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    How to Test Martial Art
    How to Test Martial Art
    How to Test Martial Art
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    How to Test Martial Art

    By Matt Powell

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    The second in the CLM, the Directed Perceptual Testing, or DPT, is perhaps the toughest progressive testing format in the martial art world. This manual explains how to test students, and push your student to their limits...so that they find new limits with Directed Perceptual Testing.
    Pramek's CLM is designed to educate teacher's and students of martial art on a new way at looking at martial art studies.
    The second in the series, the Direct Perceptual Testing, or DPT, is a new way to test martial art.
    Topics include:

    How to test the EPL process
    How to DPT: one of the toughest, most researched testing methods in martial art.
    Combative problem solving
    The nature of the warrior
    Drill do's and don't
    The fallacies of most martial art testing
    Monitor and Control
    The false goal of flow
    Conceptualization of martial art
    How to Set training Goals
    How to build a scenario
    How to show anyone their weaknesses in less than 5 minutes by one process
    How to prevent the 'choke' in performance

    ...and much more...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatt Powell
    Release dateSep 29, 2012
    ISBN9780988321625
    How to Test Martial Art
    Author

    Matt Powell

    For over a decade his work has pushed the envelope of science application in martial art. Growing up studying boxing and wrestling, Matt Powell’s first exposure to martial art was under world renowned coach, Scott Sonnon and the ROSS system in the late 1990’s.After being in the only Westerner asked to represent the Kadochnikov school and system internationally, the organization K-Sys was created. Since that time the styles he’s studied are not common to the American public: A.A. Kadochnikov, V. Zavgarodnij, Shvets, Retuinskih, Lavrov, Vishnevetskij...men considered the masters of the Russian scientific styles. Matt later wrote the first English language manual on the science of combat in a biomechanical perspective, taking this knowledge; Matt developed a group of martial art researchers to combine the Russian scientific styles with the pragmatism of other martial arts. Matt Powell found by combining these styles basic tenets, with American ingenuity, he could create something easy for a beginner to learn - and in-depth enough to keep a student busy studying for a lifetime. After working in high risk private security contracts, Matt found that his training was theoretically sound, but lacking in practical application. After discussions with his teacher in Russia, he was told it was time to move on and develop his own methods, which later became Pramek, a synergy of Russian science and western combatives. Matt has trained a variety of students, from the US Army Ranger Battalion to the Army land warrior development unit, private security teams, corporations, police, soldiers and civilians, to celebrities like Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges. Matt now actively focuses on developing Pramek and it's instructors, learning methods, and styles. He travels in the US and internationally teaching Pramek, as well as providing high level security consulting. Matt currently lives in Atlanta, GA. where Pramek is based.

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      How to Test Martial Art - Matt Powell

      Pramek’s CLM: Conceptual Learning Method Series

      Manual Two: Directed Perceptual Testing

      by Matt Powell

      Edited by: John M. Landry, Ph.D., Laine Ruscilli-Wickless

      Published by 48f Publishing

      Copyright © 2012, 48f Publishing

      All rights reserved

      ISBN-13: 978-0-9883216-2-5

      Check out other titles at Pramek.com

      License Notes

      This EBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This EBook may not be re-sold or given away. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Pramek.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author and Pramek.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Problem Solving

      Chapter 1: Testing the EPL

      Chapter 2: DPT Level One: Tension Testing

      Chapter 3: DPT Level Two: Stress Testing

      Chapter 4: DPT Level Three: Fatigue Testing

      Chapter 5: DPT Level Four: Arousal Testing

      Chapter 6: DPT Level Five: Scenario Testing

      Chapter 7: The Two Paths

      Chapter 8: Monitor and Control

      Chapter 9: The CLM and the Traditional Martial Artist

      Chapter 10: On Drills

      Chapter 11: Goal Setting

      Chapter 12: Why Realistic Training: ‘Preventing the Choke'

      About the Author

      Introduction: Problem Solving

      Everyday the human brain is tasked with solving millions of problems.

      The only way to solve a problem is to test the problem – to form a hypothesis, to look at the problem from different angles, and to make decisions that can lead one to success over the problem. The EPL is a method of solving a combative equation. This equation must take into account the environment, the student and their enemy. All of these variables create a problem that the user must solve – a problem with the enemy and his tactics. Even a problem within the user, be it lack of experience or disadvantage due to position or injury. Martial arts, shooting, knife work – all of these subjects are means of solving a problem that the human being is confronted with – survival. But, many times these are simply tools to be used, when there are other ways of addressing the problem confronting the user.

      When you are a hammer, everything is a nail. This is why many martial arts create for good fist fighters or great grapplers, but not thinking warriors. In a way, a warrior is a fighter – but over a longer time line. Anyone can be a fighter simply by wishing to fight and being willing to put themselves into harm for a reason. But, over a time line, a fighter is trained, taught by teachers and experience on the battlefield. They begin to see reasons for what they do and why the battlescape changes around them, how to interact with it as it is, and make it what they wish it to become my making decisions that affect it. The fighter who once simply wanted to fight becomes an experienced warrior in their command of the fight ahead of them.

      A warrior is challenged by the problems that lie ahead and will actively work to confront and face them, gaining valuable knowledge and intelligence about perhaps a certain enemy, as a boxer knows much about other boxers but little about grapplers and their tells. A point sparring fighter is not ready for 360 degree actions with firearms, and some soldiers may feel uncomfortable with the confines of the rules. There is a difference in how these problems are addressed and how they are viewed. A fighter will box with a wrestler, or work within the rules of the ring confinement and simply fighter. But, a warrior will make use of the confines of the ring for their strategy because time has taught him or her to do so. A warrior, even in loss, will learn valuable lessons on how not to lose again. A fighter is tough, but a warrior is hardened. He is built from a different cloth...and that cloth is made from the strongest tensile fibers in the world: tested experience.

      Combatives is problem solving like anything else in life. There is a problem – you must solve it. If you have a problem with the computer, you don't simply give up and never use a computer again. You troubleshoot and solve it, and if you can't – you ask someone to help you. If you are under fire, if your knot is not properly tied, if you are out of water, if you are facing three people when you thought you only would face one...these are problems.

      These problems will not go away. They must be confronted with the experience of the person confronting them. Using his or her own knowledge, the problems are confronted and either overcome the person, giving information on how not to do something...or they are overcome by the person, giving information on how to do something. The dividing line is the willingness of the person to engage the problem in an honest manner, and put his or her honest best against the problem presenting itself.

      Problems that we can not solve have a way of quickly disrobing us and showing who we are.

      We become participants and interact to solve the problem, or we become spectators watching the problem solve us.

      What differentiates the willing participant from the spectator is the participant will engage the problem and work to solve it. They will train to get it right so when they get it wrong, it is more right than the other guy. And when they are unsure, they will ask for guidance. The spectator will watch the participant, will remark at their abilities, perhaps even attempt it – but if they are not psychologically dialed in, if his or her physical prowess is not to a level of being able to solve the problems; if he or she does not have the neurological tools that allow them to think and act simultaneously, then he or she will rarely win repeatedly. If the person will not ask for help: then that person will perish or be left behind as fighters, as the warrior

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