Elite Training Center: Redondo

     Champions have Confidence!
 
Champions understand the key to developing supreme confidence is preparation.
 
In the Martial Arts, the more you practice and train, the better your conditioning will be and the more confident you become in your skills. The more confident you are, the better you feel and the better you perform.
 
Champions have confidence, and that gives them greater strength and fortitude to take aggressive action towards all of their dreams and goals.
 
Quite often, when you gain confidence in one area of life, it shows up in other areas as well. This is why so many of our Junior Black Belt Champions are also academic achievers are well.
 
Any child that is given the gift of confidence will excel in all areas of their life. Athletics, academics and otherwise.
 
In the same regard, adults that become confident, well conditioned Black Belt Champions, often excel in the dojo, in their professional and personal lives as well. It’s very common that a student training for their Black Belt also see peak results in every other area of life.
 
A person that lacks confidence, may be frozen in fear.
 
To achieve outstanding results, you must take great actions. To take great action, you must have the confidence that you can and will succeed.
 
If you want to increase your confidence in any aspect of your life, increase your practice and preparation time.
 
Study Hard, Train Hard & Prepare for Greatness!

I am looking forward to this long weekend with all the instructor for CQC training survival workshops, hiking and tactical shooting courses etc…it is going to be great…we will all come back better than we left….

I would like to hear from you all on what you believe the definition of a Warrior is…any answers are great I just want to know what people think….

Please remember to wear clothes that you might wear any day or night for training e week of the 2-7th….clothes might get torn and will get sweaty so please be prepared…all selfdefense classes and kali classes will be done in street clothes to help you prepare for what it will be like to fight in your real clothes….women please wear shorts under dresses and skirts…men to!!! See you there for some great training…
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Everyone get ready for street clothes training week…all the Krav classes will be taught while wearing street clothes and doing extream drills to prepare you for the realistic environment you will find yourself in…more details will be covered in class but keep an eye out for it in the coming weeks…

by John Whitman
Thumb down and forward. That’s all it took to release the strap and draw the weapon from its holster. Thumb down and forward.
But I couldn’t do it in the roughly 1.7 seconds it took for the attacker to cover twenty-plus feet.  I had to abandon the weapon and go right to Krav Maga’s regular stick defense. 

Even after 19 years of Krav Maga stress training, it still amazes me how small changes in circumstance can affect performance and reaction time.

Now, to discuss this specific situation, let’s make a few basic assumptions.  First, that I am a reasonably good athlete with reasonably good hand-eye coordination.  Second, that the borrowed holster I was using was secure but not complicated to operate.  (I had, in fact, practiced the simple release movement several times while waiting my turn in the stress drill.) Third, that I have reasonably good reaction time when dealing with Krav Maga stick and knife defenses (you will have to take this on faith; I don’t claim to be perfect, but I’ve done this sort of thing for a long time.)

The reason I make these assumptions is to identify what I think is the one important factor: the situation was new. It wasn’t complex (the holster was easy to operate).  Nor was it particularly stressful for me. It was just new. That “newness” was all that was needed to slow my reaction time enough to change my defense.

This is true of all of us. Every new situation tests our abilities.  To keep our training true, and to maintain a decent state of awareness, we need to constantly change up our environment and circumstances.  To push yourself, try changing up any of the following factors as often as you can:
• Time of day
• Clothing
• Altitude
• Energy level
• Flooring
• Operating space
• Size/strength of opponent
• Resistance level of opponent
• Lighting

Remember, the environment might not be inherently difficult, but the very newness of it will be a factor.  The more we take ourselves out of our comfort zone, the better prepared we will be if we are ever confronted by violence.

Comments

posted by Alex Millauer on February 28, 2010
That’s a very good point.  That’s why I love training in different environments, such as going outside, stairwell, hallway and the like.  Or in the rain or dark.  Or around obstacles or while carrying an object.  Even if, on paper, the defenses themselves often don’t change much in those situations, small differences in the environment can still throw you off if you have never trained in them before, which would then cause you to hesitate and increase your reaction time.

That’s why I think it’s crucial to practice in different environments during class and even confuse students deliberately sometimes, just to force them to react more quickly to changing circumstances.  For example, one could allow an attacker to secretly add another attack during a drill (one the other student knows, but is not expecting), then see if the defender will be able to adjust and still defend.  Or work more often on “Oh, sh*t” defenses.  Or throw sudden obstacles in the way (chairs, pads) while the defender’s eyes are closed, so the he can’t always move the way he would prefer and has to find a way to adjust.  Or attack the defender with common objects, with which he has never before been attacked in class (chair instead of stick, broken bottle/breakaway instead of knife etc), to see if he can recognize which defense to make against them.

