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Re: Comfortable Groin Protection
Two thumbs up for the Nutty Butty.
I found my self pulling on my shorts all the time to adjust where they were so the Shock Docktor would ride comfortable.
The Nutty Butty stays in place even if the shorts slip around a bit. Takes a good impact too.
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Re: Krav Maga and joint locks
Joint locks are usually only the beginning of the true technique: Joint Break. The wrist Cavaliers that are in Krav could be used to break the wrist. I don’t like to tell anyone defending themselves to become ‘attached’ to the attacker by grabbing a wrist or arm, accept in rare cases like imobilizing a knife weilding arm or grabbing for knees.
Otherwise if you are going to wrist lock someone and it’s justified; Break it and Wiggle it!
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Re: Kick to the butt..huh?
It is the center of balance isn’t it? Well somewhere in the hips. Attacking the base will knock them off base.
The Perinium, Coccyx would be bonus points. Round kicks to the buttocks would not be effective, Push kicks for balance displacement.
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Re: appropriate action???
“Now…my friend is a loud oppionated woman who isnt afraid to tell someone if she thinks they are in the wrong and will continue to do so until she thinks her point was made. however this led to her and the new bouncer pushing and kicking eachother with me in the middle trying to breakup the fight. I was in the situation where he was still trying to attack my friend who was behind me and he actually kicked her through my legs.”
Don’t forget to talk to your friend about setting you up in a confrontation. She did nothing to De-escalate the situation.
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I had horrible dreams the night of my Level one test. The test was in the evening and went late into the night. I went home and crashed out.
Many times through the night I woke my self up firing off punches, kicks and just flinching. I punched the headboard hard enough to cut my knuckles. At least it was the first two knuckels so I know my fist is right.
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Are you hitting with a Horizontal fist (palm facing down) or a vertical fist (pinkie towards the floor)? Vertical fist help prevent this.
Try pushups on your first two knuckles. If you can, do them on the floor, or just do against a wall. Pay particular attention to the alingment of your first two knuckles and be sure they are in line with the bones. “Wrist straight” may not be knuckels in line, it’s is not wrist square on the end of your arm. In fact the wrist may feel cocked a little to line the knuckels up.
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Takning a punch better is more about mind set than how tough your forearms are. If you take a punch and it hurts then you get stuck at that moment If you take a punch and it hurts so much it pisses you off, that’s the mindset.
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They get one turn, then it’s my turn and my turn and my turn…I guess I’m just selfish like that.
Sorry that was long. But I was trying to answer your question about anticipating the shot. It’s hard to put in words it would be much easier to coach you at the range. Go to your range and get instruction.
What I really wanted to say was the SWAT stuff is a blast. I have been on our SWAT team for 9 years now. We have a team commander and two teams. I am one of the team leaders now and also one of the Snipers. We are part-time team that trains 8 hours a month and a couple weekends or so a year I also train on the Sniper Team 8 hours a month. We are fotunate enough to work in a great city that doesn’t need too many callouts a year. Most of our stuff is Dynamic entry Drug raids, high priority stakeout and surveilance. Other than that I am on the street on patrol.
I hope they stressed to leave the SWAT stuff to SWAT. Small room tactics should scare you enough to figure out if someone was in your house and you went hunting for them that you are in deep trouble. Take cover in a room, cover one door and wait for them to get to that door. Our plan in my house is I get the stairs and my wife gathers the kids back to our bedroom. I will wait for the police to show up and will never let anyone make it to the top of the stairs. This may sound strange to you, you may think why won’t he go arrest them? Because there is nothing in my house downstairs worth dying for. And they have to be willing to die to get up my stairs. It’s about calculated risks. Now if I had three of my SWAT buddies spend the night and we were all upstairs God help the badguy.
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What you are experiencing is a Flinch, you are Flinching because you think you know when the shot will go off. That’s because you are trying to control all three things at once. This is one of the most common things we see with new and old shooters. Some old shooters have gotten so good at flinching that once we break them of the habbit they have to have their sights adjusted.
There are three things that must happen to make an accurate shot. 1- The sights have to be in alignment. 2- The sights have to cover the target. 3-you must pull the trigger until it breaks. Problem is we are usually only able to do one or two things at once. That means you get to pick two. I pick the sights in alignment, and the sights covering the target. I never worry about when the shot will go off it should be a suprise anyways. Pull the trigger as slow as you can but as fast as you can control the sights. This takes practice. your feet do not matter, your weight doesn’t matter, your gun doesn’t matter. It can even be upside down, crooked in your hand as long as the three things happen when the shot breaks. You feet and weight and gun hand alignment are icing that make more shots easier later. All you need to worry about is the one shot you are trying to break. The last one doesn’t matter anymore and the next one is too far in time away to worry about.
Dry fire Practise….Empty the gun… Check it again that it is empty. Pick a safe target ( not the TV or the cat….well maybe the cat) that if you screwed up and didn’t empty the gun it won’t hurt anything. Then align the sights, cover the target with the sights, now start applying presure to the trigger as slow as you can building pressure until it breaks. If the sights come off the target, relax your trigger finger and start the squeeze over. The whole trigger pull should take 20-30 seconds. When it breaks it should suprise you and the sights should not bounce. You’ll know if you flinch. Do this a bunch. Next time you are at the range do the same drill live fire. Slow trigger suprise break.
Once you learn to control the trigger and add weight to it slowly and progressively you can speed it up with the same muscle memory and become faster. Soon you’ll be shooting controlled pairs pretty fast.
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Don’t eat right before class.
If you are familiar with MT many of the techniques will come quickly. A few small variations.
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ViCious, That reminds me of something I saw the other night. Our instructor was showing one of the students how to use rubber bands to create resistance in kicking. Same can be done for punching. Wrap the band around a kicking bag and punch away from it. Instead of the weight being relative to the floor it is pulling against the movement of the punch.
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Edit to add… Wow I just realized how old this post was. I guess it’s a slow forum over here.
That is great that you got such a response. I can’t get a supervisor to come over when we are doing our departmental training. The one on second shift just flat out ignors it. The others are \”too busy.\” I also get similar questions like you, when can I, what if he does? It amazes me how many are not sure of what they can and can’t do. When to apply this or that. If they are on the street they better know when and how. It drives me crazy to teach some of them knowing they aren’t paying attention. My training Sgt has the two of us go to each shift quarterly to refresh and learn new. We get about 2 hours with each Officer in groups of 2 or 3 pulling them off the street in uniform. I had one mark for his lunch last time right after the Training Sgt. called for the next group. It’s the best we can get for now.
On the other hand I got an 8 hour day to teach to those that elected to come and do. We had a great time and got lots accomplished. A couple even showed up at class at night now.
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Two things that haven’t been discussed or at least emphasized that made a big differance for me I got from John Whitman in Tenn.
He explaines the Contraction Vs. Retraction of the punch. We focus on throwing the punch out as fast as we can but forget in order to throw the second punch we have to retract the first. He broke the punching down and had us focus only on the retraction. Throw the punch prepared to retract as fast as you can. My other hand started coming out faster.
The second was a little nuance in breathing that was new to me. I sounded like a Choo Choo train, each punch with an sepperate exhale. Try sounding like a tire loosing air..SHHHHHH…throught the whole combination. One exhale for three punches. Each time you Choo, Choo your diaphram contracts and stops. This is counter productive to the relaxed state you should be in.
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