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