MacDonald Academy of Martial Arts
Kenpo Karate, Krav Maga, and Fitness for the Boston / Watertown area
The August 2011 syllabus is subject to change. This post will be updated throughout the month.
Questions? Post to the comments!
At the end of the stick defense curriculum in Level 2+, I will be devoting a few classes to some basic offensive stick techniques. I did something similar a while ago, and everyone seemed to really enjoy it. I don’t want to stray too far from the realm of Krav, so I’m looking to keep this rather fundamental and do techniques that directly parallel and compliment those in the Krav Maga curriculum. That said, let me know if there are any specific techniques or scenarios you’d like to play with.
It will be helpful if you’ve been through some of the Krav stick defense curriculum prior to doing this, but it is not required. All students are welcome to these classes.
The dates are:
As a reminder of what we did on our last digression, read this post.
Finally, here’s a video of the late Grandmaster Remy Presas and Master Ken Smith, with whom I trained under Guro George Mazek in my early days of Modern Arnis:
Here’s a very interesting article from one of the hardcore dudes at EliteFTS:
The Case Against “Functional” Training
Kasey Esser’s purpose distills down to this:
There is too much room for interpretation in functional training. It essentially has become a phrase trainers throw on to programs that require movements that look hard or require balance…
Instead of functional training, I think a better phrase would be “optimal strength training.” Just reading those words implies that some movements are better than others when it comes to working multiple joints and muscles through multiple planes of motion. Optimal strength then is not only a high absolute strength but the ability to take that absolute strength and apply it in the areas of coordination, flexibility, mobility, and balance in all three planes of motion. That is a mouthful, but it already is clearer than the multiple definitions for functional training because it can be classified!
What do you think?
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