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| In Sheffield England with Belgium Team member in the black ACDS T-shirt muggin for the camera in the background; Rod Fiardi in November of 2008 after a workshop. |
I don't necessarily agree with nor believe everything said on the clips/news-bits I am providing.
I am posting to provoke thought. There is something indeed wrong with the world today and self defense begins with the self and encompasses a fuck load more than beating up the mugger/rapist/criminal.
If something doesn't look right, if the status quo of things doesn't appeal to you, if something seems fucked up.... QUESTION AND DO SOME SHIT!
If people violently oppose something, label you, try to put you in a faction for questioning shit, then you should be QUESTIONING THINGS EVEN MORE....
If bullshit, inconsistencies, coincidences, repetitive circumstances and violent opposition to question is happening around you, voice your opinions, speak your minds and FUCK those who try to quiet you by labeling you or placing you in any kind of faction....
Keep asking the hard questions, keep fucking pressuring for logic until the answers begin to make sense, this is how CHANGE HAPPENS!
DO SOME SHIT!
Hi. We're pro peace. We'd like to invite you to be as well. You're still more than welcome here even if you're not pro peace.
Our mission isn't to teach people to hurt others, it's to teach people to strengthen themselves primarily through personal growth and evolution using self defense as the vehicle.
To protect one's self adequately, one must first recognize that the true enemy is within and that self defense begins first and foremost; with the self.
This takes much strength because the real enemy is our very own egos & those who claim have none are the ones we must be weary of the most.
You see.... No one'll ever fuck your life up like you will, and no one will ever improve it like you will; that's the kicker...
You decide....Brought to you by: Senshido International's DO SOME SHIT movement. No. Nothing to do with bowls either. It's metaphoric. Yes. "Metaphoric". As in "shit's" a metaphor for 'good and selfless deeds'. Now quit reading this and go DO SOME SHIT already!!!!!!!! damn man.... damn....
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| Ouch brother... Senshido International New ZealandTeam member Phil Thompson of Protect Self Defense demoing with me at a private seminar for RAW Combatives in Melbourne. |
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| Wondering when I'm going to stop ranting lmfao.... |
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| Phl and new Senshido International Team member Jim 'the Koont' Armstrong of RAW Combatives sharing a moment. |
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| Welcoming Jim to the team lolol.... |
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| It doesn't matter what country their from, hats just don't suit my cue ball head....lmfao |
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| "WTF??? Is he goin off again?" lmfao.... |
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| Good times, good times.... lmfao.... |
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| New Senshido International Team member Shannon 'TANK' Fuller , Nick Munday and one of the brother's during a drill. |
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| I love my job.... this is the best part of it.... chilling with my team and getting to meet incredible people worldwide. |
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| Lmfao.... I think this is the part where Tania shouted "Shut the fuck up already, these people want to go home!!!" lolol.... |
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| Oh yeah baby.... lofl.... mischievously plotting Phil's next torture.... lol. |
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| The Senshido International and RAW Combatives family.... |
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| Ok ready? Set.... RANT!!!! lolol..... |
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| GSP is much shorter than we thought lolol.... |
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| ROTFLMFAO!!!! Phil's face is priceless as I apparently use him as a rest piece as I explain during a demo... he's so patient lolol..... |
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| 'Ya put your right foot in, ya put your right foot out, ya do the hokey pokey'.... lmfao... |
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| Picking the wrong fight lmao.... Senshido International Team member Joe Saunders looking at me like I'm so insignificant lol |
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| After thinking twice about it.... I went after the dummy instead... who also didn't seem happy about it, scowling bastard.... |
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| Teaching in..... the TWILIGHT ZONE..... |
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| Phil never really made it out of the zone either it seems lmfao... |
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| LOLOLOL!!!!! I was trying to creep up on Phil without him noticing.... didn't work..... lololol WTF?!?!?!?! |
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| Phil and Jim getting to know each other better lolololol..... priceless..... |
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| Getting into the moment..... |
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| Phil doing everyone a favor lol.... poor Tania, we.... more like she, not we.... she was between 9 to 1w weeks pregnant during the trip and also caught a persistent cold and though tired and under the weather she insisted on being at every seminar.... heh... my kid heard me rant for 3 weeks in 16 workshops lol.... |
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| I miss my team. |
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| OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!!! lolol |
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| Phil give "Dick head" an entirely new meaning.... lmfao.... |
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| "Phil: Oooooh Rich.... your jeans are so.... soft and silky...." |
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| Senshido drills are packed with humor! lol.... |
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| Phil and I share a moment... lol.... how happy Phil is.... |
