Blog entries tagged 'article'

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 [...]

Preparing for a Krav Maga Belt Test - by Pam Tao

Maria

This month we have a special article written by Brown Belt student, Pam Tao.

"Okay! One person in the center of the circle, standing with your eyes closed! Everyone else will put on all Level 1 and 2 attacks on this person! And I want overlapping attacks! No stopping! No breaks!"

So y [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Training Partners

Maria

Over and over again, I hear from students that they enjoy the senseof community and support that the KMSF Training Center provides. There seems to be an endless supply of people willing to offer advice on techniques or help a newbie negotiate the difficulty of holding airshields for the first time. All these good training partners can help make classes more i [...]