Reality Based Combatives & Reality based Self Defense issue5

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Issue 5 September 08, 2008

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Houston Premier Rea l i ty Based Mar t ia l A r ts & Combative Fitness & Nutrition Fac i l i t y .

Your monthly guide toCombative Techniques, Tactical Airsoft, MilSim and Combative Fitness & Nutrition.

D.G.C.F.S. Gross Motor Skill Set

Mr.& Mrs. Traylor Owner &Founders of D.G.C.F.S. System.

Inside D.G.C.F.S.Gross motor skills 1Mikes Fitness Corner 2Coming events 4Taken it To the street 5Gross motor skills 6Ready to carry a knife 7

Airsoft products 8N.F.O.C.A. 9Are You In A Sport ArtAnd Don't Know It 10A Warrior's Path 12IKE & the aftermath 13Links to good places 14

We again have some GREAT guest writers in this issue and we are excited that thhave agreed to write for us.

OK, Now D.G.C.F.S. Syllabus is an ever evolving growing adapting combative sciencWhat makes D.G.C.F.S. so different from T.M.A., M.M.A. is that we look at combat noas sport or self perfection but perfection in combatalthough we do not exclude seperfection it is just a by product just as a black belt is, WE are a R.B.M.A. trainingcenter a BLACK BELT for us is a by product. Teaching you to SURIVIE is the GOAL.D.G.C.F.S. starts from the very essences of FEAR & PRIDE, Why? Fear & Pride isyour enemy.1)Fearthat adrenaline dump that gets you when you are scared or startled. You knothat FLINCH, That gross motor movements that the human body naturally reverts to i

a panic induced state. That heart pounding reaction to what is happening or about tohappen.2) Prideis a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or

superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etchave trained with Martial Arts Instructors, Masters, and Combat Instructors that sometimes fall in to that category. IF you think you know it all or IF you do not want to seethe TRUTH, PRIDE before the fall.Those 2 things Ladies and Gentleman can stop you from growing as a person and aMartial Artiest and Combat Instructor.D.G.C.F.S. starts your training with simple gross motor techniques, but what areGross motor skills- well simply they are large-muscle groups like squads, hams,biceps and triceps ect. In fact, they are enhanced by the affects of fear and stress.There fore it makes total sense to rely on gross motor skills when a self-

defense response is needed and can be applied under stressfulcircumstances. The 1st level in the Gross Motor Skill set we teach at D.G.C.F.S. is

the FLINCH Drills, These flinch drills work from our PASS AGGRESSIVE stance. Itcounters punching and tackles and teaches how to handle the ADRENALINE DUMP.Our hands start in the surrender position palms facing out and fingers up. To theuntrained eye it looks like you give and you do not want a problem. This is also goodfor eyewitnesses to help IF you go to court That is anther article In this position yoare giving the assailant visual cues that you are not aggressive, but the whole time yoare ready to open a can of whoop ass which is not resalable Since your hands areup you can protect against any punches that are coming at you or IF they try to tackleyou.

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9. GET AT LEAST 8 HOURS OF SLEEP PER NIGHT!How Sleep Loss Affects Weight Loss1. Hormone function affects the way fat cells respond to the food we eat. Cortisol is a hormone that is commonly released inresponse to physical or emotional stress. When we are deprived of sleep, cortisol is released at an increased level and makeus feel hungry even if we are full. As a result, people who continue to lose sleep on a regular basis will tend to experiencehunger even when they have had an adequate amount of food.2. Sleep loss results in less deep sleep, the kind that restores our energy levels. Losing deep sleep hours decreases growthhormone levels. Growth hormone is a protein that helps regulate the bodys proportions of fat and muscle in adults. With lessgrowth hormone, we reduce the ability to lose fat and grow muscle.3. With a loss of sleep, your body may not be able to metabolize carbohydrates as well, which leads to an increased storageof fats and higher levels of blood sugar. Excess blood sugar can lead to insulin resistance. Insulin resistance means that thebody has trouble disposing of glucose in the liver and other tissues. It is a trigger for serious health problems such as obesitycardiovascular diseases and type II diabetes.4. A lack of sleep goes hand in hand with a lack of energy not a new concept, but perhaps youve grown used to your dailylevels of energy and dont notice that you could gain more. Not only do we accomplish less with less sleep, we also dont burnas many calories. The bodys reaction is to hoard calories as fat, making our weight loss goals more difficult than they need tbe. Sleep is starting to sound pretty important now, isnt it?10. STAY MOTIVATED!Easier said than done right? Here are some helpful hints: Hire a Combative Fitness Coach/Personal Fitness Trainer Like MEFind a friend to work out with Clean out the junk food from your refrigerator and cupboards Write down everything you eat(food journal) Take measurements and weigh every three weeks Find activities you enjoy-playing sports, walking the dog,hiking, surfing, etc. Find a gym with really hot guys/girls LOL no seriously it works! Take photos of yourself to track yourprogress Positive self talk I can do this Meditation (helps calm the mind) Reading Fitness books and Magazines