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| I have no idea.... really I don't..... none.... lmfao.... |
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| Drilll time.... |
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| Don't let the whack job fool ya, brother is one of the nicest, softest, kindest human beings I know and it is an honor to have Jim on the Senshido International Team! |
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| Drill with Phil.... |
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| Intercepting a surprise assault during a casual conversation with 2 people, 1 of them being a designated attacker. |
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| Smacking right into a facebutt.... |
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| Shannon the Tank showing us just how much he fits into the Senshido International band of misfits.... lolol.... |
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| Awwww..... see..... told ya he was sensiteevo.... lolol..... |
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| The Shredder makes an appearance.... |
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| Cheesily shouting RAAAAWWWWW!!!!!! lol.... we were enthusiastic after a great seminar and Jim calling my wife a fookin koont in front of everyone after I told the group of how she broke my heart twice back in 1986 when we were teens.... highlight of the entire 3.5 week Aus tour LMFAO!!!! |
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| Shredding away.... |
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| Demoing the opposite of "Closest weapon to closest target" concept. |
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| Verbal defuse time.... |
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| Going over passive stance psyche.... |
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| Because grappling on concrete isn't as practical as the participants quickly discovered when I decided to take them outdoors in the parking lot to see what it felt like going to the ground on purpose.... not many wanted to continue the workshop there... for obvious reasons as the skin, elbow and knee joints were taking a beating within the first few seconds of the drill.... GRAPPLING JUST AINT CEMENT FRIENDLY FOLKS.... just give it a shot and see.... |
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| In playing the role of the bad guy, one learns just as much, if not moreso about how to defuse and defend when in a violent confrontation. |
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| Let's just chalk it up to passion, ok? lmfao.... I don't know. |
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| Drilling speed, agility, coordination, position, placement, & multiple attacker awareness . |
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| More of the groundfighting in the parking lot... they left a few skin streaks there in the 8 minutes we spent out there... lol... no better way to figure shit out than to test it.... FUCK THEORIZING. |
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| Wouldn't have been fair to make them do it and not get down there myself eh? lmao.... |
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| Multiple attacker drills. |
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| This little Lady here had never done any kind of martial arts or self defense training before and came all he way to Australia from New York to attend 6 Senshido seminars IN A ROW!!!!! She and her boyfriend (who traveled from London) did absolutely fantastic!!!! |
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| Senshido International Team members Damien Martin and Joe Saunders sparing me bruises and abrasions by demoing for me. :`) Love you guys!!!! :`) |
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| Kicking it after probably talking their ears off on another one of my crazy rants! |
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| Some full contact ground fighting pre SPARTAN TRAINING GEAR! |
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| Working on some dynamic knife defense drills.... |
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| Going over the importance of passive body language & behavior during the defusing stages of the attack. |
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| What? |
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| Damien gleefully going after his attacker lmfao... |
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| Shredding their way off the ground... |
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| lmao.... that's all I got.... lmfao..... |
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| Some people are over confident, some people are just plain nuts... this brother musta been a bit of both to go after a man Joe's size...lmfao... |
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| Ranting their ears off again...lmfao... |
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| Bye bye thumb.... |
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| Preemptive strike off a verbal defusing attempt. |
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| Another 2 on 1 ground awareness drill. |
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| Smile before you snap, crackle n pop your partner in 2.... lmfao |
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| Ouch brother.... sorry.... :`( |
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| Enter the Shredder. |
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| a well deserved break.... |
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| Alive drilling. |
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| Shredding her way off the ground as well... |
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| This was the 9th seminar of 16 taught in a 3 week period in Sydney, Melbourne and Goald Coast Australia.... I lost nearly 15 pounds on nerves alone (approx. 1 pound per seminar) and I swore I wouldn't do this again and here I just finished booking a European tour with workshops being held in Belgium, Germany and Finland this coming September/October 2011.... yeah.... last run folks, going to remain local after 2011 so, come one come all to Europe this Sept./Oct. 2011 unless you want to come and learn from me personally in gorgeous Jasper Alberta Canada after that.... PEACE!!!!! |
