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It's Friday and time for this week's Legends newsletter;
buncha stuff today...
First--info on this month's RAW
The Tight Waist: Controlling & Hooking. 43 minutes of shoulder joint grinding, cervical vertebra cranking goodness. See the next block for compete details.
Second--This week's Video Clip is a little inTENS Conditioning Challenge to test your ability to hang onto a choke/neck crank when the burn says that's enough. Let me know how it goes if you try it.
Third--This week's article is a brief one on gear consderations.
Fourth--This month's special is on our book The Boxer's Bible of Counter Punching. $10 US or $18 International gets you an autographed copy.
Fifth-Boot Camp info below (BTW-where's all those hard-chargers who said "Yeah, test me!")
A month ago we asked who was interested in the following:
A 1-Day Do or Die Combination Man/Woman Boot Camp filled with hardcore old school pugilism, grueling takedown and clinch work, wicked ground and pound and devilish bone-snapping jugular squishing submissions.
Add to this mix primitive conditioning, you know the fun stuff: tire flipping, sledgehammers, rope climbing, bear crawling in parking lots, rucking at the break of dawn, pushing limits, testing limits, breaking limits, and setting new horizons.
This would be a Team Event. Attendees will be assigned squads and these squads will "compete" against one another in all aspects of the 1-day of Hell.
The Details
- Saturday, November 8th 7AM (oh, man is that early-let's do it right, huh?)
- This is a one-day event (if we do it right, ain't nobody wanting a day two).
- We will work from 7AM till 7PM-with a break for lunch at Noon.
- Attendees will be separated into 2 Teams. You compete as a team in both the conditioning challenges and the Boxing, Shooting, Wrestling Challenges. Enthusiastic team camaraderie and good-natured trash-talking is highly encouraged.
- I'm preaching hard-to-the-core here, friends. Don't be skeered-any and all are welcome as long as they show up saying "I'll do what I can with what I've got." And if you're thinking "Man, I'd love to but I don't know if I'm up to that" Again, you'll never know unless you try. We will only test you to your level, not anyone else's.
- Gear: You, your mad will to work, mouthpiece, boxing gloves, MMA gloves, and whatever gear you are comfortable drilling in. (I would suggest some shoes if some Conditioning Challenges hit the pavement/trail).
- Location: Red Dragon Martial Arts Center 284 South Daisy Street Morristown, TN 37813
- Price: $50 for the RAW Crew, $75 for all else.
- The Money Where Your Mouth Is/Put-Up-Or-Shut-Up Rule: A gratifying ton of you are crazy/dumb enough to think that this sounded like a good idea and said you wanted a piece of this. Well, here it is. I suspect now that we've set a date some of that gung-ho ton will lose some weight-but that's the way of the world "We promise according to our hopes, we deliver according to our fears." If you want in, say "In!" and you'll pay a $25 deposit to put dollars behind your words.
Well, what's it gonna be? In or out?
 Sixth-Just got work that the 3rd volume of our Street series The Outer Limits will be out in a month or so. Look here for some first come, first serve deals. 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
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ESP RAW 144: CMC #21
The Tight Waist:
Controlling & Hooking
Important: This volume can be used by Ground & Pounders but will best be consumed by top-position wrestlers who want more submission tricks in their game.
We return to grappling with a punishing series built off of the tight-waist (a subject we haven't addressed on video in over a decade.)
Contents include:
- The Egg Test to teach you where the fulcrum is.
- The Follow-Up Crush" Do it right and you bind that bottom shoulder from the get-go.
- We'll drill 2-ways to snag the valuable 2-on-1 (One versus your lay-and-prayers, the other for your powerful surgers).
- We'll hit some Wrist Chanceries for those who don't give a damn about rule-sets.
- We'll then hit tight Back-Straddles (not hooks-in).
- Set-up Rip-Out DWLs, Bound & Assisted Neck Cranks, & Bulldog Sleepers from this position.
- If your opponent just begs for a Double-Knife Ride--let's stretch them out proper and from there...
- Hit the Sleeper (not rear-naked) from a stretcher and a Double-Knife follow.
- We'll also hit an Over-Leg Sleeper from initiation and from the Bait.
- We'll cherry-on-top this volume with a Popped Arm Bar and a harsh Legs-Assisted Short Arm Scissors w/ Arm Bar return.
In all 17 tight detailed Sub Chain drills from the 1/4 position to flat--belly-up and belly-down.
This volume (as with all volumes of RAW) comes with a printed syllabus for inclusion in your training notebook.
ESP RAW 144 can be had this month for $32 (S & H included--Domestic & International) at the end of the month the price goes to $42 Domestic/$52 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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Gear 2-Cents
Mark Hatmaker
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My two cents on two must-have pieces of gear.
Heavy Bags: Go leather or at the very least smooth reinforced vinyl covering. Canvas or textured vinyl can start to play hell with skin abrasions as you lean and butt in for some vicious inside work, or eat up the arms if you incorporate Greco slide-buys into your Dirty Boxing game.
Boxing/Sparring Gloves: Go with reinforced finger-boxes (finger vaults). That is, once you slide the glove on feel with the un-gloved hand where the fingertips of the gloved hand make contact with the glove. If you are able to flex (make a fist) and feel the individual bumps of each finger pad you've got a glove that's surface may last for a bit but the fingers will wear thru long before that.
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THE BOXER'S BIBLE OF COUNTERPUNCHING: $10:
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(168 PAGES) Contents include Motivation, Female Approaches to Extreme Conditioning, Common Concerns & Remedies, Nutrition Facts, Tips on Building a Training Crew, Gear Recommendations per Commitment Level, Complete Exercise Vocabulary, and 3-Full Months of Exercise Menu Programming.
It will retail at $12.95 ($22.95 International) but for the month of August you can pick up an autographed copy for $11 bucks even ($20 International)--that's S&H included.
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Places to Go; People to See
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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
Seminars
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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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