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Right. If you are at the point of using martial skill on another individual, then the situation MUST be dire enough to take whatever action needed. This usually ends up with the bad guy in bad straights. Damamge is what can turn the tide in your favor. When forced to deploy skill, the last thing in my mind is the well being of my attacker.

4/28 BJJ nite: Drilled over passing spider guard, then counter to pass. 30 min of rounds v. spider, in for two out for one 45 min free roll

4/27 Drilled butterfly to x guard. Sweep. 30 min free roll

4/26 Drilled takedowns via body lock for 30. 40 min free roll

4/25 1.5 mile run back/bis abs

Good question. For me, it matters as to the targets angle to my fists angle. So, if I'm tight, have a high guard and shovel, it will go beer mug up. If I'm outisde he lead arm, i'm more likely to go beer mug down (great descriptors by the way, I can actaully picture what you're saying ) That way I'm lining up weapon to target a bit more. Becauseof this natural line up, the beer mug down does tend to function better from a distance with most people at the same height. Bottom line is, it will depend more on the weapon and target's angle, and my ability to match them up, than any other factor.

4/21 BJJ nite: Drilled butterfly to x guard. sweep, then exit via the back door and take back. Fininshed with passing the butterfly. 6, 2 min rounds butterfly v. pass 45 min free roll.

4/20 2.5 mile run abs chest/ tris

The Blauer Hi Gear is reallyh good stuff. I've used it extensively for ct work at the department I work at. Yes, it heavily pads the chest, but after 2 weeks of having people spear you across the mats to gain space you'll appreciate it. The quad protection is pretty good, and when paired with the shin gear on the other end of a kick it eats impact realitively well. The forearm protection is adaquate. Again, not thought about much by fighter types, but very much appreciated after classes of weapon retention where you're striking to the grabbers forearm. I'd assume it work as well if that's your systems response to any sort of grab. I like the gorget a lot, it provides padding to the throat/ neck area that keeps errent strikes from rattling the side of the c spine too bad. The best part of the armor is the headgear. First up, it's total coverage and a clear panel in front. This means you never have to worry about losing an eye to a failed knife defense too often. Plus, the face shield is rated to take simunitions, which means you can incorporate hands on work with cqb. Bonus. Should ever martial artist invest in one? Probibly not, but it's a great piece of gear. For repeated combination training over and over it's fantastic. Plus, the mobility in it is excellent. You can actually move like an attacker and not just a determined zombie.

4/19 am- dept control tactics pm- 2mile run abs

Welcome to KF!

4/18 pm: BJJ Drilled over butterfly to x guard. Sweep. Moved on to open guard sweep. 6, 2 min rounds of butterfly or open guard v. pass 45 min free roll. Got the opportunity to work on the material from this weekends seminar with some success.

Congrats! Well earned.

Ok, to catch up a bit: 4/15 travel 4/16 BJJ seminar with my instructor's coach, Charuto. 3 hours of technique, half no gi half gi. X guard work, butterfly guard, counters to each. Tripod sweep from De La Riva, counter to spider. Fninshed with half guard sweeps. 45 min free roll. Awesome day. 4/17 travel day and work off hangover from post-seminar revelry. 4/18 am- Start of 2 weeks day shift work instructing the department's control tactics program. This means pleanty of rep work on those things that we do. Again, we managed a pretty good evolution this year again. Now if I can just keep everyone healthy. Now off to BJJ...

4/15 Instructor development meeting for control tactics at the dpt. About an hour of good, solid LE focused ground work. Knife defense.

4/14 am: Training shoot. Marksmanship, combat marksmanship, scenario based training. CT in addition to shoot situations. On a side note, I love my Kimber more and more each time I shoot it. pm: 3 mile run back/bis abs

4/13 BJJ nite: Drilled takedown work from knees, to arm bar, followed by arm bar coutners. 4, 3 min rounds of work from knees. 45 min free roll.

Any strike work I do these days, from mitts to bag, is done with protection. Always. I don't even let young guys hit stuff without protection. I DON'T hit the maki anymore. I'm still not convinced on what you're going to get out if it long term other than jacked up knuckles. Wolf's law will go only so far. You're likely to live to the arthrites years these days, you'll be wishing you hand't destroyed your hands at 20. A very large part of me writes this off to an example of training that was top end back in the day, but medical science and training methodology has surpassed traditional wisdom. Protect your hands, even if you want to be an ultimate weapon you're going to need your hands for other things, some even combative in nature. I want to be able to manipulate a firearm well into my infirm years. It's gonna be more reliabel the older I get to defend myself than my eventual (and unfortunatly inevitiable) declining physical capabilities. I'll train like heck to stave that off, but it will happen. Realize that early and take care of your body. I've never understood ma-ist that love martial arts so much they don't want to live without them beat their bodies past the breaking point over and over again until they CAN'T do them anymore without downing half a bottle of ibuprophen every session. Train smarter, not harder past the level of sense and need.

We ususally start with a warm up, either running followed by stretches or hip work on the mats, or both. Technique come next. Usually this starts with a postion and movement, then a submission to finish. Depending on the complexity, there might be many steps to work thru the whole sequence. We might do three movements at most. Usually the first two will be closely linked or variations on a theme. Then we move to rounds of work from the position we drilled in technique. Usually 6, 2 min rounds. Finish with 45 min- 60 min of free roll

4/12 2 mile run legs abs short conditioning

4/11 BJJ nite: Drilled over takedown work from knees. Underhooking motions and arm drags. Moved on to a real elegant rolling counter to the single that ends with an omo. 4, 2 min rounds of rolls from knees 45 min free roll

4/10 Free for 90 min. Worked my inverted guard game, worked on some material we had just gone over prior to my vacation. Played with a new side mount escape I learned last week on my return which might be he slickest thing I've ever seen.

MP, I can't even tell you what a hodouken is Some of my wins are up on my facebook page, maybe LP, being a computer guy could figure out how to get them into a format to post here.

4/9 chest/ tri abs 2 mile run, outside again finally. Shoulder is holding up good after some time off. Now if I can just keep it healthy.

I'll see you're loss with one of my own: Serioulsy, I have to get some footage of me winning.