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Re: New Prospect in Chino Hills, CA
Unstpabl1… I’m getting suspicious. First all the 1%er references, now the mistaken 1%er prospect rules. I’ve got my eye on you. 😎
Re: Defense against being shot with an oxygen tank
Yes GK. The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch was used to kill the rabbit guarding the cave. Everyone underestimated it and it kept tearing people to bits prompting the command, “RUN AWAY!!!”. You did so well on the Black Knight reference a few months ago. I’m disapointed :thunbsdown:
Re: Defense against being shot with an oxygen tank
You don’t think the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch would save you? It defeated that crazy rabbit, didn’t it? Sheesh!
Re: Question: Telling people about your training
I try to encourage all my friends to get involved. On the other hand, I really don’t like bringing it up in a situation that has the possibility of turning volitile (bar, party, etc etc etc). I’ve mentioned it a few of times… mostly had no negative response, but every now and again, you have some insecure drunk, tough guy, etc etc etc who overhears and wants to bust out with the old “so you think you could kick my ass?” line. It’s usualy pretty easy to difuse the situation by laughing it off and throwing in a clever joke, but still not worth the hassle. Now I just keep my mouth shut unless I’m actively trying to talk a friend into joining up.
Additionaly, it’s nice to have it as a suprise to anyone who turns out to be an actual threat.
Re: Why Krav?
When I was active duty, this guy in our mortar section was a beast with combatives and was ******* everyone up. I asked him where he learned to inflict so much pain upon me and he said “Krav Maga”. After being assured that Krav Maga wasn’t some magic words he uttered before a fight that gave him super-human ability, I stored the reference in my mind till I got out and moved back to LA. A few of my friends invited me to go down and check out the NTC with them. I went and signed up that day. I’m still trying to get them to go. Flakes.
Wow Lcash. I don’t mean to go off topic at all or bring up a sore subject (you can tell me to mind my own business if you wish, I understand), but was the situation you got into in Nigeria something that Krav would have helped with directly? Or maybe as far as situational awareness is concerned? Just curious as to exactly how that experience brought you to want to learn Krav. Forgive the curriosity… I’ve always been really big on hearing other peoples’ “lessons learned” to avoid having too many more of my own!!!
Re: tombstone pads
quote Ryan:It was free, and I still feel cheated.That was the best negative product review I’ve ever read. thumbsup
I ended up getting a tombstone pad for $35 from the NTC. Every now and again they sell off all the old stuff. Some of it is in bad shape (nothing that can’t be fixed with a needle and some dental floss), but the pad I got was still very good. You might want to check with your school and see if they ever do anything like that.
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Re: Winter Camp Rocked!
quote CJs Dad:Maybe for summer camp we can borrow a 747 (hint hint)I might be able to get you a Blackhawk, but I doubt anyone needs to worry about getting highjacked on one of those thumbsup
Re: Have you ever
quote golf_pro:Funny you should mention that. Some of my co workers went to a bar over the weekend, got in a fight, and one ended up in the hospital with his left eye dangling out of his head! :OhMy:Needless to say, I don’t go with them…
Eeeek! I hate eye injuries… They gross me out more than damn near anything. Hope your co-worker gets better soon.
P.S. You might want to talk him into taking a few classes when he gets better… Sounds like he might need them! thumbsup
Re: Have you ever
quote golf_pro:I think it’s amazing that people are like “yeah, I got in three fights today”.What the heck are these people doing?! I am 27 and have been in only one fight when I was like 13, it was more of a teenage “think i’m tough” deal.
But to think of grown men on the street getting into fights multiple times a year is alien to me.
Haha… We obviously don’t frequent the same watering holes.
Re: Differences between KM and military/police training
D, I understand what you are getting at, but it just seems that we have had completely opposite experiences with the Army combatives system. The higher levels of the program were never made available to us. Every time it was requested that we get someone certified to instruct the higher levels, we got shot down. If they were more accessable, I would probably do a 180 on my opinion of the system. Leadership failure within my unit? Probably, but you’re one of the first people I’ve talked to that seems to have ready access to the ciriculum above level 1.
I’m not too sure what you are talking about when you mention training for a couple of days per year. You are correct in guessing my MOS (I just reclassed when I went into the Guard, but I’m basing my comments on my experience in the Infantry). We did combatives as a company every week, excluding the “no-balls-challanges” in the barracks. I’m sure that other non-combat units do h2h training with much less frequency, but they are, as you said, not likely to need it.
H2H is a reality in an urban combat environment. I do agree with you that it’s not as common an experience as small arms fire or IEDs. However, people randomly get a wild hair up their ass and think they’re going to fight their way out of getting tossed in the back of the truck and when you’re in the middle of detaining someone who is unarmed, you can’t usualy resort to deadly force. I never meant to imply that it should be an equal (or even close to equal) part of the METL as weapons training. This actualy supports my argument for a more reality based system at the first level. Once again, the other levels may be great, but they need to be more accessable. Maybe a restructuring of the program or easier access of other levels to junior NCOs would completely fix the problems I’m having? Quite frankly, it’s above my pay grade. I’m just stating my opinions and experiences.
I went back and read my previous post. I don’t see where you are getting that I think combat experience in general makes someone an expert in anything. Once again, I stated that, from the experiences I’ve had, I think that the combatives program is in need of repair. That doesn’t mean I think I’m an expert. I’m just an NCO who sees something that I feel could improve. Could I be wrong? Sure I could, but there are a lot of people out there who strongly agree with me.
Haha… As far as the Kung-Fu movie analogy is concerned, I’m not trying to get into a chest flexing competition. I give certain aspects of the system credit, but I think there are a lot of shortcomings. It was designed during a time when the kind of conflict we’re in now wasn’t even considered.
My final point… If we are going to train weekly in some kind of fighting system, shouldn’t it be something that’s applicable on the battlefield?
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Re: Help a newb with Krav Maga
I haven’t heard anything about that school, but their website looks interesting. $100 a month isn’t bad, especialy if it’s inclusive of all the classes. Anybody heard of this place before?
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Re: More Political Fun?
quote vwr32:speaking of “scamdidate”, Ralph Nader is just in time to split the democratic vote. He’s credited for gore’s loss in 2000 (2.8 million votes), and now he’s back. thumbsupI still think we’ll see a democrat win this election, but Ralph adds an interesting twist. Time to “mock the vote”: Vote for Nader, the REAL democrat!
rofl2I heard that today. I’m throwing my John McCain victory party tomorrow and putting up Nader posters on Wednesday thumbsup
Re: Krizzav Mizzle Worldwide
I ran the Harvard English Department’s website through there. Classic. “Guidizzles fo’ bustin’ Letta of Recommendizzle”
http://sites.gizoogle.com/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fas.harvard.edu%2F%7Eenglish%2F
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Re: Differences between KM and military/police training
quote KravMDjeff:I may be incorrect about this, but my understanding was that the Army Combatives program was based on BJJ for the simple fact that it would be best for keeping people training without endangering injury, bringing unit cohesion, and easily transitioning to competition…in other words, it had several well-thought out reasons…but one reason that was NOT in mind when it was designed was actual direct combat application.Oops… Didn’t see your post.
Anyways, that does make sense if that’s what they were thinking. We weren’t as focused on the urban combat stuff when it was developed as we are now. It is great for being able to compete within the unit, but I don’t see why we would stick with it when our needs have drasticly changed. Above my pay grade I guess :confused:
