to the ground. You can use the underhook to drive the counter force. Drop the hips to assit. Getting your feet under your base is way better than striking without base or giving up position. That being said, I'll always look for guard if it looks like I am going down, or losing options, or getting pummeled. At least from guard I can control distance.

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6/23 BJJ nite: Drilled clinch work, pummeling to double leg 15 min free work from clinch Worked triangles. Counter to stack and sweeps from triangle position. 45 min free roll.

6/22 bench dead lift curls neck pull ups 15 min of pummelling work and takedown set ups

6/21 2 mile run Now I intend to finish off the bottle of wine I opened to cook with at dinner and thus wreck a week of good training.

Great idea for a thread. I can't think of any others off hand, however, I've always been suspect of the high/low kicks claim. It different balance, target area, torque, form, ect. They are different animals with different uses. If you want to be good at one or the other, then practice it. Kicking high will help you kick high, same for low.

I don't disagree with you eiter, rd. I'm well aware of the nature of most ambush knife tactics. However, since we've go so far into worse case scenarios, I'll always want a weapon on hand to to ATTEMPT to esclate to.

Check out Jiu Jitsu University, by Riberio. Excellent text, laid out well.

6/20 am: shoulder press curls squat pull ups neck pm: BJJ nite Drilled clinch work. Move to underhooking body lock and behind. 15 min fo grappling from clinch. Sweep from butterfly/spider guard hybrid to sweep, triangle, omo, 45 min free roll.

LP, on the Mag Lite note, I've always wanted to spot weld at tow hitch to the butt end of a D Cell Mag Lite. Can you image the blind them followed by the Hulk Smash end whipping in tactic? I looked into having it built but a welder buddy of mine said the material at the end of the Mag wouldn't hold up to the process of making a tow hitch stay in place. Well, I'll keep looking.

I like it. The thing to be said for the 3 dimensional BOB over drawn on faces it the step towards realism it takes in the way of a target. It's important for mental conditioning. I know, sounds like garbage but research bears it out. Look at the research Grossman and others site in regards to the firing rates of soldiers in Vietnam after the advent of human shaped, photo-realistic targets. Way up over the bulls-eye targets used prior. Now, I'll grant you, I'm extrapolating here to the unarmed realm. I think the Force Science Institute is doing something along these lines now, so we'll know more at some point I hope.

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I have to respectfully disagree with rd2022 with is assertion that both hands free are better to deal with the knife. Escalation of weaponry is a primary principle when confronted with armed violence. A weapon not only produces a certain mental effect on your attacker, but is a major force multiplier when it comes to putting hurt on the bad guy. Let me back up and preface this with any weapon that you're gonna carry you need to: a) train with, and b) be willing to use against another human being. If you can't do both then don't carry it. It will only get taken away and used against you. Bear in mind that this is a risk regardless. Train for that as well. So, back to topic. A knife moves fast, and unlike a gun, has multiple surfaces that you have to worry about. When doing gun work, you have to worry about the barrel, and make sure it's not pointing at you. With a knife, you've got the entire length of the blade to be concerned with. Plus the serrations that are common near the tang on the blade side, and in some cases cutting edges on the spine of one kind or another. In addition to making a lot of areas to worry about, it makes gripping the weapon by a defender difficult at best. Now, I will and have for a long time, conceded that when unarmed facing a knife using both of your hands to control his weapon hand is probably the best option you have. But this is a secondary option. I'd rather have another weapon in my hand to meet it. If you deploy a knife or club (my Thagg nomenclature for a baton- expandable or otherwise, and what most Japanese arts call a hanbo) you have better options to counter with. A knife of your own gives you the chance to cut the knife out of his by attacking the gripping hand. Do you run the same risk, sure, but that's why your going to train to increase your odds of being successful. Now, let's control the distance a bit (anther principle that's dear to me by the way). Let's use a club. Now I'm back a bit, and I get to smash his knuckles and attempt to release the weapon. Or kneecap him and gain even more distance by sprinting like mad. Best case, I'd like a firearm in my hand, but the OP has certain regulations in place that make this impossible. Further, even it you're carrying one, be aware that it might not be instantly accessible and you might need and unarmed bridge to make that presentation happen. Some sort of intermediate weapon is such a good idea that I'd use a rolled newspaper before going entirely unarmed.

I'd certainly own a heavy bag first. And mitts. After that, I do think they are handy. For instance, target areas are clearly defined and this aids not only in precision work, but mental conditioning as well. It's much more vivid to stick BOB in the eye than simulate on anything. The limitations have been well outlined above, but part of the problem is people trying to use it exactly like you would a heavy bag when it's an entirely different training modality. It comes into it's own working multiple strikes to precision area. So, rather than condition power work on it, your working a brachial stun to eye gouge to folding elbow to the neck. Multiple, precision strikes to areas easily damaged on the human body and difficult to mimic otherwise. Further, it's a major advantage to drilling stick work at speed and knife work around the face. Again, you get to work against live anatomy without constantly pounding on a partner. Just some other thoughts. I'd always have partner, bag, BOB, in that order. But it can be a useful addition to a gym if you have the resources or opportunity.

6/19 2.5 mile run

6/18 2 mile run bench neck curls squat abs

Great points, LP, and everyone else for that matter. The idea of not acting like a victim that GS brings up is very valid for this sort of matter as well. I don't think anyone can deny the right to walk wherever you want, ect. I do think that at some point practically this becomes problematic if you don't want to have to test your skills. Now, I don't know if this means that you should or shouldn't go ahead and do it anyway. It's going to be a personal choice. Just don't be surprised if bad things come to pass. Also, if you're going to advocate certain rights in that fashion, don't lead other unsuspecting persons into the fray with you. They too have the right to simply look the other way. For me, I avoid the mess. I hate the idea of all the paperwork I'll end up doing for supporting my rights when I start sending .45 rounds down range. If certain segments of society feel the need to impose the dark ages in their neighborhoods then so be it. Bring that garbage to mine and we'll have problems. I'm certain the founders of the arts really didn't think of it along those lines. Let's face it, go back far enough and people were really codifying these things to kill other human beings in battle. As LP pointed out, all the addition of moral compulsion came about later as a method to keep reign on all these veteran killers they had running about the countryside making money on teaching their skills to others. Anyone thinking about the "proper" use of the art would have probably turned up just before Funikoshi's time. A relativity recent development if we consider that martial arts have pretty much been around since Thagg hit Grog upside the head with a rock. It's continued, I believe, to be a focus of the arts since because as a society we use them far less for combat every day than those before us did. We kill things with cruise missiles now. Or at least firearms. Occasionally an edged weapon. That's not to say it doesn't happen or we shouldn't keep the focus, but just a statement of reality. Even kids don't fight on the playground like they used to. What was once a time honor tradition, as short a time ago as my school days, is now forbidden under pain of expulsion and legal entanglements. So, it's up to you. But if you're going to make that decision, better to do so with confidence and skill than not.

Think about a dedicated set of light bag gloves. They look almost like mma gloves and have a velcro wrap at the wrist to secure them. They come off and on easy enough work thru a circuit but still pad the tiny bones in your hand a bit. I still have a light set of boxing gloves I'll use to work the bag. My joints don't forgive like they used to. But for round work when I'm moving around to different stations, mma gloves work great. I'll keep them on for mitt work and you can even keep them on for push up/ pull up type work.

6/16 BJJ nite: Drilled work from the clinch. Pummel, to underhook control. To head control, and body lock. Drilled escape from mount. 45 min free roll

6/15 40 min drill work on takedowns. Worked blast double, transition from single and double to body lock work. 30 min free roll. GS, you're still working in the gi. Excellent.

John, we all liked Tennant. He had a few more years for us to like him, some great companions, and solid stories. I would argue that Smith's tenure is still to young to call. The stories, I think, are better though. The last season's finale was amazing and the mid-season this year was most impressive.

Yes. Breakfalls have been very useful over the years. A couple of times, rolling has been helpful too. Once over the handlebars of a dumped motorcycle, another after tripping over a root on a trail run. Each time probibily saved me from some impact damage. Aside from that, the agility and coordiation is probably an intangable trait that has come into play a lot.