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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
Arm Bar Chases PT. 2, you'll get the whole skinny in the next block.
Third--Stuff cookin' for 2015
- Trifecta Boot Camps. Tiered Certification Boot Experiences for MMA Boxing-Wrestling & Street-Work that allow you to earn your way from the Lite Camp all the way up to the "Are you ready for this?" experience.
- Private Facebook interactivity for the RAW Crew to share and commiserate with your Daily inTENS Challenges, the monthly MMA Drill Templates, and the NSC Drill Experiences.
- Joint camps with mighty good man and Coach Kris Iatskevitch. We've decided to team up now and then to double up on cruelty. Looking forward to this!
- And much, much more in the works! Jump in with the RAW crew to get full access to all of this meanness.
Fourth--This week's Video Clip is a detail on Cutting with the Bottom Scissors arm bar.
Fifth-This week's article is a salute to an excellent boxer who just may have become one of the greats if he wasn't so busy being great at everything else.
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 147
Bottom Scissors Threats:
Arm Bar Chases #2
This volume is all back-work. Yes, I know as wrestlers and/or street practitioners we do not want to be on our backs. What we do here is begin a short series of volumes that is designed to make you as aggressive as a rabid wolverine off of your back on the premise that this will allow you to hook a sub, or open get-up opportunities rather than play a passive lay and pray game.
[This volume is meant to be drilled alongside RAW 146 and picks up where it left off.]
This volume includes:
- Refining the Arm Bar Chase and The Four Set-Ups.
- We then run into a lengthy sequence using non-sweeping Under-Hooks.
- We'll bait from the Arm Bar to the Leg Bar.
- Next we'll bait with the Leg Bar and transition to the higher percentage Leg Bar Sweep.
- We'll then drill using the Non-Sweeping Under-Hook Arm Bar directly into a Coil Lock.
- We'll drill a few Coil Lock transitioning exercises to get a bit more fluid with the hip roll.
- Then...I'll explain why I have little faith in the coil lock but then drill you why it was so important to learn it-we'll use the 1st 10% of the coil lock to get you out from under and back on top where you ought to be.
- Next we run a series vs. a Vacuumed Arm Defense.
- We'll hit Triangle Transitions.
- Why you should "cut" the head and not "pull" the head in Triangles.
- We'll Drill Triangle/Arm Bar Combos.
- Then Triangle Sweeps that won't unlock your legs.
- We'll then hit the little-used but oh, so sneaky False Triangle.
- We'll then plug Coils and Coil Sweeps vs. Hip Blocked Triangles.
- And finish off with Cross-Side Leg Bars and Cross-Side Leg Bar Sweeps.
This volume (as with all volumes of RAW) comes with a printed syllabus for inclusion in your training notebook.
ESP RAW 147 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.]
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Charlie Powell: Jack of All Trades, Damn Good at Most
Mark Hatmaker
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The world lost a tremendous athlete in Charlie Powell September 1st of 2014. Powell's accomplishments are hard to eulogize in perspective as he was so remarkably versatile in so many athletic arenas-football, baseball, basketball, and one of my major loves-boxing. It would be easier if he were merely OK at one or two sports as when the great Michael Jordan made his stab at baseball, but Powell seemed so adept at so many athletic endeavors that any shortcomings may have just come down to burning the candle at five or six ends.
Before he got out of high school he was already named California High School Player of the Year (he played offensive and defensive end), in baseball he regularly cracked them out of San Diego's Balboa Stadium, in track he ran the 100 in 9.6 seconds at a height of 6' 3" and a weight of 230 pounds. He also threw the shot put 57' 9 1/4".
He received scholarship offers to play football from both UCLA and Notre Dame, at the same time that he was signed to a pro baseball contract-he played for the Class B minor team the Stockton Ports. Two sport threat, huh? It was also at this time he was scouted by the Harlem Globetrotters and was offered a tryout, but he turned down this offer-I guess even Powell had to rest sometimes.
He dropped pro baseball in 1952 and signed on to play pro football with the San Francisco 49ers, at 19 he was the youngest player in NFL history. We could go on with his football career but let's get to where I want to go...his boxing.
Powell was coached by the formidable Archie "The Mongoose" Moore and in the football off-season he would shed 10-15 pounds and fight pro (seriously, was this guy a superhero or what?) In 1959 he knocked out #2 Heavyweight contender Nino Valdes moving Powell up the ranks to #4 earning him shots against such competition as Floyd Patterson (he lost in the 6th) and some guy known at the time as Cassius Clay (he lost in the 3rd round).
Although never champion he did wind up with a pro record of 25-11-3 and would later second-guess his multi-tasking saying "You don't need the same muscles in boxing you use in football. I believe I could have been a champion if I stuck to it."
Hell, who knows, he was probably right.
To Mr. Powell and his family.
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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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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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