May 2010
2 posts
got my bell rung
I just posted last night about my most recent Krav class. I referred to the class where I got kicked in the head, but now see that I didn’t post about that. I probably wrote some lame tweet about it, and figured that was good enough, since everyone reads my twitter.
Anyway, it had been a coulpe of weeks (Apr 13 - Apr 26) since the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fiasco and I was feeling weak for...
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Who's the mayor of Facepunch Town? (hint:not me!)
Went to Krav for the first time since getting kicked in the head. I’ve been finding some real and valid excuses for avoiding Krav, and thinking a lot about whether I want to pusue it in the summer or just keep it as a winter activity. There are just so many much options for summer evenings, such as biking, running, skateboarding, gardening, mountain biking, home maintenance, scooter rides,...
April 2010
1 post
Triumphant return to Kra…Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu??
After taking a much needed break from the hectic life I led for 3 months while working toward Krav Maga Level 2, I am back to the Krav dinner table for another regular diet of elbows, knees and suicide pushups (the way we do them is you have to go to full push up position, then down to your elbow/forearm (plank position), and then back up to push up position. The trick is that in Krav we...
March 2010
3 posts
Still taking a little break
So the cut in my mouth is about halfway to being a full on canker chain. I also caught a cold, but its nice to know that at least I’m a level 2 now with a cut lip and a cold. So I got that going for me. Which is nice.
Level 1 Test Passed
That test was probably the most physically demanding thing I’ve ever put my body through. Ironman was long (140.6 miles in almost 16 hours), but I was well prepared and was able to set my own pace. Endurance sports are a training/pacing game.
Krav isn’t like that. If you get jumped in a parking garage or end up needing to protect your wife or kid, there isn’t really a...
I'm ready to rock this test. (right?!)
I did pay up, and now have some one on one lessons to help me in my quest for self-defense/close combat awesomeness.
I’m really hoping that my body starts to get used to this training. Cardio-wise, I’m starting to get there. Paul has upped the ante a bit, however, which keeps me from getting complacent. Last Wednesday I went to the Krav Level 2 class, we did an extremely hard warm-up...
Time to decide
I just found out on Thursday that I’m past my due date for my initial 3 month Krav sign up. I thought I had till the 5th of March, but it turns out that’s Ethan that has that, and I’m already over a week past due. So now I have to make a decision.
Am I ready to commit to Krav as a way of life for the next year? Is this something that I want to spend a fair amount of my free time...
February 2010
6 posts
Focus Please
Last night I rekindled my graphic and quite physically demanding relationship with boxing. Now I’m not a great boxer, but working on combinations and avoiding taking a catchermitt to the mouth makes for wicked incentive to get better. That’s some game theory right there.
We also did some sparring (open hand slaps, light puches and kicks to the legs/body), and I punched a guy a few...
Double Feature
Confession time. I sometimes have little flashes of boredom during Krav. When I got like this with triathlon, I just signed up for a longer race. This worked until I did my first Ironman, at which point to move up a distance would require something contrived, like back-to-back iron distance races, and that’s just jacked. The lack of a good step forward from Ironman is a primary reason this...
I almost called this blog «Groinstrike.com» →
“Krav was awesome. Didn’t get punched in the solar plexus, which, as I just...”
Did you get your tickets?
To the gun show? I do. And it’s not a gun show, its a gun defense seminar on Saturday led by John Whitman, the author of this book, and according to Paul, the trainer for Matt Damon on the Bourne movies. I’m totally psyched about it, and hope to learn how to avoid getting shot.
Yesterday’s workout was T O U G H, but I hung in there like an out of shape champ. We did a lot of arms work: straight...
January 2010
3 posts
360° Defense
Today we worked on the defense you would use against a wild haymaker style punch, or an overhand or underhand (or wide side swing) knife attack. The idea with the 360º defense is that by blocking with the outside of your wrist against the inside of your attackers wrist you will not only stop the attack, but you can cause some serious pain, and along with it fear.
You can do this defense a little...
“Surviving a fight is 10% technique and 90% fighting spirit.”
– Paul (I’m probably misquoting him)
Should have called them burnouts.
Now that I have a blog, I wanted to take the opportunity to say that there is nothing warm about this thing we call “warmups.” Imagine walking into a reasonably large room (big enough to run circles around without getting dizzy) run around a few times (again, not getting dizzy), and then having to do 20-25 minutes of hard interval-intensity work including, but not limited to: shadow boxing,...