I don’t know if it’s the best advice but, keep in mind you need people to train with so don’t hurt your training partners.
I know schools that have closed because they treated class like a meat grinder until they ran out of students to hurt.
I agree. Those schools are populated by asshole instructors who abuse students of lesser fighting ability to boost their pathetic egos.
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Agree or disagree?
The diversity of fighting styles in champions tells us that there is more than one way to fight. While some may be more practical than others, most martial arts (except aikido) have elements that are useful in hand-to-hand combat against trained opponents if used correctly. Second, everyone in the pre-UFC era was counting out the grappling martial arts. Grappling is simply just not as sexy as striking. I can’t tell you why exactly, but there’s just something people love about face punching and kicking. As a grappler myself, there is nothing like a good striking war to get the people going. This bias allowed people to overlook grappling until the UFC came along. Guys like Royce Gracie or the myriad wrestlers and BJJ guys after him proved the effectiveness of grappling to everybody.
Therefore, wrestling is king. There are a couple reasons why wrestling stands above the other martial arts in MMA. The primary one is that wrestling allows a fighter to dictate where the fight takes place. Imagine that two fighters are about to square up. One is a superior striker, and the other is a superior BJJ practitioner. Who wins? The better wrestler. Offensive wrestling allows a fighter to take the fight to the ground and defensive wrestling allows him to keep it standing. Fighting is much more complicated than this, but basically if your opponent is a better wrestler than you, then you need to be better on the ground and on your feet to win. This fact, along with the extremely competitive nature of amateur wrestling and the culture of mental and physical toughness that it cultivates, have made wrestling the dominant martial arts base within the UFC.
Agree.
We used to endlessly drill moving, setting up takedowns and standing hand control for exactly the reasons stated. You choose the place, time, technique-everything. It’s your fight/match, not the opponents. Watch how he moves, control the pace, and when you have it-take your shot.
It’s also good for striking too. Learning how to lead someone into a takedown can be used just as well for a punch, and using good vertical movement gets them to open up for a sweet kidney or liver shot.
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At least 8 dead, more injured in shooting at Indianapolis FedEx facility, authorities say
The shooting in Indianapolis comes after a pair of shootings last week – one in South Carolina that left six people dead, including the gunman, former NFL player Phillip Adams – and another at a cabinet-making facility in Texas.
Those incidents followed three high-profile mass shootings last month, beginning with a gunman’s rampage in Georgia that killed eight people at three spas in the Atlanta area on March 16. Less than a week later, a gunman killed 10 people inside a Colorado supermarket. Then, on the last day of March, four people – including a 9-year-old boy – were killed in a targeted shooting inside an office building in Southern California.
Go back three days and reread the advice on how to respond to active shooters. I believe this to be a growing problem based on the intelligence I have received concerning the “current climate” . That is management speak for a fucked up society.
Remember:
BUT you have to train to win and survive. As mass shootings and violence escalates - make the time to get your shit squared away.
Don’t blow this off as idaho being paranoid as usual. Make a plan, even if it is just , “I am going to run like hell”
On at lighter note:
Just for you, brother
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Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784
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Patriot’s Day:
Each year, we remind our readers of the events of April 19th, 1775. Fabled as the “Shot Heard Round The World,” this was the true beginning of the American Revolution, a worldwide conflict which would engulf the super powers of the day in battles as far away as India, and last for another eight years.
Rebellion had already been brewing on the North American continent for a decade. Finally, in the early hours of the day, North American Militiamen fired on British troops, starting a war that would result in the ascendency of the American Eagle over this land we now call the United States.
This battle is also where we draw our concept of the iconic Minute Man from.
Each Patriot’s Day, we honor those men at Concord and consider what it must have been for them to stand there together, in the face of the world’s greatest army and take up arms in the defense of their colony from oppression.
This militia came together on that morning to protect their arms from seizure by an oppressive government. That is a fact.
as the initial volleys of fire were exchanged near daybreak on Lexington Green, colonial volunteers fell back in the face of over 500 occupying British troops. But as the battle moved on to Concord, the tide turned, and the redcoats were routed as more and more colonists joined the fray.
The British troops retreated through Concord where they were reinforced. Despite boasting a strength of 1700 men, they remained no match for the determined colonists who forced them to retreat to the safety of Charlestown in Boston. The militiamen continued their pursuit which transformed into the Siege of Boston.
Today, join me in remembering those American warriors who pledged their lives to give us our hard fought freedoms and this great land.
IMHO, this will never occur again in our country. We have become a nation with no direction, ruled by weak leaders who are only concerned in growing their own partisan power. We are weak, no moral fiber, and intent on destruction. The average American would not pick up a rifle to defend their county, but, they would damn sure pick up a phone to take a selfie with the invading army.
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Thank God not all Americans are average.
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The interesting thing to me is that this is more true the higher up you go in the socioeconomic ladder. Plenty of blue-collar Americans would indeed fight and die for their country, but most of our elites would not. We’ve come so far from the days of the young George Herbert Walker Bush, when the sons of the elite felt duty-bound to serve in the military.
Just look at Vichy France.
