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I think it should matter how long ago the charges occured. Last week is a world different than a possession charge 10 years ago in college. It should be considered. The actaul drug charge should matter as well. Again, a bit of weed during the college years is different than a felony sized meth production charge as well. That being said, the program operates on grant money that is overseen by a authoritatve body. There are rules for such things, I'm sure. The power probably does rest with them.

It makes sense. The new wave of stadardization since Dana White and company have taken over the UFC has gone a long way to legitimize it. There's no reason it shouldn't be in the same catagory as boxing and other competitive venues. On the revenue side, it's hard to argue that it'd draw good money to the area. It's poularity right now shows no signs of slacking off.

today- 1 mile run. Yup, back to the treadmill back/ bis/ forearms abs

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I am, actaully, very comfortable with using what I've learned in an altercation today if needed. As an active LEO, I get the opportunity to put into practice things I train on with a certain regularity. Yes, I do think that that realistic training, sometimes against a fully resistive subject is helpful in determining if what you're putting together will work. There are training methods that prepare one better for conflict than others, and some scholls do better at using these than others, even within styles. I also think this needs to be done saftly and in a building progression. I also think that the steps towards this need to start sooner, rather than later, in a students career to minimize the time in needed to get up to a basic level of preparedness. Limited engagement work across a wide variety of situations can greatly help in working new students into the needed mindset quickly. On mindset, despite much talk of mental disclipline in the arts, I see too few artist that just haven't the mental jump into an aggressive pattern. They just aren't training vs. realistic attacks or sheer aggression. This is often the overwhelming factor in conflict and where traditionally trained ma-ists are prone to fail. It's this, more than technique that fails people. By extension, it's the instuctors failing their students when they don't addresss the ugly realitys of combat with students. I think it's a good topic, certainly one that needs discussed more. If nothing else, it's something that every ma-ist needs to honestly ask themselves. GThen, if that's why you're into ma's you need to deal with the outcome of that answer.

today- 3 mile run. Dared the temps today. I have mixed feelings. It was nice to put some distance on again, but everytime the wind found it's way through my layers I was wishing for the 'mill. chest/tris abs Cool down with 10 min of shrimping work.

Very good! Glad to hear the test went well.

In the end, what's most important is matching the weapon to the target and the situation. If that means that it needs to be vertical, have at it. If it means rotate it, have at it. Contact with good energy transfer is more important than stylistic interpertaions.

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today- BJJ: Drilled side mount to knee in position, added far side arm bar. Moved to a defense to the arm bar followed by it's counter. Finished with work on escaping the arm bar. Free roll for 40 min.

It's an easy art to love. I've been into shoot and mma but nothing is as good technically, in my experience, at BJJ for ground work. The movements and mechanics are are thing of beauty. I too have curtailed many of my other martial pursuts to focus on BJJ.

today- am 2, 3 min rounds on BOB, combos to tie up 2, 3 min rounds of technique on Boomer/ hip drills legs/shoulders pm 20 min light free roll 20 min kniife defense work 20 min knife offensive work

It will depend on the school and their focus as well as how broad your defintion of grappling is. JKD will do a lot of work inside the punching range that involves trapping and such. This can be considered a form of grappling. If you're speaking of extened, on the floor stuff, lots of JKD places won't do "lots" of it. However, there are certain sects that are involved heavily. Best to ask and see where the individual school and/ or instructor fall on the subject.

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yesterday- BJJ nite: Drilled knee in and americana of warm up. Moved into technique with cross guard and sweep and triangle from there. Finished with 9, 5 min rounds of free roll. today- off day

today- Another 1.5 on the treadmill. Aarrggh! back/bis abs

It depends alot on what you do and what your style entails. At the very base, you need a dedicated space. That means that there's enough room there to train in the movements of your system without moving a bunch o things. Having to move furniture every time you work out on your own will be the quickest way to make certain that you use it less. How much room depends. For more traditional arts, I'd make sure you had enough space to execute kata without having to restart. That's a good refference point. Highly fluid arts, with projectile throws will need more space (say, Aikido). Speaking of, if you're into throwing at all, make sure your space has clearance up top to allow them. That might be it for space concerns if you don't have thorws or joint locks or such that land people on the ground. If you have those things, mats become mandantory to some degree. The more time on the floor with your body, the more mat. The higher the impact of the throws of your style, the more mat. If that's not a concern, probably whatever you have down is good. Personally, if it's concrete, say a basement floor. I'd put at least carpet down even if I didn't throw or lock. As for equipment, I'd say a heavy bag is almost essintial for everyone wanting to put together a home gym. It lets you work solo, is highly versitile, and just an all around great tool. Hang this first. Regardless of style, a couple of long makawari's are pretty useful and cheap and easy to build. Same with resistive tubing for punching. You can affix this to the wall or set it up like some the of commercial boxing models. Great solo tool. From there, much depends again on what you do specifically and what your budget is for your project. Some mitts and shields are good to have. It makes it easier to bring training buddies over on off days to work. Get soem acsimile weapons or weapons that your system trains in. It's nice to break up rounds of shadow boxing with weapons work. These are usually pretty affordable as well. By now you should be pretty functional. And, minus mats (which you can also get pretty cheap if you look long enough and hard enough) it probably hasn't cost you too much. Some nice things to add: -a double ended striking ball -round time -spare protective gear -a pair of mitt gloves If you get past that, you're moving into the luxary home gym realm: -a BOB -speed bag -spare weapons with which to beat your friends -a couple of medicine ball for conditioning specific martial movements Beyond that, you're getting into niche stuff or things so specilaize that they fall into the "nice but don't really need-ever" catagory -grappling dummy (again, very niche and it's a small need even if you're in that niche-build your own, save the money) -upper cut bag -wing chun dummy (if you're in a trapping art, useless if your not. if you are, this might go higher on the list) -tv and dvd combo if checking out tapes is your thing, I personally don't reccommend a lot of it, but i mention it because I've seen it alot. That's kind of my take on it. I don't have all the above items, but I've acquired alot of them. Which is a good way to slowly build your space. It also lets you see if you're gooing to use it enough to sink coin into it. Slowly building also lets you see if you're going to have partners over enough to make some of the items even worth it. Good luck and let us know about the progress.

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today- 1.5 miles on the treadmill. Man am I ready for the weather to break. chest/tris abs

today- Circuit of 2 min rounds ea: -boxing -takedown work -grappling -work off fence Rounds of mit work, 3rd party breaks in and shoots takedown. Defend and counter. 30 min of free roll 10 min of ground and pound work FInished with some positional review and cuffing work.

Stance discussions are always interesting. Maybe some more specifics on what you're calling a fighting stance would be helpful. It probably differs from what I call a fighting stance vs. Justice Zero', ect. Give us soem more detail and we'll hash it out.

today: BJJ day- Drilled kimura set up and application. Went thorugh defense for kimura. Moved into the omo plata and defense from there as well. Free roo for 45 min.

today- legs/shoulders abs 15 min of drilling shrimping, hips drills, ect.

yesterday- BJJ nite: Drilled transition work form open guard to 1/2 butterfly to x guard to spider. Worked free form as well as technical. Rounds of work from those positions in round format. 30 min of free roll.

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