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Sorry for the late response, but- Happy Birthday!

Check out a book called "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzken. It spends a good amount of space discussing how to handle approaching things like this and making sure that children, or anyone, develops a healthy outlook and create a long term learning experience from competition. I can't recommend it enough.

Another path might be your State Training Board which certifies the courses taught by your regional training bodies. We call them MTU's here in IL, but I'm sure you have some sort of state certification process. This requires a lesson plan in a specific format that address not only the subject matter but also the legal framework for what you're teaching. We're actually looking at the process for our department's own control tactics program. There are substantial hoops. Be prepared for some uphill work though. As sensei 8 stated, it's a field dominated by former LEO or military instructors. Most of these guys bring a martial arts background AND an extensive resume in a gun carrying field of experience. For example, Roy Harris, one of the best cop hand to hand instructors I've ever seen he has an extensive MA resume. However, when my agency brought him in they were far more concerned with his time as a LEO. I talked up all his background but what got them to sign off was his status as a former copper. Maybe a partnership with a LEO in your area would be a helpful start. Gook luck and keep us posted. Lastly, training is kinda my niche at the department so I'd be curious to see what you're looking at doing from a professional standpoint. Always on the look out.

Like ps1, I wish I had started training BJJ at an earlier date. That really is about it. I've been really happy with the path my martial career has taken me.

Congrats!

8/1 30 min free roll with strikes Shark tank with stand up to takedown. Looking for dominant position. Look. Stand up.

Welcome to KF!

7/31 Drilled passing butterfly guard. 40 min free roll.

7/29 Drilled Passing butterfly guard via over under and variant. Also, drilled counter out of sweep. 20 min free roll 30 min roll with strikes with fighters.

7/28 1.5 mile run Abs Legs

7/27 Morning of bear pit rolls, or shark tank, one man in center. 1 min hard rolls. Winner keeps center. Followed by 4, 2 min rounds of fighting off bottom side Followed by 4, 2 min rounds of holding top side 20 min open mat

I ran across this yesterday. I case anyone missed it on Facebook, here's the initial article that I caught. It's been redistributed pretty heavily: http://www.bjjee.com/bjj-news/man-subdues-gunman-using-jiu-jitsu-choke-technique-avoids-shooting-massacre-in-a-french-cinema/ Awesome!

7/25 Circuit on the weights. Abs 7/26 2 mile run Back/ Forearms Abs

Welcome to KF! Glad to have you aboard.

7/24 Drilled armbar from side mount. Followed by arm bar from side while he has a far side underhook. 35 min free roll.

7/22 Full day of training in advanced police ground fighting. pm: Drilled arm bar from mount and breaking defense options. 30 min free roll. 7/23 Afternoon of force on force CQB.

So we're just over halfway there! Time to look at make sure we're all on track. I'm about halfway there with the goals as well and have a couple things in the hopper that should meet a couple of more. Unfortunately, Iaido still seems to be a pipe dream. Well, we've got 5 months left. Use the reminder as a training plan for the rest of the year. Or, if you're newer to KF, take the chance to jump in with the rest of us!

7/20 Drilled thru the weeks material. All of it reversing side mount without recomposing the guard. 40 min free roll. Focus on taking back and working out of bottom side. Successful day.

Hopfully, anyone who's earned a couple of dan grades or so. That's what we're saying at a certain level, right? That one understands the art they practice and the hows and whys of it?

7/19 1.5 mile run Abs Chest/ Tris

7/17 early afternoon: 1 mile on treadmill shoulders/bis abs late: Drilled side escapes. Kimura sweep and Americana escape. 40 min free roll.

7/16 30 min free roll with strikes. Minimal rest rounds.

Oh, good one! I had forgotten all about it, but yeah it was amazing!

7/15 Drilled side mount escape via turn out and head hunt. Followed by escape via hip bump and roll. 9 min bear pit from bottom. 20 min free roll gi. 10 min roll w strikes and 10 min open mat no gi for fighter prep.

I couldn't agree more. Think about this analogy. Both combative firearms and martial arts are designed to deal with deadly force encounters. Both fill different ranges of the same core issue. Deadly force against you. Now, what if we did not push firearms training forward and just trained as they did in the late 1800's or even early 1900's? What if we ignored the technology livable to us and what it could do and still shot revolved type side arms is a single handed grip. Is that most effective for dealing with a deadly force threat in today's world? Of course not. No one trains like that. Why do the same with unarmed arts? Now, the argument becomes that the weapon is a technological piece of gear so the analogy doesn't hold. Okay, let's just look at the training and take the machine out of it. Heading into WW I we trained sliders (and cops) to shoot at bulls eye targets. This lead to radically high non-shooting numbers when soldiers were confronted with deadly force. Now, we realized this and moved to more and more realistic targets. We then watched the percentage of non-firing soldiers go down and down with each training leap we made. Forget what they are shooting. It's irrelevant. It's the type of training that they were doing that mattered. It is so widely accepted now that there is case law on how LE has to train based on this sort of thing. It's light years beyond how we trained even two decades ago. Let alone the '70s. By the time you look back to the late 1800's it's a different language altogether. Someone training in that method would be hamstrung fighting today's CQB incidents involving police. Forget the equipment (although it makes a world of difference as well) just look at how far behind the TRAINING curve that individual would be. Yet when we argue that martial arts should not evolve that's the type of thing we set ourselves up for. The use of outdated training to prepare us for today's conflicts. Take a look at how we're changing training in LE even today to account for what psychology and neuro-anatomy can tell us about the bodies reaction to combat stress. Those intellectual leaps are changing training. Force Science Institute is one of the front runners on leading these changes. Logical, operational changes to tactics and training based on empirical evidence. It's how we progress, we listen to current understanding and make things better. I think a better question, based on what we're seeing in other combat arenas and how much better quality warrior's we're turning out is "Why wouldn't you want an art to evolve?" Again, looking at martial arts thru the lens of combat readiness.