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Re: Training, Injury and Education…

quote RFC:

Bracius,

I think I understood what your post meant… Hereís a clarification of mine.

It’s fine to train with all your ability and it seems perfectly logical to blast the music and get everyone’s adrenaline flowing… When you are setup up for a drill and instructor says “go”, I think the real test is your ability to control your adrenaline so you can be cognizant and as effective as possible under pressure. I think (and will stand corrected if wrong) our training is not just about learning defensive moves and engraining it into muscle memory, it’s also about learning how to control our minds under high-stress conditions so we can kick a** if/when the real deal comes upon us.

In some cases, I think the ìmind-controlî aspect is not mentioned enough.

I recently graduated into Level 3 and every day, I see people fall into the trap of consistently not controlling themselves under high-adrenaline conditions and it often leads to sudden or cumulative injury. This is what happened to me in L1 and early L2 and I take full responsibility for my mistakes. Now that I’ve learned from the school of hard knocks, I thought it might be helpful to pass the word on to others.

Yeah, pretty much right on the head. Its suppose to be controlled emotions, the intensity directed and focused…letting lose the hell fury but not blind rage. I think even JKD teaches this, emtions are a tool. To feel your energy flow in your techniques. I’m sure the JKD would be happy to talk about that.

Anywho, my fractured wrist actually came from an instructor in training (now an instructor). She blasted through the top mount reversal without giving me a nano-second to roll my wrist. My pulled hammy just comes from the stretching a different instructor had me doing. I didn’t take the best care of it and and I wasn’t about to let a hammy keep me from my level 2 test. Passed and then crashed… almost couldn’t walk the first week.

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Re: Training, Injury and Education…

Holy crap! You should totally set the rule for all level one/two students. I pulled my hammy, broke my rest, and busted my kneed all leading up to my level two test. God I wish I had someone like you slowing down the “be safe/ go balls to the wall” attitude.

I could be in level three class right now if I wasn’t walking with a limp

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Re: Disrespect of TM dojo Sensei’s/Master

Meh… I took that attitude from friend with years of experience in TMA. Yet what I learned as a level one, they learned as an advanced student.

Its not the discipline, but the student. KM seems to find the intense students… IMHO

P.S. Yeah, yeah…. I am back

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Re: Advice please

Interesting

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Re: Make money with Krav

Meh?

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Re: Self defense against dogs

quote Midnighter:

lmao

yes, carry a hamburger with you 24/7 thumbsup

Hey, can you blame the dog? I make a bad arse hamburger! I also smoke my own brisket. I’ve even had a competitive BBQ’er admit that my brisket is better than his and was offered money to show him how. 🙂

But back to the topic…every dog that has attacked me or play attacked me has always attack at the “forward” weapons (my front paws) or the face… I can totally see this being a primal sense of combat for the dog.

Throat / back of head to pin the other “dog” down for the kill. So my defense would have to be to scream “NOT THE FACE”. A close second would be the suggest front kick / front defensive kick or a high knee.

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Re: Annoyances in the workplace!!!

quote Psyops:

The dude who lost 5lbs and goes around from cubicle to cubicle holding his protein shake and the latest issue of Muscle and Fitness, hoping that someone says something about his “weight loss”.

Classic! rofl2

Psyops, sort of along the same lines, I got a guy in my office that does Tai Chi or something and is constantly telling me how Krav Maga sucks. When ever someone is asking me how Krav is going or what Krav is….without fail… there he is calling it a glorified workout class. This is quickly becoming my new pet peeve. He is just so pervasive about it.

I do find solence in that I can point to his extra 50 pounds around his midsection and ask him about his class as I jog backwards up the stairs while he is huffing and puffing. Highly trained hand-to-hand fighter indeed.

[bracius]

Re: Self defense against dogs

Round kick block if the dog leaps for you, If the dog goes for your leg then your screwed I suppose.

This is a light observation from having a dog slobber attack me. I just simply lifted my knee and was able to save my hamburger from the assault. I guess have a hamburger with you when you go to a site?

anywho, I want to bounce this of my instructors at my studio. Got plenty of LEO’s there that can provide some good insight

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Re: Teenager stabbed in forehead, handle snaps off knife. Teenager lives.

But the important thing is that guns are banned over there…..which means neither party could have a) used a gun to commit the crime or b) used a gun to defend themselves. They truly are safer from being at risk of a violent crime…. :rolls eyes:

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Re: Annoyances in the workplace!!!

OH! OH! Another is when I am getting my meal (one of five meals I bring to work) from the refrigerator and someone says, inevitably, “what did you bring me for lunch” as they walk by.

