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Re: Quick question – timeline for belts/levels

quote unstpabl1:

I hope you didn’t take offense at my comment though, because I did mean it in jest. I really did care and felt you were setting yourself up for injury and a setback when you first showed up, as i do mr Mossad, or I wouldn’t waste my time posting, when I’d rather be doing something more personally productive

Hey pardner, no worries! I’ve not always made the best choices and this was one of them. Some times I have to laugh at myself and there’s no reason you can’t laugh with me. rofl2

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Re: Quick question – timeline for belts/levels

quote unstpabl1:

No:beer: it wasn’t. You wanted to go into instructor Phase after your 1st class, which started in a monththumbsup

Then I met Mr. Reality and just tried to keep going. rofl2

The techniques aren’t that difficult, taken individually. For those of us who like to help others, it’s not rocket surgery to want to teach.

To answer the original poster’s question, attending a few classes would help gauge the possibilities. I was fortunate to be near Ryan’s school so there were no issues with the quality of instruction or the room for growth. If you want to accelerate your learning curve, pick up either http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Krav-Maga-Self-Defense-Techniques/dp/1569755736/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266834722&sr=8-1 or http://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Step-Step-Easiest-Learn/dp/1569756619/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266834722&sr=8-3 and practice th etechniques on your own time. That way you not trying to learn in class as they tend to do the workout portion first. Learn at home, refine in class.

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Re: Quick question – timeline for belts/levels

My goal was to make it through class without a heart attack…

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Re: Looking for Input from you all

oohh…cool! I wanna read it!

Mote, watch the movie “Taken”, and then you’ll get a slight sense of Krav.

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Re: To Be or Not to Be – Instructor Training

I stutter in daily conversation. If you think trying to speak in public is tough, try it when half the time you can’t say the words you want to say, and you can see the minds of about 15% of the class who think you’re mentally slow. :OhMy:

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Re: Are we being true to the system?

quote Ryan:

Wait, is Leam agreeing with me or not?

😉

Everyone pictured in your avatar can beat me up, what do you think?

:combat:

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Re: Are we being true to the system?

quote Ryan:

As a hardcore KM instructor, I’d like to show the meat and potatoes; give folks what’s “real”. As a business owner in a tough economic environment (who feeds his family by teaching KM), I realize I could never buy airtime like this. Look at the percentage of folks interested in fitness vs. the percentage interested in martial arts/self defense/fighting…it isn’t close. What happens on my mats, what I send my members home with at the end of the day is what matters. So what if it took a good looking woman with rock hard abs to get them there? To me, the ends justify the means.

While I disagree about the ends and means Ryan, I think you’re not fully pointing out the benefits. I’ve met the “woman with rock hard abs” and not only is she as described, but she trains actively and seriously!

Anyone can go to a convienence store and see pictures of cute girls advertising beer. Ever see the girl show up when you bought the beer? Ever have your abs tighen up after a few? Didn’t think so. That sort of marketing only provides the illusion of beauty and relationships. Like Ryan said, the news spot is marketing. Pure and simple. It may not be the most crafted to customize your message but at the cost it’s more effective that the stuff you want to do but can’t afford. Look at the messages it can send. “There is Krav Maga in the Charlotte area”. “Ryan Hoover and Krav Maga in Charlotte are one”. “Ryan Hoover speaks for Krav Maga, and he’s right here in Charlotte.” “Ryan Hoover has a secret mix that will let you be as good looking as she is.”

Every time someone hears about Krav or Ryan the news spot will come to mind. The image will be emotionally reinforced and if they are interested in whatever their perception is, they may find the time and energy to intellectually engage. That’s the key factor here, the viewer’s act of will based on desire. If they don’t have the energy to check it out then they don’t see their particular situation needing change. The more you market the better chance of finding someone’s motivator. If Ryan can’t grab 99% of Charlotte, who cares? If he got to 1% of the audience he’d have 7,000 students and a lot more worries about managing things! If he missed 99.9% he’d still have 0.1% of the action and that’s ~700 students!

You can even be more critical of the math and still make out well. If Ryan hit 0.01% he’d have 70 potential students walk in the door. Of those 70 you’d have a mixed bag but if any of them were serious they’d see kids having class and enjoying it, BJJ and boxers working together, a profesional training ring, various contact bags, multilpe classrooms, engaging and knowledgeable staff, and scores of happy customers. Might even see the young lady mentioned or some of the muscular yet truly helpful male staff. (Hi Mike! :wav: )

Of those 70, maybe 10% sign up. While Ryan can’t get rich off 7 L-0 students he now has new marketers who will be happy to share the truth about his school, his instructors, and the awesome benefits of RHEK. That’s good marketing math for essentially no cost.

