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I think of hurting puppies…nawww…mean, nasty, hateful music, that does the trick.
When I teach, I often express agression as a switch that you have to be able to physically turn on. However, you have to keep your hand on the switch, so you can turn it off. It keeps your assailant guessing, and it really freaks out bad guys.
I would suggest that you treat every drill your instructor initiates like it is a fight for your life. In drill work, fight through everything that blocks your vision of winning the fight (pain, exhaustion..etc..) think of nothing but pounding that pad or making that self defense escape. Finish off every combative and self defense with a return to a good aggressive fighting stance. This helps me to kick it up a notch.
Curious,
I guess the best way to explain the evolution question is to have you look at the KMWW trademark symbol. When drawn correclty, the outer circle is left open in the two locations where the hebrew letters meet the outer circle. This symbolizes the open system. New ideas flow in, while outdated ideas flow out.KM is what we call an integrated system. Contrary to what many believe, law enforcement officers get only 4 to 8 hours of in service DT training per year, at the fortunate departments. Because KM is an integrated system, I can teach in 4 hours of KM, what it takes three years in martial arts to teach. Everything builds on itself. When we teach a civillian or LEO class, we try to begin with combatives, then integrate the combatives into the self defense technique we are instructing for the day. On occassion, we can put cobatives and multiple self defense move togeather, makes for great drill work at the end of the class. All our self defenses have similar philosphies. Attack the danger/weakest part of the hold, deliver simultaneous counterstrike, natural movement, must be easily taught….With this in mind while teaching and learning, KM becomes a very easy system to learn. I think it as a self-defense tool, much like a wrench or hammer, rather than something ether like, such as a martial art Katas and Forms. When explaining this to others, it is important to point out this, Yes, that may be a better and more effective way to execute, but is it easily taught in a short amount of time to all genders, ages, body types…..This way we can all bennefit quickly from training.
No comment. Another indredible diagnosis, based on my spending patterns. I think I’ll take up knitting instead.
KMDJeff,
Your assumption is correct, my only problem now is I leave at 1830hrs tonight on a plane for LA, and I am batteling a cold from my 2 and 5 year olds. I am about Zicamed out, but I am now getting my energy level back.
WHen I get the time, I’ll look into the zone stuff..THanks
This often happens to me. I heave my pants up to my shoulders and tie off the draw string to impeed the immediate flow of blood to my head. Unfortuanatly, this give my opponent the chance to kick me in the groin (ouch!) but it takes my mind off the bloody nose. Hope this helps
Lately, I’ve been smacking around to Biohazard and Hatebreed, but I’ve been in a sort of angry mood due to my work…..I’ll probably go to hell for it…
Great Response Binigaki, this is exactly what I have heard. My department will not let us get tased in training by policy. At my brothers agency, they took the full 5 second ride. My brother took the option of having the probes shot into him. Hit him in the upperspine and lower spine, right in the vertabre. He told me he screamed things and was very embarrassed. He told me he would provide the video for education, so when I get it I will post it.
The probe length is about 3/8 to 1/2 inch. Looks like a dual barbed harpoon. THe real penetration is in the mass of the probe (KE = 1/2 mass x vel squared). As for a motorcyle jacket I would say it would sail through a leather jacket, but it may have difficulty on the heavier reinforced areas of a kevlar racing type jacket; however, the current would carry and cause some serious contact pain. If the probes did not enter the body, there would be no muscle lock-up. I have been told it would not harm pace makers, and in animal testing (PETA unapproved) they could ride the wire for several minutes. One test human, rode the wire for some ungodly lenght of time to prove it was safe at Taser International.
Great Discussion, I have to chime in. The issue of using a denim or heavy jacket. The newer Tasers have better probes, and type of pulse. This probe and pulse is said to travel through up to 2 inches of fabric. Two situations, the taser probes enter the body and the taser probes arc through clothing, but do not enter the body. WHen the probes enter the body, the 50000 volts and .04amps will lock up the muscle group it is conducting accross, thus, more probe spread, the more muscles that lock up. In the other situation, where the probes do not enter the body, there is still a hell of a pain compliance, but no muscle group lock up. Up here in the northwest, we purchase the heavier probes for more penitration, as everyone wears a heavy jacket, even in the summer. I like the idea of a quick roll to break the probes, but this is not likely going to happen as the juice flows the minute a circuit is made through the body. I just got mine issue three weeks ago. I used it once int he field on a gang banger following a knife attack. He was about 6 foot and 240lbs. He dropped like lead with only a 6 inch probe spread into his rib cage. Our pepper spray use has gone way down. Tasers rock, I never thought I would say that.