Although I heard a great retort the other day, “My fist in your mouth and I even brought a fork”. I swear it wasn’t me that said but lord have mercy I wish I had been that witty.

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Re: Annoyances in the workplace!!!

The ones I share

1. People who check their voicemail on speakerphone – on the loudest volume possible – Ditto that
2. People who call the person 4 cubes away from them to talk loudly about business – Ditto that
3. People who heat fish up in the microwave and smell up the entire office – Ditto that
4. People who wear too much perfume/cologne – Ditto that
5. People who eat the crunchiest chips/carrots/whatever is crunchy … with great gusto … and their mouths open – Ditto that
6. People who snort their snot into the back of their throats then HAWWWWWWWK it up – Ditto that

My personal peeves:

1. Co-workers that have a telephone conference call and yell instead of talking
2. Co-workersthat have a telephone conference call and pound the desk as they talk
3. Co-workers that have a telephone conference call and use the mute button so they can endlessly swear at the other people on the call
4. Co-workers that decide to pop some pop-corn in the microwave and then walk away. Set off the fire alarm more than once this year
5. Co-workers that stop right out side my office to talk about how their husbands suck. I’m a dude and I don’t want to hear about the details.
6. Co-workers that leave their food in the refrigerator for cryogenic preservation.
7. Meetings…not the useful ones. No I mean the meetings where the presenter reads off a power point presentation….leaving me to blow an hour of my day for something I could have read in 2 minutes.
8. People that park their motorcycle in the normal car parking and not the designated, and CLOSER, motorcycle parking
9. Not washing your hands after you use the restroom and then smearing your hands all over my desk as you talk to me about your weekend fishing trip .
10. People coming up to me, in the office, and asking if I think I can kick their arse (because they take Karate or something) once they learn I practice in Krav Maga.
11. Using the equivalent of a grunt to ask for an analysis and then getting upset because I don’t have a f**king clue what you just said. Literally….asking what “happened last Monday” does not constitute as “Lets look at the incoming <which we have many channels> contact pattern for <insert business line, for which we have many> and correlate that to the sales volume observed for last Monday to determine their relative strength.”
12. Coming up to me as I am eating lunch and asking me either 1) what are you eating or 2) what are you doing? Respectively 1) If you actually cared you would have asked to do lunch and 2) Eating my F’ing lunch A-Hole
13. Asking for some work and then forgetting that you asked for it when I present it to you.
14. Having twenty coffee makers in the break room.
15. Only having one break room
16. Having someone walk up to me whilst on a conf. call and ask me if I am busy. My standard reply has been “Sorry <insert name I am talking to on the phone> but <insert name of offender> walked up and asked me if I am busy. I missed the very important thing you just said because <name of offender> has trouble with obvious observations and it is now having to cost us”. Yes….it happens less and less now.
17. Been locking in a conference room with someone that grabbed a quick salad to eat before a presentation. Which usually ends with them eating with their mouths open and thwarting any attempt to focus….well focus on work.

I have a ton more…and no I am not having a bad day. I just have BASIC expectations and most people meet and exced those. Its just a, thankfully, few individuals who lack complete civi understanding of office behavior.

[bracius]

Re: Newest Krav member

Woo Hoo! Congrats!

You going to get him wraps or go straight to bare knuckle training?

[bracius]

Re: Krav maga getting bashed?

I did not read posts follow the initial post so you are welcome to scold me if I repeat something someone else said.

An axiom of any fighting art would be that quality comes from the student not the art. Krav Maga is good because of the student quality. The praise for the art comes mostly from the methods used to turn a blob of a person into a skilled practitioner.

Any martial art you encounter is going to be good. Your local schools should have the biggest influence to your training needs. Are they serious? Are the instructors hard on the skilled students and devoting a majority of time to the lesser degrees?

I would look for these things in a Krav Maga school. Such as, are the instructors teaching the students to channel their agression into their attacks. Teaching the mentality to defend and attack? Are the students running their damn mouths during class?

Oh, one last boring point before I zip off. The exercise comment that we get all the time…. More than just your fist or your foot is used to attack. The body and mind must work as hard as your fist. For some reason our exercises are used against us in these stupid martial arts debates and I have no idea why. Its like having a conditioned body is no longer a requirement?!?! Getting told that Krav Maga is just a glorified exercise class by the office black belt than cannot go up the stairs without getting winded is getting old. Nothing against you bud….just timing. Had another day of Mr. Tai Chi telling me that I am wasting my time

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Re: Passed the test! On to level two!!

Congrats! 🙂 🙂 🙂

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Re: krav maga bootcamp online

Cute picture Psyops

I would say that this internet class goes in hand with owning “the book”. Reading and practice at home is 60% of it. The rest is with instructors perfecting and application.

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