Coming and visiting my website many times for new articlesHTTP://www.Fit2Fight.comand sign-up for my online personal training GET FIT! STAY FIT!Mr. Mike A. Morales(832) 373-4030

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Coming EventsDate T.B.D. Mr. & Mrs. Traylor will be hold a private seminar for Dinner of the Month Club, Inc. a womens self defenseclass

Date T.B.D.Ray Dionaldo F.C.S. Filipino Combat Systems seminar at D.G.C.F.S facility 12-5pm

Date T.B.D.Mr & Mrs. Traylor, with Instructors and Apprentice Instructors,are going to California to train with PAUL VUNAKand get certified as apprentice Instructors and Mr. Traylor Full C.E.I. Certified.

COMING SOON (Date TBD)Field survival, combat, and tactical training (Weapons and hand to hand). 150 acre woodlandtraining facility. Airsoft exercises and live-fire shooting range training. (survival skills, escape and evasion, ambush/counterambush, field recon and fire tactics, field hand to hand and weapon combat.)

February 28 March 1 09Hock Close Quarter Combatives Seminar.

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By Clint Bodungen

Youve heard the saying, Everyone has a plan until you get hit. It happens everybody. You can have a 10th degree black belt in 10 different arts but if you get intoreal fight on the street or on the battlefield, none of the techniques youve learned seeto look the same or may not work altogether. In fact, a bystander may not even be abto tell you are a martial artist at all because pretty much all technique is out the windowWhat happens to us on the street during a fight is a natural reaction that has beehappening to humans since our first cave fight. In an effort for survival, the human bowill shut down all but the essential functions to survive. What this means is that if yare confronted with a seriously threatening or life threatening situation, your bodyability to do anything but fight back will be diminished. And when I say fight back, I mefight back in the most primitive form; gross motor skills and cave man like flailing. Whyour heart beat reaches a certain level and adrenaline is surging through your body, yostart to get tunnel vision, you experience loss of hearing, and complex motor ski

become nearly impossible. Therefore, so too are complex martial arts movements atechniques. So does this mean that technique training is useless? Can we learn to figeffectively on the street using technique and not resort to a slug fest? Do you remembyour first roller coaster ride? I do and I about lost my stomach. I clinched my teeheld on, and could barely stand it until it was all over. However, what happened afthat? The second ride wasnt so bad. The third was even easier. By the time I hadfew rides under my belt I could barely feel the G-forces anymore. So what happeneMy body adapted. It adapted to these natural human physiologically reactions. Fighpilots not only overcome the same physiological reactions caused by even more intenforces and stresses, they learn to perform highly complex actions. Starting to see wheIm going with this? With proper training, one can learn to adapt to, and over come, tstresses we encounter during a real street fight or life threatening attack. But, the kword is proper training. You can have all the training techniques down perfect for yea

and years but if you will still fall victim to the same crippling human physiologicreactions if you are not training properly. So how do we train to overcome this? Wellgetting hit causes this reaction on the street, you have to get hit in the training studioagain, and again, and again, and again, until your body adapts and gets used to the idand action of getting hit. You may be saying, But we spar all the time. Sparring is ntraining for the street. Sparring is training for points and sport. In order for your bodyadapt, you must simulate a real street fight or attack. You must have an attacker nosparring partner. Does that fighter pilot just perform a limited set of controlled actionsa simulator to be battle ready? No, he also goes all out in life-like battle simulations in the air against opponents simulating the enemy over and over again. Your trainimust be the same. Your attacker must come at you with the force and malicious intethat a real street attacker would instead of pop shotting you, attacking and retreatinand picking shots like a sport fighter. You can, and should, even start off in full pads a