This sort of training forces the student out of the monotony of doing the same defense over and over and teaches him to be alert and quickly think on his own.  The more he practices these things, the better he will be able to adapt, making him faster and more efficient, in training as well as in real

Seeking peace of mind with self-defense class
By Ashley Ratcliff
Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:12 AM PST

As a single female who lives alone in downtown Long Beach, I’ve come across my fair share of unsavory characters walking the streets.

When I’m out walking my dog, Berkeley Buster, after dark, I stroll with caution, sometimes concerned for my safety. I’d say that fear is even more present after the recent killing of Chelsea King, the 17-year-old San Diegan who was attacked while jogging in a familiar park, and the discovery of missing 14-year-old Amber Dubois’ remains.

And I thought America’s Finest City — my hometown of San Diego — was a safe place. Unfortunately, I realize now that no neighborhood is “safe.”

On our walks, I am armed with pepper spray and stroll with a quick stride. I am aware of my surroundings and don’t venture far from home. But I can’t help but feel that there’s no way that I — a 5-foot-3-inch-tall, 95-pound woman — could stand a chance against a bigger, stronger would-be attacker.

Or could I?

When I came across an old invitation — buried haphazardly in a pile of papers — for a free women’s empowerment self-defense session at a Beach Cities facility, I quickly was reminded of that need to be able to defend myself, should one of those seedy passersby try to harm me. Now is the time to take my personal security seriously.

Elite Training Center, formerly known as Lotar Self Defense & Fitness, in Redondo Beach, under the direction of its chief instructor, Brian Rauchbach, has made self-defense a part of its core mission, and offers classes in kickboxing, jiujitsu, fitness and more.

Shawni Young, a former women’s World Champion mixed martial arts fighter who now serves as the center’s program director, during a private session last week was kind enough to walk me through some techniques, including jabbing, the ever-effective groin kick and how to break free from a chokehold.

Within the short lesson, I already was beginning to feel transformed, more confident and aware of how to properly execute the moves. Some things I learned: When kicking, extend your leg from the knee so that the shin — far stronger than the foot — can make contact with the target. When running away, always flee off to the side. Never turn your back on an attacker.

While at the studio, I became acquainted with Alicia, a petite, full-time mother of three, who currently is an orange belt in the Israeli martial art of Krav Maga. I was quite impressed by the tone and definition in her arms that came from her training at the center. Alicia told me that her experience at Elite has been life changing.

Shawni did advise that while learning the techniques is a step in the right direction, maintaining a consistent routine and a commitment to safety is the most important aspect of taking classes. Learning self-defense, she said, is about changing your attitude. It will boost your confidence level, which alone may be enough to prevent an attack from ever occurring.

Maybe you’re a woman, too, who wants that peace of mind that you can protect yourself in any situation that may arise.

For more information about Elite’s classes, visit www.elitetrainingcenter.net.

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Have no fear…you can do anything you put your mind 2…never quit or not do something because of fear…it will only stop you for being the best and get in the way of you doing great things…people always come into the academy with such fear and so intimidated…I wish it was not the case..truly enjoy the beginning of this incredible journey it will take you to such great places within yourself and with others…I have trained for 37 years and I always feel I am learning new things and I love it…the challenge of not being able to do something is fantastic…enjoy the learning process it is where you will truly learn about who you are…

       
        MAXIMIZE!
 
   Studies on human potential show that most people are performing at  a fraction of their true potential. If this is accurate, it means that we all have a tremendous opportunity to improve ourselves and enjoy even greater levels of success and achievement.
 
Champions always strive to improve their skills and abilities, along with increasing their overall fitness.
 
If you set a goal to improve your flexibility, there are many ways you can make this happen. You can perform stretching exercises before and after each class. You could do ten minutes of stretching every morning.
 
The key is to learn to maximize the time and effort you are currently
dedicating to each areas you wish to improve. Once you’ve committed mentally that you can and will give more energy and effort, you must take immediate action to increase the return on your investment.
 
Learning to better maximize your training at the dojo, will have a very positive impact on everything you do outside of the dojo as well.
 
What are some ways you can better maximize your time?
 
How can you get results with one of your most valuable resources?
 
Let’s say you are going to do a 20-30 minute cardio workout, you might aim to reach for higher peaks in your heart rate, maybe you’ll also hold this higher rate for a longer time period. You may also decide that you are going to listen to an inspirational tape course while your doing your cardio training. This would give you greater mental motivation while you are reaching higher levels of physical performance.
 
Start applying the MAXIMIZE principle to everything you do and enjoy the benefit of positive growth and improvement.