easy-digital-downloads domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/erikphillip/public_html/conflictresearchgroupintl.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121My standard for any combative motion, for a long time, has been the Golden Move: Every single motion should: Injure the threat Protect yourself Improve your position Worsen the threat’s position That’s every single motion. Because it is easier to teach, many martial artists learned to strike (injure the threat) or unbalance (worsen the threat’s … [Read more…]
If you have kids, you know some of the stages. The “no” stage and the “mine” stage. And the why stage. The why stage can be infuriating and there is always a sneaky suspicion that the kid is playing a game, pulling you to the end of your rope: Why is the sky blue? “Because the … [Read more…]
Generally, martial arts are taught very poorly. For the so-called “traditional” Japanese and Okinawan arts, they way they are taught is not traditional at all. For many systems, the first generation of US and European instructors learned just after WWII, from an occupied people who hated them and through shitty translators in large regimented groups. … [Read more…]
“What you lookin’ at?” barks a young man. He’s about your size, about your age. You don’t think you were looking at anything in particular. You also know the smart thing to do is to give a little apology and go back to your beer. But you’re a young man yourself. Before you even realize it, you are … [Read more…]
Long good talk with Erik Kondo last week about improving navigation on CRGI and many other things. Stay tuned on that, there are a couple of ongoing projects I need to write about soon. In the process we were talking about identifying good practices and practitioners, and I was balking. “My idea of good may not be someone else’s. … [Read more…]
You can’t be sure. There is no such thing as a “survival level of proficiency.” The world has a 100% death rate and no matter how skilled, equipped, or physically gifted you are, there is stuff out there that can splat you like a bug on a windshield. That’s just the way it is. The … [Read more…]
Trying to answer an e-mail and it needs a little thinking out loud. It wasn’t a big thing, there was a single sentence about validity, but the concept of validity in self-defense instruction is a big one. Rocky. I’ve seen a lot of things work and a lot of things fail. And thought — a … [Read more…]
Best I can do is give some general advice. This is generic and you can get it from most qualified and knowledgeable instructors. 1) Decide why you want to train and how much you want to invest in time, money and effort. SD is a goal that involves trade-offs. You approach it differently if you … [Read more…]
Just trying to clear up some language here. There are three very different things that tend to get called scenario training. Maybe more, but I can only think of three right now. They have almost nothing in common. They all have some value. They all have some weaknesses and problems. The first I call “situationals.” … [Read more…]
“The thing that strikes me in this whole class is that you think about time very differently than anyone I’ve ever known.”— Student in a class for writers. From memory, not an exact quote. Humans don’t think about what we think about. And even more rarely think about how we think. I was told long … [Read more…]