Grappling

Senior Enlist Personnel in my Company, came up to me and gave a challenge. This Challenge would result in a complete change of direction in my career, my physical toughness, and my mental capacity to learn. It change my mind set on what it means to be a Soldier. It helped lay down the foundation of what being a Leader in the Army meant to me and how I should focus my Leadership style towards my peers and future Soldiers I will teach and lead. That challenge was, at the time, one of the most physically and mentally demanding leadership courses that the United States Army gave, Basic Combative Trainer Course or more popularly known as Combative Level 3. The Army developed the Combative courses to help Soldiers to learn ground fighting and grappling techniques in a combat environment with full battle equipment on and to desensitize Soldiers mindset which will help mental toughness to complete the mission required of them. At the time the Army required all Soldiers to at least be certified in Combative Level 1. Level 2 is a volunteer course that covers up to 50 additional advance fighting techniques but Level 2 is not mandatory. Combative Level 3 and Combative Level 4 are instructor courses that not only require you to know to the techniques but to be able to administer platoon size elements of Soldiers (15 – 35 personnel) blocks of instructions and certify these Soldiers in Level 1&2. Combative Level 3 is a leadership courses that only Sergeants and above can attend. The reason…

part of a Martial Art base in ground fighting that developing environment and gradually excels their ability to use grappling.(1) My best friend, Mark Bermudez wanted me to watch the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) cage fighters in 2010. Unlike WWE this is not staged fighting, but in opponents are actually physically fighting. I was hooked. I decided to follow my dream. On April 28, 2013 I started to search on the internet for where was the place exactly in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).…

Grappling The reading starts with a discussion of Carl, a student, who feels ineffectual in the school environment. He listens to the teachers’ answers to question, being told his poetry is substandard and his help with computers is unwelcome by a substitute. Sizer and Sizer (1999) suggest that it is unwise to underestimate young people. Students should feel empowered, competent and that i talents are valued by a broad audience. This leads to a stronger sense of agency than just focusing on…

Failure Happens In the sixth grade my father dragged to a wrestling practice at Milwaukie High School for the youths league. I was ecstatic about the whole thing even though I didn’t know a single person at the practice. I met the coaches who were great at understanding that I didn’t know much about wrestling perse but knew a lot about grappling because I had done jujitsu before I had gone to any wrestling practices. Something no one knows is that after the first practice to see if you really…

Throughout the United States and several countries around the world, people gathered to watch “the fight of the century” between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather. The fight gained notoriety because it placed one of boxing’s greatest fighters in the ring with a mixed martial arts (MMA) champion to determine which sport would “win in a fight”. The two sports require the individuals to be in outstanding condition and are very technical. Majority of fighters train all their life to make it to the…

The discourse community for wrestling is different from most that I have heard. It could be similar to most high school sports because every high school has their own way of saying things. This Community differs from other communities because if you have never heard a person who wrestles talk about it or have never wrestled yourself, it can get very confusing. Wrestling is different because most terms are not heard in every day language. The moves are different for every team, although every…

“The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.” – Mike Tyson former heavy weight champion of the world. For decades boxing has been one of the most brutal and toughest sports yet it's also called the noble art and it's one of the top entertaining sports all over the world for the action it brings when two strong fighters get in the ring and give all what they've got and put everything on the line in order to win .Although it sounds cool when talking about that sport but there's an…

“ Antonio and Felix” Antonio and Felix wanted to win the Golden gloves but they both have very different boxing skills to box. The Golden Gloves is the annual competitions amatur boxing in the United States. The similarities of Antonio and Felix are they are both good fighters. They are both seventeen years old. Antonio and Felix both wanted to win the golden gloves it was their dream to win the golden gloves. Antonio and Felix are…

For any wrestler, it is a long and excruciating process, but well worth the pain to reach his goal: to be a State Champion. Before the wrestling season, a wrestler needs to be mentally, and physically prepared. This journey is anything, but easy and sometimes to have the most success, wrestlers must cut weight. The wrestler has to create goals through exercise, dieting, weight checks, while remaining mentally motivated. Sticking with these goals will determine how the individual season ends. …

Since the time of the Greeks and Romans, wrestlers have competed both on the battle field and at home to see who will win. Many sports advertise challenging competition similar to that of wrestling, but very few can follow through with these promises. This happens because these other sports do not build themselves on set standards such as mental and physical strength and technique. These important parts of wrestling have set it apart for centuries. As a wrestler, I know that these standards make…