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From a discussion with my friend, Chris (schedule80):

I think responsible Martial Arts would be a great addition to P.E. curriculum.

There’s a great interview with Eugene Robinson (of Oxbow) about his book,
Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking, which is fantastic.
He comes from almost a diametrically opposed position towards fighting,
but it’s a vivid read, he’s a good, funny writer and the sections are laid out smashingly well.

schedule80 wrote:

kerble wrote:righteous, Chris! I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do I got when I was 19. spent the last two years of the seven it took getting beat down by my classmates, who were all 35 year-old 2nd-degree black belt cops from Aurora. I earnedthose last few belts, I tell ya.I started back up at Degerberg academy a few years back, and went through four belts of MMA training (which involved a bit of Kali stick fighting, and knife training, grappling, muy thai and boxing mixed in with the street fighting). Had to stop, as it was getting too expensive per month, but did just buy myself a B.O.B. for home training…

I’m actually slowly working on a martial arts curriculum project, so it’s nice to have someone on board here that participates, too. cheers!

Woah. Sounds like a solid background with plenty of variety. Real MMA! I can imagine you getting wailed on by the classmate-cops at 19. I bet you learned a lot more than they did.

I started with a Korean synthesis style (TeukGong MooSool or Tukong Moosul) and had to quit after about four years when I left the country to teach. These days I am less interested in getting kicked and punched all the time even though I still want to train regularly. I hadn’t done much ground stuff before I started Brazilian Jiu Jistu, but after several years I am completely hooked.

One part of it that has been really interesting to me is the difference in teaching styles. I like the lack of formality with BJJ and the lack of forms or katas. It is highly technical, but there aren’t really any tests. You are just bombarded with random technique demonstrations until you soak up enough to start defeating people in practice, then you move up. Drilling is minimized in favor of full on sparring so you get to try all the stuff you learn with someone who is wholeheartedly resisting. All this has made me rethink some of the ways I teach English. Like presentation of grammar rules, structured practice opporunities, authenticity, advancement, etc.

I’d be interested in hearing how your MA curriculum project progresses. Sounds like fun.

schedule80 wrote:Woah. Sounds like a solid background with plenty of variety. Real MMA! I can imagine you getting wailed on by the classmate-cops at 19. I bet you learned a lot more than they did.

The only guy that wasn’t a cop was a plumber that had a glass eye. If you got on his blind side, he’d just strike because he could no longer see you. I got hit more by the guy with one eye than by the cops, that much is certain. TKD was not super effective in fight training for me. it’s almost made me better at dance and balance than defense, but the last few years getting wailed on by cops taught me a whole bunch of practical things. Im not that into the forms and katas and one-step sparring either. It’s good for technique, but wholly unusable.

schedule80 wrote:I started with a Korean synthesis style (TeukGong MooSool or Tukong Moosul) and had to quit after about four years when I left the country to teach. These days I am less interested in getting kicked and punched all the time even though I still want to train regularly. I hadn’t done much ground stuff before I started Brazilian Jiu Jistu, but after several years I am completely hooked.

I miss regular training, but my wallet does not. I actually preferred the ground work as it’s probably where most fights will go within, oh, say four seconds of the fight starting. That said, I’ve actually never been in a fight, as all the training has given me both the confidence and the nervy-ness to get out of every fight that’s come my way. you know, act like a psycho and no-one will want to actually fight you. Solid advice, I say.

schedule80 wrote:One part of it that has been really interesting to me is the difference in teaching styles. I like the lack of formality with BJJ and the lack of forms or katas. It is highly technical, but there aren’t really any tests. You are just bombarded with random technique demonstrations until you soak up enough to start defeating people in practice, then you move up. Drilling is minimized in favor of full on sparring so you get to try all the stuff you learn with someone who is wholeheartedly resisting.

Yeah, it’s a mixed blessing learning that way. Half the time, it feels like you’re learning five styles, but all of them poorly. Nice thing is when all of them click and make sense together and kind of become your style. I had a MMA buddy who’d go to all the classes with me, which kept me in longer than if I was just coming in alone. He had about 75 lbs on me, so having to spar and push and move him took an insane amount of effort and strength. On the flip, I had to work extra hard to stand my ground when he’d try to spar, push and move me.

schedule80 wrote:All this has made me rethink some of the ways I teach English. Like presentation of grammar rules, structured practice opportunities, authenticity, advancement, etc.I’d be interested in hearing how your MA curriculum project progresses. Sounds like fun.

I love the idea of bringing what you’ve learned into an english curriculum approach.

The martial arts project is an instructional comedy calendar called Season’s Beatings. The basic idea is taking B.O.B., dressing him up like a new seasonal character (Santa, Leprechaun, Pilgrim, etc.) and staging an intruder defense scenario for each shot. It’s even more ridiculous than it sounds, I guess. I’d love to sort of teach something new every month, but using the large format of a calendar will give me a ton of graphical space to work with.

B.O.B. is pretty photogenic, too. look at him brood!:

photo by Mr. King

e.g., so you’re learning Silat (the Malaysian style that uses an apron as a weapon) in the kitchen on a pilgrim for Thanksgiving (it’s like CLUE!). You can have inset graphics for weight and portion control, recipes, etc.

I have dozens and dozens of ideas for this, and have a photographer lined up for our first two shoots in October and December to take advantage of the Halloween and Christmas decorations the neighbors’ll have up around then.

I swear, I’m not writing this from inside a mental institution.

cheers,

Faiz