work your way up in intensity and eventually less protection. Do drills that get used to the feeling of taking a hit. Learn

keep your vision while taking a hit and being attacked. Put yourself in stressful training situations. Do drills that force youkeep your concentration while being attacked. Do drills that simulate an ambush. Put yourself in situations that make ynervous. If you become complacent, step it up or change the routine to something that stimulates nervous response aduress. This is known as pain and stress inoculation. This is the type of training that will force your body to adapt to thotypes of stressful environments and perform at a level like never before. Just remember, in order to perform effectively instressful environment or situation, you must train in that environment. If you want to learn to fight in the cage or score poingo spar. If you want to learn to fight effectively in a real life street fight, train like you are in a street fight! Next month I will over these drills in more detail. Until then, train hard and train real!

Mr. Bodungen Co-Founder ofA.R.C.. Instructor in Hand toHand Combat at D.G.C.F.S.

Inside D.G.C.F.S.

Gross motor skills 1Mikes Fitness Corner 2Coming events 4Taken it To the street 5Gross motor skills 6Ready to carry a knife 7

Airsoft products 8N.F.O.C.A. 9

Are You In A Sport ArtAnd Don't Know It 10A Warrior's Path 12IKE & the aftermath 13Links to good places 14

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In the passive aggressive stance not only are you able to protect yourself but attack at the same time. This way you caengage your opponent as he or she attacks you. You can Eye gouge, punch, elbow ect..ect..This is basic level 1 in the gross motor skill set. Failure to Flinchmeaning you some what freeze or miss your attack line.Then you will go to PRIMAL: They are 3 levels in Primal that I teach, COVER/PROTECT and COUNTER STRIKE and thESCAPE. This covers from the stand up position to ground combatives It trains the students' minds as well as bodies to thidea of being "attacked" and works towards minimizing the ill effects of the body under a real life, stress induced attack

physical altercation just like the FLINCH DRILLS. In level 1 of Primal you are put through a combative situation where you aonly allowed to cover and protect yourself. Up against a wall and open area. Standing up and on your back somewhat pineThe Idea is to protect yourself while punches are being thrown at you. Level 2 you try to counter strike when an openingavailable, I.E. punch, elbows, knees or kicks, again you on the wall then open area and on your back. Level 3 we add anthperson for a total of 2 people attacking you plus having to go through levels 1 & 2 and trying to escape. At level 3 we alsintroduce elbow destruction. From there we now go to A.R.C. Action Reaction Continuum. A.R.C. has 3 levels it teaches tstudent how to Engage, Control, Take down, and Terminate the attack. This is also done with several scenarios. This

just a small portion of what we teach in the GROSS MOTOR skill set. I did not go into great detail as it would take up a lotpages. D.G.C.F.S. is an evolutionary system and as such we will never be behind the learning curve. We strive to make suthat D.G.C.F.S. is on the cutting edge of training and equipment so that we can deliver the best up to date techniques, trainiand facility.This is just the basic level in D.G.C.F.S. the way D.G.C.F.S. breaks it down looks like this.

1) Gross Motor skill set 3 level2) Intermediate motor skills 3 levels3) Advance motor skill sets 3 levelsThis is also done in the 4 ranges of combat, KICKING, BOXING, TRAPPING, And GRAPPLINGWeapons are also added in level 3. Weapons are most common in todays society1) body2) Knife3) Stick4) Gunor a variation of those weapons.I hope this small bit of information on what we teach helps you understand who we are and what we do.

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Are You Ready T0 Carry A Knife?Actively carrying a knife for personal protection is a big step for any practitioner. Some of us give it more thought than other

but all of us should give the choice serious consideration. The choice to carry a knife can have many serious implications.As responsible self defense practitioners we must consider the legal, ethical, technical, and mental implications of defensivecarry. Let's take a look at each.

THE TECHNICALFirst off, lets consider the technical implications of knife carry. It is very important that if you carry a knife for self defense, yomust be versed in its use. There was a student at my school who would regularly come in and view the knives for sale.Several times he asked me about carrying one for self defense. My advice to him was not to even consider carrying one unt

he had logged some more training hours. In addition he would have to be prepared for all of the other implications as well.Stories are abundant of people who have drawn a knife in defense only to have it taken from them and used against them. Aself defense practitioner must feel comfortable with the mechanics of knife use and defense. A practitioner should have afirm grasp of basic knife use, as well as weapon retention, before making this decision. Thisparticular student trained for about six months before finally buying his carry knife.

