tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77994660567507853522024-03-15T00:55:04.320-07:00Budo BlogKaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-36602968981809038052023-04-08T12:32:00.000-07:002023-04-08T12:32:41.628-07:00 Trauma Adjacent Aftermath<p> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trauma</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Adjacent Aftermath</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-78407acd-7fff-cc73-d361-67e1aea15286"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hey everybody, I planned on writing “what numbers you should know” for this installment of the blog. However, sometimes the blog has to follow where my head is at the moment. This is one of those blogs.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUcvGt8FI6wQgPM6DyvQZUNL5XV3YmlHF4hH842a6kHDNch-EmA2ZHtneBxiQDVRiRedhUvxLDI9Btvq9RPtGHq7Q9_5czKSEQlZI1DrMqTBDv3PjJl7tDQgnqYcKfBkD-gtmNzwvzFNqBoLLWvbGPy655PhAfK8TQS3gC1Zin-Ct2FV0vPCHf1hRe" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="612" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUcvGt8FI6wQgPM6DyvQZUNL5XV3YmlHF4hH842a6kHDNch-EmA2ZHtneBxiQDVRiRedhUvxLDI9Btvq9RPtGHq7Q9_5czKSEQlZI1DrMqTBDv3PjJl7tDQgnqYcKfBkD-gtmNzwvzFNqBoLLWvbGPy655PhAfK8TQS3gC1Zin-Ct2FV0vPCHf1hRe=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A week or so ago I responded to a medical call. The call came from a young woman having a panic attack. The panic attack was due to a csc (criminal sexual conduct) that occurred the previous night.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She did not want Law Enforcement involved, nor did she want to answer any questions about the incident.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That got me thinking...</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As hard as team <a href="https://500rising.com/">#500 Rising</a> is working, the numbers (crime statistics 80% of women have encountered a violent assault) are still the numbers.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meaning that some woman in your life may be in the shoes this young woman found herself in.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some conversations you have to get right, and there is no second chance</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Honey I’m pregnant - Is it mine?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dad I’m gay - Have you tried not being gay?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do these pants make me look fat? - It’s not the pants!</span></li></ul><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All joking aside, the wrong response can ruin relationships.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7DTisadQRKAReuYD8ZqZATO1XZNGvw1upPg_883F-h1c1xuPQ0RuauvRVYCDqQ1If8yXqVZ7ygybJaXB4K3AS1lGs8f7uW-UMkCyglyzxnmbgrpdBxjVfCRJaOiqhUk3IktfPaqUOdLl-ueFVBCfmaqha32_fxCMEFKJVBVc2PcHzDzPTpq47W9rT" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="828" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7DTisadQRKAReuYD8ZqZATO1XZNGvw1upPg_883F-h1c1xuPQ0RuauvRVYCDqQ1If8yXqVZ7ygybJaXB4K3AS1lGs8f7uW-UMkCyglyzxnmbgrpdBxjVfCRJaOiqhUk3IktfPaqUOdLl-ueFVBCfmaqha32_fxCMEFKJVBVc2PcHzDzPTpq47W9rT=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This isn’t nor should it be the face of women’s self defense</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So how can I help #500 Rising? One way might be as a liaison to other men that also want help.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The numbers are still the numbers. The likelihood of me dealing with the aftermath of a violent assault especially a sexual assault is relatively low. The likelihood of a woman I care about dealing with the aftermath of a violent assault is 80%</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How can I best help the women in my life?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How can we (any of us) help the women we care about if they find themselves in that situation, and they confide in us.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The wrong response can ruin relationships. The wrong response can make a bad situation even worse. The wrong response could scar.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So what are some right responses? What are some best practices for this situation?</span></p><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is no wrong way to survive - if you are alive to tell me the story you did the right thing</span></p></li></ul><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is not your fault</span></p></li></ul><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love you, and nothing that happens to you will change that</span></p></li></ul><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is ok to not be ok</span></p></li></ul><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is ok to be ok</span></p></li></ul><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The static state is a myth, and you will likely transition through multiple stages of “ok”</span></p></li></ul><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you don't want to speak to Law Enforcement now (or ever) that is fine. However, you should probably see a SANE nurse</span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is a SANE nurse ?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner is a registered nurse who completed additional education and training to provide comprehensive health care to survivors of sexual assault. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to offer comprehensive care, the role of the SANE includes evaluating and treating the patient in a holistic way, being mindful of both the acute and long-term consequences of sexual violence victimization. The SANE can gather a culturally and developmentally appropriate medical history and a history of the assault, with an essential understanding of the medical and legal implications of both. Gathering this history lays a foundation to offer the patient suitable options in care, which may include forensic evidence collection, testing and treatment or prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), pregnancy prevention, and immediate and followup services with community-based sexual assault advocacy, and medical and law enforcement partners. The SANE ultimately provides culturally sensitive, developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed, and patient-specific evaluation and treatment. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.ovcttac.gov/saneguide/introduction/what-is-a-sane/</span></p><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is ok to not be ok</span></p></li></ul><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is ok to be ok</span></p></li></ul><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The static state is a myth, and you will likely transition through multiple stages of “ok”</span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along those lines, even if you don’t want to speak to law enforcement now, that too may change. On top of the health aspects of seeing a SANE nurse, SANEs are also prepared to testify in a criminal or civil trial as a fact or expert witness when necessary, and understands the ethical obligations of their testimony and the limitations as well.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1FUPBabm51IR5f5F3yL8XkcNulM0tBT8L5h2AJKRddHuJchW-VfoXLUJhJx1Oits6wwT5xoTiLYaR4vrt1PJGikdEISeyFLtt6TU-01-ijY4FsMA6u_BYj9ydxzg5pd1dU51ctYNZ2ldNpMe7DC_tB2oPMbbnHsT5JGPTS122HHGghi9eix0pzuaG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="894" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1FUPBabm51IR5f5F3yL8XkcNulM0tBT8L5h2AJKRddHuJchW-VfoXLUJhJx1Oits6wwT5xoTiLYaR4vrt1PJGikdEISeyFLtt6TU-01-ijY4FsMA6u_BYj9ydxzg5pd1dU51ctYNZ2ldNpMe7DC_tB2oPMbbnHsT5JGPTS122HHGghi9eix0pzuaG=w400-h220" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ally is a term that gets thrown around so much that it loses meaning. Is Disney an ally when they sell rainbow Mickey Mouse ears…but edit out homosexuals and people of color from their theatrical releases and movie posters in China? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don't want to pander, I don't want to profit. I want to be helpful, useful to people I love in a community I am not a part of.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The likelihood of me dealing with the aftermath of a violent assault is relatively low. The likelihood of a woman I care about dealing with the aftermath of a violent assault is 80%</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many of the women I care about may also carry an extra burden. They are involved in physical culture and train on a regular basis. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My good friend Randy King is not shy about sharing how the aftermath of an edged weapon attack rocked him to the core. He was Randy Fucking King the bad ass of Edmonton, how could he possibly get stabbed. If he is not Randy Fucking King then who is he?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luckily for Randy he found Rory Miller’s book “Meditations on Violence” and he realized all versions of Randy are human and subject to human physiological, psychological, and emotional responses to the type of stress caused by close interpersonal human violence.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEht2m5aqivR13VBqJ4fzwpsPllu9OLmLBBLzJaDlsUIH4RZbIxxE8NCfvn9mU9a2bZuEVTFw0RbbFv8RYtNpe-WryhjsmywuVz9INprK4dI1gkSvJegKq9NsziYrwJc38yUYsqkwa1MHQE9szUm6YuIrzgGKtLi-8fJ2mw_fT5XekfEu62IvSrO7hCy" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEht2m5aqivR13VBqJ4fzwpsPllu9OLmLBBLzJaDlsUIH4RZbIxxE8NCfvn9mU9a2bZuEVTFw0RbbFv8RYtNpe-WryhjsmywuVz9INprK4dI1gkSvJegKq9NsziYrwJc38yUYsqkwa1MHQE9szUm6YuIrzgGKtLi-8fJ2mw_fT5XekfEu62IvSrO7hCy=w427-h640" width="427" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Violence-Comparison-Martial-Training/dp/1594391181" target="_blank">Buy here</a><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In my own life experience I put way too much pressure on myself to win wrestling matches because I came from a wrestling family. Both my brothers were State Champions. Wrestling was my nurture and my nature. That was the noise in my head. That was the board meeting of Monkeys (the social part of your brain) screaming "they are all going to laugh at you"</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All that self created undo pressure did nothing to help me win wrestling matches. Losing matches made those Monkeys louder.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgws1MeGokE-qRAe5c8z6rE6eWbsJ4qdJRdsDzWhjRmtHPyYvzICn8DIafQg-cqAuRm5rMHCqgKtoKPKGi7Vkppnvao-3UNyKi7I1Sn3gV9L92Fj9hpXGDcwUrLuyUc1IOwPgkq7D-7IiuTn6GmaLT9AfcEIlAyS4oW4Y5ZlObwed0K50l5KCrKIj1m" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgws1MeGokE-qRAe5c8z6rE6eWbsJ4qdJRdsDzWhjRmtHPyYvzICn8DIafQg-cqAuRm5rMHCqgKtoKPKGi7Vkppnvao-3UNyKi7I1Sn3gV9L92Fj9hpXGDcwUrLuyUc1IOwPgkq7D-7IiuTn6GmaLT9AfcEIlAyS4oW4Y5ZlObwed0K50l5KCrKIj1m=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For women who train, not unlike Randy's knife attack - the disparity between criminal violence and martial arts training can be devastating. Also a feeling of I should have been able to stop this (self created undo pressure) could make a traumatic event that much worse, that much more complicated to recover from. </span></p><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is no wrong way to survive - if you are alive to tell me the story you did the right thing</span></p></li></ul><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is not your fault</span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Training on a regular basis improves one’s life in general and increases your probability of survival (no wrong way to survive). Some sort of action movie Black Widow response is not required - nor expected of anyone. You survived correct, what you do next is up to you (reclaiming agency)</span></p><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is not your fault</span></p></li></ul><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love you, and nothing that happens to you will change that</span></p></li></ul><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want to be helpful, useful to people I love in a community I am not a part of. I can offer perspective from my life experience and training.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a Police Officer you are expected to deliver death notifications. Mrs. Smith I regret to inform you…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You are trained how to provide support to someone after devastating information has been shared.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are crossover principles that can be applied to supporting someone who has just shared devastating information with you.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This information may rock you. It will most likely cause an emotional response. You have every right to feel your emotions. However, right now isn’t about you. Right now has nothing to do with how you feel about what happened. You can process that later. Right now is about helping someone you care about deal with a traumatic event. Practice active listening, be present in that moment, be there for them.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be their rock. You may need to scream, cry, plot vengeance any of the spectrum of human responses to a situation like that. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be their rock first, then deal with your emotions later. Please - don't misunderstand me - you must deal with your emotions too, but be there for them first.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Train hard, train smart, be safe - be of service to others</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Change the numbers</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-26139408753192221692023-03-15T15:00:00.001-07:002023-03-15T15:00:15.224-07:00Know your numbers<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey everybody, welcome back to the Budo Blog. Writing consistently is kind of a litmus test for me. If I am firing on all cylinders I have time (and energy to write). Having time and energy and something you want to talk about sync up is more rare than I like. So this week I thought I might start with a rant (what is on the top of my mind right now) and work to how this is useful to others. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="294" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBxUpt0v31XMFBsOApVtyWxW1k97Q0k0he_g6NfTJtuNyjgbL6gZf8gGA3xx9_GSS-1t2YLScHBV1hvTZMOHO_VjDUx7mn4Q20rW9D5uhBUYQ6zEaf4AwhuFjYcjz0S6vfXy9DfT7pHxh9ezsI0VXynIpzyXUnMeN_Go-U46g0lrlC1RU76hgrSiha=w400-h233" width="400" /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recently we had new candidate testing for the SWAT team. We experienced a 60% failure rate (about twice as high as previous years).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was like something from a Navy SEAL movie</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSvfDcdUY3aOK2RjYYi-WsVyE3D79AouWbDRTChw82wyIZpok8ow5raeKs33zjkgkmAvgzUL7AOHbz_RijIftraaFgY3UyAxfIFJdgno2eAgNG8HqThc4V2ZODApOvd3R259HPjM0bYq_ZL4edWhRATLHrT1SI-NbnqPvaFIl5fhEFoa87w47svB92/s400/viggo-mortensen-g-i-jane-sc045-th-400x280.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="400" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSvfDcdUY3aOK2RjYYi-WsVyE3D79AouWbDRTChw82wyIZpok8ow5raeKs33zjkgkmAvgzUL7AOHbz_RijIftraaFgY3UyAxfIFJdgno2eAgNG8HqThc4V2ZODApOvd3R259HPjM0bYq_ZL4edWhRATLHrT1SI-NbnqPvaFIl5fhEFoa87w47svB92/w400-h280/viggo-mortensen-g-i-jane-sc045-th-400x280.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span>Master Chief John Urgayle : </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"SIXTY PERCENT of you will NOT pass this course! How do I know? Because that is an historical FACT! "</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #333333;">New Candidate testing consists of:</span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meeting with Command Staff (Myself and the Commander) / Soft Interview</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Fundamental Firearms accuracy and safety course of fire</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">PT Test</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span> Push Ups</span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span> Sit Ups</span><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span> Wall Climb</span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span> 2K Row</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Elevated heart rate / stress shoot</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Scenarios</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Except for the exact circumstances of the scenarios the entire test is made known to the candidates weeks in advance.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span><span><span><span>During the testing process I bounce between station 1 </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;">Meeting with Command Staff and station 3 PT test.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span>Station 1 briefs the candidate on the process and allows us to get to know them a bit. What is your current assignment? Where are you from? What do you do for fun? </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Tell us a little bit about yourself type of stuff.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Additional questions I ask</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span>If you had a time machine and could give yourself advice five years ago - what advice would you give?</span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span><br /></span></span></div></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What do you do on a weekly basis to be a better law enforcement officer? </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span> </span>If they pause to think, to dig for an answer I have reservations. I want to see them counting off a list on their fingers of the multiple things they do on a weekly basis. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Many of the answers were - I work out on a regular basis. We would put that answer to the test.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Out of 14 candidates 8 failed</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of those 8:</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2 failed the basic firearms skills / safety qualification. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span><span> <i> </i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><i>What do you do on a weekly basis to be a better law enforcement officer? </i></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> No one answered - dry fire drills, or I regularly participate in 3 gun competitions to shoot under <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>pressure.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span> Many answered - </span> </span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;">I work out on a regular basis.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #333333;">For the candidates that passed the </span></span><span style="color: #333333;">basic Firearms skills, the next stop is the fitness room. There, they are weighed in and instructed on how the fitness testing will proceed. During the weigh in the Sgt. in charge of this station would ask the candidates how many push ups / sit ups do you need to get done in a minute.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Again, except for the exact circumstances of the scenarios the entire test is made known to the candidates. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Everyone was told what the requirements were several weeks before the test.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><i>If they pause to think, to dig for an answer I have reservations.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Every candidate that did not know that answer off the top of their head failed the fitness portion of the testing process. They were incapable of preforming the minimum amount of repetitions required to pass.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span>Of the other 6 that failed:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span><span> 1 failed the </span>Push Ups</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span><span><span> 4 failed the Sit Ups</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span><span><span><span><span> 1 failed the 2K Row</span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">If you don't know the reps / time needed to pass how can you possibly train to assure that you pass the test?</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">If you don't know your numbers you don't know your business</span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="780" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2eje5JRn-4ADNWs50fmWO9dJefecwqmwdFNZMS7tqwJW62MQqv0pjtt7YpipV7LbN8CItqer0ztDpSZ8OC4izTwdN_ITy0PAuPdQ5Wgp-3vSA0teyOwQGgKceQXto_kq-o1gehgIgL2Z3JRKatx_Hhim7eVSw-35B2VXwZZUocy3onMyuLP1T7fRa/w400-h225/math%20lady.jpg" width="400" /></div></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you are wondering how you would do, you can check for yourself. Below are links to the tests. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.ccstest.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Cooper-Standards-for-Law-Enforcement-Age-Gender.pdf" target="_blank">Cooper Institute Standards</a><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBxUpt0v31XMFBsOApVtyWxW1k97Q0k0he_g6NfTJtuNyjgbL6gZf8gGA3xx9_GSS-1t2YLScHBV1hvTZMOHO_VjDUx7mn4Q20rW9D5uhBUYQ6zEaf4AwhuFjYcjz0S6vfXy9DfT7pHxh9ezsI0VXynIpzyXUnMeN_Go-U46g0lrlC1RU76hgrSiha" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.dps.texas.gov/ETR/FitnessWellness/concept2RowerCalc.htm" target="_blank">Texas DPS 2K Row Test Calculator</a><div><span><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333;">The standard is not very difficult. 60% - what would be a D when I was a teaching assistant for Dr. Lewinski and Mankato State (Go Mavs!). Basically the tests show if the candidate engages in general physical preparedness activities (as one would assume of a professional law enforcement officer) and is </span><span style="color: #333333;">capable</span><span style="color: #333333;"> of engaging in the higher intensity training required for tactical operations.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span>Ultimately I don't really care how many sit ups a candidate can do or how fast they can row. What does </span>concern<span> me is that the candidates knew exactly what was required of them weeks, if not months in advance and at best did not prepare enough or at worst did not prepare at all.</span><br /></span><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok rant over what does this have to do with personal protection?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">There is no such thing as cease fire. If circumstances have created a situation where the threat is not currently attempting to damage you, that is not "peace" that is an opportunity to reload / repair.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">The is time to prepare</span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS1uMl29S4_V3uXoe2ATZ2npAByPLSLvFirpGOdk_Pr__zHUvil6c6T5GdtRFRDcKHRswt5GNhNWl61PwExf7OEtQMAyiSEQj5q780N0qk5y_j9a4UOUoe0pnjKZwf-U-3jKYAMyVagPBmd99bcQgiofiKpEHiUprbq-vaKltGMKnQU_O4KdpUy8xs/s602/prep%20time.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="602" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS1uMl29S4_V3uXoe2ATZ2npAByPLSLvFirpGOdk_Pr__zHUvil6c6T5GdtRFRDcKHRswt5GNhNWl61PwExf7OEtQMAyiSEQj5q780N0qk5y_j9a4UOUoe0pnjKZwf-U-3jKYAMyVagPBmd99bcQgiofiKpEHiUprbq-vaKltGMKnQU_O4KdpUy8xs/w400-h330/prep%20time.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">This is where the Venn diagram of Violence </span><span style="color: #333333;">Dynamics</span><span style="color: #333333;"> (personal protection) and Life Dynamics (enhanced living experience) crosses over.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Preparing during the "cease fire" doesn't have to be / shouldn't be a negative or fearful thing. The things you can do (probably should do) on a weekly basis to maintain your agency, to ensure you can live an enjoyable independent life are the are the same things you can do to make your self a harder target, take yourself off of some target profiles.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">You don't need to be a cross fit champion, underwear model, tactical operator, or all the above</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiF5VUyTINRmdUXH7T3aIZOWqyJgcwgiZnxoH3r7Bj13f-58xVPzV4uC4D88VA4XftjROOW9buF8ek_aprACFKAMER4yMOcq_PXrgNdjjgLWx9ys0nczBRuJeCtWfD-zTZa1BU3NupOM2cw8iHSoYUYoVvQ9IZ3zRxG7MOfb0-nn4LnUUB7c9cj0J-/s516/after1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="516" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiF5VUyTINRmdUXH7T3aIZOWqyJgcwgiZnxoH3r7Bj13f-58xVPzV4uC4D88VA4XftjROOW9buF8ek_aprACFKAMER4yMOcq_PXrgNdjjgLWx9ys0nczBRuJeCtWfD-zTZa1BU3NupOM2cw8iHSoYUYoVvQ9IZ3zRxG7MOfb0-nn4LnUUB7c9cj0J-/w400-h389/after1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, if you own a body, you are an athlete in the contact sport called life.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am a "seasoned" enough Patrol Officer to work day shift. As such I respond to a lot of lift assist calls.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">These calls come from people that stopped preparing for the sport of life. They no longer have the fast twitch muscle fiber required to recover from losing balance / stumbling. Once the fall begins they can't move fast enough to get limbs between them and the ground to soften the fall, often time resulting in injury. Even if they are lucky enough no to be injured from the fall they lack the mobility and strength to get up on their own. Sadly lying on the ground many times in their own mess until someone notices they haven't been heard from in awhile, or they are able to crawl to a phone and call for help.