MacDonald Academy of Martial Arts
Kenpo Karate, Krav Maga, and Fitness for the Boston / Watertown area
Alexey Gorshkov (our champion figure skater look-alike) is leaving Massachusetts for employment and temperate climes in California.
Alexey has been training at the Academy for over two years and is one of our more experienced students. He will be missed as a training partner and as a source of unending questions! He kept us instructors on our toes by always requiring a reason and an explanation for every part of the curriculum.
Best of luck, Alexey! We hope to see you back some day!
The September 2010 syllabus is subject to change. This post will be updated throughout the month.
Questions? Post to the comments!
There will be no classes on the following dates:
These closings are also noted on the Class Schedule.
The normal schedule will resume Tuesday, 09.07.10.
Hick’s Law is often either referenced directly or alluded to by many “reality-based” self-defense practitioners. It is one of the core principles at the foundation of Krav Maga and one of the main reasons why Krav is such an effective system. Hick’s Law, or the Hick–Hyman Law, “describes the time it takes for a person to make a decision as a result of the possible choices he or she has”.
If we simplify the formula at right, it looks more like this:
ReactionTime = MovementTime + ProcessingSpeed • log2(n)
ProcessingSpeed • log2(n) is the time taken to come to a decision and n is the number of choices
(If you’re interested in the math behind this, check out the Wikipedia page.)
Read more (There’s less math, I promise) »
One of the blogs I follow, Mark Sisson’s Mark’s Daily Apple, has been posting exercise progression videos in conjunction with the roll-out of a new fitness program called Primal Blueprint Fitness. This ties perfectly (and coincidentally) into the strength and conditioning post from two weeks ago, so I’ve included the videos and the links to the how-to articles below. They show really good progressions for developing what Mark dubs the Five Essential Exercises: the push-up, pull-up, squat, overhead press, and plank. These exercises have obvious functional carryover in day-to-day life and our Krav Maga training.
If you’re curious, Primal Blueprint Fitness is one component of the overall primal lifestyle approach. You can read an overview here. I’ve been a paleo/primal eater for a little over a year now and have been exceedingly happy with the changes. (Don’t worry, those funny shoes in the videos aren’t requisite to the program!)
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