That’d be cool. I’m looking at mid June, early July for the opening. I’ll let you know. We’re mostly gonna focus on MT, JKD, Judo, and GJJ but I want to expose people to as much as possible.
[quote]mmllcc wrote:
I was just calling her out on a dumbass comment in her video…see my post to her response. Sounds like you need a tissue. Stop crying already![/quote]
hahaha.
god would i love to see you try to offer bigboss a tissue in person.
[quote]mmllcc wrote:
O.k. tough girl…I never said one shouldn’t fight back or that you could not increase your chances of winning in a confrontation. Read what I wrote, not what you wanted to read. At about 2:28 you have some delusional girl that says, “you see those girls in there and they obviously…beat the crap out of any guys…” So someone is teaching a false sense of confidence here.
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So did she not fucking address that girl saying that in the previous post, or do you just get a hardon from giving shit to a woman that’s been on here for quite a while, put up with a ton of sexist bullshit (including some from me) and proved all of us wrong?
She does not teach ANY false sense of security- I’ve talked with Parker numerous times, and the woman clearly understands what to do, and what not to do, when confronting a man. I believe she would teach the same.
So stop talking out your ass about bullshit that you don’t know anything about.
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As to your anecdotal story – sure most schoolgirls can beat up an overweight 85 year old…so don’t get to boasty here.[/quote]
And a 110-lb. woman could kill you with a pair of scissors and your back turned. Once again- clearly you don’t know fuck about what she’s doing there or what she’s teaching, so go circle jerk somewhere else.
[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
mmllcc wrote:
I was just calling her out on a dumbass comment in her video…see my post to her response. Sounds like you need a tissue. Stop crying already!
hahaha.
god would i love to see you try to offer bigboss a tissue in person.
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x2
In real life, I doubt many of us would fuck with him, even me with my big mouth.
A gigantic black guy who practices Muay Thai and is a CO… no thanks.
[quote]admbaum wrote:
Miss Parker wrote:
Admbaum, I had no idea you were in Waco. You have my sympathies. Seriously.
thank you very much, this place is awful but I’m trying to make the best of it. Might have to open my own gym to do it though. But that’s OK, I want out of computers and start working for myself. Geek life, sitting behind a computer all day, is terrible on your cardio and countless other things.
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If you ever want to drop in at our gym in Killeen/Harker Heights,let me know…you’re more than welcome. And seriously,keep us posted about your school ideas…we need more reputable(and stable) schools in Waco/Temple/Killeen area.
Miss.P
nice work.
I really enjoyed this, awesome work.
OK, just watched the video and that blonde is cute!
Serious question Ms P, how much time do you spend talking with your classes about how to avoid dangerous situations in the first place? And when do you start to introduce these concepts?
I know there is always a counterbalance in martial arts training between attracting students and keeping them interested against, what is best to really improve someone.
In BJJ and Muay Thai I always have the issue of getting the balance right between keeping people seeing new cool stuff so that they are having fun and drilling the basics over and over so that they are good. This is something that frustrates me but I understand it. How do you deal with this?
If I wanted to get someone striking really well, I would spend the first six months working on footwork and defence. They would not even throw a punch during this time. Problem is that within 2 weeks I would have no students.
As one woman said, women are taught to be “nice” all the time. Well, I happen to know a few psychos who would want to prove how big their balls were (figuratively, of course) and try this shit out on a dude. The guy would either back down or kill the chick. I hope they are taught self discipline and that their bodies are a weapon not to be used on a whim, but in real dangerous situations.
Those kicks looked pretty nasty.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
mmllcc wrote:
O.k. tough girl…I never said one shouldn’t fight back or that you could not increase your chances of winning in a confrontation. Read what I wrote, not what you wanted to read. At about 2:28 you have some delusional girl that says, “you see those girls in there and they obviously…beat the crap out of any guys…” So someone is teaching a false sense of confidence here.
So did she not fucking address that girl saying that in the previous post, or do you just get a hardon from giving shit to a woman that’s been on here for quite a while, put up with a ton of sexist bullshit (including some from me) and proved all of us wrong?
She does not teach ANY false sense of security- I’ve talked with Parker numerous times, and the woman clearly understands what to do, and what not to do, when confronting a man. I believe she would teach the same.
So stop talking out your ass about bullshit that you don’t know anything about.
As to your anecdotal story – sure most schoolgirls can beat up an overweight 85 year old…so don’t get to boasty here.
And a 110-lb. woman could kill you with a pair of scissors and your back turned. Once again- clearly you don’t know fuck about what she’s doing there or what she’s teaching, so go circle jerk somewhere else.
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Again, I tissue to you.
Besides that you do the Irish justice by being a loudmouth dick.
fun but useless… if you are a small woman you can’t do much (keyword here, ‘not much’ does not equal ‘nothing’). Knees in the groin area can be misplaced very easily, it’s just that a lot of people associate a knee with pain in the crotch due to cultural reasons… A kick in the crotch is a very effective weapon for a woman when defense is needed against a male opponent because you do not need to employ a lot of force behind it.
All the other things, mainly the elbows/punches displayed in the video… well… just no. Chokes and perhaps some locks/bars might also work but meh.
Best thing to do is focus on endurance/speed and some techniques that allow you to stun/flinch the opponent and then just run.
[quote]mmllcc wrote:
Again, I tissue to you.
Besides that you do the Irish justice by being a loudmouth dick.[/quote]
Go back to your crossfit gym nancy. Thanks.
[quote]mmllcc wrote:
FightinIrish26 wrote:
mmllcc wrote:
O.k. tough girl…I never said one shouldn’t fight back or that you could not increase your chances of winning in a confrontation. Read what I wrote, not what you wanted to read. At about 2:28 you have some delusional girl that says, “you see those girls in there and they obviously…beat the crap out of any guys…” So someone is teaching a false sense of confidence here.
So did she not fucking address that girl saying that in the previous post, or do you just get a hardon from giving shit to a woman that’s been on here for quite a while, put up with a ton of sexist bullshit (including some from me) and proved all of us wrong?
She does not teach ANY false sense of security- I’ve talked with Parker numerous times, and the woman clearly understands what to do, and what not to do, when confronting a man. I believe she would teach the same.
So stop talking out your ass about bullshit that you don’t know anything about.
As to your anecdotal story – sure most schoolgirls can beat up an overweight 85 year old…so don’t get to boasty here.
And a 110-lb. woman could kill you with a pair of scissors and your back turned. Once again- clearly you don’t know fuck about what she’s doing there or what she’s teaching, so go circle jerk somewhere else.
Again, I tissue to you.
Besides that you do the Irish justice by being a loudmouth dick.[/quote]
You need to change your Kotex instead of worrying about giving out tissue.
Looks like a good class keep up the good work!
[quote]Cockney Blue wrote:
OK, just watched the video and that blonde is cute!
Serious question Ms P, how much time do you spend talking with your classes about how to avoid dangerous situations in the first place? And when do you start to introduce these concepts?
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You know, now that you’re asking that, I realize we don’t talk about simply staying out of those situations very often. We tend to talk quite a bit about recognizing and dealing with bad situations, but often we’ll only say things in passing like, “If you’d been paying attention, you wouldn’t be dealing with this situation in the first place, but now that you are…” I address it more in my women-only & kids classes, but I’ve been thinking lately I need to run all my classes this way.
My women-only class has become a little test-run place for me. When something works well, I use it in my co-ed classes. We don’t have a certain time to address awareness, instructors at my school are given a huge amount of leeway in how we run our classes. As long as we’re teaching proper principles & following the basic format (1 - exhausting warmup, 2 - technique/padwork with drills, 3 - self defense) we can do what we want.
Agreed, this is always a struggle. I seek out real-life situations either by talking to cops, reading newspaper accounts of attacks & books like Meditations on Violence & Gift of Fear, then design a drill around it. The skills that will be used in the drill are what I teach in class. For instance, I read that when someone’s adrenaline spikes & their fine motor skills go to hell they often can’t dial 911. If they can punch the numbers at all they’ll often forget to hit “send” (cell phone) or hit 9 first (office building) or they’ll hit 411 over & over (information #). So the drill is to have them turn off their cell phones & place them on one end of the room. I also have 2 dead cell phones over there with buttons in case they have iPhones that can’t be dialed when turned off. Students begin on the opposite side of the room from the phones. One person has a large kickshield held against their body & stands right up on the “defender”, nose to nose. On my cue the defenders give the “attackers” a hard shove & start fighting their way across the room to the phones using punches, palmheels, elbows, & knees. The whole time the padholder is giving strong resistance & screaming in their face to crank up their adrenaline. Once they finally reach the phone they grab it & dial 911-send while their pad holder is screaming various numbers at them to try to throw them off - kind of like when someone is counting out change & you start giggling & saying wrong numbers to throw them off. Same concept. So, knowing that’s the drill, we work punches, palmheels, elbows & knees in class that day. Then I talk about the effect adrenaline has on the body & mind, & the concept of moving to harder techniques when what you’re doing isn’t cutting it. Then we do the drill.
