Jan
7
2010
Training Log
Back to Basics:
- Stances: horse, stick, cat
- Advancing, retreating, turning, rotating, asserting angles, scanning, transitions
- Strengths, weakness, other characteristics of stances
- Footwork exercises: moving through obstacles with closed eyes, turning obstacles into allies, using tactics to achieve a strategy
- Walking and running uphill and downhill, mechanics, advantages therein, angles, anecdotes on training on cacti-filled shale hills.
Recently Readings/Re-readings:
- On Combat, Grossman, Dave, et. al.
- Meditations on Violence, Miller, Rory
- Sharpening the Warriors Edge: The Psychology & Science of Training, Siddle, Bruce
- The Way of Kata, Kane, Lawrence, et. al.
- A Professional’s Guide to Ending Violence Quickly, MacYoung, Marc
- Games Criminals Play: How You Can Profit by Knowing Them, Allen, Bud and, Bosta, Diana
- Living the Martial Way, Morgan, Forrest