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Originally Posted by frostfire
This have been posted before, but it's in tune with Yurk's arguments http://www.moderncombatives.org/history.html
The first time I came in contact with the concept of combatives was from gutterfingting and the two books: get tough and kill or get killed. The way I integrated it to my MA training was combatives really give the mindset aka." in sports if you don't win, you don't go home w/ medals, on the street, if you don;t win, you don't go home". This perspective turned on the controlled agression switch instantly.
Yurk, how do you teach MACP level I in a mixed unit? Do you train mixed gender group and pair opposite gender together? How you make "them" comfortable w/ the position and concept? telling them rape prevention application? |
Some of my background includes teaching "Self-Defense", and I also volunteer now teaching "Spouse Combatives" for the FRG programs around Bragg. We get the wives into the Combatives School for a 2 hour class, and go thru some of the simple drills, make it a "Fun" environment, allow them to do some of the things the husbands do in class, etc.
This is a huge difference in the way I teach MAC with females in the classes. Almost every level I class I teach has approx. 5-10 female soldiers. with approx 50-60 male soldiers. My philosophy is very direct and very simple. I let all students know day 1, that we are an "Army of One" (Army Strong does not fit the speech) and thus, if the students are big, small, white, black, male, female, skinny, fat...they will be held to the same standards for the course. It is a voluntary course and if they do not like it, don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. The class is physically demanding, and we lose soldiers every class because of it. I am yet to have a problem with females and I do not anticipate one in the future.
Yurk