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It's Friday and time for this week's Legends newsletter;
on to today's contents...
- First--info on this month's RAW the 1st of our quarterly No Second Chance volumes (200+ weapons access drills). You can find out more about it in the next block.
- This week's article is a little historical snapshot of an indigenous wrestling tournament I came across in an old volume. I hope you find it as fascinating as I did.
- This week's Video Clip of the Week is a solo drill to assist building your transition from boxing to the clinch to slide-by footwork to dirty boxing. That description is a little lengthy, see the video and let it do the job.
- A reminder:
We'll be in Charlotte, NC at Martial Arts Carolina, Saturday March 22nd for a grand old day of Old School Pugilism & All-In Wrestling.
The price is $75, for more info contact Brad Butchka or Yevette Hutchinson at 704-847-2222 or e-mail at bbutchka@martialartscarolina.com and yhutchinson@martialartscarolina.com
- As a bonus bit of madness, myself, and some of the Martial Arts Carolina Crew are running in the Spartan in Charlotte the very next morning-sign up for the seminar and then drop us a line and we'll set you up with the Team Code so you can enjoy the muddy fun with the crew!
- This month's special allows you to pick up the 1st 5 volumes of the Combination Man Curriculum (CMC vols. 1-5) for only $100 even S & H included (and yep, that includes international orders as well). See the March special Block for details.
And last, but not least, check out the ESP RAW Subscription service info to your left. You can save yourself some money on this volume of RAW ($5.50 to be exact) and pick up 3 more volumes of RAW absolutely free.
Thanks everyone and have a great weekend!
Sincerely,
Mark Hatmaker Extreme Self Protection |
ESP RAW 137: No Second Chance (NSC) #1. WEAPONS ACCESS VOL. 1
With this unit we seek to make any and all personal protection devices not mere wardrobe accessories but 1st nature tools you can access under any and all conditions. We begin this journey by:
- Breaking our fundamental movement down into slo-mo access and presentation drills all conducted under dry-fire conditions.
- We provide drills for firearm, tactical folder, and collapsible baton. (The tactical folder drills can be adapted to fixed blade.)
- These drills will not ask you to modify any of your current weapons training, that is, it doesn't matter if you fire from a Weaver stance, Chapman stance, Isosceles, Tactical, or any and all variations thereof. We use these drills to take what you already do use and hone that stance, movement, access point into your own personal base so that you have no need to label your stance, blade position, what have you. We want your movement to be all yours and not an imitation.
- The syllabus is separated into sections for each weapon so that you can jump to the one(s) you carry and skip those you do not.
- The drills do not depend on what you carry, they are designed to take what you do carry and evolve it to the best access and presentation for your own idiosyncratic movement.
- All we ask is that If you carry it, or wear it--Drill it!
We open with the two common denominators for all carry weapons...
- The Grip: If this is poorly placed upon 1st contact with the weapon it will go to hell upon presentation when stress hits.
- The Pivot: We will emphasize moving your body to and around your weapon and not you "placing" your weapon.
Next we will discuss the 5 Compass Points we will use to execute the drills. I emphasize drilling all 5 Compass Points as stress plus centrifugal inertia can alter our weapon presentation.
The firearm access drills (210 in all) will include:
- Full Presentation Primary Hand with Secondary Hand drills.
- Strong Hand only to Full Presentation drills.
- Primary to Secondary Hand Switching drills.
- Secondary Hand only drills for when the Primary is out of commission.
- We also drill Tight Presentation or the Chest Clutch for rapid CQB scenarios.
- Drills for the Speed Rock or From Presentation.
- Drills for the Secondary Hip Brace (Revolvers only.)
- Once the preceding drills are down pat, we put them on the move to find what additional inertial forces and/or footwork modifications may need to be made to get our form down perfect.
We take the same painstaking approach with the Tactical Folder and Collapsible Baton each of these racking up 64 drills each.
This volume, as with all RAW Volumes, comes with a printed syllabus for easy inclusion in your training notebook. This syllabus is 5 pages in length and includes every drill in their prescribed order.
ESP RAW 137 can be had this month for $52 (S & H included--Domestic & International) at the end of the month the price goes to $62 Domestic/$72 International. [Of course, it's only $26.50 for the RAW Crew.]
To order:  To pay only $26.50 for this DVD + receive 3 other RAW DVDs for free, subscribe to our ESP RAW DVD Service.
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Historical Snapshot: Mungo Park
Mark Hatmaker
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In May of 1775, 21-year-old assistant surgeon Mungo Park landed on the coast of Senegal with the intent to fulfil his duties to explore the continent's interior for The African Society of England. Park's expedition was to last for two years. Upon his return he used his journals to publish the record of his journey titled Travels in the Interior of Africa.
