June 2011 Newsletter
In This Issue
School News
Barny's Desk
Upcoming Events
CrossFit News
Member of the Month
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School News
SCHOOL CLOSED
Sunday & Monday
July 3 & 4
BYE BYE to Cip
We will miss you AND hope you have a great adventure
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." St. Augustine
"People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they
ignore at home."
Dagobert D. Runes
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his
head
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We hope you Think of us as home and miss us as much as your old, familiar pillow
come back safe, happy and rested
Intro to Fight
New series starts
Thursday June 16th
6:30
sign - up sheet on bulletin board
Yoga in the AM
Starts June 6
First Class FREE for all KMSF Members
Sunrise Flow Power Hour
7-8 MWF
8-9 MWF
Lunch Time Flow
12-1 MWF
Rates/ Class Description
Drop in class $12
Stimulus Package
10 Class Pass for $100
5 Class Pass for $55
Special Rates for KMSF Members
Drop-in $10
10 Class Pass $80
5 Class Pass $45
Free class when you refer a friend.
Yogi of the month drawing!
At the end of every month I will put the names of everyone who has taken a class
that month in a drawing to win a free class for you and a friend.
Congratulations to Heddi & Muppet Cundle
One of our members, Heddi Cundle, just launched her new online travel company: www.myTab.co
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(not .com).
"Just put it on myTab!"
myTab lets us set up travel wish lists that friends can donate toward, while giving
portions to our favorite eco charity:
Just sign up for free to myTab.co, add Facebook friends & shout* out 'Yo, birthday's
coming. Just put it on myTab'
so they can gift you towards wish list travel. Then save more cash and set individual
or group reminders & trips. Book
travel on myTab or let us 'Match myCash' (savings to trips). When you've booked,
you can pay-forward some myCash to
an eco charity and thank* Facebook friends for helping you. Set myTab.co/username
so non Facebook pals can gift. Great
for charity fundraisers, school trips, honeymoons or stranded students i.e. myTab.co/GetMeOuttaEurope.
Brilliant!
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Gift, save, plan, share & book travel
* All shout outs post automatically from myTab to your (or your friend's) Facebook
wall.
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Barny's Desk
What does a Person with Power Want?..........More Power!
Most martial art schools are designed to train their students for competition as
a way of proving
how powerful they have become. That attitude can be a problem when a person sees
it as the only
way to handle a confrontation.
At Krav Maga we train for self-defense not for competition. Self Defense teaches
you a set of skills
dealing with awareness, verbal confrontation, safety strategies and physical techniques
that enable
you to successfully escape, resist and survive a violent attack.
Self Defense training is not just about being a macho fighter with a macho attitude.
It also is not about
having to prove how powerful you are in a fight. We do want everyone to put on their
gear and learn to
fight a little, but no one has ever failed or passed a test because of how well
they learned to fight. The
power people achieve at Krav is the power to learn how to avoid a physical confrontation
and enough
knowledge to know if a person tries to attack you that you can stop them, drop
them and get somewhere safe.
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Upcoming Events
Intro to Fight
6 Week Series
starts
Thursday June 16th
Green Belt Test
June 18
1:30 - 8:30
Beach Training Seminar
Saturday July 16
10-2
Spend the day at the beach training
a little gun training
a little fittness training
games - fun - competitions - prizes
lunch served at 2:30PM
Come ready to get a great workout, and have some fun
Everybody Welcome
$59 Members
$79 Non-Members
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CrossFit News
from KAT
Thank you to everyone who came to the Intro To Crossfit Seminar. We are very excited
to see some new faces.
Our next one will be in the summer, stay tuned for the date.
On deck for the summer, we have athletes training for the Double Dipsea, Krav Maga
Belt tests, the Tough Mudder,
and the Nike Women's Marathon. Crossfit trains you for events, but it also trains
you to handle every day
challenges with strength and endurance. If you are curious about Crossfit, or how
to get started, come down to the
basement and talk to Kat.
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Member of the Month
Rick Armstrong
When and how did you first hear about Krav?
About midway through 2006 while working at Alltel Wireless in Little Rock, AR, one
of my best friends and
co-workers named Devin had recently opened a Krav Maga Worldwide school. Devin
was preparing for his
Black Belt, and he was constantly trying to get me to take a class. His description
of the system intrigued
me...Israeli military, aggression, going home alive, disarming armed attackers...it
sounded awesome. It couldn't
have been at a better time as I had wanted to get back into some type of self-defense
after taking about a 15
year hiatus from martial arts. After I finally took my first class in April of
2007, I knew I had found exactly
what I was looking for. During that class, the defense we worked on was headlock
from the side.