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">These people can no longer live unassisted. They have lost their agency and their independence</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6OeoRi3k0ILV8LyxqmaddLKbqwlxzcaioGonSS7bMJpq1bNt28iXoFrWh1qpsUNz024dNoy_Z9nGwWv6zODnurIeuF6ZMg5exMkaaSEwbA3fwXGgkjyJtAaA0nKwQhNBnHh_jYoYHE2VRtHEsznPDk0_9s-DVzFHreFlWFYQ_ecgnsdZQmpcwDal8/s800/i've%20fallen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6OeoRi3k0ILV8LyxqmaddLKbqwlxzcaioGonSS7bMJpq1bNt28iXoFrWh1qpsUNz024dNoy_Z9nGwWv6zODnurIeuF6ZMg5exMkaaSEwbA3fwXGgkjyJtAaA0nKwQhNBnHh_jYoYHE2VRtHEsznPDk0_9s-DVzFHreFlWFYQ_ecgnsdZQmpcwDal8/w400-h225/i've%20fallen.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">You lose 1% of muscle mass per year starting around age 40 unless...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">You actively work to maintain / gain muscle mass. Unless you prepare for the contact sport called life.</span></div><div><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><div>I've been bumping my head into a wall. The same rough concept has come up with law enforcement officers, martial artists, and personal protection practitioners. I am having trouble articulating it, and even more difficulty finding a way around it / through it.</div><div><br /></div><div>To help express what I am talking about I will share a conversation with Maija Soderholm.</div><div>Maija was helping me with text for the soon to be opened website (stay tuned for details)</div><div><br /></div><div>Maija - </div><div>It felt focused on peak performance and excellence, associating the acronym with elite cops.</div><div>Not sure if everyone is up for being that 'peak' in their performance.. maybe?</div><div>It might make someone feel like they were not enough to start</div><div><br /></div><div>Kasey-</div><div><div>Alternate text suggestions? This is kind of my blind spot. I am like why seek out training if you don't want to improve? If you want to improve why wouldn't you try to be the best?</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJWaWRy3xUbeL3VEOuLt66Vi6m0MexWC4CofTOBHqtTRBUr4TqCZLHgG-VaxkqSaVHpX2n92m7nHvI4nmFW7iPRZcAuef2IqBfYWIxrKH-5CZMbwX04y86zbhT4NAqVGX-hw8GjDNt_t8kWQY4yJUOjBGNBtq20GtDYNBtYd6NwYDs4SiYh1yizTZq/s300/wolverine-quote.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJWaWRy3xUbeL3VEOuLt66Vi6m0MexWC4CofTOBHqtTRBUr4TqCZLHgG-VaxkqSaVHpX2n92m7nHvI4nmFW7iPRZcAuef2IqBfYWIxrKH-5CZMbwX04y86zbhT4NAqVGX-hw8GjDNt_t8kWQY4yJUOjBGNBtq20GtDYNBtYd6NwYDs4SiYh1yizTZq/w400-h400/wolverine-quote.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div>Maija- </div><div>Because I think people don't want to fail, so if they think they can't do something, they will not even try.</div><div>But if you get them INTO the program, then their confidence might build.</div><div>You want everyone, from elite cop to grandma, to think "there are people like me who do this, I can do it too"</div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>If they think they can't do something, they will not even try.</u></b> This is the heart of what I am trying to work through.</div><div><br /></div><div>Examples:</div><div>Law Enforcement</div><div><span> An Officer is unconfident with their firearms skills. They hate qualification because it shines a spotlight on their need to improve. If they think they can't do something they won't even try. After they barely squeak past qualification they are happy because right now is the most time they will have before the next qualification which they hate. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>If they think they can't do something, they will not even try.</u></b> </div><div><br /></div><div>Where this becomes a problem is skill in this area is a requirement for their profession and may be the deciding factor in life or death circumstances. </div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span> </span><i>What do you do on a weekly basis to be a better law enforcement officer? </i></div><div><i> No one answered - dry fire drills, or I regularly participate in 3 gun competitions to shoot under pressure.</i></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5xwNSg02plhjp6X-u91xoyRxcVz-g9u6T7UOSl4bcHHiHF2S9wId8V9Xt9yz57AKm8TefWBMDuIci2PPd_lxHKHqur_vkuEmKgrP0QABouPniyE1dw80mvwadGHXNR1w2_hRszjxZZ8SSMNWJfuTSDuyEKQqk_XHGqW2Qa-YUYLcecd3xALTv0pjE/s625/dude.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="625" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5xwNSg02plhjp6X-u91xoyRxcVz-g9u6T7UOSl4bcHHiHF2S9wId8V9Xt9yz57AKm8TefWBMDuIci2PPd_lxHKHqur_vkuEmKgrP0QABouPniyE1dw80mvwadGHXNR1w2_hRszjxZZ8SSMNWJfuTSDuyEKQqk_XHGqW2Qa-YUYLcecd3xALTv0pjE/w400-h225/dude.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Inversely - if that same Officer were to practice dry fire drills, seek out an Instructor willing to work with them, basically if they were willing to acknowledge to themselves that they suck at something, however "icky" that feels, they could begin to become sorta good at something. Sorta of good relieves the unpleasant feeling of spotlight on their need to improve, because they have improved which feels good! Nothing succeeds like success. Feeling better results in performing better. Performing better makes the training feel more rewarding / worthwhile. Consistent training provides even better performance and so on. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>There are people like me who do this, I can do it too</i></div></div><div><br /></div>Martial Artists</div><div><span> A martial artist can hide in fantasy and cosplay. There are plenty of arts where there is no force on force / pressure test elements at all. There are ways to participate in any art that avoid </span>force on force / pressure test elements. That is completely fine, everyone should participate in what they enjoy in the way that works for them. </div><div><br /></div><div>Where this becomes a problem is when these practitioners teach. Especially when they present the unproven fantasy / cosplay elements that they enjoy as:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Personal Protection</li><li>Law Enforcement Control Tactics</li><li>Women's Self Defense</li></ul></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Participate in what ever you enjoy in the way that works for you. </span><u style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">NEVER </u><span style="font-family: inherit;"> bet someone else's life on your imagination. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>If they think they can't do something, they will not even try.</u></b> </div><div><br /></div><div>How do you get someone to acknowledge to themselves that they suck at something, however "icky" that feels, so that they can begin to become sorta good at something which feels great?</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLVs1j2mSbyClLprdvK4Lrdwa7c86Rl1KJTw3OfYyn9bHO3D6nmSSRi7a76C_wUr7zQ5osmxL6a2wNbDLu_iqqYeGRnhKSuo1HQ0h1hJnNJ-jojrsbFcBq12LP0SjZ3YlcN6fxgrtJJ0nKl6vVNojYbis2aG8qEgR7qHUjFJB9Bo54iMe_KgONmHCu/s735/mushai.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="735" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLVs1j2mSbyClLprdvK4Lrdwa7c86Rl1KJTw3OfYyn9bHO3D6nmSSRi7a76C_wUr7zQ5osmxL6a2wNbDLu_iqqYeGRnhKSuo1HQ0h1hJnNJ-jojrsbFcBq12LP0SjZ3YlcN6fxgrtJJ0nKl6vVNojYbis2aG8qEgR7qHUjFJB9Bo54iMe_KgONmHCu/w400-h189/mushai.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>No one cares if you suck. More accurately, you are the only person that cares that you suck. No one else is wasting any energy even thinking about it. The only people that care is a board meeting of Monkeys in your head (the social part of your brain) screaming "they are all going to laugh at you""</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8DmvmUvwx5UqWTWxa82LrMRDzBCqziPIOjO0gMaWnQktjWM1S7wesZ0SKC3-1Nb0I070s6o4qULCAlNm7InRZkae0VoVMXqSDOobzyu93WLZwbNghSYLxGCZOIxJ9tLvRfNpOcdybiRaeTMioR-2iaPAEQ-s8kFiQc36m9Nu0pKNt9PSvFcnjBERm/s540/nobody%20cares.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8DmvmUvwx5UqWTWxa82LrMRDzBCqziPIOjO0gMaWnQktjWM1S7wesZ0SKC3-1Nb0I070s6o4qULCAlNm7InRZkae0VoVMXqSDOobzyu93WLZwbNghSYLxGCZOIxJ9tLvRfNpOcdybiRaeTMioR-2iaPAEQ-s8kFiQc36m9Nu0pKNt9PSvFcnjBERm/w370-h400/nobody%20cares.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Personal protection practitioners</div><div><div><span> There are young fit martial athletes that see all violence only through </span>the lens of their sport. The news is full of champions being injured or sadly killed when facing criminal violence. Those that survive do so, for the most part despite their training, not because of it. </div><div><br /></div><div>These athletes would benefit greatly from and 80:20 approach as promoted by my friend Randy King.</div><div>80 % of your multilayered self defense strategy focused on avoiding, escaping, and talking your way out of violence. That will greatly enhance the other 20% - the physical aspects that these athletes already excel at.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, there are also personal protection practitioners that place artificial barriers in their own way. Relying on weapons for every physical aspect of violence, or justifying academic knowledge of avoiding, escaping, and talking your way out of violence to totally disregard the physical aspects of violence.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>If they think they can't do something, they will not even try.</u></b> </div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw5zR4j15s_kcELmtVN5wgeD7fpkqMrnDkZNXnzdfJkP-rgFHy3yguv-3vEH79I8GpjsmFmqpRFtmZrgWtM_9qrVwZc8-pWWdzQcaHfVrYSspvfGSRl2mIuyUBQFRH855ejDT_sbqJJ3KrfNe8UJpwafdRHTAIdub4KcK9hu83z0P0zGSepmWP4PQQ/s1024/clint.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="1024" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw5zR4j15s_kcELmtVN5wgeD7fpkqMrnDkZNXnzdfJkP-rgFHy3yguv-3vEH79I8GpjsmFmqpRFtmZrgWtM_9qrVwZc8-pWWdzQcaHfVrYSspvfGSRl2mIuyUBQFRH855ejDT_sbqJJ3KrfNe8UJpwafdRHTAIdub4KcK9hu83z0P0zGSepmWP4PQQ/w400-h290/clint.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>“Self defense starts at washing your hands” -Clint Overland</div><div><br /></div><div>It is silly to train yourself to prevent the damage caused by a criminal attack if you are unwilling to do simple every day things to prevent the damage caused by illness. </div><div><br /></div><div>If you own a body, you are an athlete in the contact sport called life. You don't need to be a cross fit champion, underwear model, tactical operator, or all the above. Regardless of your physicality or ability there are simple every day things you can do to make your self a harder target.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Everyone that did not know their numbers off the top of their head failed the test.</div><div>How can can you possibly train to pass the test if you don't know your numbers?</div><div>How do you get someone to acknowledge to themselves that they suck at something, however "icky" that feels, so that they can begin to become sorta good at something which feels great?</div><div><br /></div><div>I have questions, but not as many answers as I would like. However, I do have some ideas on how to find what your numbers are.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Budo Blog will return in...</div><div><br /></div><div>What numbers should you know</div><div><br /></div><div>Train hard, train smart, be safe.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /></span></div>Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-4410664173588601412023-02-06T13:45:00.000-08:002023-02-06T13:45:16.770-08:00 Rule of 3<p> <span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rule of 3</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-a4b6bea7-7fff-ac89-cd2b-5ec4aa509dac"><div><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmgCPK_avueyLCYHsseTWAS8uGdtR5-2qYImU1YzQnFgjVc_FI_wMZ8wNoCwx1tDkD1-4OOqcUrO-ROxuZw3-k0cTgnJwElDmVC01GbeOwPi26sDmRGF1BXf1je0kwQLhVrXsk2NMuCfkDKhTtRWfDC85pw_id3mnkbQVzaLDQDrSxJM3TlxulyUlz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="480" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmgCPK_avueyLCYHsseTWAS8uGdtR5-2qYImU1YzQnFgjVc_FI_wMZ8wNoCwx1tDkD1-4OOqcUrO-ROxuZw3-k0cTgnJwElDmVC01GbeOwPi26sDmRGF1BXf1je0kwQLhVrXsk2NMuCfkDKhTtRWfDC85pw_id3mnkbQVzaLDQDrSxJM3TlxulyUlz" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I came across the rule of three concept form Chad Lyman - </span><a href="http://code4combat.net/about-us.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://code4combat.net/about-us.html</span></a></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For a human to survive you can’t go three days without food, water, sleep, human contact. Sounds a lot like the hierarchy of resilience.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Chad suggests that for force professionals to survive (I’d add for personal protection as well) you shouldn’t go more than three days without combatives training either.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEFffXPY_6xfApIj6rerNBKl0uE-tObIc6JUsUbYg7RQBXAEmqg-R-6GcOLYwlExRjHFrA4ALx78KVR5As_35YCDCkR8BUbKBWjUv2-G2UnoWvvME8RCmj7grUvlczTmdReQGOKpA3Z_XgEj7HFsPL6M3jiIyXVbI9bxasFJb6FjjZ6BJvBANw0rgT" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="780" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEFffXPY_6xfApIj6rerNBKl0uE-tObIc6JUsUbYg7RQBXAEmqg-R-6GcOLYwlExRjHFrA4ALx78KVR5As_35YCDCkR8BUbKBWjUv2-G2UnoWvvME8RCmj7grUvlczTmdReQGOKpA3Z_XgEj7HFsPL6M3jiIyXVbI9bxasFJb6FjjZ6BJvBANw0rgT" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Quick Mankato State math that averages to training around twice per week. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Oddly enough that seems to be the minimum attendance requirements for promotion in most Judo / Jujitsu schools.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Sidebar </u> - let me step up on my soap box for a moment</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I have said it many times, and loudly, but I will say it again - if you are a force professional and you think the six hours of control tactics training you receive a year will be sufficient to survive a violent encounter without being injured, sued successfully, or losing your job, I hope you never have that delusion tested. </span></span></p><div><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">And now...back to the Budo Blog<br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I’ve been thinking about that rule of 3 a lot and have formulated my own version of it.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Why my own version? In order to answer that, let’s take a deep dive into the martial arts nerd pool.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ultimately martial art is a true expression of the self. Not unlike dance, or other artistic means of physical self expression. And like dance one must learn the fundamentals well enough to develop their own style. Every martial artist develops their own art. They may never give it a name, or teach it to others, but anyone who is any good at this develops a way that works best for them. This is the heart of Tokui Waza. Tokui Waza roughly translates as favorite technique. But more accurately it is about finding what works best for you and getting really good at those things. As opposed to trying to imitate your instructors who have vastly different body types, life experience, and needs than you. Tokui Waza is also allowing yourself to play with things that don’t work for you. Because learning how to make your body do difficult things is good for your brain, body (and spirit). It might not work for you right now, but learning why it’s not working helps you refine what does. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rule of 3</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Don’t go more than 3 days without training (For Trek nerds this is the rule of 3 prime directive)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Additional Rule of 3 (my own way) directives:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3 Arts</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The best martial art (foundation) is one you enjoy and will continue with as part of your lifestyle for your entire life. Having said that, there is no one perfect / complete art. Not even Ameridote</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix7uGXFENYslxW3u38NFLvq3jhEpHJj55CbgTROHTpGiMEXf7Dn6ZIwdSQGMmScPFNa32hKeQ6C0rh04xmc9dOK_cg55oV8tQWw9qJ3E-8w2JNAqkGYZx9l-xnx8W8_vo3xkbmW0LZ85A4eEfBGRu7ARAHGlLkZ1EImEX56w2KK4Vlam_85ATlktHT" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix7uGXFENYslxW3u38NFLvq3jhEpHJj55CbgTROHTpGiMEXf7Dn6ZIwdSQGMmScPFNa32hKeQ6C0rh04xmc9dOK_cg55oV8tQWw9qJ3E-8w2JNAqkGYZx9l-xnx8W8_vo3xkbmW0LZ85A4eEfBGRu7ARAHGlLkZ1EImEX56w2KK4Vlam_85ATlktHT" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why 3 arts</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If the perspective you have of physical confrontation is limited to only one aspect of the interpersonal violence spectrum, your ability to solve problems becomes severely limited. If you can’t throw hands, you can’t really grapple. If you can’t prevent yourself from being taken down, nor are you capable of returning to your feet you really can’t really box. Also if all of your perspective is sport based it becomes very difficult to deal with a criminal attack say with a knife or blunt instrument. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Operational Disciplines, the knowledge necessary to apply skill and experience to interpersonal violence (what the Violence Dynamics Seminar is based on) can be broken in to seven broad </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">categories</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Legal / Ethical</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Violence Dynamics</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Avoidance (Conflict Strategy)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Counter Assault</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Freeze</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">*The Fight</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">* The fight, or physical confrontation only consists of 20% or so. The majority of Operational </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Disciplines, the highest probability of success strategies are geared toward avoiding / preventing physical confrontation.</span><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, no strategy is perfect all of the time. No matter how good you are at the 80%, physical confrontation is always a possibility. You may have to deal with "The Fight"</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The fight consists of:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Striking</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Something Boxy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Joint Locks</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Strangles</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Takedowns</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">- Something Wrestly</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Ground Skills</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Weapons</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">- Something Stabby / Clubby</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skill in personal protection helps to build confidence and helps to make de-escalation skills more successful. Calm Officers tend to preform better and make better decisions.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Box / Wrestle / Fence</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Most Military and Law Enforcement Academies have historically sponsored boxing, wrestling, and fencing clubs. It may be called different things at different places (Karate, Judo, Kendo) but some means to provide force on force training in striking, grappling, and weapons has been a universal theme for people receiving education for use of force professions.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><u>3 gyms</u></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan. Your training schedule has to be robust enough to account for the varying amounts of chaos in your life and still get in your minimum effective dose of training - two training sessions per week (rule of 3). If your school only has class on Wednesday and Saturday, and say your kid has confirmation on Wednesday your are training below minimum effective dose. Does that school offer training on other days? Does that school offer training in other arts? This might be an excellent opportunity to supplement your foundational training with one of the other aspects. For example if you can’t get to boxing on Wednesday could you go to BJJ on Thursday to make the twice per week requirement? If your school only offers one art what can you do? Use multiple schools.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Joining multiple martial arts schools can be very expensive. However, most schools offer a drop in fee or mat fee for single classes (usually around $10 to $20) So for the price of going to a movie you could supplement your foundational training and assure that you can train twice a week even if you can’t get to your main school. Be honest and upfront with the Owner / Instructor. If you are dropping in multiple times a month you should probably pay them their monthly fee.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Find a tribe that fits your vibe, this is going to be your foundational school. For the sake of discussion lets say that school is something wrestly. If that school doesn't offer other aspects of the fight find a school in a reasonable commute that offers something boxy, and another that offers something stabby / clubby</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><u>3 people</u></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">On top of the mental health </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">benefits</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of meeting people with similar interests and having face to face interactions, training with at least three people is required to do any type of force on force training.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding ways to safely test the entire spectrum of physical confrontation under varying levels of pressure / resistance is absolutely essential to developing the confidence through competence required </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">to make de-escalation skills more successful. As stated before calm Officers tend to preform better and make better decisions. It is hard to stay calm under pressure if you have never been put under pressure in training. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rule of 3 (Kecker Style)
1 - Train in some sort of combatives at least every 3 days (Twice per week = minimum effective dose)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">2- Find an art you love, and supplement it with other arts (best of all worst of none)