THE LEGAL"Its better to be tried by twelve than lowered by six". This is a common answer in martial arts schools around the countrywhenever a student asks about the legality of a physical technique or its repercussions. Unfortunately cool clichs wont helpprotect a person if they have used their knife in error. It is infinitely important that students be abreast of alllocal, and federallaws as they pertain to self defense. I also recommend that students seek out a course on "Use of Force" which will helppractitioners to understand what level of defensive force is legally appropriate for various criminal assaults. It is very importato be informed in this respect. Remember that in any Self defense situation you will potentially have to survive two assaults;the first on the street and the second in the court room. An additional consideration for instructors is the potential for

vicarious liability, the legal responsibility for what one has taught a student during professional instruction. In short, theprinciple of vicarious liability holds that teaching a student something which is illegal or irresponsible can make the instructorliable for both criminal and civil remedies, and vicarious liability can follow an instructor for an unlimited time. Teach a studento do something illegal, and you may find yourself in court with him twenty years down the road answering to a jury.

THE MENTALUsing a knife in defense or combat is serious business. The use of a knife in combat is a highly violent situation. Most peoplehave an aversion to violence. Some of us are more adept at violence than others. For those who have grown up in roughneighborhoods, worked high risk jobs or seen war, violence may be viewed as a necessary evil for survival. Others who aremore removed from violence may tend to shy away from it. When considering carrying a knife for self defense one mustconsider the level of violence they are willing to embrace. Some people will never be able to mentally run someone throughwith a knife. I have a student who has trained knife fighting for close to a year. He is competent in the basics and could nodoubt use a knife with success in a self defense situation. This particular student however will not carry a knife. He is honestwith himself. He knows that he is unwilling to cut or stab someone else even in defense. He wisely does not carry because

such a block would only lead to hesitation, which would put the criminal assailant in a position of advantage. Violence also hserious mental repercussions. Unless you are a sociopath, maiming or killing another individual is likely to rest heavily on yopsyche. It is not uncommon for people who have survived or partaken in violent situations to suffer from a number ofpsychological after effects. Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and Anxiety are just a few of the problemswhich can manifest. All of this should be taken into account.

THE ETHICALAs we stated above the knife is an tool of violence. A Blade is by design a killing tool, a lethal force option. It should not bethought of in any other way. We as responsible citizens must make the ethical decision to carry a blade. We must know upfront when we carry a knife that if it comes into play it may be used to kill. Killing, even in self defense, is truly an ethicaldilemma .Killing is often in direct opposition to many ethical belief systems both religious and secular.

CONCLUSIONAll in all it is extremely important that anyone who plans on carrying a knife for self defense consider all that we havementioned today. The decision to carry a knife should never be an impulsive one, but one made with carefully consideration

after much preparation. Only by doing so can the self defense practitioner truly add an effective tool to their arsenal.About the author:

Mr. Vargasis a recognized subject matter expert on Edged weapons and EdgedWeapon Defense. A certified instructor of historical Apache Knife Combat,Law Enforcement and Military Knife Survival Systems.

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NATIONAL FEDERATION OF COMBATIVE ARTS (N.F.O.C.A.)

The NATIONAL FEDERATION OF COMBATIVE ARTS (N.F.O.C.A.) is a nonpolitical, Reality Based Combative Martial Arts,Military Close Combat, Personal Safety, Defensive Tactics and Self -Defense, education and verification of individuals,organizations established to support all combat oriented martial artists or Combat qualified Instructors. TheN.F.O.C.A.is anorganization comprised Of Instructors, Students, and Supporters of real world Reality Based Martial Arts and Military CloseCombat, self protection skills. The N.F.O.C.A. draws its membership from civilian, martial arts and self defense practitionersLaw Enforcement and Military personnel. The N.F.O.C.A is one of the premiere Combative, Reality Based Martial ArtsFederation in the world, with members across the US and abroad. N.F.O.C.A. mission is to help individuals and organizatiand founders of systems to get additional training, certification in Reality Based Combative Martial Arts, Military CloseCombat, Personal Safety, Defensive Tactics and Self Defense. We are here to encourage growth of Reality Based MartialArts, Military Close Combat, Personal Safety, Defensive Tactics and Self Defense. We are a very rare BREED ofCOMBAT QUALIFIED INSTRUCTORS and as such we must make sure that we have checks and balances. Our Goal is to

lead the way in the pursuit of excellence in Military Close Combat and Reality Based Martial Arts. Our membership follows thevolution of combat, a path that carries with it a great responsibility to ensure victory in battle. As a group of close combatleaders, N.F.O.C.A. foster a united and combined effort to ensure only the best of military close combat and reality based

martial arts instructors lead the way.The Prerequisite of a N.F.O.C.A. Instructor All military close combat instructors and reality based martial arts instructorsshould have a resume that includes verification of their attending and completing exponent and instructor courses. Dependinon country, service, and unit, proof of qualification, rank, and status will vary, but there will always be a paper trail and arecord of service in relation to instructor of reality based martial arts and/or close combat qualifications and service. Martialarts, combat sports or general sports qualifications records and achievements are not relevant considerations but they may considered. The position and role of a N.F.O.C.A. is to be confident and qualified in the reality based martial arts science ofclose combat. This just a small bit of information on the GREAT federation. If you wish to be apart visit.

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Are You In A Sport Art And Don't Know It?by Paul Green

It has come to my attention recently looking through the internet and doing research as I normally do that we have a bigproblem in our field today. It's not so much a new problem as it is a problem that has gotten progressively worse over time ais now at an all time high. I feel that we have too many people trying to put around peg in a square hole. The problem I amspeaking of is people trying to pass off MMA training alone as self defense, defensive tactics, or even combatives. Before I

get started I want you to understand that I'm not saying that MMA is bad or doesn't work on the street. The people that do thstuff are very talented and very tough. I trained in it for 3 years myself. So it's not that it's bad it's just that it's different. MMAand street fighting have alot in common for sure. Alot of the techniques are the same and we can learn alot from each other,but it's the differences that define what they are and which one is appropriate for what your trying to accomplish. So here arefew breakdowns

1. The Myth of the DuelThis one is huge! This may be the single biggest problem I see in martial arts training everywhere. You see it in every dojoTwo guys walk to the center and bow then have some kind of sparring session under controlled conditions. The problem is

that it is highly unrealistic and fights don't really happen that way. In the street it goes far beyond physical. Their were probaba hundred things that led to that first blow being thrown and none of them are being covered by this training. Real fights cou

happen anywhere at any time with no warning. You could be arguing with someone and they just swing no matter if yourready or not. You don't get to watch film of their other attacks before yours happens and get to build a strategy. You don't g

to know that the area is gonna be well lit and that you can always see the guy. You don't get coaches that you've paidthousands of dollars to yell advice. You don't get a guarantee that his friends won't jump in. You don't get a guarantee that h

doesn't have a knife or a gun. You don't get sponsors to pay for your training so you can use 3 to 6 months to train for theattack and be in the best shape of your life, and maybe biggest of all you don't get rules so if your dying you can just tap anmake it all go away. Having this awareness changes the way you think about situations because it has to and it should affecyour training. In our field it's important to have training for interview positions, surprise attacks, attacks from a sitting positionand other odd positions you could be attacked from. Sure I've been to parties where two guys decided to step outside and g

at it over something. So yes you need training for that too but you need training for alot more as well.

2. GroundfightingOh good god! I see the stuff that's out there and I just cringe. I'll bypass the technical flaws I see and just talk about thesituation itself. I think everyone should know some ground fighting and some grappling it's very important for your arsenal Imyself have a 5th dan in Japanese jujitsu. In my years I've also gotten to train with Royce Gracie, Renzo Gracie, and Helio

