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Re: Preparing for Yellow Belt Test in November
Good plan. I wasn’t able to go to multiple classes a day when I prepped for my one (beginning of September) so I was in the gym at lunch on the treadmill, elliptical, and bike (I don’t know if they have different benefits, I just get bored easily so I switched it up). Your plan for conditioning seems on point, you should be in great shape when the test comes.
For your techniques, make sure you’ve seen everything at least once. Some of them are simple enough so that if you’ve practice it a few times you’re a pro. Others need lots and lots of practice, and the testers will know who hasn’t trained as much as they should have (for my test it was inside defense against a low straight punch that a bunch of people were slipping on).
For nutrition, no carb diets don’t work because your body goes into survival mode and when it finally gets carbs it stores them away more so than if you ate them normally. You can use that to your advantage, go no-carb for a few days before the test then have your big carb dinner the night before and breakfast the day of. Bring lots and lots of liquids. I did a 50/50 gatorade and water mix and went through a gallon of it during the test. If you want to bring energy gel packets, do it. If you don’t use them you’ll just be relaxed that they’re there if you need them.
My test was just under 6 hours of hell, but all of us walked out of there with huge grins on our faces. Go 100% the whole time, have fun, and let us know how it went.
Re: Is Krav Magna An Option For Me?
quote knees-n-bows88:and loves punishmentLMAO, but short answer: yes. Long answer: an emphatic yes.
Re: Bursting
Welcome to the forum… I have a related question. During movement drills I notice my balance isn’t all there. When the instructor calls out a direction I find I have to shift my weight just a little to the opposite side to get a good plant so I can burst out in the given direction. I think my movement is fine otherwise, just that fraction of a second it takes to shift my weight bugs me because I know I can be faster. Is this normal or am I missing something?
Re: How Soft Drinks effect your krav..
If you go the diet route beware of even faker sugar (aspertame and sucralose aka splenda). I second the cold-turkey opinion, but some people can handle it, others fall off the wagon easily and need to wean themselves off. Do whatever works for you.
:beer:Re: How Soft Drinks effect your krav..
And America doesn’t use real sugar in our soft-drinks. So you have the added detrimental affects of high fructose corn syrup too :-(. +1 on trying to cut soda consumption. I’ve been pretty soda-free for the past year or so. I’ll maybe have one every other month. It’s funny because it’s something you don’t notice after a while, you don’t really miss it too often. I’m mostly water and gatorade (I hate the taste of most bottled water so i do maybe a 1part to 5 or 6 parts mix just to kill the taste). Good luck with cutting out soda :-).
Re: Karate instructor brandishes fake gun
Nice find. I agree with what you said, but I have to disagree a little with your sentiment. I’ve only been at this since April and so far the training has all been on how to get out of sticky situations and I imagine proper detainment techniques are taught in the L/E classes only. But I have to admire somebody who takes responsibility for the safety of the people around him. I’ve always believed that a well-armed (red-tipped training guns aside) law-abiding citizen is a great ally to law enforcement. He didn’t take the law into his own hands, he caught the perp red handed and (hopefully) put him under citizen’s arrest. One thing that did make me go baroo? was
“Kowaclczik said Torres complied but after a few minutes noticed that the gun was a fake”
Common sense tells me that somebody being detained should be in a position where they can’t jump up and take you by surprise, and probably where they can’t directly see you to plan for how to incapacitate you and escape (i.e. can’t see your fake gun is fake). Thankfully I have no experience with this and am basing my common-sense on my books, Law & Order, and 24.
Re: This week….9/11
quote JamesH:In fact, do it anywhere you see a man or woman from our Armed Forces. They saved you life even though you may not know it.I couldn’t agree more.
Re: new video
quote mara_jade:VERY NICE! Do you happen to know the name of the song?? I’d love to put that on my mp3 player:D:+1 on the nice vid. That’s “Blow me away” by Breaking Benjamin from the Halo 2 soundtrack. Where’s the nerd smiley when I need it??
Re: Be grateful for KMWW’s high standards
I did three years of TKD back in junior high and I loved it. Sometimes I miss the militant discipline style of TMAs but I’m too much in love with Krav to go back. Although they are lacking in practicality, you can’t knock them for a lack of discipline and focus. Yes, you should learn how to sit/stand straight and shut up with others are talking from your parents, but learning in a group setting is also invaluable. And I think learning by association is very important. Our TKD instructors preached respect for elders, focusing on studies, making an effort to present ourselves well, etc. as being just as important as proper form for our techniques.
After 5 months of KM I could probably work somebody with a couple years of TKD experience, but they’re completely different. One teaches and art, the other teaches how to whoop somebody’s butt if they try to mess with you. I think you can only talk about one being “better” than the other in a specific context.
Re: Letting go of Self-Consciousness
Let this be a lesson to me to be careful what I laugh at. I took my first test this past Saturday at the Sherman Oaks studio (which was a pretty hellish experience). I popped one of those power-bar energy shot gel thingies and was elated that it didn’t completely taste like creamy feet like I expected. While it didn’t mess with my stomach too badly, it happened to play with it enough to give me just enough of that rumbly feeling to think of this thread and start laughing. So a sincere thank you for the happy thoughts while getting worked at the exam. :beer:
Edit: The test was hellish, not the Sherman Oaks studio
Re: These Folks Needed Krav Maga
quote TheCrownsOwn:If one of them was armed, couldn’t it have been far worse? suddenly assaults become deaths….Not automatically. Just drawing on somebody might be enough to scare them away and it saves you the bruises from beating the crap out of them. I didn’t want to get into the merits of one form of self defense vs. another, since IMO these two complement each other nicely. But about the “deaths” part, if you are defending yourself you have to ensure the threat is eliminated with whatever weapons you have. Some of the self-defense stuff I’ve seen so far is capable of fatally injuring somebody, and if I need to take somebody’s life while defending myself, my fiancee, my family, etc. then it will happen whether it’s via a firearm, my hands, a brick, a chair, or whatever.
Re: These Folks Needed Krav Maga
Jeez, that sucks. Can an instructor or somebody with higher level experience answer this for me… Does Krav teach how to use weapons or just to defend against them? For anybody in LA, yes I missed both summer camp and the handgun seminar, so I apologize for my ignorance. I can definitely see the value of knowing both unarmed self defense and knowing how to handle a weapon. I can imagine situations where going hand to hand would be a bad idea, just like there are times when drawing isn’t the best solution.
I’ve been into firearms since before I got into KM so my first thought was “if only one of them was armed,” and since it was gay-bashing the group Pink Pistols comes to mind. I’m not trying to start a martial arts vs. firearms debate, because I can see the value in being well-rounded in various forms of self defense. I’m just wondering what the higher level KM curriculum is like when it comes to weapons.
Re: Letting go of Self-Consciousness
quote Bracius:6) If I have to fart in class….will it be to Krav standards?bow1
I’m pretty self-conscious by nature, but for some reason in Krav I’ve never really cared too much. It might be because I’m so tired the only things I seem to think are “water!!!” and “ok, it’s been 30 seconds!!!!!”
Try relaxing as much as possible before or while doing a drill. It’s natural to tense up before punching/kicking/defenses. It takes a lot of concentration to relax your muscles. If you focus on that, maybe it’ll help distract yourself until it’s not a big deal anymore.