3 - Find multiple gyms in your area where you can train to make sure you meet your weekly minimum effective dose</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">4 - train with enough people (that you trust) so that you can test your skills against </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">varying levels of pressure / resistance.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Train hard, train smart (and often), be safe</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-44970216450000433812022-05-17T08:29:00.000-07:002022-05-17T08:29:06.379-07:00The Hierarchy of Resiliency - Phase 0 - Baseline<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Hierarchy of Resiliency - Foundation and Phase 0 </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><br /></div><div>Establish Baseline (You are here)</div><div><span> Resiliency</span><br /></div><div><span><span> General Physical Preparedness</span><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Foundation</div><div><span> </span>Counseling<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div><span> </span>Sleep</div><div><span> </span>Mindfulness</div><div><span> </span>Time Management</div><div><br /></div><div>Preparation for Phase 1</div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">“</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.</b><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">” – Abraham Lincoln.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjof0O8nW-KDisai7qQ154t5co9DcFqcclfGEGq-nfI5Nor0LXhzgVqzRPjSrwjxT5t57Avk5agwtPm5P6FrEAxerNAR_PQCJg9tiaQ1I2ZYBAL_aHS1x75QDlw0ozr-Po5FIRTPd12zgTQ6zO3bZmSokVEfNbP1PD-OHRN_q6i0ZzkBAH0qRB1uqXi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjof0O8nW-KDisai7qQ154t5co9DcFqcclfGEGq-nfI5Nor0LXhzgVqzRPjSrwjxT5t57Avk5agwtPm5P6FrEAxerNAR_PQCJg9tiaQ1I2ZYBAL_aHS1x75QDlw0ozr-Po5FIRTPd12zgTQ6zO3bZmSokVEfNbP1PD-OHRN_q6i0ZzkBAH0qRB1uqXi=w419-h640" width="419" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">The baseline level of the hierarchy of resiliency is necessary to develop a solid foundation to set us up for success in the following levels. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If we use the metaphor of a journey it is hard to plot your course if you don't know where you are starting from.</div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIL51xWlj-tBGsvlWE-Lu8io1F_N7wgxgERAQ9-hPfau-25ZnHi88SG141HtXk_wiQUhUfD7aMdEfSnuRmd5R-z4It4Cmvdr_zdzhdabVppid2Df2idOVJb_fkaZlcaF2_27GdWQyhxhqzdcq2THufPD2d0sXGAjEk3MM0cFeWnbSEVTSn9dGqbnKr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="921" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIL51xWlj-tBGsvlWE-Lu8io1F_N7wgxgERAQ9-hPfau-25ZnHi88SG141HtXk_wiQUhUfD7aMdEfSnuRmd5R-z4It4Cmvdr_zdzhdabVppid2Df2idOVJb_fkaZlcaF2_27GdWQyhxhqzdcq2THufPD2d0sXGAjEk3MM0cFeWnbSEVTSn9dGqbnKr=w400-h312" width="400" /></a></div><br />You are here<p></p><p style="text-align: left;">How do you find where you are? How to you determine your baseline resiliency? You can take ACE / PCE resiliency tests on line. They consist of 15 - 20 questions regarding life experiences you encountered before you were 18 years old. If your numbers indicate, and you are not currently receiving counseling, finding and speaking with a councilor is your first step.</p><p style="text-align: left;">A side quest, if you will, for the TYR project and this blog is to destigmatize mental health treatment. In the upper mid-west of America if a Law Enforcement Officer sought out help from a personal trainer to get into better shape there is no shame associated with that. That Officer does not feel the need to keep it secret. They never have the thought that I will lose my job or specialty position if it is discovered that I got help maintaining my health. More than likely they brag about it and receive positive social feedback for the effort. If that same Officer sought out help from a councilor for their mental health they absolutely still have those fears.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUuA4f5b_tkmHtIF39AT5C4O6omqRKxjs45w9NQrwu2qGufg7vWdMz6jt3-Qw29ZZ4W6x6N1uhTMFLX5Yc4hjileuLOXC2OS3oKnVCN9m7iBx5xdy3jgLs6sOxFbS3_qOYRlop2Yad1IIdqIfqzwylalodHXsX7cET79y-UAwMIs47i1ifgyKjR_Lt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="300" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUuA4f5b_tkmHtIF39AT5C4O6omqRKxjs45w9NQrwu2qGufg7vWdMz6jt3-Qw29ZZ4W6x6N1uhTMFLX5Yc4hjileuLOXC2OS3oKnVCN9m7iBx5xdy3jgLs6sOxFbS3_qOYRlop2Yad1IIdqIfqzwylalodHXsX7cET79y-UAwMIs47i1ifgyKjR_Lt=w400-h317" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The next level of the resiliency hierarchy is regular exercise. To maximize the benefits of exercise next, it is important to understand where we are now (you are here on the map).</p><p>How to we determine our baseline physical fitness / general physical preparedness? There are plenty of baseline pt tests you can find online. If you are reading this blog I imagine you are a martial artist, interested in personal protection, a force professional, or some combination of the above. You can click the link for tests relevant to the physical requirements / standards for those goals.</p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rwJL7h3oVMSafa93nQyZ8iGDwBKDHjwkM-wAcU5h7sM/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Keck - O - Meter Tests</a><br /></p><p>Now that we know where we are, we can start developing the foundation on which we will build our resiliency pyramid.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The next step is getting sufficient sleep.</p><p style="text-align: left;">This mortal form grows weary...</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEif8c9c1PWhsyNLWULEov0I58LtZXZJS2tRevATacbv4RY6pf4BKOOeC3CsFIbpLVAo5kVTbIvbs3YhVlj8prPB8xvMgK5YrYedNAzXQqt1RX5QfBZwoPmp8u_x1To5VbqHdud3AxyuJanJdVb9TXKE3XmNukQ3Ly5WVzkQ7CmjPSLKpxlfR74bFJuU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="1371" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEif8c9c1PWhsyNLWULEov0I58LtZXZJS2tRevATacbv4RY6pf4BKOOeC3CsFIbpLVAo5kVTbIvbs3YhVlj8prPB8xvMgK5YrYedNAzXQqt1RX5QfBZwoPmp8u_x1To5VbqHdud3AxyuJanJdVb9TXKE3XmNukQ3Ly5WVzkQ7CmjPSLKpxlfR74bFJuU=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div><br />What is sufficient sleep? Throughout the TYR project we will discuss the idea of minimum effective dose. <div><div><br /></div><div>Why is this important - especially for folks who may have a wrestler's live in the grind mind set?</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, if working out three times a week is good for your physical and mental health, then working out six times a week is twice as good right? It is just simple math! If training your resilience is causing more stress than it is reliving it is counter productive and detrimental to you goals (making you less resilient)</div><div><br /></div><div>Finding the minimum effective dose (for you) is a way to work smarter not necessarily harder.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>There are a lot of things we need to accomplish. There are many things competing for our time and attention, and we only have so much energy to devote to all of these things. The minimum effective dose is the amount of time / effort required to achieve the desired effect.</div><div><br /></div><div>What is the MED for sleep?</div><div>Most adults need 7 to 9 hours, although some people may need as few as 6 hours or as many as 10 hours of sleep each day.</div><div><br /></div><div>Like Honest Abe spending time sharpening his axe before he cuts down a tree (or vampire) I suggest allotting some of your sleep time to sleep hygiene to get the maximum restorative benefits of sleep</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihGVJISVUEf_EsmmF-pdup9rDy40RY7fY6T2y1njHpfFhL_zYCQXiDRD5n8cKc5rGGV3UHuR_vRTXBcvexpP2GbOVUlEYT4DxNmk1NINx2tWFxptMNgxWRGtTkr8C6yj22kH4iJohK2NvFSmUDGqp9M1FFvnKTaRDgwluikQDNH09wXkZ5sFL32-KO/s3840/deadpool-reading-book-59.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihGVJISVUEf_EsmmF-pdup9rDy40RY7fY6T2y1njHpfFhL_zYCQXiDRD5n8cKc5rGGV3UHuR_vRTXBcvexpP2GbOVUlEYT4DxNmk1NINx2tWFxptMNgxWRGtTkr8C6yj22kH4iJohK2NvFSmUDGqp9M1FFvnKTaRDgwluikQDNH09wXkZ5sFL32-KO/w400-h225/deadpool-reading-book-59.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>What is sleep hygiene? Like shower before bed?</div><div><div>Good sleep habits (sometimes referred to as “sleep hygiene”) can help you get a good night’s sleep.</div><div>Some habits that can improve your sleep health:</div></div><div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Be consistent. Go to bed at the same time each night and get up at the same time each morning, including on the weekends</li><li>Make sure your bedroom is quiet, dark, relaxing, and at a comfortable temperature</li><li>Remove electronic devices, such as TVs, computers, and smart phones, from the bedroom</li></ul></div><div>I'm not taking the TV out of my room, and usually the last thing I do before I go to bed is set the alarm on my phone. This has to work in the real world.</div><div><br /></div><div>So say I have 8 hours in which I can sleep. The first hour is quiet, dark, and relaxing. Maybe reading a book to help turn off the thoughts of the day. Then seven hours of quality sleep. I would argue that 6 hours of quality sleep are better than 8 hours of restless / subpar sleep.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was talking to guys on the tactical team about this. They all made jokes and gave reasons why they can't. I understand their points, and their skepticism. This is difficult, and shift work makes it even harder. It isn't easy, but we need to make the attempt. We may not always succeed, but it won't be from lack of trying. There are many things competing for our time and attention, and we only have so much energy to devote to all of these things. Sleep / restoration is not selfish. Just like the flight attendant instructs - in case of an emergency put your mask on first - then you can help others, you will be unable to give your time and attention to anything if you don't take care of yourself.</div><div><br /></div><div>Pre-sleep "rituals" may also be an excellent time to incorporate mindfulness into your daily schedule.</div><div>Mindfulness doesn't need to be any sort of woo woo Zen magic spell casting. It is any activity that quiets your mind, and shut out external stimulus. It can be a simple as a few minutes of "tactical" or box breathing</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVYpP6gld5KsV29wPwdVh7L1BZqY31Nu1SLeBATivVccOFCf7A_VD0bhGgq4tV20GoMWnfefwJODSYQLmQxgb4BjtZBOH-V-CDHl3uWSAaKoDaucZrWX-o-2q3bdq9cvTa4wQaOaKvb_VjHaoby8jtWTqWJQWn4xP-L0QPRY80qJfHURJWgRPTzzr5/s1600/box-breathing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVYpP6gld5KsV29wPwdVh7L1BZqY31Nu1SLeBATivVccOFCf7A_VD0bhGgq4tV20GoMWnfefwJODSYQLmQxgb4BjtZBOH-V-CDHl3uWSAaKoDaucZrWX-o-2q3bdq9cvTa4wQaOaKvb_VjHaoby8jtWTqWJQWn4xP-L0QPRY80qJfHURJWgRPTzzr5/w400-h225/box-breathing.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Time management<br />Without this it is very easy for the other levels of the pyramid to feel overwhelming. Make time to do what is needed. Do what you can with the time you have. Change as circumstances and priorities change.</div><div><br /></div><div>You can click the link for a basic time management spreadsheet. For phase 0 your time management needs to include sleep, mindfulness, and in preparation for phase 1, three days a week for exercise. Your first three work outs can various baseline physical preparedness tests.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rwJL7h3oVMSafa93nQyZ8iGDwBKDHjwkM-wAcU5h7sM/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Time Management</a><br /></div><div><p>This is the foundation. This is the base level.</p><p>The world may knock you back to this level from time to time. But the stronger you have developed you resiliency (the further up the pyramid you have climbed ) the harder it will be to knock you down and the easier it will be to get back up</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!” ~ Rocky Balboa</b></span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFguVubT-MpcXD-uK7oJR8qHAh4hWBrnYi0FFpYpjTAMW0u38YBKmR4xeqwnnDKpbpSOdyTHcMruulV4VZmbmPfIMxlAXzwyVvmTJe2KqDRtkIXJEWypoLmwEVhKlNuPEP2Tmisr2nZ1YZH8NALXicDNJlJnRhHov6YIEM1vZHo8-Y0h2d5oPVvjM/s600/prep%20time.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFguVubT-MpcXD-uK7oJR8qHAh4hWBrnYi0FFpYpjTAMW0u38YBKmR4xeqwnnDKpbpSOdyTHcMruulV4VZmbmPfIMxlAXzwyVvmTJe2KqDRtkIXJEWypoLmwEVhKlNuPEP2Tmisr2nZ1YZH8NALXicDNJlJnRhHov6YIEM1vZHo8-Y0h2d5oPVvjM/w400-h320/prep%20time.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Preparation</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In the baseline portion we found out where we are. Continuing with the metaphor of a journey it is also hard to plot your course if you don't know where you want to go.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">So...What are your goals? How do you plan to get there?</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">If you'd like some help figuring that out, you can click the link bellow for some g</span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">oal setting / action plan work sheets.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rwJL7h3oVMSafa93nQyZ8iGDwBKDHjwkM-wAcU5h7sM/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Work Sheets</a><br /></span></span></p><div><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Phase 0 </span></span>Summary</div><div><div>Establish Baseline (You are here)</div><div><span> Action Steps:</span><br /></div><div><span> <span> </span>Resiliency<span> - </span><span>Take ACE / PCE Tests</span></span> </div><div><span><span> <span> </span>General Physical Preparedness - Take PT tests</span><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Foundation</div><div><span> Action Steps:</span><br /></div><div><span> <span> </span></span>Counseling - find a trusted resource<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"><span> </span><span> </span></span>Time Management</div><div><span> <span> <span> </span></span></span>Sleep - schedule 6 - 10 hours a night</div><div><span> <span> <span> </span></span></span>Mindfulness - schedule a few minutes every day</div><div><span> </span><span> </span><span> Find three days a week to work out during the next phase</span><br /></div><div><span> </span></div><div>Preparation for Phase 1</div></div><div><span> Action Steps:</span><br /></div><div><span><span> </span><span> Set goals</span><br /></span></div><div><span><span><span> </span><span> Develop action plan</span><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span>The Budo Blog will return...</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Train hard, train smart, be safe</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p></div></div>Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-40306341008588741752022-05-04T10:40:00.002-07:002022-05-22T13:55:47.549-07:00The State Of My Head<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> After Violence Dynamics in November, I was full of go get 'em. Chasing the idea of "best self". Another example of the myth of the static state. "Best self" takes work to achieve and maintain. Just because you were at your best yesterday doesn't mean you will be today. In blogs to follow I will discuss a hierarchy of resiliency, with "Hustle" being at the top. Hustle is an expression of best self. When you have the time, energy, band width for passion projects. In November I was full of go get 'em, but life happens. Every time I was hustling, I couldn't concentrate on the passion project. I had something in my head and I couldn't proceed until I got it out. So I forced it out, part of that process is sharing it here.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">To process what was in my head in a way that other people could understand, and therefore be useful, I used a SMEAC.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">SMEAC is an acronym used for tactical planning.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDrGQ7y1Y-8Db-AOpSTO6CVw0cKVgLeDMzJBePJkYdt7gsRWLwgbIRS_SMJh3v2hXZYmzpGS9ZN6eayA4kP1CxZm0hzsgLtEZrBNNdQBIgxiuE07LWsnwuPxhY2v2tYMyJophYOg_OFJ7CnwfkCxbI_clTxvccdKvpnvxFWNu4ANlkwElOz_GcR6Rt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="1248" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDrGQ7y1Y-8Db-AOpSTO6CVw0cKVgLeDMzJBePJkYdt7gsRWLwgbIRS_SMJh3v2hXZYmzpGS9ZN6eayA4kP1CxZm0hzsgLtEZrBNNdQBIgxiuE07LWsnwuPxhY2v2tYMyJophYOg_OFJ7CnwfkCxbI_clTxvccdKvpnvxFWNu4ANlkwElOz_GcR6Rt" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-f2b8a213-7fff-a187-449d-36e0f3c0c97b"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Situation:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The last few years have placed additional stressors on everyone. Additionally, this may be the most stressful time to be a law enforcement officer in American history. On top of that, there are even more additional stressors on tactical operators. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the last two years:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Name Redacted - Team Leader, Sniper - break down - PTSD retirement from Law Enforcement</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Name Redacted - Team Leader, Energetic Breacher - break down - <b><u>SUICIDE</u></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Name Redacted - Fire Captain - Tactical Medic - break down - PTSD retirement from public service</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Name Redacted - Team Leader, Sniper, K9 handler - break down - Leave of absence, likely PTSD retirement from Law Enforcement</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I have a ton in common with these guys - they are me - they are my tribe. Why did they “break”? Why haven’t I? Is my turn around the corner? Am I a ticking time bomb? Can I prevent it? If so can I help others prevent it?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every time I was hustling, I couldn't concentrate on the passion project. I had something in my head- i</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">s my turn around the corner? Am I a ticking time bomb? Can I prevent it? If so can I help others prevent it?</span></span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mission:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">To increase operator’s resiliency, helping them mitigate and manage stress and its effect on their mental and physical health. To enhance an operator's ability to recover from </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">traumatic</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> events.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On top of my own life experience and training, recently (after the suicide) I have been seeking out additional education and resources. I was done crying and I needed something to attack. I needed a mission. I needed to put this angry somewhere. I needed to convert that energy into something positive. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I was fortunate to attend the following classes at the special operations training association conference this spring.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mental Health Resiliency</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Participants will learn about the different forms that trauma can take from the typical big "T" events to others that usually go unnoticed. This presentation will walk attendees through the different presentations of trauma and understand antecedents to trauma while getting a better understanding of personal vulnerabilities. The presenter will then move into how to overcome the effects of trauma and describe resiliency factors that prevent burn out, compassion fatigue, and longer lasting effects of the hazards of the profession.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Speaker</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hector Matascastillo - South Metro SWAT</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Owning Your Wellness: Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, Community</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It's up to each of us to own our own wellness. Life, both work and home, will throw things at us and disrupt our best-laid plans. This session will talk about practical tips and strategies to make sure we are focused on the wellness things that matter most.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Speaker</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Paul Nystrom - Provicta, MD</span></span></p><div><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-95f26ed3-7fff-ab22-00b4-ccdffbb8a327"><span style="font-family: arial;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After those classes I started transitioning my thoughts into a plan. There are direct correlations to preparing for physical conflict (which in itself can be traumatic), and preparing for / recovering from trauma. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Physical Conflict - </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You do not rise to the occasion, you drop to your level of training…in an adrenalized body.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, you work to raise your level of training, and learn to mitigate the negative effects of adrenaline.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trauma - </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Traumatic events (Big T) knock you to your baseline resiliency…while you continue to deal with everyday stressors (Little T).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baseline resiliency can be trained. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, you train to raise your baseline level of resiliency, and learn to mitigate the effects of trauma </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Traumatic events may knock us off our best selves. However, the higher our baseline </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">resiliency</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the faster we can recover.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><u> How do we raise our baseline resiliency?</u></b></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It became clear that the best practices for training your resiliency include:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Regular Exercise</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Solid Nutrition</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sleep</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mindfulness</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Meaningful positive relationships</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outside of any </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">conspiracy</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> theory or political debate take a look to the response to Covid and its effect on mental health.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regular Exercise</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> Close the gyms</span><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span> Close the Dojos</span><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span> Close the parks</span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span>Solid Nutrition</span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span> Limit store hours</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span> Supply chain issues</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span><span> Junk food delivered to your house</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meaningful</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span><span> positive relationships</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Can't meet face to face</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Can't travel</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Cover your face</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Can't see loved ones in hospital</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Can't have a funeral</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being forced to follow arbitrary and capricious rules that have no basis in logic and </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">achieve</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> nothing.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Is there any wonder why the</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> last few years have placed additional stressors on everyone?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I needed something to attack. I needed a mission.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mission is to encourage Operators to engage in these resiliency enhancing activities on a regular and consistent basis and have an accountability process for training your resiliency. It is my hope that through this accountability process regular face to face human interaction will be increased. Conversations will organically occur. If / when these conversations transition to something like bro, I am not good - I want the Operators to have the skills </span><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">to transition that conversation directly to counseling from a trusted source.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Execution:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">TYR (Train Your Resiliency)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">TYR phases</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phase 0 - Baseline</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 weeks</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sleep</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Counseling</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mindfulness</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time Management</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preparation for Phase 1</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have participants examine their baseline </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">resiliency</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Destigmatize</span> <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">counseling</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by encouraging participants to seek out treatment (lead by example - my first </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">appointment</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is in June). </span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Establish the foundation of a </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">resilience</span> <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">hierarchy. Get enough sleep. Take a few minutes every day to quiet your mind, and shut out external stimulus.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fill out physical goals worksheets and develop an action plan to get there. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phase 1 - Regular Exercise</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 weeks</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once that action plan is developed - there must be a method of accountability. It is easy to quit if no one is watching.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Participants owe their peers, the old gods, the team at least three workouts per week. Proven with a picture.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> There is a reason you have all seen my ridiculous post workout selfies.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkYXt06HsOlGE1qGJx9AZFSjPOXDOMoo2F8LfN5N5JQBYI4n9UUHj2MqOvyPllOrP8kmkKx-PFIq657tRJcTI8FaMeaeY1EASpk655aDXMqO-vOsoDGqmrfGiB2BXwcg6FLFrPTCYTyq4IKmkhRnVRi2xC2lcHMbar9dk2lkHlokTBXOS1Fdq0RSkq" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1472" data-original-width="828" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkYXt06HsOlGE1qGJx9AZFSjPOXDOMoo2F8LfN5N5JQBYI4n9UUHj2MqOvyPllOrP8kmkKx-PFIq657tRJcTI8FaMeaeY1EASpk655aDXMqO-vOsoDGqmrfGiB2BXwcg6FLFrPTCYTyq4IKmkhRnVRi2xC2lcHMbar9dk2lkHlokTBXOS1Fdq0RSkq=w225-h400" width="225" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phase 2 - Sound Nutrition</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 weeks</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phase 3 - Rule of 3</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 weeks</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Phase 4 - Hustle</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Administration and Logistics:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Admin (Who)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Volunteers for Beta testing </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">(to start)</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ramsey County SWAT (Next after Beta tests)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Logistics (How)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Daily / weekly check ins (communication) documenting accomplishment of resiliency strengthening activities </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Command and Communications:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Command</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As Executive Officer I will run this program</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Communications:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Each Stick will have a chat group. Operators will provide proof of progress to these groups. Team leaders will share with me.
