Saturday, April 5, 2008
Here we go again
ok i am doing dishes last night and the boy creeps up behind and tries a rear naked choke on me--i without missing a stroke with the sponge, tuck my chin, grab his thumb and bite- i scrape his shin and push him into the wall ( my poor son has been training with me or i should say i train on him since infancy) he gets pissed tries to stike me, i grab his thumb and twist it back with his wrist and he says, " if your going to practice like that, i am not going to spar with you anymore!!! ( i know he will) again put yourself in a real situation. What would you do to survive and get away if someone gets the drop on you? i do this not to hurt my son or training partner--i actually do it to teach him the truth about martial arts and self defense. ok so maybe i walk the line, maybe not. We train for real. What is the point if i don't?
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Michael, I can really relate to the son or in my case sons (I have 3 and a daughter)that put the creep on me every waking moment. Its like a stalk fest in our home. Everyone in the house has some martial arts training my 2 younger boys 10 & 12 have been training for nearly 6 years now. My oldest boy 17 about 4 years my daughter is shipping out to the Army Airborne in a month and my wife has been training with me in the self-defense systems for over a year.
I guess I tell you this just to point out that using your family as part of your training not only keeps you sharp but them as well. The part of train as you fight is a truth. You do have to pull some punches so to speak but if you get hurt a bit that lets you know that you have a hole in your armor. That's how we look at it. It makes for a tight knit family as well because as the saying goes the family that trains together stays together.
Keep up the bloggin'
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