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Tazer's...nice. We don't have them, but we'd like them. today- BJJ nite: Drilled on passing the open guard from standing, mainly the spider configuration. Worked on stepping around and going over to mount. Worked gi choke from full mount. Finished with 40 min free roll.

Welcome aboard! I agree, check out what you have in the area. Think about focusing on some of the more traditional arts in your area, or the ones that typically embarce more of the cultural side of things. Aikido might be a good starting place to look at or a similar system. Good luck and keep us posted.

Congrats!

today- legs/shoulders 1.5 mile run for time. Also worked forearms and abs.

No exerience, but good luck in dealing with this.

today- 6, 3 min rounds of mitt work. Start with combo and coverage. Add kicking and more coverage. Progress to addition of uppercuts and hooks. Finish by adding a limb destruction defense at the end of the series. 20 min drilling double leg steps. Added arm drag to double into drill. 3, 3 min rounds of light contact sparring. Add in the set ups to the two entries to the double leg. 15 min of drilling position of the half butterfly guard and sweep.

Give it a go if you're interested at all. Treat it as a fun learning experiance and take away from it what you can. I've always been impressed with what competition can help you learn if done iwth the right mindset.

To go on a bit furter, and to build onto an excellent point that cross made, nothing is done in isolation. Espicially in a fight. Individual movements can be complex, however, consider that they are intended to be used as part of a series of movements that constantly move your opponant where you want him to go. If and when he shuts one door, another will be opened. This pattern contines until the advantage falls to you. It's part of the reason you'll generally see the more active (at least the more skilled activity) fighter do better. Is this complex, yes it is. Ground fighting, and espicially BJJ is not an easy or simple art. However, it embraces this sort of thing to a greater degree than any other art I've been part of or cross trained in over the 20+ years i've been doing this. So it's best to look at how a situation might play out. Let's use an X guard for instance. It's a complex movement on paper, and practice as well. You might look at it and go "never in a fight". You might be right, but let's assume you drill it to comfort. Now, a fight comes along. You catch a cross and go down despite not wanting to. To lead us in to grappling, let's say you try to pull guard on the way down to initiate a gorund fight since you're thinking you can't really stand all t hat well anymore wiht the birdies spinning around your head. Now he's up and pulls back at your guard pull effort. This leaves you down and him up. You're looking to pull guard so your legs are kind of in that posture anyway. He starts to kick away. You grab one with an underhook out of sheer terror as you try to stop the next kick. This kind of pulls you under him. You legs are up so they X on his other leg since they need to do something. Now you've started the set up. You've drilled this so it's familiar. You bump with the X and he loosed balance and comes forward, letting you get the upper body componant. He starts hitting so you throw the sweep you've just set up to keep him from doing it more. Now you're on top, or at least back to neutral on the ground and he's not pounding you from top anymore. So, you've passed though a stand up exchange, a pull to guard effort, an effort to evade the ground and pound, the X guard and sweep. Nothing alone and each part kind of leads into the next. Of course it's a hypothetical example. But you see the idea, a highly complex move, drilled to comfort suddenly can be used out of context due to muscle memory and adaptation. Nothing occurs in a vaccum. This means something else can actually help your effort at the movement. How do you get to this point? ps1 is right- mat time. To be able to use the more highly complex series you'll need mat time that builds it into you. That time time and coaching with some competent individuals. It's the more complex things that can really get messed up if you're trying to pull them from videos or books. Can't beat hands on mat time with good coaches or good training partners.

today- BJJ nite: Drilled double legs, amr drag to double, finish technique with arm drag to back. Moved on to live drilling the above- 6, 3 min rounds 10% then 50% Round robin rounds of passing/offense from the guard. Finished with 45 min of free roll.

"If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics were poor."- just a thought to add to the discussion.

They work based on your comfort and skill with them in regards to your opponents. As with any other movements you elects to use. I've used them successfully in a live situation, and I've had them fail. Conversly, I've been successful with stand up joint position, and I've had it fail. I've done the same thing with stand up striking. Ect. This is the case with all things in combat. A fight is too fluid to ever say this of that won't ever work or is too difficult to do. There are movements that are more high risk to the user than others. There are movements that have been shown over time to be more "high percentage" in effect, these should be the core of what you do, both stand up and on the ground. It doesn't mean that they should be the only thing you do in either case. When we come to the ground specific, you'll have this same set of things. You're "go to" stuff and everything else. However, if you never train in anything but your go to material, you'll never prep anything else for use. So it's a good idea to widen what you do. As for ground work itself in the street, it is effective. Is it ideal to be on the ground, maybe and maybe not. Again, the variables are too many to be 100% positive either way. I will say that it's easy enough to end up there, so it's a good idea to be well versed there. I'm not saying everyone should quit what they are doing and start BJJ, but one should cross train to a comfort level with grappling. I still do quite a bit of stand up work across a wide range of stuff, despite my current love of BJJ. It's part of preparing a complete response to aggression.

I've seen it go well, and conversely, seen it go not so well. Welcome to relationships. If everyone's mature, it shouldn't affect the dynamic of the school as a whole. It's too hard to legislate how individuals are going to act in a semi-social environment and I don't think one should try. As long as an instructor isn't taking advantage of his position, or giving special treatment to his partner, this shouldn't be out of bounds either.

I'll use jump squats, burpies, lunges. For mma stuff, we'll work knees, kicks, punches, ect. while running circles around the training area. For grappling-centric classes, we'll do ground work specific stuff like shrimping, sit out drills, duck walks and the like. We'll also occasionally, do rounds of shadow boxing to warm up.

Most knife systems will have some sort of built in retention work. My experience is with Ryu-Kyu based Okinawan work, and it's done with cut work and joint position. My limited exposure to Philippine knife work leads me to believe that it's accounted for via cut and distancing as well as your own limb movement. Most systems that deal quite a bit with knives will have it built in to a certain degree. In all the knife systems I've seen, there's also an emphasis on not forgetting your other weapons. So, if a knife wielding limb gets tied up, you'll start striking with your free hand as well to aid in freeing your primary weapon. There are also some good sd focused programs that include knife use that deal with it. Most of these revolve around military or LE use. However, retention still seems to come in secondary. I think a big part of this comes back to the "I'll cut them" mentality, that is a direct descendant of the "I'll just shoot them" mentality. This line of thinking just assumes that your primary weapon will always do the job in any situation. It's a flawed assumption, but one that cops, at least, make all the time. There are plenty of ma-ist out there that make it as well. It's good the concept is being discussed here.

today- 2.5 mile run chest/tris

Granted, you'll get a lot of answers based on style. However, by far and away most common is the ball of the foot. It's also the safest and most useful for most people.

I'm on FB as well. Feel free to look me up as well guys.

today- back/bis 2.5 mile run Combat shoot at the dept. with shotgun and handgun. Lots of rounds with physical activity in between each string. Great course. Finished with simunition training.

If you're in to sword stuff, check out Lowery's books on the subject. I remember "Bokken" being very good.

Welcome to KF! Glad to have you aboard.

today- BJJ nite: Worked triangle drills for improving the whole thing. Moved to throwing the triangle from guard. Transition from that to an armbar and then a variant. Moved the same series to a start from the 1/2 butterfly. Last, we did the variant armbar followed by a standard armbar our of the full guard with a different approach. Finished with 60 min of free roll.

Most of my stuff is geared towards being gone awhile at work in the event of an incident like this and, sadly, relates mostly to keeping ammo on hand. I keep spare ammo for my handgun, back up piece, rifle and shotgun in the trunk. The rifle and handgun ammo is stacked in mags already plus some spare boxes. They're packed in a little go bag in case of an active shooter situation. I used to keep a handful of power bars in the back as well, but I think they got eaten while stuck late one day and have yet to get restocked. I keep a couple of space blankets in the back as well along with first aid stuff. It's enough to keep me in the fight awhile in case things go bad. As for home, I keep an ammo can stocked each for my other rifles and handguns. I keep mags stacked for a couple of these weapons as well. Any major event here will keep me in place, so the wife and kids are under orders to proceed downstate to our family's place where the population is thinner and everything is more easily sustainable. It is something that everyone should think about. And given some of the places you guys live, probably more than the rest of us on a basic survival level.

Each persons individual goals and rapport within a training environment will indeed be a major factor in how well they like or dislike a training setting. To that end, if they like the school once they try it and it's meeting their goals then they've found a good spot to be. As for JJJ schools, you're looking at a lot of joint manipulation. A good school should show you integration of striking to facilitate joint work as well. This should be done with a certain amount of "flow" between the two, with a strike setting up a joint manipulation. At higher ranks, you should also be seeing transitions between joint positions as well. So, a wrist attack might fail which leads to an armbar which in turn reverses to a bent armbar, ect. Just a couple things I've noticed at good schools of this nature.

Are we talking about BJJ or a Japanese JJ school? Each is a bit different in what you're looking for in a school.

yesterday- 1 mile run legs/shoulders today- off day (yeah!)