</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Beta test participants will need an accountability buddy and establish communication protocols with them.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On Monday I started Beta testing phase 0</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It feels good to have this out of my head and into the world. The result as you can see is I can hustle (this blog is the result)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">More to follow - The Budo Blog will return with "Hustle"</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Train hard, train smart, be safe</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-79082590856160367742021-11-07T08:53:00.000-08:002021-11-07T08:53:49.715-08:00 Silence (The Me I want to be part 1)<p><br /></p><p> As many of my best blogs do, this one started with a conversation with Maija Soderholm</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG3rNquZdirqFqny77jD2acmtRMaHV_cyJ_dCFqJa7U4UQMoeiW0ciypv7d37QDTG7OaSo47lypHI0GN2d4Ro3AqCkgq4J-dcK65dOxmWcMEJUpRZC7vL87yqpA7CJmbq2jJfVvxvFb8M/s960/stick+and+move.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="742" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG3rNquZdirqFqny77jD2acmtRMaHV_cyJ_dCFqJa7U4UQMoeiW0ciypv7d37QDTG7OaSo47lypHI0GN2d4Ro3AqCkgq4J-dcK65dOxmWcMEJUpRZC7vL87yqpA7CJmbq2jJfVvxvFb8M/w494-h640/stick+and+move.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><br /><p>Conversation with Maija - </p><p>Maija: I am working a lot and trying to get my creativity and motivation back. Isolation did a number on that</p><p>Kasey: I hear that. It has been a weird few years</p><p>Maija: It truly has. I have found I am motivated by conversation and practice WITH others, and am very bored listening to the voice in my head lol.</p><p>Kasey: I think people forget humans are social creatures - need tribes not only for survival , but basic maintenance / wellbeing. People forget until that is gone and the absence is felt.</p><p>I legit put on over 30 lbs. of boohoo I'm sad that I can't wrestle my friends so I guess I should eat like shit to make myself feel better weight.</p><p>Maija: I think this has been a common occurrence.. seeing pictures of our good friends [names redacted] brought it home lol.</p><p>Kasey: Luckily I was able to get some things in my head straight (straighter?) and I dropped 40 - but that was rough. Things are picking back up on my side. But It was so weird to look for that passion / fire for the things I love to do and find nothing</p><p>Maija: I'm still climbing the hill. I do teach an in person Bagua class again so that's awesome, but no regular Eskrima yet and my skills are getting rusty 🙁. Also need to get fitter.</p><p>Kasey: I hear that sister! If it is any help there is light at the end. Being with people helps that strength return.</p><p>That is the last step I think in reclaiming "me" I guess - the juice in the tank to share my thoughts with others. That is why this blog entry is the first part of the me I want to be series.</p><p>Gas in the tank / emotional energy is one aspect, choosing your battles is another.</p><p>Deciding to fight, what is worth fighting for? Why do we fight over ridiculous things?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgM5lP7QYMP_7meRa4HASR82eOF-CB7s8q1o_k3Iko0CZxnIrZmdwm0mgMDZvkUJqmsq9kQlRau2nnfNcdnrhZexSu1dBw9xXvNH_DwI1rcTAwi7kqmnDM22KFmSJ81MxLItca9jerPVk/s960/too+many+battles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="642" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgM5lP7QYMP_7meRa4HASR82eOF-CB7s8q1o_k3Iko0CZxnIrZmdwm0mgMDZvkUJqmsq9kQlRau2nnfNcdnrhZexSu1dBw9xXvNH_DwI1rcTAwi7kqmnDM22KFmSJ81MxLItca9jerPVk/w429-h640/too+many+battles.jpg" width="429" /></a></div><br /><p>Since my last blog post, I've been accused of promoting rape culture for sharing a picture of Ravishing Rick Rude, a famous wrestling heel from the 80's. I've also received criticism over mundane popular culture posts and humorous memes expressing opinions about the efficacy of wearing masks. What is my opinion? It doesn't really matter what my opinion is. I have every right to express it as I see fit.</p><p>I had a legitimate fear of being cancelled. How am I going to help promote #500 (something I am sincerely passionate about) if I'm getting yelp reviews calling me a misogynist? Also, its been a long 18 months and I really didn't have the energy to fight a fight that would put unwanted attention on me.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMmcuO8Jf9QFduFdpkAw-61LltCoqFrq-ybQlRercQvKTRUGsEow3qvtrWGXiBbQ_XCXfa9xRKHHeKjalYdsFU4M5BLJHKIjWfldFDFpbvyJFN2OhvlhPNv5LID1ORGtAHrxc73X3-cA/s638/compassion.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="638" height="487" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMmcuO8Jf9QFduFdpkAw-61LltCoqFrq-ybQlRercQvKTRUGsEow3qvtrWGXiBbQ_XCXfa9xRKHHeKjalYdsFU4M5BLJHKIjWfldFDFpbvyJFN2OhvlhPNv5LID1ORGtAHrxc73X3-cA/w487-h487/compassion.jpg" width="487" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I shared the meme above and Facebook "fact checkers" put an untruthful warning label on it. If I'm receiving hate for posting a picture of a wrestler from the 80's and a comedian's quote stating his own opinion is thought crime, how am I possibly going to be able to discuss more serious matters?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUOWBHvpTdrsY6D1YV7fbAW2NVngFNfiKLLCuUTbDftPIDVMgYGUemU-dV0gyC1AHc3y84hZwPrPUHjoC9SdndPj8OPGD_h8PQZp1UJbio2f1fjjjII6mbIscRHX3LsokJAFniPx6SMEY/s500/feared+and+hated.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="354" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUOWBHvpTdrsY6D1YV7fbAW2NVngFNfiKLLCuUTbDftPIDVMgYGUemU-dV0gyC1AHc3y84hZwPrPUHjoC9SdndPj8OPGD_h8PQZp1UJbio2f1fjjjII6mbIscRHX3LsokJAFniPx6SMEY/w454-h640/feared+and+hated.jpg" width="454" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've always loved the X-Men. Never have the words - fighting to protect a world that hates and fears them ever hit me harder. There are plenty of lucky mutants that can hide. They can avoid the hatred. They can do that, because the X-Men fight the battles that need to be fought.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was afraid of being cancelled</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUqDd34OcKp_tw0Lxa4HWgAy_sm-dYsd3xM_3O9qF9p22f_SEweHVXgqcsEhoAtl_wDBNrrODJpgagaFwPxA7l83aNnGPpUHIw_YjBmD8_tVugzB6l31X7LtO7O7XNyBHNzwwXu350BTg/s371/fear+is+the+mind+killer.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="236" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUqDd34OcKp_tw0Lxa4HWgAy_sm-dYsd3xM_3O9qF9p22f_SEweHVXgqcsEhoAtl_wDBNrrODJpgagaFwPxA7l83aNnGPpUHIw_YjBmD8_tVugzB6l31X7LtO7O7XNyBHNzwwXu350BTg/w408-h640/fear+is+the+mind+killer.jpeg" width="408" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You win, or you learn. The attendance it this year's Violence Dynamics was 15 students. We had a very good seminar but that turn out isn't exactly a victory. My head space, my fear, caused me to be silent for the entire year leading up to Prime 22. Like many stories, running from my fear caused what I feared to come to pass. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">How am I going to discuss serious topics? Fuck it - I just will. Who am I going to let stop me?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It would be cowardly to avoid these discussions.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If not me, then who? If not now, when?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxgzkFPotch_4cQ7yJxtnhADTc6jHfdHehz5YT_bMvgIaKSm-ptAI-AG2zXOTG8CM50Edbc30bAz_sh4MyfReuLXp0rOfQNUQWiAPPxtGOy2L-kt78qdXAEViJgqQDeBdITbb7VdHMiFE/s295/jdj+do+it+anyway.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="295" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxgzkFPotch_4cQ7yJxtnhADTc6jHfdHehz5YT_bMvgIaKSm-ptAI-AG2zXOTG8CM50Edbc30bAz_sh4MyfReuLXp0rOfQNUQWiAPPxtGOy2L-kt78qdXAEViJgqQDeBdITbb7VdHMiFE/w512-h504/jdj+do+it+anyway.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I draw inspiration from a song by Rob Bailey and The Hustle Standard</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Try 'n Hold Me Back"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I'm taking this opportunity</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">To clear this mess out of my head</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">To clear this blood out of my lungs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I need to dig holes</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">To bury the dead </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">… Look at yourself in the mirror</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And tell me what a man is without pride</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Tell me what a man is without fire in his eyes</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Tell me who the fuck you are</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">… Fuck the bottom, I belong at the top</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tell me who the fuck you are. Answering that question, answering what is the best version of myself / ourselves will be the topic of the next few blogs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Kelly Sayer asked me what I was doing today. I told her I was blogging, I have been quiet for too long. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Kelly replied - Which is not normally a sentence that would ever be associated with Kasey Keckeisen.😁</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The thought that popped into my head was that - Kasey FUCKING Keckeisen (the name I have given to my best self) hasn't been around for awhile. Its about time that mother fucker made a come back.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have returned to a place where I have the energy to discuss serious topics that I am passionate about with other people.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am willing to accept the consequences of being public with my thoughts. Honestly, I have zero fucks left to give. If you don't like what I write no one is forcing you to read this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4NMQS475QMf5B1_aBmtVoWi83aTHuxe677gm5mSJ_dE4wTgKVZeDm4rlhSGY_fAggvYtrBaWksm8eZ5jBUHgMq-zKsLT6tD4zPwkQb5ni5445FeDWp0cMlx0pZuRhvTdWCkJ1sID4qcs/s905/those+that+matter+don%2527t+mind.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="843" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4NMQS475QMf5B1_aBmtVoWi83aTHuxe677gm5mSJ_dE4wTgKVZeDm4rlhSGY_fAggvYtrBaWksm8eZ5jBUHgMq-zKsLT6tD4zPwkQb5ni5445FeDWp0cMlx0pZuRhvTdWCkJ1sID4qcs/w496-h532/those+that+matter+don%2527t+mind.jpg" width="496" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Those criticizing me are not helping people find their strength. I will not let them stop me from doing everything I can to build stronger people. Try and hold me back!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That starts with building a stronger me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Budo Blog will return with "What is your best self (The me I want to be part 2)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Train Hard, Train Smart, Be Safe</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">...Fuck the bottom I belong on the top!</div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br />Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-62996767097737387192020-12-16T10:52:00.000-08:002020-12-16T10:52:58.933-08:00This is the way part 2 - Training<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59kcZQJSQSJgFsAyoBbmKSrzscuLmiI7gR9BMQCdYq3v6FPirjst-MUnCnWpvCeIqnvD6bajvHSQP9ZZYwer-BgrIqAIUqvgF1VtX-A8J3xLGuZBozhiionA7plwunZxmVNZeTOC_4Wg/s608/cobra+kai.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="522" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59kcZQJSQSJgFsAyoBbmKSrzscuLmiI7gR9BMQCdYq3v6FPirjst-MUnCnWpvCeIqnvD6bajvHSQP9ZZYwer-BgrIqAIUqvgF1VtX-A8J3xLGuZBozhiionA7plwunZxmVNZeTOC_4Wg/s320/cobra+kai.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Last blog I said I would explain what I have been doing since May in a series of blogs.</div><div><div>Train - Lift - Shoot - This way</div><div><br /></div><div>This blog lets focus on <b><u>TRAIN</u></b></div><div><br /><div>What have I been doing since May?</div><div><div><br /></div><div>Well...</div><div><br /></div><div>By pushing the limit of what was "allowed" I was able to train with <a href="https://500rising.com/">#500 Rising</a> and graduate from the first ever Instructional Foundations - Women’s Self Defense (500 Rising Instructor Course)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXA1VKjlsbTU-6oCLNTep7iEYjBSfw6zTh7EgOaAXFUf4eSXn36sZsamhftC97DC8YdLH1yLQqCVKldLmzIVzInJuHvjIDz8gjs8DXo61_B1Dc6bI1FnZf1wI84ERoAPwW-HH2FNbalM/s1136/500+eyev2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="1136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXA1VKjlsbTU-6oCLNTep7iEYjBSfw6zTh7EgOaAXFUf4eSXn36sZsamhftC97DC8YdLH1yLQqCVKldLmzIVzInJuHvjIDz8gjs8DXo61_B1Dc6bI1FnZf1wI84ERoAPwW-HH2FNbalM/s320/500+eyev2.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The 10th Anniversary of Violence Dynamics had to be changed drastically and often, and then changed again with mere hours notice, but I was able to train with brave, like minded people, and had a great time. </div><div><br /></div><div>Mostly, I spent a lot of time being frustrated as fuck. I spent a lot of time not being "allowed" to train. </div><div>It got to the point I nearly broke. It was a very low point for me. I thought if I, Kasey "Fucking" Keckeisen, someone who is so obviously addicted to training, has lost passion for this, who the fuck is ever going to want to come back and train? </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8sLzTOdLR2YMdKFP1t74UdkhLKgcPlsuAvv-tlo4Ep36KPm0hrcJNIHffdeyVDv82GfvKfmA9k8agB7AGkX_ZE_xisC7CvvIR3jXXjb2CPWpskCtkioUdmXBd72sZZnSwnbhNFpPlz2Q/s1280/i-love-training-trainings-my-favorite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8sLzTOdLR2YMdKFP1t74UdkhLKgcPlsuAvv-tlo4Ep36KPm0hrcJNIHffdeyVDv82GfvKfmA9k8agB7AGkX_ZE_xisC7CvvIR3jXXjb2CPWpskCtkioUdmXBd72sZZnSwnbhNFpPlz2Q/w400-h225/i-love-training-trainings-my-favorite.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Then I was inspired. Cobra Kai never dies! I can't give up! Mostly because I don't want to see who I might become if I don't have the outlet of regular training to keep my head straight.</div><div><br /></div><div>So I turned the set back of not being allowed to train into an opportunity to reimagine what I want to do. How do I want to train? How do I want to run the Dojo?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Dojo is allowed to run relatively overhead free because of the Police Activity League which is geared toward youth 14-21 years old. The current student list has very few members in that demographic. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXSNqws2k5JuJ2msE3vzrX-_2Qc4DDdwzR6sBpELAls8gXNqiMFlwu0UJSc6_eF8Jg1lo52cniNE_C8NspLVrb33ACDYqP5oSUTyEpixU1DpHD6zOcBrJVa5y0tJrJvX8TSWS7yvlhCU/s960/current+students.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXSNqws2k5JuJ2msE3vzrX-_2Qc4DDdwzR6sBpELAls8gXNqiMFlwu0UJSc6_eF8Jg1lo52cniNE_C8NspLVrb33ACDYqP5oSUTyEpixU1DpHD6zOcBrJVa5y0tJrJvX8TSWS7yvlhCU/s320/current+students.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I decided to embrace the fun of Sport Jujitsu to provide a reason for young people to train. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I also felt that Sport Jujitsu / Para Jujitsu would be an excellent way to provide people (especially veterans) coping with disabilities a long term means to overcome their challenges through training and competition.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">People practice Jujitsu for many different reasons. However, if you ask most people why they train they will say because it is FUN!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">How is recreation a legitimate use of force? All contact sports are an agreement between the participants to the level and type of force that will be used for the fun of the game. A contact contract if you will. The sport aspect of Jujitsu is no different. The Keishoukan Dojo plays with many different rule sets with varying levels and types of contact including Freestyle Karate (Sabaki Challenge), Freestyle Judo, Combat Wrestling, and USJJF Sport Jujitsu, USJJF Para Jujitsu</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QH69gWmbXCM" width="320" youtube-src-id="QH69gWmbXCM"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">What if I lose?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Dojo is a safe place to do physically dangerous things. It is a safe place to lose.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Confidence is built through competence. Competence is built using modern sporting methods to prepare practitioners for the situations they may face and train them to deal with those situations in the most realistic manner safely possible.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mutual welfare and benefit is a major tenant of Judo (a modern form of Jujitsu). The emphasis of these drills is placed on making each other better, as opposed to defeating your partner. Your brain can’t trust what it has never tested. Some things can only be tested against a resistive partner. You might not always “win” but you will always learn. Failure is a necessary step in the path to progress. At the Keishoukan, you are encouraged to test your limits, find them, struggle, and exceed them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QEaluD1aL83lGx8OD-cM7qv4uoX3ivwKKMeSctKkcm2NXyuZGxO4NB5tfPE5YANPUYRLmCCb7zB6J9-e5CkmtHTyvrjwKG3vXZGLfqOApP2bLKh3K99VfHB_8o_R82TzQgXXDeIUduI/s326/defeat.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="326" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QEaluD1aL83lGx8OD-cM7qv4uoX3ivwKKMeSctKkcm2NXyuZGxO4NB5tfPE5YANPUYRLmCCb7zB6J9-e5CkmtHTyvrjwKG3vXZGLfqOApP2bLKh3K99VfHB_8o_R82TzQgXXDeIUduI/w400-h133/defeat.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Won’t I get hurt?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Any contact activity has a chance of injury. So does getting out of bed or crossing the street. Nothing worth doing can be made 100% safe. However, our training is very 40 plus friendly. It makes no sense to train in order to protect yourself against injury from an assault, only to injure yourself at practice. Our training is designed to be safe, and fun for people of all ages and abilities. Games are structured so that you will be able to decide the intensity level of your training.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfRSYwPtcGANANCWKgPf4sng5PFp8uH4p7p93C20LP1wGUiZzk3jM_nrAX8kG6vM7n5tXrUIQEfuPHPnVrw7Z_JThditxWLMNz2JB_lxSp1hMqmXyUeJCfShatltujJdsFqLxlV0AFZg/s324/pain.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="138" data-original-width="324" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfRSYwPtcGANANCWKgPf4sng5PFp8uH4p7p93C20LP1wGUiZzk3jM_nrAX8kG6vM7n5tXrUIQEfuPHPnVrw7Z_JThditxWLMNz2JB_lxSp1hMqmXyUeJCfShatltujJdsFqLxlV0AFZg/w400-h170/pain.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Recreation, the sport aspects of Jujitsu provides a means to learn through play, and to pressure test skills. Maintaining the traditions of the past while utilizing the best training methods of today. Martial art, especially martial sport is not self defense, however it provides a laboratory to experiment with physical confrontation and a means to develop endurance, strength, agility, and courage.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGL1PImulpaGHdgh2RY0A_FMoBOmAI2XKDV9_zk9asIOuSkzKjwX6giC4sOqRa8NHYCpKvVuAJXrzj4A70wmNRpDeG8o3ltU5emJkA1EOu8yNr4Df9xhq2ws7Wctc0zCTQkt6D34gq1Ik/s325/fear.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="136" data-original-width="325" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGL1PImulpaGHdgh2RY0A_FMoBOmAI2XKDV9_zk9asIOuSkzKjwX6giC4sOqRa8NHYCpKvVuAJXrzj4A70wmNRpDeG8o3ltU5emJkA1EOu8yNr4Df9xhq2ws7Wctc0zCTQkt6D34gq1Ik/w400-h168/fear.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Finding a way to provide Sport Jujitsu for youth without taking away from the personal protection curriculum took all summer. As much as I was pissed that we were not "allowed" to train I was thankful for the time to plan. Because I am very proud of the end product.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The panoply of Jujitsu is too large to teach parts of every aspect every class. I had to find a logical way to simplify.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">From my experience as a parent of athletes, long late practices suck - they add a lot of undue stress on the athlete's family. I figured the youth class should only be an hour. The adult class can continue as necessary.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Classes break down like this </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Warm up<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 20 Min</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Topic 1 for all<span> </span><span> 35 Min</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Youth class ends - Adult class continues</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Topic 2*<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>35 Min</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span>Each week focuses on one aspect of Jujitsu needed for competition and an additional topic for more advanced competition (techniques reserved for adult competition) and personal protection.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj40oVD_WVM_N_LVhrlRrze6MzFIXXJn-mzj-Z2HHRUUIVG67VLJ5IqUwBki8Kn8pTDGOhGMyyQerqNUcronB0Rc-e7Y3U8vDA2V2lvqJJwY8n5MZ4iZvVWg4WpDEkND5GoeDcEGgRhwHQ/s601/cobra+kai+wall.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="601" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj40oVD_WVM_N_LVhrlRrze6MzFIXXJn-mzj-Z2HHRUUIVG67VLJ5IqUwBki8Kn8pTDGOhGMyyQerqNUcronB0Rc-e7Y3U8vDA2V2lvqJJwY8n5MZ4iZvVWg4WpDEkND5GoeDcEGgRhwHQ/w400-h196/cobra+kai+wall.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Weeks 1 4 7 10 13</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span>Strike First </span>- Hits for Jits</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span>Atmei Waza - Striking (This will look a lot like a Karate / Bareknuckle Boxing class)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span>Similar to WWII combatives, Atemi Waza (striking) builds the foundation of what will follow.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span>Bogyo (Defense) - Defense pfft - More Offense! Blocking is reactive at best and passive at worst. We will focus on strikes that also defend.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1URazbFIW9ccHH7b9gvhRW4_AXwFKlEA95gEPOe-Nc8KtEDDAFNeHg_2qDmfBt6yfo60icpcAmNHkvAJGA5eTz8mGWPwh89TgtT0UdFcx75HAzR5ZAjFGRwzMBgjM50IUWux1ZUrjXGA/s257/even+more+offense.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="164" data-original-width="257" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1URazbFIW9ccHH7b9gvhRW4_AXwFKlEA95gEPOe-Nc8KtEDDAFNeHg_2qDmfBt6yfo60icpcAmNHkvAJGA5eTz8mGWPwh89TgtT0UdFcx75HAzR5ZAjFGRwzMBgjM50IUWux1ZUrjXGA/w400-h255/even+more+offense.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span>Shime Waza*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span>The strikes (hits that stick) practiced this week will be used to apply Shime Waza (strangles) for the adult class</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Weeks 2 5 8 11 14</div><div>Strike Hard - With the planet</div><div><br /></div><div>Nage Waza - Throws (This will look a lot like a Judo / Wrestling class)</div></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><div>To throw someone you must:</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><div>1 Move or grab</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div>2 Grab or move <span> *the order of move or grab is </span>interchangeable</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div>3 Off balance</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div>4 Fit in</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div>5 Execute </div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><div><br /></div><div>The strikes (hits that stick) that were trained in the previous week will be used to grab then move, and the defense (Bogyo) from the previous week will be used to move then grab to set up the throws that will be trained this week.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kansetsu Waza* Join locks - (This will look a lot like the unholy union of a Catch Wrestling and Aikido class)</div><div>The strikes from the previous week will be used to attack joints <br /><br /></div><div>Weeks 3 6 9 12 15</div><div>No Mercy - Finish it</div><div><br /></div><div>Katame Waza - Grappling Techniques (This will look a lot like a Wrestling / BJJ class)</div><div>Although this may look like a BJJ class we do not start on our back. So guess what? Groundwork will start with strikes that set up throws. Throws will be used to put them on the ground. Only then can ground work begin to gain a submission.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghSUE3fyd2vCHzFojdqgZIu30oAe_ytAvnBgzCAEjX8jOVy1N_wszXDwgtOdn5QbXIF98jNY3FGGUCxLOguYi5w_aE7Q1uVLVsa9TaR2Sf0NW_cxPI-0X6LSKAovOmUJSCJjaX1mH9ujI/s360/finish+him.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="360" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghSUE3fyd2vCHzFojdqgZIu30oAe_ytAvnBgzCAEjX8jOVy1N_wszXDwgtOdn5QbXIF98jNY3FGGUCxLOguYi5w_aE7Q1uVLVsa9TaR2Sf0NW_cxPI-0X6LSKAovOmUJSCJjaX1mH9ujI/w400-h278/finish+him.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Buki Waza* Weapons Techniques (This will look a lot like a CQB / control tactics class)</div><div>The adult class will work combatives including the use of and defense against Stick (Hanbo), Knife (Tanto), and Firearms.</div><div><br /></div><div>This training also gives me an opportunity to provide supplementary training to Law Enforcement (Taiho Jutsu) as part of the Transformative Justice Institute (much more on this in future blogs) </div><div><br /></div><div>I hope to have the school open in January. I hope there are brave, like minded people willing to train again. I also have plans in place to be able to train even if I am not "allowed" to re-open the Dojo. I won't become the version of myself that doesn't train. Cobra Kai never dies!</div><div><br /></div><div>The Budo Blog will return in This is the way part 3 - Lifting</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXDpohJO7HEqgQmp-cu0L_phNZ8uG7SGYJkts0nrFjfNihE_4U_D4eF8jwSUc2stK4joynQtosviVuD-ZnGxwPbT4SlOg-z5hspa8OCHF6GyR259Jz_BBujB1SWqTj88bjXFk4JfQ1gY/s300/tls+this+is+the+way.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXDpohJO7HEqgQmp-cu0L_phNZ8uG7SGYJkts0nrFjfNihE_4U_D4eF8jwSUc2stK4joynQtosviVuD-ZnGxwPbT4SlOg-z5hspa8OCHF6GyR259Jz_BBujB1SWqTj88bjXFk4JfQ1gY/s0/tls+this+is+the+way.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-31243803223094520872020-12-05T11:24:00.000-08:002020-12-05T11:24:08.566-08:00This is the way<p> Hey everybody, it's been too long since the last Budo Blog. May 23rd feels like years ago. I had a nice roll going...then riots. It's been a crazy couple of months. However, excuses are like assholes, so instead of crying about the past, it is time to roll up my sleeves ands get back to it.</p><p>What has reawakened my passion? Well, plenty. Honestly, more than I am comfortable sharing with the general public. However, recently I have come across a mantra that has helped me focus on what I can control, and place what can't be controlled out of my way.</p><p>Train - Lift - Shoot - This is the way.</p><p>That phrase really resonated with me. I train, I lift, I shoot, I am a huge nerd so you know I am down with the Mandalorian. I also really like this group that sells stuff for you to train, lift, and shoot in.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo2-qv3OBbcrBErLFTneGYyveT7dFhLTuuZ4VF9L1C6i8UL5AuySFcvfiPwv3kuMbPnNhE7SGOyFE-Zpdsc89-sGUp2Fol7UH8bdKFbejdL2A3hC0ONRQ7glmqioqQqAOKvb8WprY408U/s465/train+lift+shoot+pie.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="465" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo2-qv3OBbcrBErLFTneGYyveT7dFhLTuuZ4VF9L1C6i8UL5AuySFcvfiPwv3kuMbPnNhE7SGOyFE-Zpdsc89-sGUp2Fol7UH8bdKFbejdL2A3hC0ONRQ7glmqioqQqAOKvb8WprY408U/s320/train+lift+shoot+pie.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Train Lift Shoot <a href="https://www.facebook.com/trainliftshoot" target="_blank">Facebook Link</a></p><p>Website <a href="https://trainliftshoot.com/?fbclid=IwAR3o7oRxYmc_VzxYBIcdORSWrqVfdfs1iAbup__zYYMXy6kOsfRYBQul7JY" target="_blank">Trainliftshoot.com</a><br /></p><p>Train Lift Shoot isn’t just a product. It's a Way of Life. This is The Way. </p><p>That phrase served as a reminder. A kind of gut check I guess. Am I following the way? Is what I am doing right now the way? And if not, what the fuck am I doing?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlhZrGbsFkekXVKcM5a8fYJ4VxlbaayU7R2Snm4Hstwud6RgMnMcHfxNi1tG1-056I06na1xAkeycEuMIDalEu4wOKCsFOUYTsDLFCdB3212oeJ9c61IP0ldTmAM5AXRsc6p0o94Qsq4/s500/im+back.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="500" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlhZrGbsFkekXVKcM5a8fYJ4VxlbaayU7R2Snm4Hstwud6RgMnMcHfxNi1tG1-056I06na1xAkeycEuMIDalEu4wOKCsFOUYTsDLFCdB3212oeJ9c61IP0ldTmAM5AXRsc6p0o94Qsq4/w400-h395/im+back.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yeah...I'm thinking I'm back</div><p>You may be thinking - Cool, you are back - whoopty fucking doo! What have you been doing since May?</p><p>Great question, let's break it down into Train - Lift - Shoot.</p><p>It has been near 7 months so this will be a couple of blogs. Why don't we start with shoot</p><p><b><u>Shoot</u></b></p><p>In these times of turmoil I took time to reflect. I thought to myself... </p><p>My skills and training are worthless if I don't carry the tools necessary to be useful in a crisis on me. So I have taken a much more serious approach to my everyday carry. (More on that in future blogs) </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjItiuEo8jT9WTHj5I8Z9dluOWISvu2el9Vnk4kI4FMgOcaGRA4GtTyzXNFEYv_fFYhQEAQBHyubJYw_NdXFfDHEnZHLUZQhu6f_rkE0nsj4q1itONOiTS_jLYe4B0erXAphAomVdtwXbo/s499/weapons+are+my+religion.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="499" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjItiuEo8jT9WTHj5I8Z9dluOWISvu2el9Vnk4kI4FMgOcaGRA4GtTyzXNFEYv_fFYhQEAQBHyubJYw_NdXFfDHEnZHLUZQhu6f_rkE0nsj4q1itONOiTS_jLYe4B0erXAphAomVdtwXbo/w400-h255/weapons+are+my+religion.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Covid shut most SWAT training down<br />Covid shut most patrol training down.</p><p> Focus on what I can control, and place what can't be controlled out of my way.</p><p>I shot on my own at the lake. I shot on my own at the harm farm during Violence Dynamics. I was very fortunate to have those opportunities. However opportunities like that don't come along often enough to maintain tactical proficiency.</p><p>So, I've been doing a lot of dry firing. Like a lot, a lot.</p><p>If you are interested in seeing what I have been doing, or better yet would like to train with me, a unique opportunity is available starting 12/7/20</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWDSJMJjtqaRURQTToZS6hNYXFyJbXxw0c9whRJddJoYxMeERvCOzDwLGgnZs9fquPtROCVMxA8c8f6G3P281I7pV_oOFPOCqUMA0D0qeQmkl4NKevw2P-pVjHz7TZYtkfOgL8cZLxzKs/s1640/form+to+flow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1640" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWDSJMJjtqaRURQTToZS6hNYXFyJbXxw0c9whRJddJoYxMeERvCOzDwLGgnZs9fquPtROCVMxA8c8f6G3P281I7pV_oOFPOCqUMA0D0qeQmkl4NKevw2P-pVjHz7TZYtkfOgL8cZLxzKs/w400-h209/form+to+flow.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Form to Flow is a group of folks on Facebook. All are someway involved in physical culture. All, like me are making due with what they can during the time of Covid. The group started off as a platform to share ways to make solo practice more interesting, but has since evolved a bit. </p><p>The format works like this -</p><p>I will be presenting information all week from Monday through Sunday.</p><p>Sunday, is a Zoom meeting with Q and A and solo exercises</p><p><b><u>Here is the outline of what I plan on presenting:</u></b></p><p>Monday 12/7/20</p><p>Intro Document (Who is Kasey, why should I listen to him?)</p><p>Videos:</p><p></p><ul><li>How Firearms function</li><ul><li>Semi Auto</li><li>Revolver</li></ul><li>How to determine your dominant eye</li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Tuesday 12/8//20</p><p>Stance - Movement to stance</p><p>Connect to counter assault</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Front</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rear</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>*Distant</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Clearing clothing</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Connect to threat assessment - face it, name it (loop to Rory Miller’s intuition training)</p><p><br /></p><p>Wednesday 12/9/20</p><p>Meta Reps movement into stance </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Add forced inhale connect to breaking the freeze</li><li>Add beginning of one hand alignment </li><ul><li>Use resistance of retention to set up structure</li><li>Radial Bone alignment</li></ul></ul><p>Clear leather - (link to Jelly)</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>CQC</li></ul><p></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Transition to aimed shooting - connect to hikite - Karate</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Plant seed for sight picture - threat in sharp focus can’t fight nature</p><p><br /></p><p>Thursday 12/10/20</p><p>Meta reps on movement to stance & one hand alignment </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Add marrying up 2nd hand</li><ul><li>80/20</li></ul></ul><p><br /></p><p>Friday 12/11/20</p><p>Meta reps on everything we have done so far</p><p></p><ul><li>Add breathing</li><ul><li>Incorporate breathing in 360’ scan</li></ul><li>Add securing the weapon</li><li>Add self check</li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Saturday 12/12/20</p><p>Meta reps on everything we have done so far</p><p></p><ul><li>Add trigger press</li><ul><li>Two points of reference for finger</li><li>Trigger pin - why it is safe</li><li>Trigger reset</li></ul></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Sunday 12/13/20 11- 1230</p><p>Zoom Meeting - Basic Dry Fire Drills - Putting it all together</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone interested in joining PM me for details.