Month: April 2011

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Class Notes – April 19, 2011

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Class was run by Mosi this evening …

First off, thanks Dr. Bob for granting me the opportunity to teach class while he was away.   In attendance, was Bryant, Ryan, and Bryan, Jarrod, David, Asim.  It was a small class, but we had a good one.

First we went over 3 of 9.  However, I had them focus on “intent,” strength, and technique instead of relying on speed and rote memory.  We did that for about 10 minutes to get them in the right frame of mind.  Then we spent the next 10 minutes free flowing w/n 3 of 9 framework.  By now, only 20 minutes in, everyone had a nice little sweat going. ;-)

Next we went through TD #1 (again w/ intent)!  They each took turns feeding and recieving TD#1, getting reaquainted w/ the drill and focusing on intent for 15 minutes.  After that we then again free-flowed, but using moves from 3 of 9 and TD1.  Finally, some of the guys incorporated TD2 into the free flow action.  We did this for the remainder of the class, switching partners every 5 minutes ago.

The point was to get them to see that when you apply force and intent, it no longer looks like choreography.  Instead, people are moving across the floor in various patterns, as each try to apply a technique, and the other tries to figure out what the counter is.  In addition, it helped some guys to see how important their “live” hand was for getting them from one position, to set them up for the next position.  All in all, we had a nice hard class.  Lots of fun for all.

Mosi

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Class Notes – April 12, 2011

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Instructors: David Davis and Lem Tasin

Attendance: Frank Raspa, Tyus Durant, Bryant Nelson, Jarod B, Brian Keller, Asim,

Introduction/definitions

Everyone should have a general concept of the following terms such as shielding, checking, tapping, and situation awareness, as well as how these terms translate into movement that informs your decision-making. What is the difference between shielding, checking, and tapping?

  • Shielding describes the use of the back of the forearms to protect your body. (demo)
  • Checking describes the use and positioning of the live hand or guardian hand to monitor the feeder’s free limb while your main hand is tapping the attack. (demo)
  • Tapping means to deflect the force of the attack away from the body (with in the shoulder distance of your structure). In principle, you should tap with enough force so that you know that the attack is within your peripheral view.
  • Situation awareness describes the mental process that, we train our minds to perform when placed in stressful situations. Situation awareness is the single most important formula in self-awareness because it teaches you how to process patterns such as opportunity, place, and attack strategy. For instance, it is important when in situations to understand when facing confrontational individuals, their intent. For instance if there are individual wearing a particular type of clothing in an odd environment is it because, they are homeless or are they trying to conceal the patterns of a weapon?

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Four men stabbed in Baltimore nightclub

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Four men were stabbed, one fatally, inside the Bourbon Street nightclub in downtown Baltimore last Friday night during a combination of two events: “Ladies’ Night” and “Zombie Strippers and Beer”.

According to the Baltimore Sun, the chaotic scene was made even more gruesome, “by the copious amounts of fake blood that were brought in for the zombie event.”

According to the Investigative Voice, the fatally wounded man was found by a stairwell with multiple stab wounds to his leg and might have died from massive blood loss from a severed femoral artery.

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Class Notes – April 5, 2011

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In attendance: Tyus, Brian, Asim, Ryan, Bryant, Frank, Bob, Tavon, Jon, Nancy and Jarod.

We briefly reviewed the templates we have been working on for the past few weeks, including 2 of 12 smoking knife:

  1. heart to femoral (“C”)
  2. heart to femoral (“C”)
  3. power assist to heart
  4. armpit
  5. perineum
  6. upward diagonal
  7. middle thyroid
  8. downward diagonal
  9. blue worm
  10. power assist to mandible
  11. ocular cavity
  12. base of spine

The remainder of class was spent in free flow, switching partners every 5 minutes or so.

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Edgewater man attacks police officers with sword

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Not an April Fool’s joke …

Michael Beach, age 44, charged a sheriff’s deputy with a sword, when the officer attempted to serve a protective order filed by Beach’s mother. The deputy suffered a rib fracture as he evaded the attack, but was otherwise uninjured.

Beach was eventually arrested after tactical officers used “a chemical agent”, beanbag rounds and, finally, a Taser to subdue him after an 8-hour standoff. Beach was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center with a reportedly self-inflicted wound to his chest.