"Subduing the enemy with your bare hands."
Monday, April 7, 2014
Training Announcement
Attention! FONC H2H is scheduled for 15Jun14-22Jun14 this year. Get the word out to your fellow cadets! Get ready for a week of this:
Call Instructor Jeff Carroll at 704-905-2276 with any questions you may have.
"Subduing the enemy with your bare hands."
"Subduing the enemy with your bare hands."
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Officer's Report - 130622
Our last day of FONC is in the books. We got the cadets up at 0600 and put then through an early-morning CrossFit challenge. Here's what they did:
After working with Igor, the cadets helped break down the judo camp and cleaned up the training facility:
"The Gauntlet"
Pull Ups, 30 reps
50 m dash
Ground to Overhead, 25 lbs, 60 reps
50 m dash
Sit Ups, 90 reps
50 m dash
Kettle Bell Swings, 54 lbs, 30 reps
50 m dash
Wall Ball Shots, 20 lb ball / 10 ft target, 30 reps
50 m dash
Push Ups, Hand Release, 60 reps
50 m dash
Box Jumps, 20" box, 60 reps
50 m dash
Burpees, 30 reps
50 m dash
A killer workout. One cadet (Joseph Robinson, nickname "16 Minutes") finished the job in 21:48. Excellent job, son!
The guys ate come breakfast after their morning workout before working with Ryan Reser - a world-class judo player and Olympian - for a hour. Ryan adapted judo takedowns to street situations. It was a great class:
Immediately after their session with Ryan, the guys had the opportunity to work with Rafael Rosendo - a world-class Brazilian Jiu Jitsu player. Rafael demonstrated a number of submissions, breaking them down into discreet steps. Fact it, BJJ is a science. No kidding. It's the science of grappling - a thinking man's sport.
Next we ate lunch and then had a final session with Igor Yakimov.
After working with Igor, the cadets helped break down the judo camp and cleaned up the training facility:
Finally, we ate dinner (pizza - so much for the paleo/zone diet tonight!), watched the movie "Rudy" and hit the hay. We have a big day ahead of us tomorrow: Graduation Day.
Movie Night & Life Lesson
We watched the movie "Rudy" tonight - a tradition the last night of FONC. "Rudy" is truly an inspirational movie. It deals with dedication. It deals with perseverance. It deals with setting and achieving goals. It deals with "having heart."
In the end, "having heart" is a choice. A choice we make every time we are challenged in any way. No, it has nothing to do with talent. Or abilities. Or God-given attributes. It has to do with choosing not to quit - ever. And developing this characteristic is an essential ingredient in becoming a man. Indeed, it's probably one of the most valuable character traits that one could possess.
I am very, very proud of each and every cadet that will be graduating tomorrow. Every one of them. They are finishers. They persevered. They showed heart. They got to the end of a very challenging training. They persevered.
Thank you for the opportunity to work with your cadets this week. It is my prayer that each of these cadets emerges from this training as men. Men ready to take charge. Men ready to persevere any trial that comes their way.
In the end, "having heart" is a choice. A choice we make every time we are challenged in any way. No, it has nothing to do with talent. Or abilities. Or God-given attributes. It has to do with choosing not to quit - ever. And developing this characteristic is an essential ingredient in becoming a man. Indeed, it's probably one of the most valuable character traits that one could possess.
I am very, very proud of each and every cadet that will be graduating tomorrow. Every one of them. They are finishers. They persevered. They showed heart. They got to the end of a very challenging training. They persevered.
Thank you for the opportunity to work with your cadets this week. It is my prayer that each of these cadets emerges from this training as men. Men ready to take charge. Men ready to persevere any trial that comes their way.
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Video Montage - 130620
Here's a video montage from Thursday's training. Thanks, LTJG Gould, for putting this together.
Video Montage - 130621
Here's a video montage from yesterday's training. Thanks, LTJG Gould, for putting this together.
Officer's Report - 130621
On Friday morning we woke the cadets up at 0600 and put them through a CrossFit workout consisting of a quarter mile run followed by 50 squats, then another quarter mile run followed by 50 push ups, then another quarter mile run followed by 50 sit ups, with a final quarter mile run followed by 25 burpees (one of the nastiest body weight exercises known to man). Here's what a burpee looks like:
After completing this workout I instructed the cadets on how to achieve the north-south position and in how to submit an opponent from north-south.
After this, Igor dropped by the training facility to work some more with the cadets. He even demonstrated the infamous "Russian Can Opener" on a few volunteers - a painful, but effective, technique.
After training with Igor, the guys ate lunch (cold cuts, salad and fruit) and then watched a wide range of martial artists (Judo, Japanese Jiujitsu, Kendo, etc.) demostrate their skills at the annual judo camp nearby. We let the guys rest the remainder of the day - tomorrow starts with a surprise....
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