</p><p><br /></p><p>Train hard, train smart, be safe</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-11621926766807048682020-05-23T14:10:00.000-07:002020-05-27T06:44:38.826-07:00Compared to who - Part 2 How?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Compared to who - Part 2 How?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was Teaching Assistant to Dr. William Lewinski at Mankato State University for two years. When we would conduct standards testing, each category was a separate test. Each test was graded on a steep curve based on the performance of previous students. For example let’s say some guy back in 1990 did 55 burpees in one minute. 55 burpees = 100% = an A. The amount of points were then converted into A-F grade scale</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The letter scores are averaged out to give you your overall score. So say a bench monkey could knock out 60 push ups in a minute (A) but his mile and a half time sucked say like 18 minutes (D). Easy math A =4 + D= 1 is 5 divided by 2 for the two tests gives a score of 2.5 or a C+</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inversely a student on the Cross Country team ran her mile and a half like in 10 minutes (A), but could only do 10 push ups in a minute (F). A=4 + F=0 divided by 2 gives a score of 2 or a C</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remember the idea of chasing perfection to catch excellence. The goal is steady observable progress. That is not possible without an object measure of your fitness. In the example above I’m sure the both the bench monkey and the cross country athlete each thought they were pretty fit, until they were exposed to an objective test that showed them areas of their fitness that needed work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have found that the fitness industry uses a five level scale like this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Combining my experience at MSU, running testing for Police Departments, and Law Enforcement Tactical teams with industry standards / best practices I have developed the Keck -O- Meter Scale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is the Keck-O-Meter Scale you ask?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Violence Dynamics has many international clients. As such an ongoing joke developed about English (American) and Metric measurement conversions. How far is it to the restaurant? Oh that's about 17 Keck-O-Liters. How much whiskey did you put in this drink? Approximately 1.75 Keck-O-Grams etc…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keck-O-Meters became a thing during the logic of take downs class. We were discussing the importance of off balancing someone before you attempt to move them. To make an example I used Myron for a demonstration. Myron as you may know by now is an impressive physical specimen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I said that a Keck-O-Meter is the measurement that N.A.T.O. uses to determine the physical capability of combat troops. Their toughness or “Power Level” if you will. I assumed everyone knew I was making a Dragon Ball Z Scouter joke. I said that Myron was 10 Keck-O-Meters and that I wasn’t what I used to be, so maybe I’m like 7.5 Keck-O-Meters. Quick Mankato State math 10 is greater than 7.5 so I probably can’t throw him. However, if I take his balance away and twist him up in such a way that he can only access 6 of his 10 Keck-O-Meters then clearly 7.5 is greater than 6 and throwing him is easy. Seeing Myron being unable to resist and be thrown with minimal effort is a great visual reinforcement of a principle based approach to take downs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After that class people came up to me to ask about where they can learn more about the Keck-O-Meter scale and wanted to know if it was named after me. Apparently If you seem sincere enough and appear to know what you are talking about you can bullshit folks fairly easily. I explained I was just making a joke, but a seed was planted that perhaps a Keck-O-Meter scale should be developed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How do you find your Keck-O-Meter score? Remember this is for your fit for. That is specific to you, so you should choose objective measures of the attributes you require. However, we can use fit for personal protection as an example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fit For What?...</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Personal Protection / Professional Use Of Force</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Define that (what does that mean?)</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Strong</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moves well </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Technically skilled</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Endurance / gas tank </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What does that look like?</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Power (1 Rep Max)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Muscular Endurance (Max reps in one minute)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Functional strength (ability to transfer these attributes to practical skills)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Power (1 Rep Max)</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Away) Bench Press</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Above) Over Head Press</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pull</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Toward) Row</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hinge</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dead Lift</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Squat</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some variation of a squatting motion (I like Zercher Squats)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unless you are actually training for a power lifting competition (power lifting is is your fit for). You don't have to kill yourself finding your one rep max.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Basic formula to calculate one rep max is:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Lbs X Reps X 0.0333) + Lbs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That gives you a fairly reasonable estimation of what your one rep max is. You can use that to help gauge your progress with less potential for injury than actually lifting a weight you can only move for one repetition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tests should be specific to you. For example the standards on the above tests are for a male my age and my body weight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can and should scale the tests specifically to you as well. For example my knees are fairly shit. So to test the power of my legs I prefer to do Zercher Squats as opposed to more traditional barbell back squats. To test my cardio vascular fitness I prefer to row as opposed to run.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Breaking yourself to see how fit you are really doesn't make much sense, and ultimately makes you less fit. Regardless of what you are training to be fit for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have included a link to the sources I use for standards so you can customize your own tests if you would like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l_kqqPUgEv_eXTgDmHuFJ0sac70v5A8X1_og61CYL68/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a> for your customizable Keck-O-Meter testing matrix.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please make your own copy and alter to meet your needs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Determining your Keck-O-Meter score</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Step 1 - The math. The Keck-O-Meter scale is based on a 5 point grading system. You can see from the test above I had a one rep max on over head press of 192 lbs which earned a 3 points.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">192 (3) - OHP</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">385 (2) - Dead Lift</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">291 (3) - Bench Press</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">204 (1) - Zercher Squat</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On my power attribute testing I earned a 3,2,3,1 respectively on each test.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Averaged out that is a 2.25 score for power. I wanted to make sure that anyone using this uses multiple tests, and tests multiple attributes. It would be easy for the bench monkey from MSU to just test bench press. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> How much ya bench?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I included a modifier. +.05 bonus for each test with a max of +.25 per attribute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For example, testing just bench press receives no modifier. Testing bench and squat receives .05 per test resulting in a .1 bonus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can see from my scores that my squat needs improvement especially compared to my bench press and over head press scores. The testing process points out an imbalance, that I can work on now, because I can see it (affordances).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took four tests to determine my power attribute so my 2.25 gets a .2 bonus for a score of 2.45</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Step 2 take your 5 point scale score and multiple by 5 to get your Keck-O-Meter score for that attribute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2.45 x 5 = 12.25. 12.25 = Expert / Good for that one attribute</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Step 3 average out the scores from testing all of the attributes required for your fit for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is an example of attribute testing for personal protection </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Keck-O-Meter scale works like this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elite / Superior<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[21 - 25]<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pro / Excellent<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[16 - 20]<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Expert / Good [11 - 15]<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Collegiate (SWAT Qual Min) [6 - 10]<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Intermediate / Fair<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[1 - 5]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elite / Superior is the ranking for 21 - 25 points. This intentionally set very high. This level is an extremely lofty goal. This is the level of fitness of a professional athlete at their peak. Pro Bowl / All Star caliber. This is as close to Captain America as reality can come until the invention of the super soldier formula and vita rays.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pro / Excellent 16 - 20 points. Also very difficult. This is roughly equivalent to a professional athlete. Hawkeye / Black Widow. <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Expert / Good 11 - 15 points Clearly this is no joke either. This would be similar to entrance requirements for Special Forces. Agent 13 / Maria Hill</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Collegiate (SWAT Qual Min) 6 - 10 points. This is right about what is required for collegiate sports. This would be similar to entrance requirements for Law Enforcement Tactical Teams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Intermediate / Fair 1 - 5 points. This is roughly equal to the level of fitness required to pass a Military or Law Enforcement PT test.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Make this process your own:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pick the attributes you feel are important to your fit for</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Test those attributes </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in ways that meet your needs (don't break yourself testing yourself)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What was your score?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What was easy?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What needs work?</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Develop a plan</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Work the plan</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are you more fit for your specific fit for, than you were 6 weeks ago? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>That is called winning!!!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You may never score that 5 star 20-25 Keck-O-Meter rating but that was never the point, in the attempt you caught excellence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So ultimately the answer to the question compared who, is you. <u>You</u> now compared to <u>you</u> then, compared to where <u>you</u> want to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How do you get to where you want to be?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Budo Blog will return in - Develop a plan part 1: Time Management.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Until then...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Train hard, train smart, be safe</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Asking compared to who helps provides an objective means to determine if you are becoming more fit. Regardless of what your specific definition of fit is. This will be a key stage in setting reasonable goals and developing an action plan to reach those goals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is your “fit for”, so obviously very specific to you. However we can use a general “fit for” personal protection as a template. I will include worksheets you can adapt to your needs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bench pressing your body weight doesn't necessarily make you better at personal protection, and you may never reach that goal. However, consistently striving to achieve that goal will make you stronger than you were before and strong people are generally harder to kill.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Looking at your fit for through the spectrum of basic motion makes quantifying your fit for easier.</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It might look something like this</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knowing how much weight you can move in these fundamental motions for one repetition is an objective measure of one aspect of your fitness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What do those exercise names mean? M</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">yron Cossitt of <a href="https://movementlab.fit/" target="_blank">THE MOVEMENT LAB</a> has developed a mobility testing method and training program for the Life Dynamics project. Those terms are short hand for the ideas Myron has shared with me, which I will share in depth in future blogs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alright, you <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">can dead lift twice your body weight, do 15 pull ups. You can also place your palms on the ground with out bending your knees when you bend at the waist, and </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">throw a punch that would knock out a bull. Very impressive!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, if you have to run a block you feel like your heart is going to explode and you want to die.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">At my oldest daughter's Volley Ball try outs they ran a timed 2 mile run. That fits in the o</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">xidative / sustained effort : 16 minutes plus category. However, Volley Ball primarily consists of sprinting 2-5 yards to return the serve, and a lot of explosive jumping. Volley Ball's primary skills fall into the ATP / max effort : 30 seconds to 3 minutes category.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The fit they were testing </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">for </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">had very little to do with what they needed to be fit for.</span></span></div>
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Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-16382195027006772662020-04-23T10:29:00.000-07:002020-04-23T10:38:00.937-07:00Fit for what?<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fit for what?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fit is a fairly broad term and can have many equally valid meanings. To examine this further let's look at two world class athletes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simone Biles and Eddie Hall</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simone Biles is an American gymnast. She has won a combined total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals, Biles is the most decorated American gymnast and the world's third most decorated gymnast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eddie Hall is an English professional strongman, notable for winning the World's Strongest Man competition in</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2017 </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and for being the world record deadlift holder, lifting 500 kg (1,102 lb; 79 st) under strongman rules. He has also won the title of the UK's Strongest Man and England's Strongest Man </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on multiple occasions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Biles needs to have substantial strength to accomplish the amazing feats of human performance she makes appear effortless. To be “fit” for gymnastics. However, she will never need to deadlift over two times her body weight! Training to be that strong would take time and energy away from other skills and attributes she needs. The result of that level of strength would make her less “fit” for gymnastics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hall needs flexibility and mobility to accomplish the seemingly more than human tasks required to win strongman competitions. However he will never need the hyper-mobility required to put his heel to his head or what gymnasts call a scorpion. Similarly, training to be that flexible would take time and energy away from other higher priority attributes that Hall needs to train. That level of mobility, no matter how impressive, would make him less fit for strong man competitions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The point being both are fit for what they do, representing a broad spectrum of what fit is. They are world class athletes because they focus their training on what they specifically need to be “fit” for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chasing a vague description of fit is like starting a trip driving in a general direction without a map or GPS. You might get there, but it will take much longer and it will be frustrating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Asking fit for what, is a way to move from a general idea to specific, identifiable, trainable, and testable attributes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Determining your "fit for" might start like this:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to run in the charity 5 K coming up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to make my classmates envious at my high school reunion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to wrestle varsity at 171</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to fit into my mother’s wedding dress</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to go mountain climbing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to kick ass like the character from the thing I like </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to look good naked</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once you have a clearer view of what you want to be fit for you can further refine that definition by determining the attributes your fit for requires. What does fit for (blank) mean to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To clarify this, lets look at the physical aspects of personal protection</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, what is fit for (personal protection)?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remember I'm a comic book nerd so when I imagine the personification of fit for personal protection, or fit for “fighting”, I think of an inner monologue from Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In that book Batman is contemplating shooting the leader of the Mutant Gang. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He thinks to himself:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>I can't think of a single reason to let him live. Except...he's got exactly the kind of body I wish he didn't have. Powerful without enough bulk to slow him down. Every muscle a spring, ready to lash out. And he is young, in his physical prime. And I honestly don't know if I can take him.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What does fit for (personal protection) mean to me? How do you translate - </span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Powerful without enough bulk to slow him down. Every muscle a spring, ready to lash out - </i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">into </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">attributes your fit for (personal protection) requires</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think that can be summarized as these attributes:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Strong </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moves well </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Endurance / gas tank </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Technically skilled</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Asking fit for what will yield specific attributes. The next question then is what does that mean? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The process this far kind of looks like this </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Personal Protection / Professional Use Of Force</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Define that (what does that mean?)</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Strong </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moves well </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Endurance / gas tank </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Technically skilled</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What does that look like?</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Strong</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Power (1 Rep Max)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Muscular Endurance (Max reps in one minute)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Functional (ability to transfer these attributes to practical skills)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moves Well</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mobility</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Flexibility</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Technically skilled</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Endurance / Gas Tank</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ATP / Max Effort : 30 seconds to 3 minutes : Ability to recover and buffer the shutdown point.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Glycolytic / Hard Effort : 3 minutes to 15 minutes : Ability to hold under the failure/shutdown point. (Get there fast and hold it)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oxidative / Sustained Effort : 16 minutes plus : Ability to hold a steady and consistent pace and come as close to recovering while moving as possible</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Skilled</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Striking</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Standing Grappling (Tachi Waza)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Take downs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ground Skills</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ground Grappling (Ne Waza)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Counter Assault</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Combatives / weapons</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you want to work this process for yourself I've included a worksheet here</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You should be able to copy it and then make changes to your copy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Asking fit for what helps narrow the field</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Asking what does that mean </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">will yield specific attributes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both Biles and Hall have to be strong, Biles has to be strong compared to other gymnasts. Comparing her strength to Hall's doesn't make sense and ultimately is unachievable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Asking compared to who helps determine objective reasonable </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">goals. A way to quantify your fit for.</span><br />
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I started writing a book this year. The process I am using, is to start each chapter as a blog I will eventually share here, and then expand that into a book format. I haven't shared much at all yet, mostly because a lot of what I have written so far is documenting research and experimentation. </div>
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You may be thinking, what the fuck is Zenkai Power? OK, for all of you pretending to be too cool for ultra violent Japanese cartoons the term comes from a show called "Dragon Ball Z".</div>
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The term Zenkai (全快) literally means "Full Recovery". On the show the hero's power increases substantially after recovering from injuries.<br />
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If all of this is far too nerdy for your mind to process, Kelly Sayre (founder of The Diamond Arrow Group) describes the same idea this way.<br />
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Ever since the Popeye cartoons I watched when I was a kid the idea of coming back stronger after being beaten down has always resonated with me.<br />
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That idea has served as inspiration when I needed it.<br />
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Dragon Ball Z is also known for "Scouters" a device that is able to determine someone's "Power Level" or an estimation of that person's physical capability.<br />
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In December of 2012 I was looking at the fitness portion of military.com and came across the Spec Ops fitness challenge. Click <a href="http://www.military.com/military-fitness/fitness-test-prep/special-operations-fitness-test" target="_blank">HERE</a> to check it out<br />
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I could exceed all of the minimum standards….except run 5 miles in 40 minutes. At the time I had to bust my ass to run one 8 minute mile, much less five of them in a row.<br />
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That did not sit well with me. I was not at the "Power Level" I felt I should be<br />
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So I decided that I was going to beat the Spec Ops fitness challenge. In order to achieve that I developed Batman by 40, and it worked! I was very proud of myself. I was on top of the world.<br />
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Then Wham!<br />
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Arthritis makes it hurt too much to run and I can no longer do the Batman by 40 program without limping.<br />
OK, brush it off, with a little trial and error I found new approach. Don't call it a come back, I'm stronger than before.<br />
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Then Wham!<br />
The School Resource Officer gig that I enjoyed and allowed me time to maintain the new training program was no longer an option for me.<br />
OK, no big deal I've been here before. Rearrange a thing or two. Replace walking with rowing. Make sure rolling is part of every Jujitsu class. Don't call it a come back, I'm fitter than before.<br />
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Then Wham!<br />
Blood Clot. I'm not supposed to roll or take hard falls.<br />
OK, scary but temporary just need to be on medication until that clot dissolves. Don't call it a come ba... are you fucking kidding me?!<br />
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Dog Bite. You can kiss all that progress you've made good bye because you ain't doing shit for a month.<br />
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That is where this blog started. I got knocked down again and was figuring out how to get back up.<br />
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The reason I am sharing it now is because many of us are in that same place.<br />
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Because Wham!<br />
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Corona. You can kiss all that progress you've made good bye because you ain't doing shit for a month...or two...or three.<br />
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Corona has knocked us all down...what are you going to do about it? How do we get back up?<br />
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We don't have access to performance enhancing spinach like Popeye nor do we have alien genetics like Goku.<br />
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We don't have access to the gyms, and dojos and many of the things we have grown to depend upon to maintain and increase our "Power Level" (and our mental health)<br />
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So, what do we have? PREP TIME!<br />
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When I was recovering from the dog bites the most difficult part was the waiting. For many of us the physical outlet of training is also a coping strategy to deal with stress.<br />
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Fretting about what I could not do only added to that stress.<br />
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So I focused on what I could do. I could plan. I could revise what I would do, when I could do things again. Planning was doing something, and doing something felt way better than doing nothing.<br />
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"An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means it's going to launch you into something great. So just focus and keep aiming."<br />
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Focus on what you can do and aim at what you want to achieve.<br />
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That is what the book, and the next several blogs is going to be about. Embracing Zenkai Power, finding a way to come back stronger.<br />
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When you are down, when you are getting up off your knees it sucks. However, it sucks less if you remember that no one in all of history achieved their potential on the easy path. Everyone worth a damn was where you are now or worse, and came out better because of it.<br />
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So just focus and keep aiming. How do you create a plan to increase your "Power Level", to increase you physical capability?<br />
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The Budo Blog will return with...Fit For What?<br />
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Until then - train hard, train smart, be safe.<br />
