Insights from the last year regarding organizations, they always disappoint. A possible misquote of Eric Hoffer.  Martial arts moves that are physically weak and form bad combat – yet we still do them.  The importance of mentors. We close with the value of sleep and diet.

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2:00 A social outreach club

4:00 Agenda (religious types)

6:40 Run your scales

14:20 Mentors and their importance

20:16 Sleep and Diet

 

We randomly and with no preparation go through a few States in the United States and break down the knife laws. We also, well Lawrence explains,  the difference between the different kinds of blades, their uses and why the laws are likely what they are in each State. Lawrence tells about his knife getting confiscated by the Seattle Police Department. World War I Stabbings and sewing up those holes.

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2:41 Nebraska

5:55 New Mexico

8: 15 Ohio

12:37 Wisconsin

13:21 Kentucky

16:29 Washington

19:20 South Dakota

24:53 Vermont

30:25 Montana (speed limits)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In a world (did you hear the movie trailer?) that records everything now, cops face a deeper challenge, a new way of working, and it has changed people’s behaviors as well.  Further you, as a martial artist, face some new challenges. We say memory isn’t what you think it is, and so does a University Professor: https://www.amazon.com/Witness-Defense-Accused-Eyewitness-Expert/dp/0312084552

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: 58 Cell phone cops

4:05 It’s all on video

5:50 Memory is not what you think it is

12:45 Hall Monitors

21:00 Higher standard

A Certified Personal Trainer, Joey Kane (Yes, the son of Lawrence Kane) takes us through speed, quickness, how to retain those items though training. The methods of strength, the Kings (the exercises you must do). Lots of Latin words clarified. Some suggested diet considerations and some clear ideas you might want to entertain to bring a sleek order to your training for the purpose you want. And a little Eddie Hall fanboy stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hzXcMb1Xo0

 

A history lesson you most likely don’t know opens the show.  How a Laugh-in host and a fighter pilot are the same person.   Then how one gets into teaching.  Years at the YMCA, teaching on a farm, and the wisdom ignored.  Finding spaces, creating adjustments, and bullet holes in the window. You are just like a pro athlete that has outlived their usefulness.

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:10 Dan Rowan

6:00 The YMCA

17:20 Harsh and True

25:00 Seinfeld Explains it All

 

And a taste of Dan Rowan (the guy on the left)

 

How not to be a Martial Arts A**hole.  Many ways exist to not be such a person, mostly be nice and remember your table manners will carry you a long way.  But Kris and Lawrence address a few specific items that they have run up against.

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3:42 George Patton

10:42 Blathering on

17:30 The Seminar Assistant

22:16 Handgun retention

What acts of martial arts crazy drive you nuts?  We dance from the hard acts to the behavioral choices that make us lose our minds. Plus a little council on how one might avoid some of these ideas and why it would be a good choice on your end of the formula.

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1:00 Public Display

8:46 Style Static

15:50 The Habsburg

22:00 Me Sensei, you not

 

 

The first question is, “Do martial artists think differently than the rest of the world?”  Lawrence argues: “Yes,” Kris argues, “No.” Who will win out?  Tune in to hear.  The second topic is the value of plateaus in training. We get a little deep here, but it is worth the dive.  Without plateaus where would you be?

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7:07 Flicking on a cell phone

11:11 The average

14:10 Plateau in training

18:35 Imagine

21:51 The map ends

 

 

 

Music in the martial arts?  Is there such a thing? And if so how can it be used.  Plus, we talk about concerts, some fights (like the one before The Who concert), confiscating weapons while working security – a lot of them. Poor choices, and some good ones too.

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2:00       How Kris uses music in the dojo

10:00     What you into?

13:00     List of bands

18:43     Security patrol

Music and the Brain: Jessica Grahn at TEDxWesternU. Jessica Grahn, Cognitive Neuroscientist, talks about the power of the human mind and how it can be transformed through

music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDfVsFxJXms

 

What are the 10 commandments for martial arts?  Do they pertain to you?  Your relationship(s) with others both inside, and outside the arts?  We break some rules in creating our rules, or commandments. Further, we only got 8 before we stalled out, took a breath and got the last two.

In keeping with the 8, er we mean 10 commandments here are Dave Grohl’s Top 10 Rules for Success, because, “Hey success!” who doesn’t like that?  And some of these are applicable to the martial arts: