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Ok, from the LE prespective alluded to above. I drop guys on their back all the time and work from there. Yes, they have two arms pointed up but good position will often negate this. Not to mention, you often have back up offcers that can now move in to control those arms. Now, from this very controled position, your little team can easily roll this guy over to a proned out cuffing position. I' certainly not suggesting that this is the only way to do things, but it's not a bad idea either. And generally speaking, on top of a mount position you will be in way better position to deleiver strikes downward with much more effect than anyone punching up at you. Let's face it, an opponant on the ground, on their back, has suddenly lost the ability to use most of his weight agaist you while delevering a strike. Therefore, your advantage has shot up considerably. Additionally, lots of guys are uncomfortable on the ground and hence, more easily controled. Just about anyone can haymaker away and get lucky now and again. Also for consideration, small joint manipulations are often tricky to apply at best, and I come out of that background. The full body tackle is much easier to apply and much more likely to be effective in the heat of a confrontation. It is also more effective with the minimal amount of time that most cops spend training. Again, it's not the be all and end all. I've used tuite style movments plenty and other joint manipulations as well. But the top postion with the bady guy on his back is a pretty good starting point in my book.

Ran about 1.5-2 mi. hard to tell any closer than that, road run. Short back/bi's

Hey and welcome aboard. As has been said, it's ceratinly not to late. If you're still looking for a school in the rockford area check out No Joke Martial Arts. It's off of Perryville at Crimson Ridge. This is actually the school that I help out at. I'm over there about once a week for the grappling/mma class. The owner runs a bunch of different classes all week long in several differet specialities. Come in a check us our if you get the chance. PM me if you have any questions about the school.

I'm inclined to agree with throwdown, I don't like it. Let me put a disclaimer on that, I don't like it if the black belt is graded the same as an adult black belt. If there is a some sort of "junior" rank then I'm fine with it. In our system, we use a -jutsu suffex at the end of the name. For the kids, I use a -do suffex denoting kind of junior rank. If one then wants to rank as an adult, they can test throught he justsu system, picking up the more combative aspets as they go. They have quite a bit in common so the transition should be relitively natural. For seriously young students, like my daughter (she'd be in a "little dragons" program if she went to the school I help at), I don't even use belt ranks. It's all on a "stripe" system. If she acheives a black stripe after a few years, she can be old enough to start working the material to earn belts in the -do side of the system I train in. Ect, ect,.... Bear in mind that this is largely theoretical for me at this time, all my students train out of my basement and are all adults and primarily cops. Only one or two are even concerned with being ranked at all. And my 4 year old who is working very hard for her yellow stripe . I'm not trying to be elitist with the rank, but there are just certain things that probibly shouldn't be taught to kids. Do you really want to run the risk that someone has a hormal moment at school and side stomp another kids knee to the floor? Some of this stuff just requires emotional maturity that I'm not certain that any 12 year old has, not thorgh any fault of their own, but simly their changing chemistry. Just my thoughts.

Pretty neat. I love stuff like this. It's always neat to see a western take on things from history. Keep it coming as you find more.

Bummer for the dude on the pummeled end, I guess. As above, there are a ton of variables that go into something like this. I'm way more likely to jump in and help someone who was more concillitory than the individual in the video. It certainly appears that he didn't exactly try to de-escalate the situation himself. and if you're dumb enough to keep irritating a guy that big then you kind of should have seen that one coming. Still, it's not exactly right to get the tar pummeled out of you becasue you were dumb enough to keep running you're mouth. My n umber one priority when stuff like this even looks like it might occur is the safety of my family (if they're with me). They get brought out of the situation first and foremost. After than, getting someone on the phone with the police is best. As for stepping in, maybe. Depends on how bad things are looking. In this situation, the best thing to do would probibly be to get in as early as possible and try to get the two apart. If either has friends present, it's usually better to enlist one of them, if for no other reason than you don't want sucker punched by one of them. So there is my very nebulous response of...maybe. Now, if I'm on duty it's a different story. Then if becomes my job to get in the middle. Dude that big, I'm callin for more units.