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Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-77862516882180063112020-03-13T13:05:00.001-07:002020-03-13T13:05:44.921-07:00Emotional Control<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-b717977c-7fff-64eb-7929-ffb9f7a5d940" style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">The meme is great because martial arts & combatives is written on the bicep (all the attention and effort is put there) and all the other operational disciplines that make self defense actually viable are listed on the rest of his puny body (given no attention). - Ego Management and Emotional Resilience being a couple of those things. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Emotions are just synapses firings and chemicals being released into the blood stream. We label them by how they make us feel. The chemicals are the same, the cause of the chemical release and the resulting feeling may be different based on the circumstance. Keeping with the drug analogy not unlike a bad trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Angry feels better than scared or sad but not as good as happy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Angry can be useful. However, be cautious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you know anyone that can't be happy unless they are upset about something?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do can't get coke to feel good, but my dealer is out so I settle for crack. Crack is easy to get, and makes me feel other than sad...now I'm addicted to crack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Angry feels better than scared or sad but not as good as happy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can't get happy so I settle for angry...now I'm angry all the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Angry is more useful than afraid. However, being able to recognize any emotion during conflict, and mitigate it so that you can use strategy is superior to simple rage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was running a range. Part of the range was dry fire drills, one drill in particular requires the student to balance a bullet point down behind their front sight bring the weapon up from just having cleared the holster to acquire a sight picture, trigger press, and pin return the weapon to starting position. If the bullet falls you have to air squat to pick it up (punishment).</span></div>
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There are two major projects I have been allocating time and effort to lately. One, developing projects I can conduct locally and work with local assets, two developing a lesson plan for Mega Prime Day 0?<br />
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Mega Prime is the 10 year anniversary, and we are pulling out all the stops! Day 0 is always something a little extra special. So here I am 11 months out trying to figure out how to make Mega Prime Day 0 a <b><u>LOT</u></b> extra special<br />
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Today’s blog sprang from a couple of recent conversations I've had with Kelly [Codename: Starbuck]<br />
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I like the idea of software before hardware. Education over physical skills. One, because they have the most bang for their buck. Learning to recognize danger and avoid it, or run from it, or talk your way out of it, will serve you far better than solely being able to fight your way out of danger.<br />
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Two, hardware stuff is fairly easy, anyone can find physical activities they enjoy and do them everyday. Something simple as walking 15 minutes a day makes you harder to kill.<br />
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So… the dilemma then, is how could we provide daily type activities that improve the software?<br />
Like a WOD (workout of the day) but for mental preparedness. Brain burpees?<br />
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As Kelly and I were bouncing ideas back and forth I mentioned that we have access to this group attached to the Violence Dynamics page that is not really used for anything<br />
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The Violence Dynamics Page has a purpose. The Viotribe group has a purpose. The Life Dynamics group has a purpose. The ODIN group is just kind of there. Held with a push pin to be used later. We could set up the software exercises as special missions and use the ODIN group for the purpose of organizing the missions.<br />
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<i>Depending on the demographic we are trying to reach, I'm not sure the ODIN page will work for "new" women. </i><br />
<i>That's my struggle...how do I find the balance between rainbows and butterflies and firearms and muscles</i><br />
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<i>The women I KNOW need this info the worst are scared of Mace</i><br />
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<i>That's also why I've been adding more of the "carrying yourself with confidence" helps at work and against attackers. It seems to be working</i><br />
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<i>It's all in the delivery right? </i>🙂<br />
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Exactly all in the delivery.<br />
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Not everyone was a 10 year old boy in 1984 and wants to play G.I Joes all the time. Doing “special missions” might not appeal to people that need this information the most.<br />
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At Violence Dynamics we often discuss affordances. The quality or property of an object that defines its possible uses or makes clear how it can or should be used. For example it is fairly obvious to sit on a chair. Less so to stand on it to change a light bulb, or break off a leg and use the upholstery to make a splint, or to use it as a blunt weapon.<br />
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In rock climbing you can never use a hand hold you don’t see<br />
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Over the last 10 years of Violence Dynamics, the product has been constantly evolving. An exponential leap occurred when the affordance of - we are not our clients - was acknowledged.<br />
Like that rock climbing hand hold. once we "saw" it we could use it. That changed the way we approached everything.<br />
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I feel we are in the process of making another leap. Yes, we are not our clients. However, our clients are not all the same. Our clients are very different from each other. A day 0 that would attract some clients would terrify others.<br />
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Myself for example, even though I need these skills for work, this is fun for me. Some people golf or hunt, I fight as an entertainment activity.<br />
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What is fun for me is a trauma trigger for others.<br />
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Some people (Tammy for example) will do fight stuff that is daunting, for the adrenaline dump, even if it doesn't look like 'fun' to her.<br />
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Our clients are not all the same. Our clients are very different from each other. Reminds me of a quote for the television series “Burn Notice” about a spy named Michael Westen, that Randy uses in some of his presentations.<br />
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Madeline (Michael’s Mom):<br />
It was my choice not to leave Frank [Madeline’s abusive husband]. And that choice made Michael strong and capable, while it left poor Nate just... How did two brothers turn out so different?<br />
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Tom Card (The man that trained Michael):<br />
Imagine that you're holding on to two bottles, and they drop on the floor. What happens? They both break. But it's how they break that's important. Because you see, while one bottle crumples into a pile of glass, the other shatters into a jagged-edged weapon. You see, the exact same environment that forged older brother into a warrior, crushed baby brother. People just don't all break the same, Mrs. Westen. Just don't.<br />
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People just don't all break the same. Our clients are not all the same.<br />
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Now I can see that. Now I know, and...<br />
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How can Violence Dynamics help different demographics?<br />
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Violence Dynamics is run by TYR LLC. Seems like anything I am involved with has to have acronyms, and when I am extra clever they will always have more than one meaning.<br />
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This gives us a name to use when the term violence in unacceptable. When we were in the UK we could not reserve the facility for Violence Dynamics because of the word Violence - I shit you not. We could reserve it under Krav Maga Global Presents: a weekend of cock kicking but don’t say violence because violence is bad and only bad people use violence (you can’t use a handhold you can’t see) but I digress...<br />
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TYR also just happens to be the god of war and justice in Norse mythology.<br />
I remember Rory saying - We are all small gods, we have just been conditioned to forget our own strength.<br />
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Part of the Violence Dynamics Mission Statement is - We believe that stronger people are more fun to be around so we’re on a quest to find them. And if we can’t find enough strong people then it’s our responsibility to make them.<br />
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TYR (pronounced tear like, tear drop) Manufacturing - we make people cry [It's not a Viody until we all cry]<br />
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TYR Manufacturing - we build strong people.<br />
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More accurately we are a forge. Clients come to us with different base materials in different states of refinement.<br />
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Some people just need their edge sharpened / polished.<br />
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Some people are putting their parts back together to be stronger / more beautiful than the original source material - like Damascus Steel.<br />
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Some folks have to remove the impurities / clean up the source material so that the process of reforging is more likely to be successful.<br />
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One category is not superior to any other category, nor are they static states.<br />
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Our forge has to offer equipment for all of these people to work on their blades<br />
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How will Mega Prime Day 0 be a LOT extra special? How will I develop local projects?<br />
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Violence Dynamics has a surprisingly high "recidivism" rate. As fun as it is to find strong people to play with, the most rewarding aspect of Violence Dynamics over the last 10 years for me has been watching people that return to Violence Dynamics help new people forge their swords.<br />
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<i>A small child enters Valhalla. The battle they lost was “hiding from an alcoholic father.” Odin sees the flinch when he slams the cup and refrains from doing it again. He hears the child’s pain; no glorious battle this, but one of fear and wretched survival.</i><br />
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<i>He invites the child to sit with him, offers the choicest mead and instructs his men to bring a sword and shield, a bow and arrow, of the very best materials and appropriate size. “Here,” he says, “you will find no man who dares to harm you. But so you will know your own strength, and be happy all your days in Valhalla, I will teach you to use these weapons.”</i><br />
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Seems to me that is what happened to this little fella. Also I remember Obi Wan straight up cutting a guys arm off because he shoved his friend in a bar. I'd imagine the reaction of child pictured above with an eye swollen shut has much less to do with the "Jedi Way" than being indoctrinated into a system that labels all violence as evil no matter how justified. </div>
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The other arc of the bullying advice pendulum is depicted here. Really - only constant training in the Dojo will protect you? The back fist a second grader practiced in Kata form for her bi-monthly belt testing is going to protect her from a sixth grader that is a foot taller and 75 lbs heavier than her?<br />
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Granted, training at the Dojo can improve confidence. It can also be a great place to make friends and develop social skills. All of which have the potential to remove children from some bully's victim profile, or make it less likely for them to be bullied. However, confidence can come from many places. One could argue that involvement in most any organized activity that the child enjoys will help develop confidence and social skills. Constant training in the Dojo is far from the ONLY thing that will protect you from bullying.</div>
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Are those consequences worth stopping the Bully's behavior?</div>
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Anthropologically group norms had to be enforced. If your behavior veered too far outside the parameters of normal you became a threat to the survival of the group. We don't survive that well on our own. So the challenge of facing the consequences of acting outside of these norms forced growth. You found your place in the group, you found a way to change the group, or you found a new group. </div>
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If we sanitize life from all challenge it stunts growth, and leaves children incapable of handling anything we didn't remove from their path on their own. No matter how well intentioned society will never be able to remove ALL of these uncomfortable challenges.<br />
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Click <a href="https://www.facebook.com/violencedynamics/videos/719947771810167/" target="_blank">HERE</a> to see Tammy Yard McCracken's live on this subject<br />
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If you are living outside of social norms, by choice, or by circumstance - gods bless you. you are on a more difficult path. Realize that you will face challenges (these are natural and everyone no matter how "normal" must face them). Nothing can be created with out the risk to fail. Develop comfort in who you are as an armor against "haters". Because as the saying goes haters gonna hate!<br />
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I haven't really talked or written much about this. I worked through it in my own way. Probably not the healthiest solution, but it was the way I had to do it. About two years ago or so I was angry. Angry all the time. It was around this time I discovered what I began to call my emotional reservoir. The amount of mental / emotional energy I had to deal with other people's problems. As a Police Officer I have to deal with lots of other peoples problems which is a deep drain. Then turning on the news and seeing American Law Enforcement portrayed as the enemy, as villains would take yet another bite.<br />
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When that reservoir is drained all that is left is angry. Angry is kind of acidic, it burns a whole in the bottom of the reservoir and makes it difficult to refill. I didn't want to waste my reservoir at work and bring home an asshole to my wife and kids. The stress relief of the Dojo, and the sense of family and support from the Viotribe helped immensely, but the angry was still there. So I tried to kill the beast. Exercising the angry away (exorcising your demons) helped, but you can only push so hard until you hurt yourself. Hurt = unable to exercise = guess what?...yup more angry. "Self medicating" helps for brief periods. But I don't want to be yet another cliched middle aged alcoholic cop. I've seen in others where that path leads. <br />
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Then due to circumstances beyond my ability to control I was informed that I would no longer be a School Resource Officer.<br />
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I was afraid. I feared the return of the angry, but it didn't happen. I worked patrol for months, and I was having fun, I enjoyed the job. Clearly some days are more difficult than others, but those difficult days just became funny stories you tell.<br />
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Late this summer I worked a set of shifts over a weekend with a person that I used to work with on a regular basis, but I hadn't worked with in a long time.<br />
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I like to start my shift with dry fire drills followed by coffee while I plot out my time management (what do I want to get done today as call load allows)<br />
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This person I hadn't worked with in a while spent the first 45 minutes of their shift pouring a nonstop flood of negative bullshit into my ear.<br />
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I get it, misery loves company. Everybody hosts a bitch session at work from time to time.<br />
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This seemed different though. This felt like he was taking pleasure from attempting to piss me off, going out of his way to anger me.<br />
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No one that loves you wants you to be weak<br />
No one that loves you takes pleasure in creating unnecessary pain for you.<br />
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However, the angry didn't return. Because finally I could see it. I don't hate patrol, I don't hate the citizens, I hate working with this insufferable prick.<br />
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I won't blame my problems on others. I will not grant others the authority over how I conduct myself, but now I could clearly see that my emotional reservoir was being depleted before I even had contact with the public.<br />
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McClure Sensei would often discuss how you should be happy if a Shihan ("master" / senior instructor) corrected you, pointed out something you were doing wrong. Don't be upset that you did something wrong. Be happy that the Shihan taught you. If they did not think you were worth it, they would not waste their time acknowledging you, much less talking and training with you. Now you know how to do something better, and you have something concrete you can work on.<br />
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I will not grant others the authority over how I conduct myself, but now I know how to do something better, I have something concrete I can work on.<br />
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I will continue to be polite and professional in my communication with this person. However, there is no reason on God's green Earth I have to be in the same place as him when he starts pulling his negative bullshit. I can hop in a squad car and go anywhere in the city that he is not. The thought of that is actually pretty liberating.<br />
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This has been cathartic to write, but how can this help anyone reading this?<br />
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I never really understood the idea of a "Toxic Person" until now. I have been fortunate to be surrounded by outstanding individuals<br />
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I like to think of my self as a reasonably intelligent person, how did it take me so long to recognize this "Toxic Person" ?<br />
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Once recognized how does one take actions to mitigate their effects?<br />
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I'm fortunate, now that I can see it (affordances) it is relatively easy for me to avoid the circumstances that allow that person to be "toxic"<br />
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What if that person is:<br />
Your Boss?<br />
Your sibling?<br />
Your Parent?<br />
Your spouse?<br />
Your child?<br />
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What do you do if you have become dependent on the "Toxic Person" for survival, financial or otherwise?<br />
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What if that person is dependent on you?<br />
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If I had easy answers for those questions I would be a far richer man, most likely with my own syndicated talk show.<br />
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So take with a extra large grain of salt. I am no subject matter expert in this field. I have only anecdotal evidence of me Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde experimenting on myself.<br />
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All I can offer is that after years of unnecessary stress, finally being able to identify a contributing source, and take positive action steps to minimize / eliminate that source felt fantastic.<br />
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What those positive action steps are for anyone reading this are clearly very different and very specific to the individual circumstances.<br />
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Those steps may be terrifying. They may require deep life changes.<br />
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No one that loves you wants you to be weak<br />
No one that loves you takes pleasure in creating unnecessary pain for you.<br />
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Those positive action steps may be painful, but it is a necessary pain, some growth can only come from pain.<br />
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You may need to build your own resources / abilities.<br />
You may need to force someone else into circumstances which require them to provide for themselves.<br />
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That can be painful, but it is a temporary pain that has lasting positive benefits.<br />
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I don't don't have easy answers, I do have some hypocritical advice though.<br />
You are not alone, there are people that can help you find solutions. Be strong enough to enlist their help. You don't have to do it alone.<br />
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I fell I perform better if I start the day with a workout. There was a time when I would just do my regular work out before Viody. Full body strength one day, running the next. However, that was time consuming, required equipment, and did not lend itself to group activity. So I got away from training before teaching, which kicked my ass when I got back home. </div>
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I have had success working out at the USMAA National Training Camp, even when I travel with the family, up at the lake, in Arizona, or at the in-laws house. I drive to all those locations which allows me to bring sand bags, suspension equipment and battle ropes - all sorts of fun stuff, but I can't fly with all that stuff.</div>
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<li>Can be done at any facility that can host a Violence Dynamics seminar</li>
<li>Could be done in a hotel room or where ever we are staying if necessary</li>
<li>Must be able to workout everyday of the seminar (without over training)</li>
<li>Strength training must be done at a pace to have cardiovascular benefits as well</li>
<li>Most humans not on PED's should be physically capable of accomplishing the exercises</li>
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<li>Warm up - Work out - Stretch all together should take less than an hour</li>
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Pull Ups and Chin Ups are killer body weight exercises, but they require some sort of bar to pull on. How does one work their arms, or back in an empty room? There are some door frame exercises that seem OK, but are you going to rest and let your heart rate drop while your partner, or a whole group take turns using the door frame? That doesn't sound very productive or fun. So I did some research, and give credit where credit is do. I took a lot of material from <a href="https://athleanx.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAtvPjBRDPARIsAJfZz0or_5NNebx0CT3Q5YyEzKFMAAetnVx1FEhELINXcUwJytbPCWI4NrgaAnisEALw_wcB" target="_blank">Athlean - X</a> and adapted it to my criteria.</div>
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I developed two deck of cards workouts. One focusing on pushing movements, the other focusing on pulling movements. That way I can do them back to back without over training any muscle groups. Deck of card workouts are done for time (as quickly as possible) so you have to hustle, thus adding cardiovascular benefits to strength training without relying on separate cardiovascular training like running. </div>
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I'd like to do this in DC. I figure Wednesday day 0 push, Thursday day 1 pull, Friday day 2 push, Saturday day 3 pull, Sunday day 4 push, and maybe I can even things out with pull before I leave for the airport. If not that is cool too because travel day can be rest day and when I get home I should be able to resume my regular work out program with out getting kicked in the balls.</div>
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I hate when an exercise program has weird names for exercises and just assumes everyone reading knows how to do the movements. So I have included how to videos for every motion.</div>
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If you are attending a Viody I think it would be fun to do these as a group before class. If you can't attend but like to play along there is no reason you can't do this at home while we are grinding it out at the seminar and share your results in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/561970040842306/" target="_blank">Life Dynamics </a></div>
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Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-52576955837750089032018-11-29T09:10:00.000-08:002018-11-29T09:10:10.132-08:00Friends don't let friends Squat on the Smith Machine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Budo Blog has been swimming in fairly deep waters lately so I figured it would be nice to just have some fun. </div>
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Jacob Shepherd: HEY! Some of us don’t have a choice.<br />
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Kasey Keckeisen: There is always a choice<br />
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Jacob Shepherd: Not when you have to use your apartment gym<br />
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Kasey Keckeisen: If that gym has dumbbells I’ll give you at least 3 better exercises than Smith Machine Squats<br />
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Jacob Shepherd: Do it<br />
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Kasey Keckeisen: Ok I’ll pm you some stuff<br />
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Allison MacDonald: I’d be interested too. I need to lift more (and smarter)<br />
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Nathan Corliss: I don’t use smith but gun shy putting the bar back in the back. Would like some dumbbell alternatives<br />
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Kasey Keckeisen: Ah, ok - This just became next week's blog<br />
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Dillon Beyer: Kasey Keckeisen isn't the hero this thread deserves, but the one it needed.<br />
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I thought to myself, I'm old and broken why are folks asking fitness advice from me?<br />
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Also, c'mon guys a simple google search should answer most of your questions.<br />
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So I did a Google search<br />
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What I found was young athletes with unlimited gym space and equipment doing super heavy alternatives to barbell back squats for no apparent reason other than they were getting too strong and got bored.<br />
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Then it made sense why folks were asking me. The information readily available was of little value to them.<br />
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If you can barbell back squat - do it. There may be several reasons why you can't<br />
If you can't and you continue to lift you have to ask...<br />
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What are you lifting for?<br />
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<li>To be more dangerous</li>
<li>To be a more effective fighter</li>
<li>To remove yourself from victim profiles</li>
<li>To maintain muscle mass</li>
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If you are lifting for some form of increased physical performance then you have to be smart. <br />
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You are lifting to be a better fighter, not fighting to be a better lifter, or more accurately fighting heavier weights.<br />
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There are plenty of people at nearly every gym in the world that are fighting to be a "better" lifter.<br />
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These are the people that load a ridiculous amount of weight onto a smith machine or a leg press machine and do 1/8 (no rep) squats.<br />
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These folks aren't much different than those that inject Synthol<br />
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In that they are not actually getting stronger, they are not increasing any form of physical performance.<br />
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They want to appear strong, and don't quite get that only the extremely uninformed could possibly be impressed by what they are doing.<br />
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Sadly the attempt to appear stronger without actually becoming stronger often leads to severe injury.<br />
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Clearly you are not one of these people, or you wouldn't bother reading this blog, or seeking out any information for that matter.<br />
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I mention it because if you are lifting for increased physical performance, lifting to be a better fighter, then the weight you move doesn't matter. You are not trying to impress anyone.<br />
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The weight doesn't matter, only the progress toward your performance goals. <br />
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I would argue that even body weight only exercises done with good form and through your best range of motion would increase your athletic performance more than weighted exercises on a Smith Machine that removes 5 out of the 6 axes of motion.<br />
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If you call bull shit on that look up the conditioning routines Martin "Farmer" Burns and Karl Gotch used to prepare for Wrestling<br />
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So even if you don't have any weights to lift you can still get stronger, and progress toward your performance goals.<br />
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I recently came across a post written by Stefi Cohen that I shared with my daughter.</div>
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"Women need iron. Not the vitamin. The barbell. We are trained by the world around us to have fucked up ideas about our bodies; iron unfucks them. We are taught that the only good direction for the scale to go is down, and to agonize ritualistically when it goes up. Iron teaches us the power of gaining weight for strength and gives us another weight to care about – the weight we are lifting.<br />
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We are taught to think of our bodies as decorative, an object to be looked at; iron teaches us to think of our bodies as functional, our own active selves, not passive objects for another’s regard. Whole industries exist to profit by removing from us our confidence and selling it back as external objects. Iron gives us confidence from within through progressive training and measurable achievements.<br />
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We are taught to be gentle and hide our strength or even to cultivate charming physical weakness until we start to believe our bodies are weak. Iron teaches us how strong we can be."<br />
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Women need iron, all humans need iron, and not just young athletic ones.<br />
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Being more powerful, more agile makes you more dangerous.<br />
Limping puts you on victim profiles.<br />