If you get a chance to train with Ryan and crew, lemme know if you find any evidence of the material being “watered down”. rofl2

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Re: Self-Instruction through Books?

Would have to agree with the “do what you got to do” philosophy. Which, BTW, is fairly common. You might not learn as fast, and you’ll probably pick up some bad habits, but do what you can and associate with folks when you can.

I’m in Leesburg and a couple of us are talking about starting something at the local Y. Nothing formal as I’m not certified to teach Krav, but I get to influence the practice sessions. 🙂

Haven’t been to the GA schools but Ryan’s in Gastonia is awesome! If you can make it for a seminar, do!

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Re: To Be or Not to Be – Instructor Training

quote KravMDjeff:

I’ve said this before in other contexts, but besides from physical talent, speaking ability, conceptual understanding of the system (all of which are highly necessary to become an instructor), the single most important attribute of an instructor is selflessness.

So, the best question to ask yourself is this…assuming it’ll be beneficial for you, and assuming you’d pass…are you willing to sacrifice your own time, effort, energy, blood, sweat, etc. to make other people safer? If that excites you, then give it your best shot. If something in you catches, maybe now’s not the time for you.

Taking what your instructor said, and what I quoted here, if teaching is your passion then you’re probably already doing it. Being helpful here or volunteering for a new student there. If not, try those things. Be the teacher’s lackey and see how that jibes with who you were created to be.

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Re: Is Rank Important to You?

quote unstpabl1:

Thanks leam. I went and looked at it. it wasn’t what i was looking for. I’m not big on theroy, like bracticality. how can I apply this is my mentality.

So far it’s been good for me, but as noted, I introspect a lot. I’ve taken the long list of things that occupy my time and used the flow requirements to whittle down the list. Since I’m forever trying to stuff more things into my day that was an immediate relief!

For the “is rank important to you” discussion; the concept of enjoyment tends to include some sort of feedback against concrete goals. I guess the desire for that feedback may be different depending on rank or time in grade.

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Re: Is Rank Important to You?

quote unstpabl1:

I read about the book years ago. I thyink i almost bought it, but got the impression that it talked about the subject but didn’t give a course of action on how to use it. Either that bor the author was too clinical. Is trhat a misrepresentation on my part? Curious because if its practical i’ll buy it today

It’s certainly not exciting reading, but not overly pedantic either. I’ve not gotten through the entire thing yet but I’ve picked up several ways to look at things and see how I can improve my lot in life. The caveat is, of course, that I do a lot of introspecting and could get a new perspective from a pencil eraser…

So yeah, I’d say I’m happy with the purchase. If you want, wait until I’m done and you can borrow my copy.

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Re: Basic Strikes not fast enough the Krav way?

Check out this video of Tommy Carruthers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBTM6_l-Gdk&feature=related

Now that’s fast!

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Re: More freebies courtesy of the Cheapskate Blog

http://fedoraproject.org/
http://centos.org
http://php.net
http://apache.org/
http://python.org/
http://www.joomla.org/
http://dev.mysql.com/
http://www.mozilla.com

Windows isn’t worth $1,029, that’s how much it costs. It’s worth a plugged nickel on an up day. I’ve been running better software, worth more than any Windows version, for years. And it costs nothing.

Not that I’m a Linux bigot or anything. rofl2

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Re: Is Rank Important to You?

Testing is one of the challenges I have. For a long time I’ve worked for extrinsic goals, even if I didn’t like the process. Now I’m too old to waste time on a process I don’t enjoy and grow from. Goals are fine for program structure but I/you need to work at making a goal of enjoying the process.

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Re: Is Rank Important to You?

quote unstpabl1:

Think what a Navy SEAL must feel like after Hell Week or Graduation or a PJ or any other SF school that tells you, your elite. Truth is we’re all elite, if we want to be

I’m reading the book “Flow: the psycology of optimal performance” and it has some interesting points that relate to this. That challenge is part of growth, else you’re just physically watching TV. That you become a deeper and stronger individual when you do something challenging; you differentiate yourself from most people but you draw closer to a select crowd.

If your classes are very seperate, so that L1 students only get L1 stuff, etc, then I really suggest you test up. Not just to learn new stuff but to become a stronger person in that learning. Use the challenge to grow.

unstpabl1, good to be back. 🙂

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