Soneca among others. I was even a heavyweight champion for the state of alabama in 1999 in submissiongrappling(btw...Roll Tide!). I don't say this to brag I just want the reader to know I'm not speaking from a position of ignorancThere's alot of good things to learn in ground fighting. I teach a sweet de la riva sweep for if you get knocked down and theguy is standing. However there's alot of bad things out there too that may be great for the octagon but bad for the street. Yesit's true that roughly 80 percent of all fights go to the ground, but they don't lay there 30 minutes looking for an armbar. If youfind yourself on your back during a streetfight get up as quick as possible. Since we are talking about statistics it should benoted that 40 percent of all fights involve multiple attackers and 50 percent of that has weapons. This also applies to the guythat think it's a good idea to shoot in on a guy and do some good old ground and pound once they get him on the ground forawhile. So if your on top or bottom regardless you need to realize that there's probably at least a 20 percent chance you'll bekilled if you stay there for any prolonged amount of time whatsoever and at least a 40 percent shot you'll be maimed in someway. Plus if the police get there and find out you held someone on their back defenseless while you beat the crap out of themthere's probably a 100 percent chance your going to jail. The reason being is that it isn't a sport, it's different. If you findyourself on the ground top or bottom do what you gotta do to get up. If it's grabbing nuts, ripping ears, poking eyes, so be it

and if you spend a couple nights in the county jail I bet it'll still be better than being maimed or dying. Sport ground techniquecould get you killed or seriously hurt I can't stress that enough. I'm not gonna name names but I will tell this to illustrate mypoint. A couple years ago I was having dinner with a couple big name BJJ guys(no they aren't the ones I mentioned above).One of them was talking about how they don't feel comfortable in their own self defense aspects. He told this story about howhe and another guy went into a bar in brazil and got into an argument with two drag queens. These two queens startedthrowing bottles and beat the living hell outta them. I was really shocked since both these guys were world champions. Butthey got beat up by two guys in a dress. Sports are sports and the street is the street. This isn't saying all ground fighters anwrestlers aren't tough street fighters I wouldn't want to run into Randy Couture or BJ Penn in a dark alley any time soon.


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3. The FalloutIn the cage if you beat a guy the worst thing is maybe you give them a rematch so you go back and train and have at it againit's nothing really personal. In the street everything is personal so the intensity level is higher. The worst things about fightingI've seen never actually happened during the fight they happened afterward. It's the fallout that ultimately makes it worth whto just avoid the thing all together. To illustrate this point I'll tell you another unfortunately true story from my own life. Yearsago I was in a bar with some friends a little after 2 am shooting a game of pool after I'd just got done with a security job I wasworking for someone. The place wasn't really full yet the other bars didn't close til 2 am so people were still kinda on theirway. These two guys in the middle of the bar got into it over something and one guy punched the other one and knocked himto the ground. Their bouncers grabbed him and through him out. The other guy picked himself up off the floor and went backto the bar drinking.... huge mistake. a few hours went by and the place got packed and we were sitting up at the bar. I noticebehind me that guy guy had been thrown out earlier had just got let back in. I thought that was kinda messed up that he waseven allowed back in but figured there must be a reason for it maybe they called each other on cell phones afterward andworked it out, who knows. So anyway, the guy that got knocked down walks over to him behind us. My friend saw the 38 lonnose but I never did I only heard the shot which was deafening right behind my head. The next thing I know all hell has brokeloose and the guy's ear is laying between one of my friends and myself and I remember holding my ears stumbling trying notto step on it. Fights were breaking out everywhere and chairs were flying out the door. The guy is bleeding bad from the sideof his head and runs outside where the other guy goes after him with the gun. The bartender pulls a pistol and jumps the barand one of my friends grabs him but he doesn't get the gun. The bartender points the gun at my friends head and startscursing. I ended up stepping between the gun and my friend to try to diffuse the homicide that was about to take place. Thangod the bartender didn't want to pull that trigger anymore than we wanted to get shot. He runs outside and pistol whips a guyand I end up having to put two of my friends on the ground to keep them from running out into the line of fire because they

panicked. It was a huge mess that never had to happen there. These people would have never been put in danger if the guywho had been knocked down earlier had just left right afterwards. The sad thing is though that when it's that personal itprobably wouldn't have been over for him anyway it just would have taken place somewhere else on another day. Cops,Security, Bodyguards, and civilians with a death wish have to deal with this all the time, but not in the octagon. Awareness ishuge and can never be overstated and there's a lot to be said for good old fashioned common sense as well. In the field ofdefensive tactics, combatives, or other types of personal protection training we have to find answers for these problems andsport fighters don't, it's a completely different thing and really needs to be recognized as such. I wish it was just aboutwhuppin' some butt but it isn't. In conclusion street violence happens quick and without warning. In America it's getting muchworse than it used to be so the training has to stay above the curve. The violence on our streets doesn't look like someonetapping or holding a trophy it looks more like this: I personally love to watch MMA on PPV and if you do that stuff I think it'sgreat but please recognize that it's a sport because people that may be your students don't know any different they think it's the same. If you want to be a cage fighter then that's awesome please do so because it's alot of fun but please don't tellpeople your teaching street fighting when you aren't. I thank everyone for reading this I hope everyone understand that this

was not written to offend or pass judgment but to inform I actually think cage fighting can be a good part of training becausewith it you'll find out quickly what works and what doesn't so it'll be harder to fool you with the weird mysticism stuff somepeople pass off as martial arts these days it's just that there needs to be more training than just whuppin ass.