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So getting stronger without damaging yourself becomes vitally important<br />
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Maybe I am the hero that thread needed.<br />
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So I promised at least three dumbbell squat alternatives...<br />
Here are four Old Man Judo (getting stronger without damaging yourself) Squat variations<br />
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Besides working your quads, you can also add extra stuff like shrugs and toe raises.<br />
Holding enough weight to work you legs also works your grip.<br />
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Goblet Squat:<br />
Sink down get your hip hinge below your knees - load the weight.<br />
Pause at the bottom. Let the weight help you increase you range of motion (hip hinge below your knees). Press up<br />
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World's slowest Burpee:<br /><br />
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This was fun. I hoped it helped the folks that were asking for advice.<br />
If you have a question please post it in the comments. It might become a future installment of the Budo Blog.<br />
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Train hard, Train smart (getting stronger without damaging yourself), Be safe<br />
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<br />Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-82061254387314079302018-11-23T19:06:00.000-08:002020-06-09T08:58:29.223-07:00Thank God for unanswered prayersThis week was Thanksgiving in America. A time to take a pause and show appreciation for all that you hold dear. Then, if you are religious to thank God for those things.<br />
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The holiday, along with some projects I am working on, and conversations with friends I am truly thankful for, got me thinking about giving thanks for things one is not grateful for.<br />
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Awhile ago I had a Paul Harvey – the rest of the story, type conversation with someone. It was brave of them to share that part of their history with me. Especially because it involved a significant traumatic experience in their life. As I was listening, I was hit with several thoughts:<br />
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<li>Wow, I’m glad they feel comfortable enough with me to share this.</li>
<li>This person is even more amazing than my original assessments because they came through that experience.</li>
<li>Anger - I want to kill the mother fucker that caused this pain,</li>
<li>If I could go back in time I would.</li>
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But the thought that hit me hardest, and inspired this blog was…<br />
If I went back in time and killed that mother fucker would the person sharing this deeply personal account with me ever come to exist. Would they still be able to become the amazing person I have come to know?<br />
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In the animated film "Teen Titans: The Judas Contract" Beast Boy (Garfield Logan) is being interviewed by Kevin Smith after the apparent death of a team mate. He says,"There are a lot of people who have been handed a rough life. They never asked for it, but they do what they can. Many of them can’t rise above the hurt it’s just too hard. All that pain, the pressure crushes some of them to dust, others it turns into diamonds"<br />
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While my subconscious has been letting that cook, I have been working with a crew of outstanding individuals that I am truly thankful for on a Women’s Self Defense class for the high school I am a resource officer for.<br />
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Part of the O.D.I.N. (Network) mission statement is getting good information out to those that need it most, especially those that might not seek out this training themselves.<br />
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What better opportunity to walk our walk?<br />
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One of the things that this crew I'm working with excels at is helping me present the good information in a manner that those that need it most are capable of receiving.<br />
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A lot of - the point you are making is important, what if we presented it like this.<br />
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Besides being useful to others this corroborative process has helped me identify my own blinders, and is making me a better instructor.<br />
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As I was examining those blinders I came to realize that my discussion on "after" was very tough guy tacticool, and not as valuable to those that need it most as it could be.<br />
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Operational Disciplines:<br />
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<li>Legal / Ethical</li>
<li>Violence Dynamics</li>
<li>Conflict Strategy (Avoid/Escape/Tactical Communications)</li>
<li>Counter Assault</li>
<li>The Freeze</li>
<li>The Fight</li>
<li><u>After</u></li>
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I have blinders, but with help, they are getting narrower, I am seeing more.<br />
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After action Kata - get some place safe, check for injuries, get medical treatment if needed, call the police.<br />
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However, in the after many may face or have already faced a scary aspect maybe getting medical attention and calling the police:<br />
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<li>Dealing with a SANE nurse</li>
<li>Receiving a post sexual assault exam </li>
<li>Talking to Law Enforcement (signing HIPA waivers)</li>
<li>Retelling the incident </li>
<li>Telling you parents</li>
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A Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) is a qualification for forensic nurses who have received special training to conduct sexual assault evidentiary exams for rape victims. SANE nurses are specially trained in the medical, psychological, and forensic examination of a sexual assault victim.<br />
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I have blinders. I've only been on the Law Enforcement side needing information, and the biases that can be ingrained with that.<br />
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I was thinking something like what Terry Trahan presented as an OG track at Violence Dynamics Prime this year this could be helpful.<br />
You can do everything right and still be arrested for using force to defend yourself.<br />
Especially because so many times when the Police do show up, the person still standing was not defending themselves, but the aggressor. What is the first thing this aggressor says to the first responding Officer? It was self defense, I swear.<br />
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Terry taught a class that detailed what happens after you are arrested. Knowing what to expect can make something that sucks less scary.<br />
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Maybe a class that details what happens at the hospital so it is less traumatic if it ever happens.<br />
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What would I want my daughters know? What would I want my daughters to do?<br />
Holy shit that is an eye opener for you, starts to peel away blinders<br />
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What would I want my daughters to do?<br />
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It occurred to me that there may be undue pressure on my daughters. People joke about how tough they are, growing up around this, having Violence Dynamics Instructors, Tactical Operators, and Martial Arts experts that are like aunts and uncles.<br />
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I mean how many times have I bragged on them? How many times have I used the image above?<br />
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Does this place a false expectation of "toughness" on them? Too "tough" for bad things to happen to?<br />
If something bad happened, would that self perceived expectation add additional pressure?<br />
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"There are a lot of people who have been handed a rough life. They never asked for it but they do what they can. Many of them can’t rise above the hurt it’s just too hard. All that pain, the pressure crushes some of them to dust, others it turns into diamonds."<br />
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At one time the Federal Trade Commission defined a diamond as a natural mineral consisting essentially of pure carbon crystallized in the isometric system.<br />
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(FTC) has expanded its definition of “diamond” to include those grown in a laboratory.<br />
Technological advances have made it possible to create diamonds in a laboratory. These stones have essentially the same optical, physical and chemical properties as mined diamonds. Thus, they are diamonds.<br />
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Why do I mention this?<br />
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I need my daughters to know, I will do everything I can to create the laboratory conditions to make them hard as diamond.<br />
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I know they will be exceptional. Sadly in this world sometimes bad things happen even to exceptional people, due to no fault of their own.<br />
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Even Amazons can get hurt. They can die. Even the most well-trained person can get surprised. People die in combat - and not because they're idiots. They are highly trained "tough" people. It happens.<br />
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The trick then, is to balance training for the highest standard (lab grown diamonds)and knowing I have their backs <b><u>No Matter What</u></b><br />
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As exceptional as you are you are still human and allowed to go through human healing processes.<br />
I will be there for you then too. There is nothing you can tell me that will drop my esteem for you.<br />
If you are alive to tell me about something terrible that happened that means you survived - you did what was necessary, you did the right thing.<br />
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I hope the world never dumps additional undue pressure on you, if it does know that you don't have to be crushed to dust, you can become an even higher carat diamond.<br />
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I am thankful for all the people in my life that push me to be better. I am sorry for the pain that life may have handed them.<br />
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I am not thankful for that pain. However, I am grateful these people found the strength to come through the other side and use their life experience to help others.<br />
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Recently I took this picture of my computer - this is my life now, kick ass women and tactical operations<br />
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Yeah it's pretty cool - it's a good life - good enough.<br />
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Train Hard, Train Smart, Be Safe<br />
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one<br />
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The Budo Blog will return in - Friends don’t let friends squat on the smith machine.<br />
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Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-49904807543423522022018-11-17T08:48:00.001-08:002018-11-17T08:48:26.262-08:00Kicking out crutches<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Randy and Danny have been my Muse as of late. Danny's blog is <a href="https://intrepiddefinitions.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/current-best/?fbclid=IwAR3QLRAVhh8G3tT0JNeJ1l0hNdg0-yDZQjXOYUSy-9JfpubFWmGDD6d1jTI" target="_blank">Intrepid Definitions</a> is fantastic, and TIMELY. She keeps knocking them out. She doesn't take a month or two to get to it, she gets the work done, and does it well.<br />
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It is endearing that she doesn't know how good she is...yet. I love how brave she is exposing her thoughts to the Internet. I discussed this with my oldest daughter and she offered up this advice (to the both of us).<br />
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Randy asks me questions, then my brain can't shut up. So, many times processing out my thoughts to answer his question becomes a blog. Such is the case with the blog you are currently reading.<br />
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It started simple enough...<br />
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It is hard to put in words exactly. If I can't put it into words how can I process why I am feeling this way?<br />
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But, before I start tumbling down this rabbit hole, a disclaimer. This is just me (Kasey Keckeisen) the individual person thinking out loud. Theses thoughts in no way represent the Police Department nor the School District I work for.<br />
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I hate the soft discrimination of lowered standards / expectations and, it seems that modern society has fallen in love lowering expectations.<br />
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I understand many of these kids have suffered some form of trauma, and that truly is heartbreaking. Especially considering their tender age.<br />
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You don't make fun of a kid with a broken leg for not performing well in a foot race.<br />
Trust me there are things in these children that are broken.<br />
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You don't make fun of a kid with a broken leg for not performing well in a foot race, but eventually that cast has to come off if, the leg is ever going to be strong again.<br />
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Eventually you have to get off the crutch, even though it may hurt.<br />
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The job is tougher than I expected because nearly every day I see the discrimination of lowered standards. To use the analogy of the broken leg, I see authority figures give smiley face stickers to kids for using crutches 3 years after the leg break giving them the false impression that they will never be strong enough on to walk their own. Forget about running.<br />
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The saddest part is that when these children leave the safety of school the world will kick out that crutch out from underneath them the first chance it gets, and those legs have atrophied to the point of amputation.<br />
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I have come to realize that this is so ingrained in the system that it is going to take major disruptive changes to society to alter it.<br />
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I can not change it. That literally (and I never misuse that term) hurts me to type.<br />
Kasey Fucking Keckeisen does not lose! However, I can not change it. Not from the inside.<br />
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From the inside, I can only lead by example. Which I will continue to do<br />
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I can however, offer alternate education. Maybe strengthen those legs a little bit.<br />
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Recently the following story popped up in my Facebook timeline. It resonated with me and many of the people on the Odin / Alvitr team.<br />
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It gets dusty every god damned time I read that.<br />
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<i>Odin sees the flinch when he slams his cup and refrains from doing so again.</i><br />
O.D.I.N. has made people flinch on purpose as a learning tool, but we have also made people flinch on accident.<br />
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<i>Odin doesn't slam his cup he just beams with pride...</i> <br />
"Do you mind if I tell an off color joke?"<br />
We continue to learn and grow to push each other to be better.<br />
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What really stood out for me was this line - So you will know your own strength and be happy all your days I will teach you to use these weapons.<br />
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Can one every truly be happy if they never find their own strength? <br />
(Get off those god damned crutches?)<br />
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This job is harder than I thought, but I still love it.<br />
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I can't change a flawed system but I can help people discover their own strength, and be happy.<br />
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On top of being an excellent writer, Danny is also a gifted artist.<br />
She drew this<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It took longer than I would have liked, and I needed some job stuff to fall into place to make it work but I finally found it. In retrospect it took exactly as long as it needed to take for me to learn the lessons I needed to learn.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Batman by 40 was mostly suspension body weight exercises and running, with the strengths and weaknesses that went along with that program.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After that it was heavy barbell lifts, and experimenting with non running methods of conditioning. A different set pros and cons.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally after four years, I found a combination of things I enjoy doing. A Venn diagram of different activities that pros cancel out or over lap the cons of the other activities,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strength training that focuses on my +40 goals (maintain muscle mass, lose body fat) as opposed to chasing PR’s every week</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My old man Judo is a way for me to learn how to operate my new body.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are the arts people turn to when they become too old to “bang” anymore? Tai Chi and Aikido. It's not like I have over 20 years experience with Aikido to draw from or anything. I challenged myself to use the best of Aikido as a framework for training that works for me, in my new body, and allows me to continue to kick ass and have fun</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The changes I have made:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the past, I’ve tried to include the entire panoply of Jujitsu into each class:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Striking</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Practical Application / Personal Protection</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the time I get to Jujitsu training at night I have already been going at least 14 hours. Not a whole lot of gas left in the tank. Training takes a lot of energy, instructing even more so. At that time of night, this body can only handle about 90 minutes of training. 90 minutes is not enough for the entire panoply of Jujitsu.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I also used to skimp time on warm ups to make more time for technical training because I felt the need to fit all of it into one class.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This body needs to be thoroughly prepared for technical training.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have been playing with Kihon Dosa / Shumatsu Dosa, using them to ingrain structurally sound movement patterns. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also spending time on fundamental movement required for the entire panoply of Jujitsu.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go figure, doing things to prepare the body for greater strain that actually make you better at the technical aspects that create the greater strain.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The direct links to these </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">preparatory movements and increased performance in myself and in the students have been worth the changes.</span> </i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additionally I have included plain old timey stretching after we are sweating, before we wrestle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That leaves about an hour of class. So instead of trying to cram 8 things into 60 minutes, I just choose 2 of those 6 things and spend a solid 30 minutes on each. Allowing for deeper study and time for students to process the information (let it cook).</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students that come to every class will get the entire panoply of Jujitsu within that week.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students that can only come to one class, won’t notice or care that they didn’t receive the entire panoply of Jujitsu. They will be happy to make increased progress on the topics they were able to spend more quality time training.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><i>This has been the case so far, I've only been playing with the old man format for around 2 weeks</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the past over a 12 week course students would get:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4 x Striking</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4 x Locks</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4 x Strangles</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12 x Throws</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12 x Groundwork</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And, if they can only make it once a week they will continue to get all of that. However,...</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ironically with the old man format students that can train twice a week get twice as much:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span><br />
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<li>8 x Striking</li>
<li>8 x Locks</li>
<li>8 x Strangles</li>
<li>12 x Throws</li>
<li>12 x Groundwork</li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the Friday Night Fight Club we have the opportunity to play with:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Practical Application / Personal Protection</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pressure Testing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Force on Force / Sparring</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, cramming everything into one class kills me physically and is too much for many students to process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Training </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">the entire panoply of Jujitsu over the course of an entire week (3 different training sessions) has been paying off, and honestly, more importantly, it has just been way more fun.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because if you are not having fun, what is the fucking point?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'll tell you what, not limping is way more fun than hiding a limp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Train hard, Train Smart - Train for the body you have, not the one you remember or the one you wish you had, Be safe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Budo Blog will return in "Kicking out crutches"</span></div>
Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-688161819701431682018-09-29T09:35:00.001-07:002018-09-29T09:35:52.370-07:00Don’t call it a comeback <br />
Hey everybody, it's been a long time since I rock and rolled.<br />
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The last blog I posted here was from April. I'm sorry for my absence. I will not make excuses, but a lot of things have been happening.<br />
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You may be asking yourself - Kasey, you handsome son of a bitch, how can someone that is so obsessive about time management not find time to blog.<br />
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Honestly I had to prioritize some things and sadly blogging fell into the not time sensitive folder to give more time to things that had to happen.<br />
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Honestly, I wasn't even going to post this blog. It was entirely for me to get some things off my chest. However, after some thought I figured maybe it could be useful to someone in a similar position<br />
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The last time I wrote a blog I didn’t intend to post was after Jeff’s death. I needed a way to process thoughts. Writing helps me do that.<br />
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(This is how I show my love)</div>
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As I write this I have a cigar in my yap and a drink in my hand. I just got home from celebrating my 44th birthday with my family at a restaurant I love.<br />
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<i>Holy Crap! My birthday was four months ago. That shows how hectic life has been!</i><br />
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This morning I got paid to shoot guns. Life is good.<br />
Life is good – it hit me, this is the first time I have had that once familiar moment of Zen. Sometimes you become so accustomed to bearing a load you don’t realize how heavy it has become until you shrug it off.<br />
Sniper quals are once a month. I haven’t been allowed to attend a qual in 6 months. I was non-operational in that capacity. Today I killed it! I was me again.<br />
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As I mentioned, this is the second blog I thought I would never post. Mostly because it is about some things I have kept to myself that have occurred over the last few years.<br />
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From 2005 until 2015 I ran the crime prevention unit, which consisted entirely of me. That gave me the freedom to "self actualize" for lack of a less narcissistic term, to become the best version of me. <br />
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I could work out on duty. That freed up a lot of time to spend with my family. I made my own schedule so I could always go to SWAT, and Sniper training. I was on two SWAT teams. I was the first to show and last to go. I ran a majority of the training. I was the backbone of the team. You can always count on Kasey. Every Thursday I had Tactical training. By NTOA standards I was the only full time Operator (I use that word on purpose) in the entire State. After training I would drive home smiling because I just got paid to do what I love and then I'd have a 3 day weekend. Life is good.<br />
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Life was good<br />
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In 2015 the Crime Prevention position was eliminated (in retrospect it was too good to last forever) and the infrastructure required to maintain the best version of me started to crumble.<br />
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I was back on patrol, and had to fight to get to training on a regular basis. I was accomplishing it, but it caused huge amounts of stress. I had to give up the WMD team. The load I had to bear began to be felt. I didn’t have the time to run training anymore so my contribution to the team diminished. I could work out on duty but I was subject to call. I couldn’t just focus on, and enjoy training, I was always worried I would get a call. I always got calls interrupting training, again causing a ton of stress. The load got heavier.<br />
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A Patrol Officer quit, another was injured, we were short on Patrol (somehow we are always short on Patrol). I had to reduce Sniper training from 1/month to whenever the schedule allowed. The Sniper Team Leader let me to do this because I had earned my keep over the last decade. Anyone else would have had to give up their riffle. Stress increases, the load got heavier. I was apprehensive answering phone calls from old friends. Is this the call they ask me to leave?<br />
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Policy changed and we were no longer allowed to workout on duty. To maintain my standard of fitness I had to take a big chunk of time away from family. Even more stress, more weight to bear.<br />
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My old knees got bad. I couldn’t run anymore. I had to retool my entire approach to fitness. I put on weight. Clothes I bought during my Batman by 40 training didn’t fit anymore. Batman by 40 was achieved but at a price. It was not maintainable. If I can’t wear my clothes who am I?<br />
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More Patrol Officers quit, were injured or pregnant. Patrol was so thin I had to reduce my MANDATORY SWAT TRAINING by half.<br />
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Again, The SWAT Commander allowed me to do this because of the contributions the best version of me had made. Anyone else would have been kicked off the team.<br />
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This year, from January until Viody in Boston in May, Patrol was so short I was unable to go to any training, or take a single not regularly scheduled day off.<br />
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The load is starting to become unbearable. I have become the guy that <b><u>used to be</u></b> Kasey FUCKING Keckeisen. It had begun to affect Kasey the husband and father. I was not nearly as fun to be around. I had to focus on being human around my family, not taking things out on them, keeping an emotional reservoir that depleted ever more quickly then, full enough to be worthy of my wife and children. An opportunity to be part of a full time tactical narcotics / violent crimes team came up. This could be my way out. This could be great! Things did not go my way. Kasey FUCKING Keckeisen doesn't lose. The guy that used to be him just lost. I was angry. Like all the time. Angry was my default setting. The load kept getting heavier.<br />
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So much so that in June when friends came to visit, they mentioned that I look noticeably hunched over.<br />
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If you've seen this movie you get it</div>
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I didn't want to be a cop anymore.<br />
I couldn’t believe that I was saying that out loud. It hurt, that is not the way I want to go out.<br />
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I could see Violence Dynamics as a positive way out. The anger I felt could be focused on making that a financially viable business. I will burn my boats on the shore. Victory or death!<br />
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However, I am terrified that people will have no interest in paying to learn things from the guy that <b><u>used to be</u></b> Kasey FUCKING Keckeisen.<br />
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EAST METRO SWAT disbands and is absorbed by Ramsey County. There are now 15 guys on the team who have no idea who Kasey FUCKING Keckeisen is. The allowances of the Commander and Sniper TL are coming into question.<br />
It is a dark time for our hero (that’s me Kasey, everyone is the hero of their own story)<br />
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Begin act 3 - que the theme music<br />
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The PD creates an SRO (School Resource Officer) position. The Chief asks me personally to apply. I am the guy he wants on this job. This is my way back. I can do this until I retire and Viody is my full time gig. To get the job, I must go through three interviews, one with the Chief, one with the Principal, and one with the School Board. I kill all three interviews. I get the job. Kasey FUCKING Keckeisen doesn’t lose.<br />
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Now it is Summer and for the first time in a long time the Patrol is at full strength. I can take time off to spend with my family. I am free to attend SWAT and Sniper training.<br />
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With the new gig, for close to 10 months of the year I make my own schedule again. I can work out before work.<br />
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This morning I got paid to shoot guns. After training I drove home smiling because I just got paid to do what I love and now I have a 3 day weekend. Life is good.<br />
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Ah, there is that feeling again. Didn’t know how much I missed it until today.<br />
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I didn't realize how much of my self identity was tied into achieving that feeling on a regular basis.<br />
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Sometimes you become so accustomed to bearing a load you don’t realize how heavy it has become until you shrug it off.<br />
