matt thornton

[CKD]

There a straight blast gym in VA

[smartmonkey]

CKD, Give our East Coast Director an e-mail at luis@onedragon.com and he can let you know of any training groups or Gyms in your area.

take care
-Matt Thornton
www.straightblastgym.com

[roz]

Originally Posted by Buckethead

Roz

Many of those mentioned who were Guro's students have used a form of aliveness to test their skills in conjuction with the "dead" patterns or "set patterns" as Guro prefers to call them. Matt's is stressing the importance of training and testing your skills against a resisting opponent in a safe structured environment. In Matt's curriculm it comes through constant training in the gym and competition.

I believe the more gifted Guro students have done it also in the gym and in competion. Erik Paulson is a perfect example of this. Others have pushed it further. Vu has been more controversial by testing his methods and skill sby getting into frequent bar and street fights. I remember reading an article where he described waking up in a jail cell with bloody knuckles and a hangover.

I personally have been able to pull off in sparring technique I drilled with set patterns, but the point is I tested those skills with sparring against a resisting opponent. Guro in seminars has said the first series of students spent a lot of time working the patterns, isolation sparring and full sparring. IMHO sparring has taken a backseat to the set patterns due to liability and a lack of interest in hard sweaty work.

When we train the set patterns, it is hard training with resistance so if we miss it may hurt a little. If you don't miss once in a while then there is not any resistance.

Good Luck and Be Safe

to set up the right time to engage, or to flow from a refrence point.
i can not imagine sparring with a non resistant partner.
i have employed the " dead drills " many times against partners that i train with, but most important dozens and dozens of altercations', up to 5 attackers wanting a piece of my skin , knife altercations,w. bats, and a 380 bllt in my thigh. would you not think that i should know what works? matter of a fact i don't care what you think. for i know what type of training i need to survive the unexpectable. as for your cliche on vu, this is why vu is such a specialist in that field. that is the field of every day life that everyone should be worried about, but can only hope they have some sort of preparation to react quickly to live another day.
peace be with you

[Buckethead]

Roz

You have the right mind set on training. Unfortunately, (I 'm going to take some hits for this), there is a generation who have grown up in the liability era who are worried about sparring hard and someone getting hurt so they have eliminated it from their curriculm. THe days of sparring hard (and safe with respect) have gone. I remember getting bloody noses, fat lips, sore shins, etc... and as long as it was not from a partner out of anger or doing a cheap shot (fighting outside the guidelines set up for isolation sparring to slow you down or one up you because you were doing better than they were), you said great job, patted each other on the back and went to the next training partner. The injuries were my fault because I did not cover up or the other guy was faster.

Hopefully those who are the biggest offenders know who they are. I hoped the Vu and Paulson examples would stress the importance of sparring. Paulson in a more structured atmosphere and Vu in the all out.

On a side note, I met Paulson at one of the first Guro Inosanto seminars in Tulsa I went to. Guro brought him to assist. He went through so many different variations of leg locks from every angle of pressure I still don't remember what he did. Pretty amazing.

Sounds like your area is fairly rough

Be Safe

[Cain]

Hey Matt!
I wondered if there was any weekend seminars planned in Scandinavia in the near future? or if it is possible to come down to UK to train for a weekend. I would love to see how you do things and how your aproach to different settings is. How much background would I need to be able to join a seminar?

Cain.

[smartmonkey]

Hi Cain,

I will be back in the UK on Feb 14th and 15th. You can contact Karl Tanswell for details at karltanswell@hotmail.com or www.karltanswell.com I will probably also be in Denmark sometime in 2004.

Hope to see you there.
take care
-Matt Thornton
www.straightblastgym.com

[bodhisattva]

I would say Matt's method is more about having fun playing.

But what the SBG plays at is mixed martial arts.

And that play mentality not only leads to fun, fun, fun.. but it also leads to wins in competition.

The SBG guys win and win and win..and even when they lose, they put up an incredible battle. But I think the coolest thing about my short time with SBG Portland was the fact that those guys are fun, easy going, friendly people.

You would really have to go to a seminar to understand what I'm saying. Your money won't be mis-spent.

[treelizard]

I read some of the articles on the SBG site and they totally blew me away...

[Nutz]

Holy Super Thread Ressurrection Batman!

[bodhisattva]

Originally Posted by Nutz

Holy Super Thread Ressurrection Batman!

Straight Blast Gym is great. Those of you in BJJ who struggle trying to learn in your classes will be blown away by the amount you learn and grow at a Straight Blast Gym seminar or camp.

Lots of guys know how to fight BJJ, but most of those guys know very little about teaching BJJ.

Matt has real coaches, and drills that allow people to progressively learn to pull off the techniques.

Until you experience it, you can't know what I mean. I have yet to ever hear of someone leaving an SBGi seminar or camp and want their money back. People always leave saying "Wow, I'm coming back." And they do.

It's really something.


And, honestly, if someone wanted their money back, I'm fairly certain Matt would give it right back to them.

[treelizard]

I was planning on going to a camp, but then decided to go train for a week instead at a third of the price. Unlimited classes!

[Michael Wright]

I saw it yesterday, at 3:25PM

[treelizard]

Originally Posted by bodhisattva

Straight Blast Gym is great. Those of you in BJJ who struggle trying to learn in your classes will be blown away by the amount you learn and grow at a Straight Blast Gym seminar or camp.

Lots of guys know how to fight BJJ, but most of those guys know very little about teaching BJJ.

Matt has real coaches, and drills that allow people to progressively learn to pull off the techniques.

I didn't go to their spring camp but I did the unlimited classes for a week thing and I learned a TON. They really have some basics hammered down in a way that is easy to learn; introducing and then adding progressive resistance. I wish I lived near an SBGi gym.