The September 2011 syllabus is subject to change. This post will be updated throughout the month.
Questions? Post to the comments!
On being mentally prepared
I wrote about a few good books a while ago that focused on self-defense and reaction. Rory Miller, in his book Meditations on Violence, had a good suggestion that I’d like to present to our community. We train physically in self-defense and fighting and aggression, but what about our mental training? One key element in the mental preparation is knowing when. At what point to you decide to engage physically? At what point do you decide that the “Hey man, calm down” isn’t working, or giving someone your keys and wallet isn’t enough?
One thing to do now, when you are in a safe place and can think about it, is to make a list of what scenarios might happen in which you will fight or intervene. Now, I’m not talking about the mugger who just wants your cell phone and wallet and will walk away when he gets those. In those situations, hand over what they want and hope they walk away. But what happens if they don’t just walk away?
Here is my list:
- When I feel my life is being threatened (yes, this is broad and can be very individual and interpreted in several ways)
- When a mugger wants to move me to a different place
- When a loved one is being threatened
- When I see a child is being threatened
Please feel free to add yours in the comments.
The Flying Squirrel Takedown
August 2011 Krav Maga Syllabus
The August 2011 syllabus is subject to change. This post will be updated throughout the month.
Questions? Post to the comments!
Functional by whose definition?
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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