As to the case law question. Even if the police officer is making a \”bad arrest,\” it is still against the law to resist the arrest. THis allows the officers (deputies) to go home at night in one piece.
My first thought is to stay with RCAT. I would use a similar approach to a regular handgun to the front; however, you may only be able to lock the wrist on the gun hand. THis move would come from below, just as the regular tecnique. Keep in mind the flexability of the wrist in the Redirect. Try to minimize the wrist flexibility. In order to Redirect, you would have to make a more drastic move to the side, while forcing the wrist and firearm back into the subjects chest, the lower the better. Gain quick Control while delivering the Attack with the opposite fist. Even more important to get the powerful first stike in. Then of course the Takeaway. THis is what you have trained to do, so I wouldn’t deviate to much from the concept. My thought is that the forearm couls work to your advantage, as it minimizes the movement of the handgun and the offenders counters to your move.
As far as contact shooting goes, just remember to rack the second round in, as the contact with the muzzel will not allow another round to chamber. We have trained in LE to hold the back of the slide from moving back. THis allows you to gamb the firearm in with the support hand. Practice this on the range, its a bit intimidating at first, but it is very easy to hold the slide in battery.
DUring the summer before I started playing football in my undergrad, I broke my rt collar bone, weeks before august daily double practice started. I only wore the figure 8 sling commonly used. After about 3 weeks of watching practice, I was finally able to start lightly hitting and hand jambing pads. Yes, there was still intense pain in the shoulder, but I think it was mostly due to inactivity. I did not overdue it. I only wanted to keep the shouldger joint and tendedons strengthened. At first, the hits resembled pushes to minimize the jolt on the shoulder. One thing that was interesting were the x-rays at my check-ups. THough it appeared the gap was still between the bone ends, there was a more invisible calcification that kept the bone togeather while it healed. By mid-october, I was able to hit the pads full force. I just took my time, and I did a little each day to keep the joint in shape. I did not cause excessive trauma on the joint, but I did learn to live with a little pain for a while…..Good luck
Xylem, I have been a LEO for 15 years. I just returned from the Series 1 KM LEO instructors course this week. Swithred and Raddu are exactly correct. Everything we leared was incoorporated in the civillian KM classes except for weapons retention and some firearms takeaways. Wearing a holstered firearm on your hip during confrontation creates a whole new litney of issues. You are always bringing a deadly weapon to the fight. For this reason, KM LEO classes stress weapons retention, positioning and as the instructor John Pascall put it, \”Fighting like you are the third monkey on Noah’s ark!\”
Even before attending the LEO class, KM has served me well in law enforcement. LEOs can not make the decision to leave the area during or after the confrontation. They must make an arrest and take the subject into custody. Other differences are on firearms takeaways. An LEO should alway use the weapon in his holster, as he/she knows it it functional and they are qualified on the weapon for litigation reasons. There are no other real major differences, choke escapes are the same, you should just turn your holstered firearm away from the subject..etc..
Remember in the end, a cop still has to justify their actions, just as a citizen does. Hope this helps.
This is a great topic. I often wonder the same thing myself. As I have never practiced anything other than KM, I do not have a perspective other than what friends tell me. I am quite proud that KM offeres the flexibility to be yourself. Hey, it you in the fight for your life.
I think the best way to show respect to an instructor is to listen well and immediatly employ the corrections they ask you to. As well ,treat the last repitition with the same intensity as the first. I espically like using a new technique in fight class immediatly after learning the technique.
I will often let my instructor know when the KM he has taught me has assisted me on the job (saved my butt). I am very greatful to KM and my instructor. Not to sound like a dork, but it has changed my life.