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I am cautiously optimistic that I will have that feeling on a much more regular basis now.<br />
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As I finish writing this, I have been an SRO for just over a month now. I love it. I truly enjoy working with the kids and the Teachers.<br />
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I have fallen in love with working out before work, which has been yielding results. I've gone from 244 to 228. The am grind also gives me more time to spend with my family. In the last week we went to the Renaissance Festival, a Minnesota Wild game, Lu’s Volleyball game, and Gi’s Hockey practice.<br />
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I have had 100% attendance at SWAT and Sniper training, and last night I ran training for the first time in far too long.<br />
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This is not a boo hoo feel sorry for Kasey story. I am truly blessed.<br />
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Recently a student asked me if I liked my job. Without hesitation I smiled and said yes, I love it.<br />
She replied - I can tell. Apparently I am not hunched over anymore.<br />
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I’m climbing my way back to a new best version of me. Perhaps the best me I've ever been. Apparently, I had some things brewing in my head I didn’t know I needed to process, until I felt a compulsion to address them reflectively on my 44th birthday. Then finally share them four months later. <br />
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With these (SRO and Viody) opportunities I’m excited to see who I will be on my 45th birthday.<br />
Don’t call it a comeback. I’ve been here for years.<br />
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So...with all of that said, I have built new infrastructure to maintain the best version of me.(see also got my shit together)<br />
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As such you will see a blog from me weekly either here or on <a href="http://violencedynamics.com/" target="_blank">violencedynamics.com</a><br />
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Thank you for sticking around, I'll work my hardest to make it worth your while.<br />
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Train hard, Train smart, Be safe<br />
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Kaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799466056750785352.post-73778834619939974282018-04-08T15:03:00.001-07:002018-04-08T15:03:59.254-07:00Raise an Army - Raise the Risk<br />
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On 03/08/2018 the world celebrated International Women's Day.</div>
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Operation ALVITR - #500<br />
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If you haven't already, I suggest you watch Tammy Yard McCracken's Facebook live.<br />
You can watch it by clicking <a href="https://www.facebook.com/violencedynamics/videos/1773981416242519/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
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I am very excited about this project. Because I'm so excited I purposely took a few weeks away from it to see if I still felt the same way, and let my subconscious process my thoughts. How can I help, what can I contribute?<br />
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In that time even more information on the project has been made public<br />
You can watch that by clicking <a href="https://www.facebook.com/violencedynamics/videos/1782185555422105/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
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Yup, still excited! I have fantastic female students and I want to be better at coaching them. I also have daughters, and I don't want them going through life expecting to be victimized.<br />
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Also fortunately the timing lines up with the direction I've been headed with the last two Budo Blogs<br />
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The idea that the reward can never be lowered enough. No one is too poor to rob, no one is too repulsive to be assaulted.<br />
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That leaves one option...The risk has to be raised.<br />
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The term victim, especially when used in women's self defense limits affordances down to basically two options.<br />
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Women who have been victims and women that will be victims.<br />
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What if a different approach was taken? What if instead of being viewed as victims, women embraced their inherent strengths and powers? What if they were viewed as dangerous?<br />
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What if the risk of not only being caught, but of being damaged, of getting your ass kicked was high enough that the criminals would have to pause and calculate if the reward was worth the risk.<br />
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Can the risk be raised? If so, how?<br />
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Here is an example of raising the risk<br />
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India is a country plagued by rampant sexual assault. According to the Washington Post, there have been numerous incidents of gang rapes that have resulted in the death of the victim.<br />
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Priyanka Singha Roy is an 18 year old young woman from India, who practises various forms of mixed martial arts.<br />
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Roy and her three younger sisters were on bicycles visiting a nearby shop when they were approached by three men.<br />
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Roy warned the men to leave them alone. The men started touching them in a sexual manner.<br />
After verbal skills failed, Roy used physical skills to protect herself and her sisters.<br />
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A bystander described the event...<br />
“After hearing a commotion, we rushed to the area and found that the girl had put the three youths on the ground. She told us that she punished them for misbehaving with her. Her courage will inspire others in the area.”<br />
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The three men accused of trying to sexually assault the teen girl, Amit Sahani, Dip Mandal and Bhaskar Mandal, were all arrested shortly after the incident.<br />
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Roy's actions were praised by the local police and her story went viral.<br />
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You can read the complete article <a href="http://tribunist.com/news/18-year-old-martial-arts-expert-beat-down-3-men-who-attacked-her-so-badly-they-had-to-be-rescued-by-onlookers/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
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If this can be done with some basic Mixed Martial Arts training and courage how much more so can be accomplished with with a well thought out deliberate training program developed by world renown instructors #500<br />
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As I have been working with Tammy on this, and especially after watching her Live videos from the Violence Dynamics Facebook page I mentally flashed to some research I conducted on WWII era combatives, and some of the related history from that time.<br />
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During the war, there was a distinct fear that the Japanese would land troops on the west coast.<br />
Why didn't this ever happen?<br />
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The risk was too high. Not created by the ability of the US Military, or local Law Enforcement to repel invasion. At the time most able bodied men of fighting age were engaged overseas. Rather the threat presented by average citizens with the ability and willingness to protect themselves raised the risk high enough to change the enemy strategy.<br />
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In England the threat of German invasion was very real. In 1940 after retiring from the Shanghai Police, William Fairbairn returned to England where he was commissioned as a Captain.<br />
Fairbairn was charged with preparing the military and civilian population to meet and defeat the impending invasion of German Stormtroopers.<br />
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His task was to select and train a group of men and women that would go on to teach others<br />
Under the badass code name "Dangerous Dan", Fairbairn went to work training some of the most hardcore warriors the world had to offer, along with local men and women charged with civil defense.<br />
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The invasion could happen at any time. Fairbairn didn't have years to teach a martial arts system.<br />
For the military and the police training time is always limited and training is structured accordingly.<br />
Fairbairn and his colleagues taught a total system, which included the use of impact weapons, edged weapons, firearms as well of hand-to hand methods. That system was forged through real life experience and was operationally proven. They also taught a mindset which was revolutionary at the time and allowed trainees to access the highest levels of body-alarm reaction, which made the fighters stronger, faster and more resistant to pain and shock.<br />
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"Get tough, get down in the gutter, win at all costs... </div>
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I can use Dangerous Dan as a template<br />
My team has become tasked with selecting and training men and women that in turn will train others.<br />
We have a limited amount of time to prepare these people for an ominous threat, in this case violent crime.<br />
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What would this program require? What would provide the most bang for the buck?<br />
All of the required elements are present in the Violence Dynamics curriculum. The challenge lays in structuring those elements in a way to address women's self defense, which students can own completely and pass on to others.<br />
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The highest chance of success incorporates multiple layers of defense, starting with what is commonly referred to as "soft skills"<br />
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I don't like the term because soft infers weakness and soft skills are the most valuable, nothing weak about them.<br />
Just as in firearms training there is no weak hand. There is your favorite shooting hand, and your other favorite shooting hand. Weak hand preprograms failure.<br />
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If you look at soft skills as your first line of defense and physical skills as our last line of defense I prefer the terms Alpha and Omega skills<br />
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<b>ALPHA SKILLS:</b><br />
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<u>Avoidance</u><br />
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<li>Logic of Violence (understanding how and why criminals operate)</li>
<li>Team Work</li>
<li>Violence Dynamics (recognizing and identifying the type of violence you are facing)</li>
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<u>Escape</u><br />
Escape has to be the primary goal, including real world training activities that can be done everyday (SMAKED)<br />
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<u>Communicate</u><br />
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<li>Conflict communication skills appropriate to the type of violence you are facing</li>
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Laying the foundation for Omega Skills. Psychology beats biology. Recognizing and managing emotion and adrenalization. Being able to minimize the negatives and take advantage of the positives.</div>
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Recognizing the freeze and the steps required to break it.</div>
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Maximizing your strength, by removing everything that may rob you of strength.</div>
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Anatomy</div>
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"I have detailed files on human anatomy" - T800 Terminator</div>
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It is not physically hard to maim or kill another human being. As I've said before we are all just 7 liters of blood in a soft skin sack. Everything we need to be human is only protected by thin rings of fragile bone. Knowing enough anatomy to efficiently disable a threat is vital.</div>
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It is not physically hard to maim or kill another human being. The difficulty lies in giving yourself permission to do so when justified, finding your individual glitches, and developing the ability to "flip the switch" to use the appropriate physical skills when necessary</div>
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Lastly physical skills. If you have to fight, don't imitate something you can never be.<br />
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My daughter Lauren will never be a 230 lb man with the life experience of decades of martial arts and tactical training.<br />
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Training her to fight like one is a losing proposition. Inversely, focusing on what she is capable, and willing to do, helping her become the best version of herself doesn't only prepare her for dealing with violence, but enhances her life.<br />
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In the end, isn't that the point. You can have the best program in the world but it is worthless if no one participates in the training.<br />
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This subject matter can be very daunting. How do we get it to those that need it the most, especially those that might not seek it out?<br />
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Could something scary, be made fun? Is that what I can contribute?<br />
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The Budo Blog will return with...Operation ALVITR<br />
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We discussed a violent encounter that was documented in a news story out of Minnesota, focusing primarily on the how and the why of the criminal activity.<br />
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If you haven't already, you should read that first by clicking <a href="http://practicalbudo.blogspot.com/2018/03/violence-dynamics-break-down.html" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
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This post will focus on what can be done about it.<br />
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The difference between a fighter and a tactician is a fighter, no matter how skilled is reactionary and influenced by emotion, where as a tactician can plan and adapt as necessary.<br />
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In order to do that it is helpful to have a rough strategy in place that is easily adaptable to the circumstances.<br />
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Conflict Strategy - Choosing the least bad option left available to you.<br />
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It is better to AVOID than to run<br />
It is better to RUN than de-escalate<br />
It is better to DE-ESCALATE than fight<br />
It is better to FIGHT than die<br />
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Lets look at the incident from the last blog using the conflict strategy framework.<br />
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<b><u>AVOID:</u></b><br />
Violence happens at places. Generally places where crowds, especially crowds of men gather to have their minds altered. If you don't have to be there, don't be there.<br />
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The the elderly female could not avoid this location. From what could be seen on the video, she had to be there. Either because the train is her means of transportation, or she is dependent on the train station for shelter, or both.<br />
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It is entirely possible she is homeless, which puts her at increased risk. She fits several victim profiles, including these criminal's profile of a shocking victim for a status seeking show.<br />
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Places that individuals on specific victim profiles can't avoid provide "hunting ground" for criminals seeking that demographic.<br />
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If you can't avoid, or chose to be there, you must approach with a higher level of awareness.<br />
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There are places in your life you have to go, that is just life. Also if you want to go where crowds, especially crowds of men gather to have their minds altered, that is fine, that is your choice. Those places are a lot of fun. That is why people gather there. No one is saying you have to live you life isolated from the public like some sort of monk.<br />
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Just understand, that if you have to be somewhere, or chose to be somewhere your first line of defense is now gone so you have to be more alert and you have to be prepared to use you other lines of defense.<br />
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<b><u>RUN / ESCAPE :</u></b><br />
Like the song says - "If you don't like what you see here get the funk out"<br />
If you have to be, or chose to be somewhere, and things are going south - GET OUT!<br />
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This is the preclusion portion of self defense. If the physical altercation occurred because you refused to leave a situation where you had no necessity to stay, making the argument that force was justified becomes much more difficult.<br />
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If you leave and the threat attempts to stop you or follows you, the need to use force for self defense becomes much easier to articulate.<br />
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The the elderly female from the news story tried to escape. You can see on the video that she got up and was walking out when the criminal grabbed her jacket, used that jacket to whip her down on the concrete floor, then began to fondle her breasts.<br />
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There are legitimate reasons to stay. The threat may prevent you from leaving.<br />
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If that is the situation you find yourself in , now your first and second lines of defense are gone. You are in it. This is a confrontation. You have to be prepared to use the lines of defense remaining to you.<br />
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<b><u>COMMUNICATE / DE-ESCALATE:</u></b><br />
You can't de-escalate the threat unless you de-escalate yourself first.<br />
Recognize the symptoms of emotion / adrenalization.<br />
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This is another reason why violence dynamics is so important. Recognizing the type of violence you are facing. Verbal skills that work for one type of violence will escalate other types of violence.<br />
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You can't de-escalate a status seeking show. Anything you say will be used as a hook to justify further violence.<br />
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You can see that to some extent on the video with the taunts of blue eyed devil, European, and Caucasoid.<br />
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If de-escalation is not a viable option, what communication skills are useful.<br />
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Yell, scream, bring attention to the situation. Predatory violence requires privacy, so generate witnesses.<br />
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The the elderly female from the news story yelled for help.<br />
Unfortunately, her assailants wanted witnesses. The criminals chose a hunting ground where yells for help are largely ignored and the people that may notice are unable or unwilling to do anything about it. "Cowardly and superstitious" - the risk of being stopped or damaged is low.<br />
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One brave man stepped up, others were pulling the elderly woman's clothing off and taking her belongings.<br />
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Well shit, your first three lines of defense failed. You are being assaulted. There aren't many remaining choices available to you.<br />
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When things go physical there are really only four things you can do.<br />
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Escape<br />
This is a priority self defense option. Even after things have gone physical, fighting your way to safety has the highest probability for success.<br />
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Control<br />
Really only makes sense if you are professional paid to restrain, or if you are in a situation where you have to physically control someone you care for and don't want to damage them.<br />
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Disable<br />
Inflict enough damage that the threat can no longer hurt you. Stop the brain from sending signals to the body (impact / strangulation / cervical dislocation).<br />
It may be necessary to disable in order to achieve the other legitimate uses of force (escape / control)<br />
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Sometimes the only way out is through and you just have to accept what is happening and do what you can to survive<br />
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In a status seeking show situation some sort of "shock and awe" high level of force (disabling) to at least cause the threat to pause and create an opportunity for escape is required.<br />
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What is an untrained elderly female supposed to do? What is she capable of doing?<br />
In this case acceptance was the only option left to her.<br />
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Are you pissed off? Are you scared? It is an infuriating and scary situation.<br />
What can be done about it?<br />
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I purposely did not use the term victim to describe the woman that was attacked.<br />
She did the best she could do with the resources she had. I just wish she had greater resources.<br />
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The reward can never be lowered enough. No one is too poor to rob, no one is too repulsive to be assaulted.<br />
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You can't lower the reward far enough. There is no too low.<br />
That leaves one option...The risk has to be raised.<br />
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The term victim, especially when used in women's self defense limits affordances down to basically two options.<br />
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Women who have been victims and women that will be victims.<br />
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What if a different approach was taken? What if instead of being viewed as victims, women embraced their inheirent strengths and powers? What if they were viewed as dangerous?<br />
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What if the risk of not only being caught, but of being damaged, of getting your ass kicked was high enough that the criminals from the news story would have to find a different way to gain status in their group?<br />
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You can't lower the reward far enough. There is no too low.<br />
The risk has to be raised.<br />
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Can the risk be raised? If so, how?<br />
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No one can do that by themselves. We are going to need an army...<br />
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The Budo Blog will return next week with "Raise an Army - Raise the Risk"<br />
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An article from the <a href="http://www.startribune.com/two-charged-in-appalling-recorded-assault-of-elderly-woman-at-minneapolis-transit-center/476178443/" target="_blank">Star Tribune</a><br />
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Two men have been charged with first-degree aggravated robbery in the video-recorded assault of an elderly woman at a south Minneapolis transit center that investigators called "appalling."<br />
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Charges say Wesley N. Martin, 21, of Blaine, and Deondre R. Jackson, 20, of Minneapolis, participated in the assault on Feb. 12 that was posted on Facebook the next day, according to the allegations filed Tuesday.<br />
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A court filing Tuesday said the victim was heard on the video yelling, "Help me!" yet "there are many people in the shelter who do nothing."<br />
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"The video is appalling," transit police officer Michael Leubner wrote in the complaint.<br />
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Police reviewed surveillance footage from the shelter, which showed the victim sitting on a bench inside the Chicago-Lake Transit Center.<br />
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Martin, Jackson and an unnamed accomplice approach the woman and yell at her. She ignores them at first, then tries to get up and is repeatedly shoved back onto the bench.<br />
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Martin steals a liquor bottle from the woman's jacket. When a bystander tries to intervene, Martin pushes her aside. He then gropes the victim, who tries to escape as the two hold and take her jacket.<br />
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Jackson can be seen holding a cellphone "and records the brutalization of victim," the complaint read. Martin groped her as she lay on the ground while Jackson used his phone to get a close-up of her face.<br />
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"Jackson can be heard on the video yelling racial epithets about Victim and commenting that 'that lady like a hundred years old,' " the charges read.<br />
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An older man stepped in and pushed Martin away. Martin and the man fight, with Martin kicking and punching the man in the face while he's down.<br />
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Jackson records the fight while the unnamed accomplice holds the woman to the ground and tears her shirt off.<br />
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Records show Martin is on probation for an assault conviction from last month. Jackson has 2016 convictions for robbery and terroristic threats.<br />
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Prosecutors said they will seek a stiffer sentence than called for under the state guidelines, citing the victim's age and vulnerability, the "particular cruelty" of the offense and as well as the video recording.<br />
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Both remain jailed with court dates pending.<br />
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Are you pissed off? Are you scared? It is an infuriating and scary situation. However, it can be made less scary if you understand it better.</div>
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This will be a two part blog. The first breaking down the situation from the criminal's perspective. The second going through the conflict strategy model in dealing with violence.</div>
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Let's start by examining what type of violence this is.</div>
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It seems to me that this is primarily social violence in the form of a status seeking show.</div>
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There are asocial elements in the form of resource predation, (they stole her alcohol and jacket)</div>
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and process predation (she was groped).</div>
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You maybe asking yourself, Kasey how can something be both social and asocial?</div>
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A status seeking show is social for the perpetrator. However, it can be predatory for the victim. So it has properties in common with asocial violence.</div>
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What is a status seeking show?</div>
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In criminal subculture, you don't really have friends. You have associates that will prey on you if and when the opportunity presents itself.</div>
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In that environment being "hard" or "loco" - having a reputation of being too crazy to fuck with can be very valuable. </div>
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To earn that reputation you disregard the social violence norms.</div>
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So instead of selecting someone of similar status that you think you can take, like a typical monkey dance for status within the group, the threat will choose someone they perceive as higher status, say the biggest / toughest guy in the room, and go berserk. This attack won’t follow the monkey dance rules, and because it doesn't, maybe they’ll catch him off guard. What do they have to lose? If the tough guy wins BFD he is supposed to win. If the threat wins, he just punked the toughest guy in here. Either way the threat develops a rep of being too crazy to fuck with.</div>
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However, clearly this has risks. The threat could get severely injured.</div>
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How can the threat get a reputation for being too crazy to be fucked with, without the risk of being maimed?</div>
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Choose a victim you perceive couldn't possibly hurt you and do crazy things to them.</div>
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A savage beating, knifing, or killing serves the purpose of seeking status by showing how crazy you are.</div>
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As was the case at the train stop. </div>
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So this is social for the perpetrator. The purpose of the violence is to improve their status within their group.</div>
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The violence requires an audience. In this case not only the other two perpetrators but they also also broadcast the assault on Facebook live and now it is available on YouTube. </div>
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It is asocial or predatory for the victim. The damage is much greater. </div>
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I believe this case was a status seeking show, that did predatory actions to show how crazy they are.</div>
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The victim was from a totally different group / tribe, and was not only assaulted, but robbed and sexually assaulted.</div>
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To help understand this type of violence further, let's do a logic of violence exercise and look at the asocial aspects of this attack through predator eyes</div>
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Who (Victim Profile):</div>
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This victim was clearly from a different tribe. On the video you can here the criminals further "other" the victim calling her "European" and "Blue eyed devil"</div>
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An area where the the people that fit the victim profile gather, that also provides an opportunity to isolate the victim.</div>
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Isolation Method:</div>
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A crowd was needed, but a specific crowd ether unwilling or incapable of intervening.</div>
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The Attack:</div>
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Blitz - harder, faster, closer, and more sudden then most training accounts for.</div>
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Because clearly they are pussies, when an elderly man a foot shorter than tough guy intervened he could barely handle him. So of course they needed to attack an elderly woman, fondle her breasts and steal her booze on Facebook live to earn a reputation.</div>
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This covers the how, and the why.</div>
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