I have to agree that there are certainly time that a pre-emptive strike is perfectly acceptable. We do have to be careful about how we teach the concept and that the practitioner is using good judgement in employing it, but yes, it's a concept that should be considered. Along with that, we should also be escalating up the use of force continum ealier that our opponant if we need to. For instance, when dealing with a violent wrist grab or any sort of standing grappling situation, I see too many people in training trying to only muscle other joint responses. At this point, it's time to hit the bad guy to facilitate our joint response. It's a componant that often gets overlooked. In this case, you are indeed striking first, however, you're dealing with a form of attack and can be easily justified in the proper context. In my opinion, taking a first strike off the table is limiting response options. There are too many variables such as size, numbers, and threat level to immediatly do away with any options you may have at your disposal. Again, only my opinion.

I haven't read anything by this author but it wounds like I should. Could one of you guys post a title as well so I can find it on Amazon? Thanks.

crossfit (modified) for today: 3 rounds of 75 lb. thrusters - 1 min 75 lb. sumo deadlift high pulls - 1 min box jumps - 1 min 75 lb. push press - 1 min Treadmill sprint - 1 min one min rest between rounds promptly collapse Cooled down with 10 min of knife work in the air

I think I see what you're getting at. True, you rarely see a ma-er start whacking away in public with a set of wooden sticks. However, based on the sheer number of firearms in general, and rifles in particular, out there, you don't actually see many of them shooting up shopping malls either. The actual percentage of crimes commited by those who possess firearms in increadably small considering how many are out there. And most of these infractions are commintted by people who are already in some violation of laws regarding firearm ownership (convicted felon, domestic batterer, no owner id card or registration depending on the state). Also, most states regualate how firearms of any kind can be transported. Hence, you're going to have restrictions on rifles, just not the same as handguns due to their conceilment capabilities. In IL, the rifle must be transported cased, without ammunition in it. So, you couldn't just walk down the street with one. Not to mention, that's gonna draw a lot of attention and probibly police presence. Much more that a set of 'chucks is gonna earn you. As far a ease of laying your hands on one, you can order up any ma weapon from Asian World and have it no questions asked in a few working days. For a firearm purchase, you are gonna have to deal with background checks, a waiting period at a minimum. In Illinios, we have to have a firearm owners ID card that again makes you jump though background check hoops to get and you must have one prior to making any kind of purchase. I don't disagree that weapon laws rarely make complete sense. I say so a bit further up in the thread. But there are real laws in place dealing with rifles, and they are certainly not as easy to lay hands on as a set of 'chucks are.

Bushido man is right. The typical mma-er, probibly not. But for a reality show participate... Remember, they engeneer the house on the show to produce drama. The keep all these young athletes, and their egos and rivialries in a confined space. Don't let them out, or watch tv or anything. And then they feed them beer. Hilariaty is bound to ensue. It makes for better tv. not to mention editors can cut all that footage to exaggerate or hide any behavior they see fit. Take the behavior with a grain of salt. But then again, most of these dudes are in there early 20's so you never know .

Big class night. Standard warm up. 25 min of working though attack combinations from the guard (unfortuanalty I spent most of th is time teaching/coaching) 5 min of 30 second drills to work escapes from negitive positions (finally, I really get to start playing) 30 min of free rolling. 30 of mma sparring, ground only. Finished with a round robin for 5 minutes. Finished with 3 min round of MT rules kickboxing. The wrist is still bugging me, might have to take it easy tomorrow. We'll see how a nights sleep treats it. By the way, bushi, I didn't say that I liked that 5k in the least .

We kind of vary by day and practice group. The basics we work through with a group of guys interested in doing standing jujitsu is different than a group wanting to do mma, vs. strikers only, you get the idea. Even then, within a group, I usually taylor the drills at the beginning of class to each "lesson plan" (and I use the term loosly here) that I have planned. So I may start with some angle drills to warm up for strike entrys later. Then hit mits with similar combinations that mimic the actual entrys. That way everything kind of rolls together for the training session. By the time you actually put everything together, you've repped different parts of it several times. So you can see, we try to cover basics practice, but it is rarely the same day to day.

Yes, and I loved it. Along with several other samurai flicks of the same genera.

I think that about any qualified instructor goes over this at some point, hopefully many points, during your course of instruction. It's an important topic that can't be avoided when dealing with sd issues. I've seen it discussed, lectured, scenerio training done ect. And served as the LEO voice of reson sevral times. I would venture a guess that most serious training centers go over this sort of thing.

Bottom line is, are you getting what you want out of the class. Really look at the reasons you want to train and check different places out to get a feel for them. Making sure that your goals match those of the school will go a long way to making the process fulfilling to you.

5k run Light chest and tri's. Wrist is sore from yeasterday, I think I flared up an old injury.

Gotta vote with the "depends" crowd on this one. Is it a bad problem, is it disruptive? Is the violation so ergregous that it calls the integrety of the teacher into question? The 4th dan story from above would give me pause on this one. I've been lucky enough to not have to deal with this, but I know it happens at larger facilities.

I'm in, as best as my schedule will allow anyway. Post a time and date.

Massively confusing is right. And certain states are so repressive that the statutes are almost laughable. I do agree with what was said above, however. No matter what the statute, if you've got a pair of what ever in you gym bag crammed next to your uniform, it's unlikely that you will be given any trouble. Most times, when people get in trouble with these things it's because they are messing around with them in public or whacking a friend upside the head in the yard. Trying to conceile them and wander into a bar will probibly cause problems as well, although I can say I've never seen that occur. As far as the gun laws go, as has been pointed out, they vary greatly from state to state. In most places, they are regualted pretty well as to who can carry a firearm. No system is perfect of course, but by and large from my experience, most trouble over here comes not from gun owners in compliance with state statute, but those who are using them illeagally and therefore outside the established rules. Just my personal, and semi-professional opinion.

It sounds like it's based off the body's startle reflex. When you're suprised, your body tends to drop it's center and move it's feet into a shoulder witdth athletic stacne. More importantly, the hands reflexively come up in order to protect the face. It's a postion that several DT programs and some ma's use as a core fighting stance. The theory is that by using this posture to act out of, you're utilizing the body's normal reaction to a threat. Therefore, you remove the artificial postures out of a fighting system and save time both on the learning side as well as the response side. This is why we utilize a single fighting stance that pretty much mimics this response. Now, I'm pretty sure my instructor didn't know the science behind this when he elected to focus on our fighthing stance instead of others he'd know, but it functioned well. Later, I realized why. There are probibly guys active in certan DT systems that have more information as well. Maybe they'll add more.

Kyo-sa is right. This too will pass in all likelyhood. Keep stretching and I would add make sure that you are warming up well before class. Make sure you run a few laps around the mat just to get the blood flowing first. A few light movments, whatever it takes to get warmed up. It should cut down on soreness later.

Bummer, but 3 did seem like they were trying too hard. Maybe some time away or a re-tool will work well for the franchise. Hopefully, they stay away from the "too many bad guys" problem from now on.

Yeah, elite, probilbiy not. Stranger things have probibly happened however. Still, you can't write off training entirely based on someone elses predisposition to wanting to be an "elite" fighter. Starting with a student from no background who is 35, speaking from a combative background here, you can still expect a student to radically increase his ability to defend himself. Probibily rapidly. That dosen't really strike me as a "why bother" situation. Not to mention the fitness componant. And I'm not even qualified to go into the esoteric and internal compants of the arts like others here are. You are right on certain levels. It will be difficlut to become a competive whiz, espically in a high contact game. But the ma's have so much to offer we aren't really at a "why bother" level at any point I think.

Focused on grappling today. 15-20 min of working on sweep series from guard and counters 25 min of free rolling 20 min of striking work from the ground. 2, 5 min rounds of drills. 2, 5 min rounds of free work. Quick leg work out to close out day.