Month: February 2021

Word of the Month Discipline! Complete the Triforce. Talk about Discipline and how and why its different than a punishment. Discipline comes from a place of caring and wanting our youth to succeed and be better. Punishment is done out of anger and frustration. Our parents, teachers, and coaches only want to see them all succeed and that’s why Discipline is our word of the month….plus some of these kids NNEEEEEEED to hear that shit.

Good Month of February guys. Classes are still going strong. We signed up some more students. The students seem to really be into the content despite struggling with that Omoplata. We got some new shirts in this week and last week. We’re comping everyone one of the new uniform Tee’s so if you haven’t gotten yours yet, see anyone at the front desk and they’ll make a note of which color and size you got.

Combatives is 3/20. Free for you guys. Just let me know if you’re attending because its going to be limited spacing as always and I don’t want to oversell it. 10-4pm again. Tie Clinch scenarios with the same focuses. Access to our weapons. Retention of our weapons. Aquisition of theirs and prevention from their draw. Knife integration. and of course  Scenarios. There will be overlap where we do some of the same things in all the classes. That’s good, that allows us to build a strong skill set and foundation. Moon, Jara, Jesse, if you’re collecting cash from a student that attended last time, its just $60 for them like i promised for this second part (just this once). For every other student its $100…outsider is $250.

Moon is in Training camp starting this week, fighting next month, April, in Atlanta. Let’s give him the bodies, pad holders, and coaching that a pro athlete needs to succeed.

Product of the month is Rash Guards: Buy any Rash guard 10% off, get the shorts or Spats(buyers choice) at 30% off.

Additionally we are starting a Little Thrashers class on M and W. We now have an A group and  B group for those 4-6 year olds.

Beginners:

Head inside Run the Pipe Single Leg

Knee Cut-Could be from Standing HQ or from grounded half guard depending on how one lands

Side Mount Escape

 

Intermediate:

Passing Butterfly Guard

This Saturday 11-12pm will be the monthly drills where we make sequences of all of the techniques we taught this month.

Curriculums up tomorrow. But you’ll be wrapping up closed guard attacks from the bottom. Make any closing adjustments you’d like on these things.

Courage: Let’s tell a story of where we had to dig deep and use courage ourselves, we can ask the students if they ever had scenarios they’d like to share with us where they had to use courage as well.

Saturday: I am running a Combatives class 10am -4pm all of the instructors may attend for FREE if you’d like. I’m offering it to our students for $60. This is a $250 course easily normally. I just feel like doing something nice for us. We will be learning how to do weapon integration with our Martial Arts. This is an all around course, a little bit on the ground ( not much), little on the feet, little on the barrier. We will break out the training knives, the air soft weapons etc. If you have a blue gun that replicates your carry weapon, bring it. If not, bring your carry weapon in, and holster. We will flag(zip tie) the firearms rendering them inoperable. This course will be insightful to those who have minimal training in this regard. It is an intermediate course. Must have some firearms and grappling experience to attend. You don’t have to be an Operator, so don’t think its too advanced for you. you don’t have to be Wyatt Earp to shoot someone 0 feet away from you. But if you don’t know how to load your gun, maybe watch a little and sit this one out.

 

If you are doing it, Please tell me. Don’t just show up. I’m doing 16 total spots ONLY. This will be very eye opening.

Curriculums:

We know what Sub to Sub offenses we’ve been doing these past weeks. Now lets start to incorporate Sub to sub, sub to sweep, and sweep to sub based off of what you’ve been working on in each of the programs

Word of the month is Courage. Tell a story about a courageous person and what they did whether fictitious or real for the mat chats. Every day, every class. different stories if you’re leading the same group.

This Saturday the couples personal protection workshop. mention it after the classes. we have 5/15 potential spots filled.

Curriculums: later tonight or tomorrow. We are sticking with the guard offense though. all month.

 

Beginners: Arm Bar from Guard (offense Defense)

Brief them on what we did last week. In fact have them warm up with the TSU and the scissor sweep. 2x2min drills for each for the kids at least.

Armbar from guard- Do it from cross collar and sleeve grip since thats what we started from last week.

Armbar Defense via stack- Try not to get to this until they can do an arm bar correctly

 

Intermediate: Continue based off of what you taught last week. Create Sequencing of offense defense combinations. I did arm bar to triangle and will continue that through the end of the month moving into omoplata back and forth and so on. If you like you can do Sub >sweep like arm bar to stack to pendulum sweep. thats simple and can maybe be done next week in fundamentals class, but you all know sometimes the same techniques NEED to cross over into the advanced classes.