Finding The Warrior with Dan Flowers

Let it be known that the events of this terrible school tragedy have not gone without notice by your neighbors North of the border. Parents who are enduring this unimaginable loss, we are thinking of you and your precious ones. Our hearts are burdened by your loss...we are speechless. We are truly so very sorry for you.

This stabbing video shows use both what to do and what not to do. http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/brutal-stabbing-caught-on-camera Remember this, no matters what happens or how cut up you get, fight with everything you have and try to survive for 10 more seconds. Don't walk around completely unaware like this poor fellow. Make a pact with yourself to not walk and talk on the phone. Staying still when talking on the phone makes a huge difference in your ability to maintain a greater air of awareness. Even better is to place your back to a barrier so you maintain 180 degree visual awareness. I hopefully will post a video soon of some really worthwhile training drills which damn near make you impervious to this sort of attack no matter what you practice martial arts wise.

Around each and every one of us exists an awareness bubble. This bubble expands and contracts from us. We can observe this awareness bubble and how far it projects from other people around us. I find it's neat as I walk in a semi crowded environment to observe the awareness bubble of others around me. I ask myself is their bubble uniform in dimension or is it oblong. Is there a point in their awareness bubble that is very contracted or projected. This is very useful information especially if you happen to find yourself needing to determine if your being followed. Anyone who is following you will have a severely projected awareness bubble in your direction. I'm not going to expand on this anymore right now....just wanted to plant some seeds for a later time. As you find yourself out and about, think about peoples awareness bubbles and try and spot them.

Well, I am going to workout tonight. I came off my enduro bike last week and buggered up my back. I must go workout. I need to go workout, either that or the animal within is going to explode. I'm coming out of the closet on this one. Was on a forum tonight and guess pissed a few of the moderators off, hence they threaten me with expulsion. Well I try and see the world by context. Did this person mostly try and help other people, strive to be a person with a mission beyond self. Did they sacrifice huge. We're they the ones who never said no when asked for help. Well I've had it to my limits with cry freakin babies and p.c. F_ _ _k heads. If your freakin wrong, I'm gonna say it bubba. If I think your a freakin liar, I'm gonna tell you shitbird. You bump into me, I expect and now demand that you look me in the eye and say sorry just as I would do to you. Geez can you tell I'm pissed. Maybe if I'm really lucky tonight, I'll run into a gang of armed bank robbers attempting their getaway. I feel like pounding some justice into someone. Anyhow, I must go run because it's the only thing to get me grounded now. Hopefully my back will hold out until I get back home. Tough times don't last, tough men (and gals) do.

Told to Tom Brown Jr by Stalking Wolf (Apache Scout)

Codes are cool and codes are fun. Codes are more cool and fun if you do them with kids, spouses and boyfriends/ girlfriends. Learning a useable simple code will change your life for the better I promise you. Imagine being able to speak in sentences while holding hubbies hand without saying a word verbally. Imagine having a coded knock or other signal that told family members to go on high alert. Maybe a specific way of answering the phone that was an immediate warning signal. Well try the simple tap code that is so easy to use and incorporate into your life. Http:/www.braingle.com/brainteasers/codes/tapcode.php

Well this is gonna stir people up a bit. I can hear the arguments already. Know what the best darn night camo is...believe it or not black and red checkered plaid. Really I'm serious give it a try. Glad I never throw anything out. Ready for The world WROL now. Check it out at : www.galaxyarmynavy.com/item-4739red.asp

Well what is outside ? Outside is the place where you have a huge amount of reactionary time available to you as well as a buffer that very few fighters know how to deal with. It is a space where you are just and I mean just out of range of a quick punch but no more. Master this space and you will realize there is not a whole lot of anything else to master. While having a partner come at you maintain your outside space no matter what he does. Whatever you do, do not even think about doing any sort of counter technique to what he does. Your job is only to maintain your outside space by moving, pushing, stopping the forward movement of the attacker or evading to the forty five angle. Try to react to the attacks....slowly at first and then faster. Have your attacker try everything he/she can think of. As you get better at this drill try to keep your outside as the person is attacking and not so much as a reaction to their initial attack. Don't think whatever you do. Thinking will stop the subconscious flow of information and make you into a dork. Do not underestimate this exercise, many a master spend enormous amounts of time doing this drill without people watching it even know their doing it. This is a favorite drill with me especially when I'm training with a rifle. with the rifle you may add lots of pulling movements with redirections on your attacker as well. No rifle ? Use a broom handle or other stick. As always, have fun, don't think too much.

What your gong to do is play hacky sack but without the sack.  Your hands will become the ball.  You are gong to kick using your knees, feet at one of your hands, put your foot back down on the ground and immediately bring the foot back up to hit your hand again.  Get creative, switch hands and move your hand to the front, side, and behind you as you kick.  Switch kicking legs whenever you want.  What you want to achieve is the ability to kick quickly in any direction from any stance with speed and relaxtion.  Relaxation is THE key to kicks that blast people off their feet just as the Systema punch does.  It's harder then it looks, have fun.

2/ Percocet works well but not as well as Demeral.  I found Demeral to be the king of pain relief.  The trick with either pain med is to take the pill just before the effects of the previous pill have worn off.  If you wait until the pain starts to creep up you are done.  I did this for a week before realizing it.  You will be in needless agony for 3-4 more hours by doing this.  The dosing info I got for 50 mg Demeral was take one four time daily.  I figured o.k. take one every six hours.....forget it, don't work.  I figured out that my Demeral pill wore off between hour 5 1/4 and 6.  I set an alarm for 5 hours and when it rang took another pill.  It took effect before the pain crept in and saved me much agony.  Save yourself all the trouble and NEVER  let yourself become dehydrated.  Thank God it's over.

Going through day 12, my god of trying to fire a kidney stone out.  Surgery tomorrow.  Will update once I'm done and on my feet about such nastyness and how to cope with it.

Most people fail in their training programs for one simple reason.....they train too much.  Like it or not your body needs much more time then you think it does during the recovery period after excercise.  Look into "power of ten" workouts.  I forget who the author was but it will rock your world.  Basically it's one tough 10 minute workout every seven to ten days.  I know it goes against everything advertising is pushing at us but I swear it works.  Today I will be doing a great simple workout.  I will walk out my door with my Son, we will walk very quickly for 7 1/2 minutes and then turn around and walk home.  Yep 15 minutes total.  We always go the exact same route because it's neat seeing how far past the halfway point landmark we can go each training walk.  The landmark changes each time of course for the better.  Some people will scoff at such a meager workout but only because they have not committed to it for a few months.  Believe me, you can make it brutally hard if you want, just go like snot.  I tell my Son they are combat walks.  Being ex-military it's a great way to go....quiet, aware, calm.  I am 99 %  ready to engage in a fight after the workout too.  The next day you will be fairly fresh unless your pushed way harder then your body was willing.  Give it a try it just might surprise you. I will talk about my other types of workouts in another post.

Have fun with this.  I will post a killer upgrade to this one very soon as video.  Watch for it.