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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:33 amPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:26 pmChris McKinley wrote:Thanks Adam. Realism in combat training is something for which I've been a torch carrier and led by example for many years. It won't cost me anything financially beyond gas money there and back. If there are any challenges, they will be in terms of finding a chunk of regular time that will be semi-permanently spoken for and in finding people actually interested in real combat in my area.
Just up the road, there's a great MMA school where I used to teach. I can probably teach there again, but I'm not sure if there will be enough people interested in using an IMA/TMA approach for actual combat to justify my time. There's plenty of interest in pure sport combat around here, and that school already does a fantastic job of it. When I teach a regular public class, I teach for free, so it's really the time commitment I'd be concerned with. There would have to be enough folks showing up regularly to feel like I could justify it. Ideally, I'd like to have an idea of at least a few people willing to commit before I went ahead with it. We'll see.
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:14 pmPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:42 pmPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:56 pmPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:42 pmChris McKinley wrote:Sorry, man...I must be the only guy left alive without a video camera. At this point, I can't even commit to doing it yet, and won't be able to for a few weeks till I get an idea of whether or not the interest here locally will even be there. If I do get it going and get the format going smoothly, my idea would ultimately be to put some material on DVD. It would be rare enough that maybe somebody might find it interesting. If it really got going well, I'd be interested in taking the show on the road and doing some seminars, workshops, whatever, if only to give others an example of a format to follow if they have similar interests.
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:33 pmChris McKinley wrote:Sorry, man...I must be the only guy left alive without a video camera. At this point, I can't even commit to doing it yet, and won't be able to for a few weeks till I get an idea of whether or not the interest here locally will even be there. If I do get it going and get the format going smoothly, my idea would ultimately be to put some material on DVD. It would be rare enough that maybe somebody might find it interesting. If it really got going well, I'd be interested in taking the show on the road and doing some seminars, workshops, whatever, if only to give others an example of a format to follow if they have similar interests.