Archive for September, 2011

Urban Survival Water Purification

One of the most basic sur­vival require­ments is water.

Every human being needs water to sur­vive, and water is one neces­sity for urban sur­vival and wilder­ness sur­vival that you sim­ply can­not carry with you in suf­fi­cient quantity.

It is too heavy to carry the amount of drink­ing water you would need for a long-term urban sur­vival situation.

This means that you have to be able to drink water that you find.

While find­ing sources of water, and col­lect­ing water, could be a topic all by itself, the ques­tion remains:

How do you make water safe to drink once you have found it?

Watch “Conan The Barbarian”

“Conan The Bar­bar­ian” is a 1982 fantasy-action-adventure film. It’s based on the sto­ries by Robert E. Howard (1906–1936), about the adven­tures of the char­ac­ter in a fic­tional pre­his­toric world of dark magic and sav­agery. Writ­ten by John Mil­ius (Red Dawn, Flight of the Intruder) and Oliver Stone (Pla­toon, Born on the Fourth of July) and directed by Mil­ius. Basil Pole­douris pro­vided the rous­ing music. Star­ring Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger, James Earl Jones and Max Von Sydow, the film tells the story of a young bar­bar­ian who seeks vengeance for the death of his par­ents. The tar­get of his hatred is Thulsa Doom (Jones), the leader of a snake cult. In the course of his adven­tures, Conan befriends a wiz­ard, played by Mako, Sub­o­tai, a thief, played by Hawai­ian surf­ing leg­end Gerry Lopez and falls in love with Vale­ria, a female brig­and, played by San­dahl Bergman.

So, You Want to be a NINJA?

http://​www​.bujinkan​.com/

I get a lot of emails from my read­ers lit­er­ally from all over the world, ask­ing me about authen­tic Ninja Mar­tial Arts train­ing. Even though there are 100,000 plus prac­ti­tion­ers of Nin­jutsu on the planet, there are still rel­a­tively few qual­ity instruc­tors actively teaching.

If you’re seri­ous about train­ing in Nin­jutsu the first thing you should do is own and study the DVD’s and books of Dr.Masaaki Hat­sumi. Hat­sumi Sen­sei is the sole Head Mas­ter (Soke) of the last liv­ing Nin­jutsu tra­di­tions (Ryu Ha). It’s always best to go to the source and Hat­sumi Sen­sei is THE SOURCE of authen­tic Ninja Mar­tial Arts (Ninpo/Ninjutsu/Taijutsu) training.

Yoshiaki Fujiwara: Submission Master

The leg­endary Karl Gotch (1924–2007), the “God of Catch Wrestling” called Yoshi­aki “Kumi­cho” Fuji­wara his best stu­dent ever. Fuji­wara Sen­sei has had an enor­mous influ­ence on the worlds of Catch Wrestling, Japan­ese Pro­fes­sional Wrestling and MMA. He was the train­ing part­ner of both Anto­nio “Moeru Toukon” Inoki, the pro­fes­sional wrestler most famous for his match with Muham­mad Ali and Satoru “Tiger Mask” Sayama founder of SHOOTO. He was also the teacher of Ken Sham­rock and Bart Vale.

Ultimate Fighters Visit Atterbury

Sol­diers, Marines and civil­ians turned out for a glimpse of and a lit­tle hands-on train­ing with Ulti­mate Fight­ers Chris “Lights Out” Lytle and Matt “Meat­head” Mitri­one at the Post Gym Sept. 20. The fight­ers spent their time here giv­ing an instruc­tional sem­i­nar on com­bat­ives and sign­ing auto­graphs for fans.

The event, which was spon­sored by the Camp Atter­bury Bet­ter Oppor­tu­nity for Sin­gle Sol­diers pro­gram and the Morale, Wel­fare and Recre­ation office, let UFC fans get up close and per­sonal with the fighters.

Lytle, who retired from the sport Aug. 14, said he feels any time he gets to visit with Sol­diers is a great honor.

