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Spartan Training Gear :: About Spartan
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Spartan Training Gear is a warrior lifestyle brand designed and engineered for fighters. It was created for the modern-day warriors who fight on the battlefield. In the streets. In the cage. It's for anyone that embraces combat as a visceral part of their life. It's for the unconquerable spirit of men and women who can look into the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, dig in their heels and yell 'Come get some! ABOUT HOPLITE TRAINING ARMOUR™. The name says it all; Multi-Purpose. No other suit on t...
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Functional Edge System: Teacher, Teacher
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013. If you have chosen the very important task, whether as career, part time employment, or hobby, of teaching Martial Art, Combat Sport, or Self Protection. Here are some guidelines you should ponder and reflect on to see if you are being the best possible teacher you can be. In police work report writing and investigative techniques, we used the old Five W's method. We had to make sure we knew or found out the W. Here, and ho W. But why then, have I included Why. In the 6 W's. Are y...
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Functional Edge System: The Three Training Methods "Nuts" and Bolts Part 3
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Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Three Training Methods Nuts and Bolts Part 3. In the first two parts of this series we discussed the Pros and Cons of two of what I consider the three pillars of Martial Training. We looked at Self Protection Systems, and Combat Sports. In this last segment of the series we will look at what I call Conventional Martial Arts. What are Conventional Martial Arts you ask? The sparring is usually very symmetrical, that is to say the participants are using solely their art's skill...
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Functional Edge System: A Teenaged White Belt Looks at Fifty Part One
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Saturday, August 31, 2013. A Teenaged White Belt Looks at Fifty Part One. So yes, I have been fortunate enough to have been on this planet for fifty years! That's five decades, two score and ten years, or half a century, depending on how you look at it. For about forty of those years I have been training in some form of martial art, combat sport, or self protection method. In my best "Clint"voice, of my martial arts life. Basics, basics, basics! LONG DISTANCE BRUSH WITH FAME PART 1. The classes were shor...
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Functional Edge System: A Teenaged White Belt Looks at Fifty Part 2
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015. A Teenaged White Belt Looks at Fifty Part 2. Some martial arts schools to this day, specially those that profess to teach MMA, still hold to this model even in their group classes. The "instructor" basically teaches one or two moves with no set curriculum and then gets to the business of showing his students how tough he is. The only thing improving in this "club" is the instructor's ego. The Art of Fighting With Absorbing a Useful Classical Mess. On the other side of the com a...
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Functional Edge System: Traumatic Thoughts
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Sunday, June 30, 2013. HEAD IMPACT STUDY VIDEOS (CAUTION GRAPHIC). Watch the following clips focusing on head contact and their effect. On the recipients. Important: try not to analyze the circumstances or scenario, just focus on the number of collisions, frequency and severity of impact as well as end result. We will come back to this after you have read the rest of the blog. 1 http:/ m.youtube.com/? Http:/ m.youtube.com/watch? Feature=related&v=iqhb3Q0T2bs (The last fake demo doesn't count). Both of th...
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Functional Edge System: The Three Training Methods "Nuts" and Bolts Part II
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Friday, March 29, 2013. The Three Training Methods Nuts and Bolts Part II. I do enjoy and teach combat sport but combat sport only represents a small part of our popular culture and certainly is not the be-all and end-all when it comes to fighting skill. Let's address some of the nutty things about combat sports and then we will address some things are truly beneficial and the reasons I encourage people to participate in some form of combat sport or another. We have all heard the story the person that wa...
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Functional Edge System: Alternate Reality
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Friday, May 17, 2013. It Just Got Unreal. This month I want to talk about choices and about being careful about what we present to our students as "reality based" or how real things are "on the street". You see, our best intentions at "keeping it real" may ultimately have a negative impact on our student's outcomes during real confrontations and all our hours of training and practice will be for naught! Grappling With The Issues. They failed to see that due to the conventions of social interaction in our...
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