Blog entries for Peter

Closing the Loop

Peter

Our orientation establishes how we conduct ourselves in general, and becomes a posture or trajectory that influences the decisions, actions, and reactions of participants in a conflict. This posture can exert a gravitational pull on our interactions with other people, leading both towards and away from conflict.

Orientation was expanded in Boyd's model to include the idea of "implicit guidance and control". This, combined with feedback, is what creates the general mode or i [...]

Inspecting the OODA loop: Orientation

Peter

Last month, I introduced the concept of the observe-orient-decide-act loop, or OODA loop, developed by military strategist John Boyd. It is a concise model of conflict that has guided war planners and fighters of this country since his 1986 presentation.

Boyd's feeling was that the orientation phase was the most crucial to the outcome of any conflict, as it determines the posture one takes to the conflict before any action begins. My simplified model from last month shows a cycle wi [...]

Getting Inside the Loop

Peter

Military strategy is rich ground to till for concepts related to self-defense. Much time and energy is spent in military organizations defining the nature of conflicts and devising means to overcome them according to their objectives. Many different models have arisen from these efforts over the centuries. As individuals, we can adapt some of these models to help us deal with conflicts that arise for us. One of the most useful and universally applicable models of conflict was devised fairly rece [...]

My imminent return

Peter

Those of you who've been missing my Chinese Boxing class, have no fear. I am expecting to return to teaching October 1st after fully recovering from knee surgery. I will be returning to my regular teaching schedule of Mondays levels 2 and 1 (6pm and 7pm), and Thursdays level 3 and Chinese Boxing (7pm and 8pm respectively).

Interview: Peter Pryputniewicz

Peter

Peter is one of the original members of KMSF, and also teaches Chinese Boxing. Peter is also the one who normally conducts all the interviews for our newsletter in addition to his column. This month, the interviewer finally becomes the interviewee.

KMSF: You're an instructor at KMSF, and one of the original members that came over from Chinese Boxing. How has your experience with Krav Maga been, both the system and the school?

Peter: I studied Chinese Boxing for a ve [...]

Knee surgery

Peter

As some of you know, I recently had surgery to repair a knee injury. I was very pleased to find out it was not damaged nearly as much as I thought at first. There are a lot of things we take for granted in life, and one of them is simple physical mobility. To be without it or to be compromised in that way is a major disruption to anybody who likes to train.

The injury happened during sparring, I was pushed and as I was flying backwards trying to gain my balance, I jammed my left l [...]

UFC 74 review

Peter

The fights were all pretty interesting, no snoozers or ridiculously quick endings either. St. Pierre mostly dominated Koschek but couldn't submit him. George really took it to Kos, stuffed his take down attempts and then took him down repeatedly and controlled from the top position, eventually sitting on his head and almost pulling off an armbar, a kimura and at the last minute almost got him in a leg lock after pounding on him a bit.

Couture pretty much destroyed Gonzaga&# [...]