The Ft Hood Absolute Combat Club will begin it’s classes for 2007 beginning in January. Training will be offered in several disciplines. Everyone interested please contact Jim at 254-247-4999. Instruction is FREE, but students must pay $20 a month to help defray association costs. This payment can be made through our online store. You can take either class.

Equipment needed is listed below:

• GI class: standard jiu-jitsu uniform and protective mouthpiece, water bottle, and notebook.

No GI class: loose appropriate athletic clothing, protective mouthpiece, water bottle and notebook.

Club T-shirts will be offered to those who want them. They can be found here.

More information on what the club teaches and lessons can be found on the programs page. I hope to see you there! Let’s Get Training!

I would like to wish all of my extended family and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year. I have a lot to be thankful for this year. Especially a safe return home from Iraq. As you go about your holiday festivities, please take a moment and remember and be thankful for the men and women in the military serving far from home in combat zones.

Lastly, please pray or think good thoughts for those men and women who gave their last full measure for our country and their friends. I for one, will pray for the men of Charlie Troop 1st Squadron, 10th United States Cavalry of the 4th Infantry Division who I served with this last year in Iraq. Those that we left behind were five outstanding young men who will be remembered as friends, comrades and men of valor. Rest in Peace brothers and Merry Christmas.

Next year will bring lots of new programs, several Black Belt testings as well as several folks who will test for Instructor levels in our Submission Grappling program. I wish you luck and lots of fun!

Until then, Let’s Get Training!

Jim

If you have been following our new blog, you will know that I am doing CrossFit with Matt and Pam Munson of CrossFit Champions. Their workout today seemed simple enough to me. After all, I have been doing squats for years now in the Army. So, like a bonehead, I decided to go for the experienced athlete workout.  The WOD or workout of the day was “Karen”. I should have known… Here it is. 

From the CrossFit Champions Website… 

“Karen”

150 Wall Ball shots (20lb ball) for time.

Beginners: 100 Wall Ball shots with 10-12 lb ball (that’s 2/3 the reps at 1/2 the load)

If you don’t have wallballs then do Thrusters with twice the weight you would have used on Wall Balls.

No whining.  It’s not that bad. 

…End of WOD…

So, I was doing the Wall Ball shots and got to 100 and felt pretty good and thought I’d go for the 150. Bad mistake…I got to 128 and fell off of the box. Man, talk about muscle failure. And I am sure I will have DOMS tomorrow. Thanks Matt and Pam! Merry Christmas! LOL! I love CrossFit!

Hey, our site now has a new store. Drop by and check it out. Be sure and buy something for Santa. Many thanks to Matt Munson our Web Sabum for all his work on our new site. Thanks Matt!

Hey, you think you are strong? Think you are fit to fight? Well, Matt and Pam Munson as well as the folks at CrossFit.com can absolutely prove inside of 10 minutes that most of us are extremely out of shape.

I just went through the CrossFit Champions One on One new athlete session. It was an intensive and eye opening experience. As most of you know, I just returned from my second tour in Iraq. I can tell you that not much physical training gets done over there. If you have lots of time to go to the gym and get fit, you are not a warfighter. So, I came home sorely out of condition. Matt and Pam have shown me the way back to elite fitness… And it is through CrossFit. Check them out at CrossFit Champions.

Be watching for future posts in my blog for my experiences and increase in fitness. Until then, Let’s Get Training!

Hi There!

I am up in Spring, Texas with Matt and Pam Munson of Champions Combat Arts and we are shooting several American Combat Taekwondo Instructor Reference DVDs and will have those in production and ready for release in the beginning of the new year.

We are really excited about the structure and content of these new DVDs and can’t wait for you to see them.

Oh yeah, look for some of the pictures we shot for the DVDs and upgrades to the ACT Instructor manual. You will find them in the gallery later tonight.

Look for them soon! Until then, GET TRAINING!!!

The new Let’s Get Training site is under construction.

Please check back soon and often for updates.

Thank you.