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Nice to get those finds occassionally. today- 3, 2 min rounds of kicking drills. Movements and coverage, MT round. Add front thrust prior to round. Then finish with a follow up knee. 20 min of drilling on scarf position, escapes from and submission series from. 5, 3 min rounds of free roll from the knees. 5, 3 min rounds of free roll from standing. Finish with an easy 2.5 mile run.

I always have it on when training alone. I will also pipe it in during sparring days when we're all together.

I agree in concept with you're levels of force, Emrld. However, and you've probibliy taken this into account, I don't like people to get to stuck into a pyrimid of action. If the situation warrants, they should be mentally prepared and have a good enough understanding of the continuum that they know that moving ahead to prevent injury is alright.

Striking from the ground, in any position, is a learned skill like anything else. It takes reps to gain an understanding of the dynamics and continued practice and sparring in those enviorns to become truely proficient. Lacking that, one's chances of being effective are limited for sure.

I'm not sure about the stat that used to be so prevalent tata abut 90 percent of fights end up on the ground. I've never actaully seen a study done to confirm that. I will say that quite a few do just based on personal experiance. Sometimes this is just due to one of the combats knocking the other one there and continueing to beat him. IN which case, some training had better have been done there. As for law enforcemnt altercations, it's pretty routine to end on the ground. Once a fight starts, most of us want the bad guy on the ground where we can contain him. Idealy, we're still up where we can work control. THat being said, me down and in a dominat position is fine as well, at least I"m not chasing him thru yards.

Welcome to the Forums, Richard. The techno thing, well, I had an old kickboxing trainer that used to have it on constantly. He thought it was high energy and such....well, i hated it t first but it turns out he was right. It is pretty good to wrok drills to. To this day, when I'm working a heavy bag I like something along those lines.

Welcome to KF!

today- 1.5 on teh treadmill, .25 of it on hills delts/traps

There was never really a point where I said to myself that I wanted to be an instructor. I was just trying to grow more training partners and fell into the role. That was kind of a trend that would continue past my first teaching experiance and seems to still hold true.

JusticeZero summed it up alot. You keep training, sharpen what you have, innovate and reseach. I think this is a good time to branch out and study other arts and their stratigies and tactics, work it into your scheme for defense, show your system somethingnew and continue to better your own game plan. I'd add teach. Pass on what you've been doing, part of being higher in dan grades in showing those who've come before that you're ready to continue the art. You'll also be suprised how much you learn from teaching and breaking things down.

To my mind, none are really controlling. I feel that one can acheive a level of control during a ocnflict. HOwever, simly grabbing any part of the other guy won't get it done. Control occurs when you've made it impossible, or at least extremely difficult for the bad guy to continue the fight. This could be with him either unconcious from strikes, chokes or the like. Or he could be debilitated via joint destruction of large proportions. Likewise, he might be cranked into a submissive posture tht dosn't allow him to present a threat. That's control, all else is a stepping to the goal.

Congrats, and good luck with the rest. Keep us posted.

today- 2.5 mile run chest/abs

Hello, and welcome.

I really wanted to find something that would teach me to fight. I ended up in the only school in the town I grew up in when I was 16. Luckily, I got what I wanted. They had done a particularly neat demo that I had happened to see and it impressed me for sure and I thought I'd find what I was looking for. I did, and that shaped how I view ma's as a whole.

Congrats bushido man. Very nicely done. I've been out of town for a day and a half for a wedding. So, here we go. Fri pm- 30 min of ab work, shrimping drills, hipping drills and the like. Sat- off for wedding today- mitt work- 3, 2 min rounds of defending leg kick, counter with hands, cover. Then add more combos in round 2 along with knees and elbows. Finish with adding takedown attempts by the mitt holder. sprawl to defend. 4, 3 min rounds sparring hands/feet add tie up and takedown add grappling to end of takedowns, no strikes all of the above and striking on ground 10 min of drilling escape from mount 15 min drilling offense from guard, focus on single side weave and transition to kimura 4, 3 min rounds of free roll from knees 5, 3 min rounds of free roll from standing finish with easy 2 mile run

Yes, bushido man, I have had those mats! I got them when a schools gymnasitcs floor got recovered. They do work well, but long sleeves and knee pads are a MUST for sure if you're spending any time on the floor rolling. They really work best for being thrown and taken down. But they'll do in a pinch. Lot's of scab marks from those suckers though