After seeing the junior instructor, who had just a few inches on me, drop Devin,
a 6'2, 215 lb West Point
grad/former Army Captain, like a sack of potatoes during the demonstration...I was
floored. More important,
I was completely hooked and became a sponge in order to absorb anything involving
perfecting my
Krav Maga technique.
How long have you been a member and what level have you reached?
After training in Arkansas from April to October 2007, I moved to the Bay Area and
started training at
KMSF in November 2007, arriving as a Level 2 Yellow Belt. So overall, I've trained
in Krav for over 4
years, with the majority of training at KMSF. Since that time I have reached Level
5 Blue Belt with
my sights targeted at Level 6 Brown in the near future. In addition, I officially
started the instructor
training program at KMSF in April of this year.
What is your favorite class and why?
Level 5 and above classes are hands down my favorite. Earlier in the curriculum
you start learning how to
defend against multiple attackers, along with defending against weapons (gun, knife,
stick). But once
you get to Level 5 and you're put in a circle of both armed and unarmed attackers,
it all changes.
Your muscle memory really kicks in under this constant pressure...you become fluid...the
technique
feels like 2nd nature. Without even thinking you're able to identify an armed attacker,
go through
the defense, and then keep on defending against whatever comes at you next. All
the times you're
told in the lower level classes to "be aware of your surroundings, keep your head
on a swivel, attack
the attack, stay aggressive"...it all comes together as a reflex.
What is your most memorable training story?
There are so many, but the one that jumps to the top of the list was the infamous
"marathon"
Level 4 Green Belt test in November of 2008. The test lasted 12 hours. Back then
tests for
Level 4 and above were usually split into 2 days. One day for a complete review
of the
curriculum, and the 2nd day was the test. Our group opted to do it all, both the
review and the test,
in one day. The 8 of us started the test at 10am, and we did not leave the building
until 10:00pm.
What makes that day even more memorable was the fact that I slightly hyper-extended
my
left knee at about the 3 ½ hour mark. After taping it up and putting a brace on,
I fought
through the next 6+ hours. Pushing through that taught me that your mind can block
out
pain and push through, and by successfully completing a challenge like that, it
makes
everything else seem easy. By the end of the night, everyone was cramping, yelping,
moaning, bloodied, and the room wreaked of Icy Hot. However, in the end we all
passed,
our wounds healed, and we developed a bond that will stand the test of time. We
all "stayed
in the fight" that night, I couldn't have done it without my partners, and it was
totally worth not
being able to move 2 days later.
What's your favorite aspect about training at Krav?
The simplistic reality of Krav Maga. As a comparison, when I took Karate as a kid,
my instructor
didn't take us to competitions because the first rules you learn in a competition
are no kicks to the
groin or full contact to the face. Even at an early age, I liked that mentality
of "no rules," but everything
taught in Karate was pressure-point and kata based, so every technique had to be
completely precise
or it just would not work. After taking one Krav Maga class, I learned more actual,
effective defense
in that 1 hour than I did in my entire 5 years of Karate. This simplicity, along
with the way Krav
utilizes the body's own natural reflexes to negate a threat, is what will work on
the street. Plus,
that simplicity carries over from level to level. It still amazes me how Krav Maga
is literally a building
blocks system...what you learn in Level 1 is the same thing you use in Level 5 to
defend
against an edged weapon. This simplicity allows for anyone, regardless of size,
gender, or age,
to effectively use Krav Maga. By adding the "I didn't start the fight, but I will
finish it" mentality into the
mix, that's what will get you home safe.
What's your life like when your not taking classes?
One word...active. When I'm not working, I'm usually out doing something physical.
I've always
viewed fitness as a lifestyle, which began from running cross-country and track
in high school
and college, then morphing to triathlons. Any given day you'll find me doing Crossfit,
rock-wall
climbing, hiking, camping, kayaking, blasting away on the drums, or doing something
adrenaline filled
like para-gliding, riding motorcycles, or summiting Half Dome. While I'm at work,
I'm the Director of
Product and Marketing for a mobile payments company called PaymentOne. I've been
in the
wireless industry for almost 8 years now, doing everything from branding, product
marketing,
strategy, interactive/online...you name it...if it's a marketing function, I've
most likely done it.
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