Paul Green is the chief instructor for Stonewall Tactical Inc, and Shinkara Warrior Combatives.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul Green has been involved in martial arts since the age of 4. He holds several black belts and instructor certifications. Hwas the 1999 Alabama Grappling Circuit Heavyweight Champion before leaving sport arts He has also trained at Tom BrowJr's Tracker School in Wilderness Survival. Mr. Green is also the founder of the Stonewall Tactical System. This system hrecently been tested in the field by security professionals, with great results; specifically, in the areas of disarming, extractipeople from violent groups, and crowd control. The unarmed combatives of this art draw from street modified versions Muay Thai, Catch wrestling, Western Boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, JKD Concepts as well as WWII.

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Warrior's pathSometimes I wonder why people are put in our paths be it by our own will or fate. It is in these times that you must pay closeattention to the lesson's being taught, not only what is being told, but looking outside the box or better put, hovering out andabove the box! In that lie's the truth of the situation, looking beyond what is and isn't shown. Like a good magician he show'syou what you should see but never what you HAVE to see. This is were true insight begins and the doors open in way's notsensed before, you begin to appreciate the finer thing's in life, searching for meaning in the soul. The people that are or havepassed in your life take a big toll on the mind and heart when thought's of what one's own life is and has been or what greatething's are to come. The lessons or words taken from those people form what is your own "make up". We are all the samepeople no matter the color, but what makes us unique is the life we lead and the gift we can share openly with others. Take

into consideration that there is mindless babble out there, but when you truly sit down and think of the past and the presentthe thought's formed in your own mind, it is a movie only written for you by you with the influence of the information that hasbeen logged into our "Memory Banks". These thing's make up fighter's and what they perceive to be "there own warrior spiriSo when you think that you have learned all there is to learn, empty your cup cause you don't know anything. Remember themore you know the less you remember. Ha Oh and age takes it's toll and you must learn to adapt to the ever current situatioof age. Hope it make's sense, sometimes chit just needs to get out.

Professor Eric Bentzen Founder of

DARK GIFT CONCEPTS

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Hurricane IKEIke hit the Houston & Galveston with such devastating Force that 3 weeks plus a lot folks still do not have POWER!

Here is a picture of a part of Galveston. We my wife & I are SOGREATFUL that none of our student were harmed during the storand its after math. We took some damage both at our home andstudio but we are blessed it could have been much worse. During

this trying times I am so glad that most people kept their heads anstay clam but We did hear of fights and weapons being pulled BUfor the most part all is ok. During the last week we have had anincrease of people inquiring about our class, I think people got areality check, Left in the DARK with only themselves to protect thefamily and belongings. Police had their hands full as the city wasthrown in to DARKNESS. We all were ready for IKE or so wethought!! No power or water SURIVILE skills became mostessential.

Most of us left the city cause of lack of power, as we drove out I saw just how BAD the damage really was, I was taken backtrying to get information was a task. I had to go to the Rio Grand valley to get information on what was going on in HOUSTO

and Galveston. So far only 35 people are confirmed deaddue to Ike, 35 to many in my opinion as I am sure it couldhave been prevented, But That number is low as I am sosure that it could have been much much worse!! We all NOhave to tie our BOOTS and get to work and help all thosethat need it. We must over come this devastation and showthat Texas can take it and keep going. Show the NATIONwhat Houston is made of. If any one needs help please F

FREE to contact D.G.C.F.S. our student and the Traylorfamily will help where we can!!! Lets all pull together forhealthy recover So we can face economical uncertainty. Wmust stand firm in our belief and pull together as a nation nas REPUBLICAN or DEMOCRAT but as a NATION of smapatriotic Americans. The future is in our hands and only wecan change it.

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