The work is fascinating throughout, but I include the below excerpt as it give us a small taste of an indigenous wrestling tournament.
On to Mr. Park:
"The inhabitants of Koojar, though not wholly unaccustomed to the sight of Europeans (most of them having occasionally visited the countries on the Gambia), beheld me with a mixture of curiosity and reverence, and in the evening invited me to see a noebering, or wrestling-match, at the bentang [a sort of village amphitheater]. This is an exhibition very common in all the Mandingo countries. The spectators arranged themselves in a circle, leaving the intermediate space for the wrestlers, who were strong active young men, full of emulation, and accustomed, I suppose, from their infancy to this sort of exertion. Being stripped of their clothing, except a short pair of drawers, and having their skin anointed with oil, or shea butter [an oil harvested from the nuts of the tropical shea tree], the combatants approached each other on all-fours, parrying with, and occasionally extending a hand for some time, till at length one of them sprang forward, and caught his rival by the knee. Great dexterity and judgment were now displayed, but the contest was decided by superior strength; and I think that few Europeans would have been able to cope with the conqueror. It must not be unobserved, that the combatants were animated by the music of a drum, by which their actions were in some measure regulated."
A little later in the account we learn that the match begins with the cry of "amuta! Amuta! (take hold! Take hold!)
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Wanna catch-up on the Combination Man Curriculum (CMC) and get going with our stripped down, ABC, 1-2-3 path to Pugilism and All-In Wrestling excellence? Well, joining the RAW crew is the best way to do that, but if you want to get your feet wet with the 1st 5 volumes of this crash course and save yourself some money this month you can grab the 1st 5 volumes of this series (RAWS 123-127) and get going.
These inaugural volumes cover: Head Snap Drills to Submission Go-Behinds, Setting Up the Leg Dive, Top Arm Isolation Drills so you can tap and snap to your heart's content, Front Headlocks & Combat Cradles, & Clinch Fundamentals.
Purchased separately this would come to $210 before shipping ($260 International) but for the month of March you snag these 5 volumes for $100 even (yes, that includes S&H and International orders).
To snag this deal just hit the button--
If you join the RAW Crew at the same time we'll kick in 3 more volumes on the house!
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Places to Go; People to See
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We'll be in Charlotte, North Carolina at Martial Arts Carolina, Saturday March 22nd for a grand old day of Old School Pugilism & All-In Wrestling.
The price is $75, for more info contact Brad Butchka or Yevette Hutchinson at 704-847-2222 or e-mail Brad or Yevette.
As a bonus bit of madness, myself, and some of the Martial Arts Carolina Crew are running in the Spartan in Charlotte the very next morning--if you'd like to play along, sign up for the seminar and then drop us a line and we'll set you up with the Team Code so you can enjoy the muddy fun with the crew!
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April 24-27 we will be having a blast at the Martial Arts on the Mountain Retreat in Virginia.
Myself, Boyd Ritchie, and Carlos Cummings (w/ Coach John Miller is thrown in for good measure) will be having 4 days of bone-snapping fun. For details or to register click here.
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We'll be back with our might good friends the SVTP Crew in Germany, May 15-25 for some old school reality street fun. For details contact Mr. Michael "CC" Schmid.
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This June 26-29 we'll be back at the formidable Karate College in Radford, Virginia. To register or for more info see here.
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We'd love to have you come out and play at any of these events, or failing that, we'd love to come out your way. If you'd like us to come to you, see our Pick An Adventure sidebar and we may just come to you far cheaper than you'd imagine (I'm easy when it come to new friends and fun stuff.)
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Pick An Adventure
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Some of us are old-enough to remember a series of interactive books where readers were asked to make a decision and then go to a corresponding page to see what sort of mess you got yourself into. You never quite knew where you were going to wind up with these books--pre-video game era, these were a novel idea.
Here's where you come in, if you'd like to host a seminar and save yourself some bucks off of the standard fees in the process--if you've got an Adventure Race in your area, a rock you think I'd like to climb, a river you think I want to raft, a hike you think I just need to take, a desert I've not run on, you get the idea--pitch your adventure and school location. If the adventure appeals and the logistics are right we offer greatly reduced fees to come to your school and play with your crew before we go play at your Adventure Pitch.
BTW--You and your crew are welcome to attend the adventure, as a matter of fact, we'll knock off even more bucks for this sort of hands-on guiding.
So, you got some adrenaline in your neck-of-the-woods and want to train? Feel free to make your pitch and we'll see what happens.
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Mark Hatmaker
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