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Wearing Club logos and cuh is how I found the place I studies Krav Maga. A off duty cop was at a store i was also at and had The name on his bomber jacket so we started up a discussion. I asked him where he studied it and he gave me the school's website and I had been there ever since.

When I was younger, I got into my share of fights and looking back, no I was rarely scared because back then I was hot headed and had ahard time walking away even when I could have. Now that i am older and wiser and have more to lose ( House, Wife, Kid, Career) I can say that to some degree I am a little scared, not of injury, but what i may do to someone and if I injure someone badly then Could I possibly end up with charges and have to explain to my Lieutenant That I lost my head an hurt someone and now am facing my own charges. Could it cost me my job? Also, now that i am older, I think more about "what if's" What if a weapon was pulled, etc. What if the fight escalates and I end up killing someone or someone kills me? Do I feel I would "freeze up?" NO. I am perfectly Sure that in the course of defending myself, I would do what it took. Fortunately, I do a lot of live training as well, free rolling and free sparring gets you used to getting hit and getting on the ground and "mixing it up" with someone who is well trained so you get used to the physical side of combat.

Some people just don't need 8 full hours. The studies that suggest each person should get eight hours is just a guidline and it is not written in stone. I personally wish i could get a full 8 hours a day but that's difficult. "a full night's rest" is really generalizing. Some could maybe get by with sleeping 5 and then taking a three hour nap. What one may consider a full night's rest someone else may consider "oversleeping"

67. It is Kodokan Judo.

I would say the quality is very good. At least from my perspective.

Yes, second hand smoke is dangerous in fact it has been said that it is even more so. One reason why I can't stand to be around smokers. If you want to kill yourself, fine, but don't take me with you. Bushido_man, Smoking may seem to be more directly related to lung cancer, but can cause all types including throat, pancreatic, mouth, etc..

Well, I heard that was a heavy smoker, but a spokesman said he smoked on an off over a period of years so who knows?

I wear my Krav Maga T-Shirt around sometimes. Most people have no idea what it even is. I have a Haganah shirt that says: "Got Blood?" on it that i wear now and then as well. It really depends on where you are going. Obviously you go somewhere, you dress accordingly. I have one shirt that i got at my school with my school logo on the back and "Battlefield Kali" on the front that my JKD instructor put on along with a picture of a guy holding a knife in one hand and a stick in the other.

After hearing about Patrick Swayze and his battle with pancreatic cancer, it really got me thinking. man, as far as it seems, he lived an overall healthy lifestyle. He definitely looked like he was in shape, obviously he was not obese, i don't know whether or not he smoked but I never heard of him drinking excessivly and obviously he was active. Yet despite the fact that that would make him in a low risk group for such a killer disease he ended up with it. It's kind of scary to me because when you think about it, no matter how much you eat right and work out, you may still end up dead before your time. I try to watch what i eat, don't smoke and work out as much as I can and sometimes I wonder if it will really make a difference at all.

It's wierd. as far as the Randori (stand up) they often take me apart. When we do free rolling (ne waza) it's often the other way around.

I often wondered why more Judo wasn't more apart of the over-all mix in JKD. As for Aikido, I can only speculate. I think because to be proficient with Aikido, it takes years of study. Also if you have ever watched them perform, there are a lot of choreographed moves and techniques in a very sterile environment. This somewhat goes against Lee's philosophy. With my JKD instructor, we do occasionally work on some wrist locks, standing arms bars and such but in reality, spending too much time on them can be a waste if you're often dealing with someone coming at you and throwing powerful and wild punch combinations. We do practice grappling that is often based on BJJ but when we are free rolling, we do a lot of things that aren't legal in my BJJ class such as fish hooking, groin attacks and pressure points. if you tap, you tap. There are few rules, heck my one partner bit two guys. The idea behind it is to be more of a "dirty" fighter because rule number one is: There are no rules.

I was training in tang Soo Do before moving over to Krav Maga. No problems at all although the flexibility from TMA had helped me somewhat and I was fortunate that my TSD instructor was very much into conditioning as this was something Krav Maga is very big on as well.

Sorry to hear about that. Follow doctor's orders and just work out on your own in the meantime.

I have used them and tapped people out with them during free rolling

Thanks ShoriKid, I stand corrected

we still concentrate on keeping the last three fingers very tight, but i hit with the first two. I spend a lot of time working out in my off days but between JKD, BJJ and now Judo, i get a lot of exercise in just with my training. On my off days, i do a lot of weight training. Those three arts are the only ones I am studying right now because there just aren't enough days in the week

cool. we don't do a whole lot of trapping, at least not in the Wing Chun sense of trapping.

Judo does have a lot more rules. The throws have to be certain throws, the opponent has to land cleanly on his back in order to score, etc. Also there are no leg submissions allowed in Judo. These things do not matter in BJJ. Leg locks are legal and a take down is a take down as long as you are in control when the opponent goes down. In Judo, you can win by a "pin" whereas BJJ there is no such was to win, either by points or submission. You can't win on the mat simply by holding the other guy down.

I heard that if somebody shoots at you with a .25 apc pistol at 200 years, you could catch it in your hand.

gbells, what all is in your over-all JKD instruction? For us, there is a lot of clinch work as well as grappling. ( with us, fishooks,groin grabs ect. are ok and are a legitimate submission if the guy taps, we try to make it as real as possible for the street.) We do quite a bit of stick work as well as knife, kickboxing including MT and Savate techniques and boxing just to name some of the things we do.

There is a great Judo club not far from me. So after thinking about it long and hard, i really believed that I should make some time to go at least once or twice a week there and hopefully it would help my overall grappling game. My first and second classes, I really saw how my BJJ helped me in the ground work area. I feel i did pretty well even against some of the higher ranking Judokas there. My throwing, well, that's another story. I think the Judo training will definitely help my BJJ and vice-versa. Overall it was a lot of fun and there were great people there to work with and they only charge 25 bucks a month so even if I can't put in as much time there as I would like, it's worth it. I still have to get used to some of the rules they have as they are somewhat different than BJJ. At this school, they are like 50% throwing, 50% mat time so there is a good mix of both and not just all throwing which i really like.

Wow 40! That would be almost like a vacation lol. we usually have on average about 1200 here

Whats the inmate population there?

Yes, i think you are way too concerned with belt ranking. Application and execution of techniques is much more important than saying " hey look at me, I have a black belt."

I am a correctional officer now. What job would I want? None. I would want to win the lottery and never have to work.