Just to tack onto this… literally unfolding as we speak:
One dead and two wounded in a supermarket, suspect on the loose. About 20 minutes from me. Seems like it “only” occurred in a manager’s office and then the shooter just left instead of staying in the store.
Anyhow, always stay alert, even on a quick Tuesday morning grocery trip in the suburbs.
Damn straight, can happen anywhere.
Exactly… I use strength often. All things equal the stronger guy has an advantage
Leave your comfort zone. Get yourself into bad spots and methodically work out of them.
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IMHO, one of the keystones to situation awareness, street survival and martial skills. Quit looking down at your phone and start listening to yourself. You may be surprised what you find out.
From Brandon Webb:
The Importance of Self-talk
If you think this sounds like some airy-fairy “personal growth” workshop talk, think again. Adopting this as one of our core training planks allowed us to turn out a generation of XXXXX on the battlefield. We trained our instructors to teach and reinforce with positive language rather than negative, reminding students what to do and how to do it right rather than cautioning what not to do and castigating them for what they did wrong. And we trained our students in how to talk to themselves to achieve success.
The truth is, whether out loud or silently, consciously or not, we all talk to ourselves constantly. Every one of us has this running commentary going on in our head. Most of us just aren’t aware of it. The first step in training your self-talk is to become aware of that running commentary. Once you do, you will be amazed. I’ve trained myself to hear it. Still, I am constantly stunned by the crap people tell themselves.
Outstanding Success Starts in Your Mind, and So Does Failure
I’m sure you’ve seen this, too. You have friends who talk to themselves by saying, “Oh, I’m just an average golfer,” or “I’m not that good a swimmer,” or “I’m not a people person,” “I don’t really dance,” “I’m not good at math,” “I’m not much of a businessperson,” “I don’t really know how to cook,” and on and on. Maybe you talk to yourself that way. (Most people do.) If you’re having that conversation with yourself, you’re setting the bar too low. You’re limiting yourself from ever becoming anything above average. You’re talking yourself out of the success you want.
I mentioned that I meditate every day. I also rigorously monitor my self-talk. Constantly, I remind myself that I’m going to achieve the outcome I’m shooting for, that I’m totally capable of achieving it, and that it’s already in process. That it’s inevitable. If that sounds like self-hypnosis, well, in a way it is.
We’re all doing it anyway, every day. Why not do it intentionally and aimed in the direction we want? Building your victory and success up, instead of tearing it down?
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Something different this morning. I have never dealt with this attack before, but, Mr. Bauer has your solution. Practice that immediate response, learn to move that head, and, in this situation have a dive buddy with a long pole.
Thought for the day: semper esse,
From Brandon Webb:
In the wake of mass shooting incidents around the world, Of all the advice and perspective I can possibly offer, the single most critical element in safety, prevention, and defense is the combination of skills summed up in the following three words: total situational awareness
The Incident at JFK Airport
One year after that foiled train attack, almost to the day, I landed at JFK after a few weeks in Europe. I had just cleared customs and was waiting for my luggage when I heard a scuffle of people running and half a dozen officers burst into the area shouting, “Shots fired! Active shooter! Everyone run for safety — RUN!”
I immediately took cover behind a concrete pillar (concealment is something that hides you visually but can still be penetrated by gunfire; cover is something that protects you both visually and ballistically) and began assessing the scene. I saw a mother running for her life with a baby in her arms. A man crying because he was separated from his wife and children. Hundreds of people pouring through alarm-wired security doors searching for safety. Nobody had any idea what was happening. No police, TSA agents, or security personnel showed up to tell everyone what to do. Pandemonium. The noise level was insane. It felt as if I were back in Afghanistan or Iraq in the middle of some op — only nobody had been briefed.
Leapfrogging backward, using whatever points of cover presented themselves, I found an open exit. Another wave of panicked people was headed my way. Someone had to take charge, so I shouted, “Follow me!” And out we went, down the stairs, onto the tarmac, and to a fence that separated the airport grounds from a parking lot. Throwing my rain jacket over the top of the razor-wire to create a passable avenue of escape, I helped a few people over. Some officers saw us and were not happy with me. But someone had to have a plan. The place was such total chaos it’s a miracle nobody was trampled to death by the stampeding herds of terrified passengers.
As it turned out, there was no shooter. The whole thing was a case of panic over nothing. Someone put forward the theory that the sound of people cheering on the televised Olympics was somehow mistaken for gunfire. Sounds like a bullshit rumor to me. Like something someone concocted to cover his ass. It is way more likely is that it was an accidental gun discharge. But the cause of the panic isn’t the point.
The point is this: Nobody was prepared. Nobody was situationally aware.
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Thought for the day:
ALL FIGHTS ARE DANGEROUS, BUT THE MOST DANGEROUS IS THE AMBUSH”
“A SUDDEN ASSAULT ATTACKS OUR EMOTIONAL SYSTEM FIRST.”
From personal experience, these two statements are rock solid.
Thought for the day:
" Racism is the witchcraft of the twenty-first century, and cancel culture is the stake at which you are burned".
From The Devil’s Hand by Jack Carr
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On the other end of this rope is a father and son shootout with some of the worse weapon skills I have ever seen.