“I love the coun­try that we live in. I think the peo­ple who put their lives on the line to defend it for us, you can’t say enough about them,” he said. “I was for­tu­nate enough to go over to Wal­ter Reed this year to visit some of the injured troops there, and it was amaz­ing to me how they were so gra­cious and thank­ing me for what I do. It was just so hum­bling for me to think ‘You guys are giv­ing the ulti­mate sac­ri­fice los­ing limbs. I’m in the ring fight­ing and that’s noth­ing in comparison’.”

Stay Army Strong With Combatives Training

Recruiters from the Chicago Bat­tal­ion wage urban war­fare every day in the bat­tle to find qual­i­fied appli­cants and make mis­sion. They face and over­come adver­sity at every turn in the form of teenage obe­sity, low test scores and parental and peer objec­tion to Army ser­vice. The Army recruiter course is designed to train recruiters to fight and win in the urban arena.

Although the recruit­ing mis­sion is vitally essen­tial in main­tain Army readi­ness, a recruiter is first and fore­most a Sol­dier. And a cur­rent require­ment of all Sol­diers to main­tain that readi­ness is that they receive Level One Com­bat­ives training.

Watch “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead”

One hun­dred pounds over­weight, loaded up on steroids and suf­fer­ing from chronic urticaria, a debil­i­tat­ing autoim­mune dis­ease, Aus­tralian busi­ness man Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. In the mir­ror he saw a 310 lb. man whose gut was big­ger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldn’t end well– with one foot already in the grave, the other wasn’t far behind.

FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD is an inspir­ing film that chron­i­cles Joe’s per­sonal mis­sion to regain his health. With doc­tors and con­ven­tional med­i­cines unable to help him, Joe turns to the only option left, the body’s abil­ity to heal itself. He trades in the junk food and hits the road with a juicer, vow­ing only to drink water and freshly squeezed veg­etable and fruit juice for the next sixty days. A “reboot,” he calls it.

Sumo For MMA

Presently, the four pri­mary arts that are used in the sport of Mixed Mar­tial Arts (MMA) are West­ern Box­ing, Muay Thai, Brazil­ian Jujutsu and Greco Roman Wrestling. There are some com­peti­tors that have suc­cess­fully blended in Catch Wrestling, such as Kazushi Sakuraba and Ken Sham­rock or Judo, such as Karo Parisyan and Kim Dong Hyun. I know that as MMA evolves there will be many other arts that will be thrown into the mix. Arts such as Japan­ese Tai­jutsu, Fil­ipino Dumog and Indone­sian Silat have a lot of merit. Sur­pris­ingly, I believe that the Japan­ese sport of Sumo would be a great addi­tion into the mix of MMA.

Practice Evidence Based Martial Arts

There’s a whole lot of cult like weird­ness in the Mar­tial Arts world. It’s often times very hard to dis­cern the effi­cacy of tech­niques, so many of them are steeped in urban leg­ends, mis– and dis-information and just out­right lies. So how are we to make our way through the myr­iad of meth­ods that “mas­ter” teach­ers tell us will effort­lessly defeat the bad guys and pro­tect our lives? By using empir­i­cal evi­dence based procedures.

Let’s break down what I mean by “empir­i­cal evi­dence based pro­ce­dures.” “Empir­i­cal” means “of the senses,” for our pur­poses as mar­tial artists , this means pri­mar­ily the visual (sight)and kines­thetic (feel­ing) senses. “Evi­dence” is empir­i­cally observed results. And “pro­ce­dures” mean a well thought out method­i­cal process. Another way of say­ing this is that we are going to apply the SCIENTIFIC METHOD to our mar­tial arts training.

Heart Attack Proof Yourself

What if I told you that there was a killer loose that is the num­ber one cause of death glob­ally: more peo­ple die annu­ally at the “hands” of this killer than from any other cause. Would you want to stop this killer from his mur­der­ous ram­page? Yes, of course you would. Would you do any­thing in your power to stop him? I hope so. What is this killer? It’s Car­dio Vas­cu­lar Dis­ease (CVD).

What are car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­eases? Heart attacks and strokes are usu­ally acute events and are mainly caused by a block­age that pre­vents blood from flow­ing to the heart or brain. The most com­mon rea­son for this is a build-up of fatty deposits on the inner walls of the blood ves­sels that sup­ply the heart or brain.