We will be moving to an Earn Your Rounds format with RAW 152.

What's that? Well, read on...

• Now that we've laid the conditioning foundation with alternating Conditioning/Combat Training Days on RAWs 150 & 152 we will now...

• Have 22-Full Days of Conditioning instead of the 12-Day Alternating Cycle. [You set your own days of the week, we use a 3-on/1-day off cycle here.]

• We will open RAW 152 with the Re-Test of our Benchmark Test that opened RAW 150.

• Day 2 of RAW 152 will offer a new Benchmark Test that opens this 2-Month Cycle.

• All 22-Days of Conditioning will be listed in order of consumption-by that I mean if you are following the program, don't skip around. Don't say, "I like Day 4 and Day 9 I'll put these back-to-back", I'm not your dad, I'm not your Boss but the prescribed order has had some thought put into it.

• The Earn Your Rounds protocol asks you to time your Conditioning Session and to use that to dictate your Minimum Combat Rounds for that Day.

• For example-If my conditioning session lasted 12: 43, I've "earned" six rounds of mandatory combat training. [You can always do more rounds, but optimally you will never accept less.]

• The Earn Your Rounds Breakdown is as follows:

• A Sub 5 minute (5m) Performance in that day's conditioning challenge earns you 9 Rounds of Combat.

• 5m to 10m = 8 Rounds

• 10-15 = 7

• 15-20 = 6

• 20-25 = 5

• 25-30 = 4

• 30-35 = 3

• 35-40 = 2

• 40-45 = 1

• Anything over 45m is a Day Off from combat as performance, or task dictates you should be wiped.

• Each RAW will still include all 3 Major areas of the Combination Man/Woman Program: Boxing, Shooting/Clinching, and Matwork.

• These Combat Drill Templates will now be listed separately as opposed to interspersed in the Syllabi as we have no way of knowing how much Combat you've "earned."

• You can use the "Earned" format for RAW Forum conversations, for example: "Just completed Day 18, earned 6 Rounds" letting the crew know that you burned that workout challenge in 15 to 20 minutes and still had gas in the tank for a least 6 hard-rounds of fight.

• As with the Conditioning Challenges, I advise do not skip around in the Combat Templates, follow the Order of Protocol as, believe it or not, a good deal of thought has gone into its construction. [Again, I'm not your dad, suit yourself in all things.]

• In the future, as we all get on the same page with immediate syllabi access and synchronized training days, we will offer additional training material to those who are using the Earn Your Rounds format competitively in the forum. That is, compete with one another and we'll unlock more drills for the players. That's right, bondafide rewards for hard-chargers.

If I've made this as clear as mud, say the word. We're working hard here to get this Program as comprehensive and optimized for fun and community as we can.

Onward & Upward!