I'M BACK!

Alot has happened since Nov. 2007. I became a POST Master Instructor, saw my PT project not get certified by POST (that's a long and bitter story to tell), so I ran the project in-house instead. Graduated an academy, started a new academy class, and also teach at the Los Rios Community COllege police academy. (They get KBs too!) Here's a little bit of irony, the same people who would not certify my course also gave me high marks for my lesson plans and approach at the academy. Bittersweet.

I was fortunate to see John Giduck present a debrief of the Virginia Tech shooting. If you have not heard of John Giduck, he has an extensive background in Russian studies/O.C from St. Petersburg. Anyways, he wrote a very intense book about the hostage/murder school siege at Beslan. (Terror at Beslan). I think every American should read that book, especially those that think we are safe here in mainland USA. John Giduck has a greate foreward in the book by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, another great American who has lived and researched the warrior mentality/mindset. The officers of VA Tech and Blacksburg were erroneously and negligently portrayed in the media as slow to respond/cowardly. They arrived on the scene in 2 minutes! No one could have responded better than they did. It was criminal how they were portrayed in the press. Much respect to those officers who entered that bloodbath and did the job that they were trained to do the best way they could.

With regards to physical training, I am not training solely with kettlebells, but looking at the whole buffet of PT. I had a severe low back strain recently that had me review my training. I believed that this should not have happened had I been paying attention to strict form. I was leading the class in Tabata squats (my score: 22), but in the 2nd round (out of 8) I felt a jerk/slip in my low back. A more prudent person would have stopped. A foolish person continued.

I am back whole, and going back to my foundation: kettlebells, barbells, and bodyweight exercises. I am even running again. (I am not fond of running-it is a necessary evil!)

Peace-out!