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If I wanted to get someone striking really well, I would spend the first six months working on footwork and defence. They would not even throw a punch during this time. Problem is that within 2 weeks I would have no students.[/quote]
Unfortunately, we don’t focus nearly enough on footwork in level 1 (my opinion). Like, at all.
It’s all about striking & choke defense.
“Protecting the family jewels” is pretty much the first thing you learn in martial arts as a guy, so I just hope they teach these women some other techniques besides a kick/knee to the groin.
And by the way, there are several small, petite women in my martial arts class who can seriously fuck people up, so if you’re one of those guys whose masculine identity is seriously threatened by a woman kicking ass, I suggest you never take martial arts.
[quote]UB07 wrote:
As one woman said, women are taught to be “nice” all the time. Well, I happen to know a few psychos who would want to prove how big their balls were (figuratively, of course) and try this shit out on a dude. The guy would either back down or kill the chick. I hope they are taught self discipline and that their bodies are a weapon not to be used on a whim, but in real dangerous situations.
Those kicks looked pretty nasty.[/quote]
True! Because we’re always taught to be nice no matter what, some women seem to think the only way out to not be a pushover is to be a raging bitch. If a woman (or a man!) tries to use this stuff to provoke people prove how big their balls are, they deserve to get their ass beat in response.
I do believe that beginner students tend to think they’re little badasses once they get a few skills under their belt. It seems to be a natural progression, though we actively preach against that attitude & weed out those who consistently display it. They seem to calm down once they start working with people who are more skilled or capable of going harder.
[quote]Aegis67 wrote:
fun but useless… if you are a small woman you can’t do much (keyword here, ‘not much’ does not equal ‘nothing’). Knees in the groin area can be misplaced very easily, it’s just that a lot of people associate a knee with pain in the crotch due to cultural reasons… A kick in the crotch is a very effective weapon for a woman when defense is needed against a male opponent because you do not need to employ a lot of force behind it.
All the other things, mainly the elbows/punches displayed in the video… well… just no. Chokes and perhaps some locks/bars might also work but meh.
Best thing to do is focus on endurance/speed and some techniques that allow you to stun/flinch the opponent and then just run.[/quote]
Really? I gotta tell you, I’ve worked locks/bars for quite some time & there is just no way I could pull that stuff off against a man who was attacking me for real. Once my lizard brain kicks in all that fancy stuff just goes out the window. Besides that, if I get him in a lock or a bar, I’m still attached to him & therefore can’t run. A hard elbow to the face or a punch to the throat is a much more realistic option for me, & a flurry of those is much more likely to stun my attacker for a second so I can run away.
And while the kicks in the video where groin kicks, the knees are designed to hit anywhere center mass, groin, solar plexus, whatever. When done properly they’re powerful enough not to need to be totally precise.
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Miss.P
nice work.
I really enjoyed this, awesome work.[/quote]
Thanks! 
[quote]mmllcc wrote:
Interesting except that none of this would work against even an average man that wants to create mayhem on a woman…not to say women shouldn’t learn to fight. But women shouldn’t be under the delusion that they can kick a man’s ass…it won’t work out too well for them.
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Dude, it was many of those women’s FIRST CLASS EVER and they were interviewing them right afterwards (at least that was my impression). It’s pretty common for people to get a “high” like Mrs. P said, and feel a rush of confidence and self efficacy. This is especially true if they come into the class very timid and unsure of themselves and leave having broken down their previous self imposed limitations and gotten back in touch with their primal ability to defend themselves.
Like one of the girls said, women in our society usually are conditioned to be passive, soft, nonviolent, oftentimes see themselves as victims. This class seemed to be mostly geared towards:
- getting women into the type of physical shape needed to be able to defend oneself
- reversing the above mentioned conditioning and getting women to no longer see themselves as helpless victims and believe in their ability to be able to survive a violent attack (confidence which will also likely pour over into other parts of their lives).
It wasn’t an in depth summary of the whole curriculum taught in Krav. I’m sure that they do more “live resistance” type drills as they progress.
I highly doubt that Mrs. P was encouraging these women go to out and pick fights with guys. Not only would that be stupid on her part, but it’s not at all in line with what arts like Krav are designed for. This stuff is for self defense only, not going around and picking fights with people (men or women).
And like Big_Boss said, would your rather them not believe in their ability to defend themselves? How likely do you think they’ll be to successfully defend themselves if they don’t even believe that they can?
sweeet work Miss Parker!! that blonde was a cutie:D
I agree if an attacker goes after a presumably weak and defenseless girl, to get hit with some vicious flurries. I’m sure it’s enough to stun the person, so the person can get away.