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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 film review in which I call your attention to surprisingly good boxing technique.
- This week's Video Clip of the Week is a tip on how to block a Top Wrist-Lock if you're initial Hip-Post Bridge fails you.
- A reminder--this is this weekend, Crew!
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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FIGHTS ON FILM: GENTLEMAN JIM
Mark Hatmaker
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I recently re-watched the 1942 bio-pic Gentleman Jim starring Errol Flynn as James J. Corbett, the man who took the heavyweight title away from The Great John L. Sullivan.
Right up front, this film is old-fashioned as they come (and that's not necessarily a bad thing).
The dialogue full of "Shucks" and "Swells" and big broad gestures, and exuberant scenery chewing performances all directed at a brisk pace by Raoul Walsh.
Errol Flynn plays Corbett with the same likable dash and swagger that he brought to his swashbuckling roles in The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, and The Sea Hawk. Sullivan is played by an able Ward Bond as a brusque but likable man who strides into every saloon, slaps a big hand on the bar and says "I'm the Great John L. Sullivan and I can lick any man in the world!"
Boxing historians looking for strict adherence to fact or reality will be a little disappointed, but if you're willing to let that slide you're in for a treat because Flynn did do a little boxing in his younger days and it shows in the film. He captures Corbett's incessant movement and (unusual for the era) heavy emphasis on footwork.
Further aiding the boxing sequences are director Raoul Walsh's eye for detail. Rather than stick with over-played choreography the matches have the feel of almost impromptu sparring sessions with more than a little contact in places rather than the usual miss-him-wide mock fight theatrics. The camera plays almost as much attention to Flynn's footwork as it does to the punches being thrown and that's a beautifully done detail because Mr. Flynn executes very smooth shifts and quick steps-there's one that comes to mind that's worth more than a few replays by shift-step aficionados.
Again, the film is old-fashioned as they come, but fast-paced and still worth the attention of the nostalgic boxers-pugilists out there.
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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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