Remember, Kez, you didn't start it. Period. After that, it's on them. And don't think for a second that you're the first black belt to end up on the wrong end of a confrontation. It's happened, plenty. If you do this long enough, it will happen. We always hope it's in training. But that's a perfect world, and it's not. If you're having serious trouble moving on mentally, talk to someone. I've seen people pretty effected have some signifigant releif once a good debreif is done. It really is helpful. I'll also second Grossman's On Combat. He as some good PTSD studies cited in there and some great mental readiness stuff that will be helpful for perperation in the future.

Mats, always when we're in the gym. Between repeated takedowns, falls, and trips, it's too easy to get beaten up without them down. Not to mention, even taking standing jj face plants after awhile really stinks. Then again, we do a fair amount of ground fighting as well. I use wrestling mats and keep them taped at the seams. This way, you don't get the foot stuck syndrome. They stay down all the time.

today- 2.5 mile run legs

You're at a normal place right now for what happend, for sure. Speaking from experiance, Kez, this is the point where you decide either to move out of the realm of studying violence altogether, or you use it to learn and push on with a renew sense of urgency to your training. The first step, is to stop looking it as a personal thing. You are a student of violence, look at it professionally or academically. Reviewing what happened, as it comes to you, as well as the lead up, can reveal training points or tactical considerations for the future. The key is to not dwell on it as a beat on yourself fest. It's a post action breakdown to identify strengths and weakness of the performance, that's all. This will help you formulate a response in the future. I won't speak to actions you may or may not have taken, too much like Monday mornging quaterbacking, but you need to look at them with a critical eye. Again, not to beat on yourself, but to sharpen your game. We do this in cop work after almost every signifigant use of force incident, within our group, to isolate what happend, what was supposed to happen, and what caused the difference. This lets up fine tune details for next time. Talk to others that were then and witnessed the altercation. Perhaps they can shed light on what exactly happend. You can look at what you need to re-tool, emphsise or back off of in training, if anything, after that. Lastly, and this is so elementary that it really dosn't need said, but you'd be suprised how often it's overlooked, this is not an action on your part that hurt your friends. Nor any act of omission on your part. It's purely, as far as I can tell, the actions of those who you walked up to. It's on them, not you. As you're doing your own de-breif on the incident remember that.

I agree, I've seen hand movements in TKD. There are; however, arts that specialize in them more. This would allow another take on them and perhaps give an insight outside the parameter of TKD. But the main question seemed to be about adding grappling to what he was doing already. This is something that is very minimal in TKD, if it exsisted in the syllibus of most schools at all prior to the UFC era. In this case, training at another facility to gain and enhance those skills would seem to be highly desireable.

am- 1 mile jog bicep/tris/forearms 1/2 mile at incline cool down with knife work pm- 30% roll for position to warm up, look for set ups 10 min review/rep half guard escapes and counter from yeasterday 10 min added offense from half to drill 3, 3 min rounds free roll from knees coaching from outside 3, 3 min rounds takedowns only 1, 5 min match at speed with coaching from feet for everyone 2.5 mile run collapse in agony. seriously, this is fun? bushido man, isn't this the Thrus. in question? Let us know about the test. Good luck.

today- 3, 3 min rounds at 30% warm up and roll for position. 10 min of rep work on escaping and position work out of the half guard. 10 min repping the Babro out of half guard 3, 3 min rounds free roll from knees 3, 3 min rounds free roll from feet back/abs 2.5 mile run

I guess it's different for each little compartment of my life. For ma's there are a couple of big motiviators. The main one is work. Being a cop, I'm one that tries to hang on to the theory that we loose the right to be couch potatos once we sign on. That, and fighing with drunk idiots every now and again keeps me highly motivated to keep training. Competition or coaching others for it, comes in a distant second. Even then, it's only good off and on since I quit doing it frequently years ago. I also have a backburner (thanks to kids and such) hobby of climbing. I can really get motiviated short term when an outing is coming up and I find a really good line that I want to climb, or a summit I want to take. Pictures go up all over my workout area and goofy stuff like that. Just a couple of things. Now, my wife probibly wonders why I can't get motivated to just take the garbage out