bushido_man96

I'm checking things out in the new app, and it's awesome! Easy UI and easy to read and post. So smooth!

Or just have other problems in general that need to be addressed.

Thanks for explaining this, Patrick. I'll be looking into it!

Congrats Ashworth! Well done!

That's nuts! Hadn't heard that! Chiefs pulled out another great win against another good AFC team. Unfortunately, they lost Pecheco for 6-8 weeks in the process to a fractured fibula I believe it was. That'll hurt. Hopefully Perine and Steele can platoon and cover the load. Steele looks promising; just have to protect the football. Worthy wasn't as involved in the offense this week, and Kelce has been too quite as well. I'd also like to Smith-Schuster get more involved. Especially now that it's been announced that Hollywood Brown is out for the season.

I've done a few things like this in TKD years ago. It wasn't really a cross-style setup; everyone was TKD, but there were different things broached, so we got to see some different topics. I like to see different specialties show up in things like this. As the organizer of this event, perhaps you can have some control over this. If I were you, see if you can invite specific instructors that have some special stuff they teach to do so in their allotted timeframes. That way, instead of getting a bunch of instructors teaching the same basics and forms everyone knows, there will be whole bunch of fun and interesting stuff the students get exposed to.

I'm not sure what you mean by "how did you find it." If you mean how I found the material? It was material that a DT instructor I met in college was teaching as his curriculum for women's self-defense seminars. He'd been doing them for some time. However, what the CI at the school is teaching at this seminar is a bit changed up, which I don't think is a good thing. As far as women's self-defense courses in general, I believe that getting exposure to some good tools is better than nothing at all. I also try to make sure to drop some real life knowledge and facts on them about attacks against women, so they understand the severity of it. My hope is that it convinces some of them to look into actively training somewhere themselves, in order to get more than just what that day or session offers. It's not something we are trying to make money on, it's a free service we are offering, so there's no monetary motivation there. The CI has also stated that he plans to open up our Wednesday open-mat time to the women who would be interested in coming in and continuing to train on the self-defense material. I'll be surprised if we have anyone show up on the regular, though. 9/14/2024 Women's Self-Defense Seminar: 9:30 - 11:30 am. In this session, we covered standing situations. Escapes from bear hugs (front, side, rear, both arms in, one arm, both arms out, etc), defenses against standing chokes (front, side, rear, pushing from the front, pushing from the back; not rear-naked style chokes, but a two-handed aggressive choke). Striking elements done in the first session came into play here as part of the defenses. We had about the same number of attendees as the previous week, which was good. But some of them were newcomers, and some from the previous week didn't make it back. We'll see what the turnout for this weekend is for the ground focused material.

It's good to hear things are going well on the health front. Keep it up! Very cool on the weapons forging and finishing. Sounds like a lot of fun!

I noticed it too. I chuckled a little when I saw it, and thought, "man, that's perfect!"

Tracking a simple thing like waist measurements, thigh measurements, etc, can also be helpful. If you're pants are getting looser and you are having to pull your belt tighter, it's a good sign. Weight loss might not be the goal, but body recomposition could be.

I think the decision should be up to him. He should be made known of the possible consequences, but in the end, it should be his decision. The money he could make over the next 10 years is life-changing for him and his family. Keeping Jones was the way to go, but Sneed was so good in the secondary, and in a passing league, that's a tough loss. But I think getting an impactful interior linemen is the taller order, so I'd agree with you. Worthy can flat out fly. I just worry about his size.

Tua took another hard shot tonight, left with another concussion. Hopefully he'll be ok. They are really stacking up on him. That was a rough game for him.

This is a very good point.

Man, that's sad to hear. James Earl Jones passed this week, too. He was great in everything he ever did, but I loved him in Best of the Best.

9/12/2024 Strength Training Leg Press: 45x10, 135x10, 185x5, 225x5, 285x3, 310x5, 310x5, 310x5. Bench Press: 45x5x2, 65x5, 95x3, 130x5, 130x5, 130x5. Lat Pull-downs: 145x10, 145x10, 145x10. Bench felt pretty good on the right shoulder today. The pull-downs are getting harder to complete the sets on. That programming change may be coming sooner rather than later. BJJ Class: 7:00 - 8:20 pm. The focus of this class was "controlling the hips." Kazushi/standing drills. 5 minutes each. 1. One guy standing behind the other, hands locked around the waist. Person behind's job was keep the hands locked and take their partner down, either hands to the ground or butt to the ground. Person in front's job was to break the grip and escape. An escape=switch roles. In front, the thumb was still the weak link, even in a monkey grip, so that and trying to shift the hands to one of the hip "pointers" and then using forward pressure to break the grip. Kendall is strong, and that was tough to do. 2. Same drill, but guy with hands locked could unlock and work different ties, like a 2-on-1, or getting to a single-leg, or otherwise hooking up a leg and breaking balance. Same parameters for escaping guy. I had success with the Gracie sit-back takedown (learned it at the Gracie seminar years ago), but I needed to work on getting more forward-driving pressure with a 2-on-1 so they had one less limb to brace for a takedown. 3. Same again. Sometimes I'd get to a single-leg, but I wasn't lifting it up high enough to effective. Kendall pointed that out to me, and lifting it higher helped a lot. It was hard, because his legs are heavy and strong. But it got better. Top/bottom ground drills. 5 minutes each. 4. Bottom guy in turtle position, top guy locked hands around waist like before. Top guy's job was to break the hips down and retain control; bottom guy's job was to break the grip and escape, reverse, or get to guard. Bottom guy wins=switch roles. Kendall is strong and hard to hold down. But I moved around and scrambled better in trying to both maintain position and get to out. 5. Same drill, but top guy could break hands and go to 2-on-1s, chop the arm, spiral ride, etc. Top guy needed to stay behind the elbows. Bottom guy still had the same win conditions. Just made it harder with their hands doing so much more. Kendall has a good base and at times I had trouble breaking him down. But I did get it done a few times, just couldn't keep him locked up. 6. Same drill, but goal for the top guy was a bit more involved. He needed to break the hips down first, then move to isolate the head and arm, and get a hook in on the legs (these last two could be done in any order). It was funny here, as there were several times I found myself talking to myself, telling me the same things I used to yell at the boys when I was coaching them in wrestling: "Head off the mat!" "Build your base!" I did ok here, but not great. 7. Coach went over the rear naked choke, with both players now seated, the "top" guy behind the "bottom" guy, chest to back, hooks in, seat belt hold. Top guy was to use the hands to start at the ear and blade into the chin/neck area to work open the choke, alternating hands. Then once you got a good lock, it was "hollow the chest" and push the elbow of the choking arm down into their sternum while turning towards the choking arm. Bottom guy's job was to try to fight off the hands and somehow get away, and attacking the feet was an option. Top guy should try to keep the hands busy defending the choke so they couldn't risk reaching for feet. This one was a tough one. I wouldn't say it went poorly, but it was tough. Free Roll: one round, 5 minutes, with Kendall. I got exhausted. At one point my arms felt like they were filled with lead, and I felt like I was just getting crushed by his weight and couldn't breathe. At one point he got to side control, but he didn't really know what to do from there, and started to transition to mount. I was able to move to a guard position from there, but I didn't get much else. He just needs more experience with submissions from side control. Kendall rolled one more round after that with the coach. He got tapped, but learned some things. We had a good time again. I really liked the focus of this class, and the progressions we were going through while maintaining that focus.