Reply To: Introduce Yourself

[TJ]

Hello everyone,

I just went through the fast class and decided to give the Elite level membership a try.

I became more seriously interested in self defense about 15 years ago. Though most of my sporadic training has been firearms related over that time. But a couple years ago I had a serious health incident that had me stuck in the hospital for a couple of weeks dealing with all the complications. I lost much of my muscle and needed a walker just to make it to the bathroom. Decided to use that as motivation and started taking Krav Maga classes as part of my rehab once I was able to get back on my feet.

One thing I realized during firearm training was that there are many likely scenarios where I could have to fight to get to my gun and or fight to keep it in my hands. I also do a lot of travel for work in sketchy places where carrying a firearm isn’t allowed. So learning hand to hand skills has been a focus for me lately. But my work travel and family obligations as well as budget limit the amount of in person Krav training I can do. I am also on the wrong side of 50 and not nearly as flexible and spry as I used to be. So I am hoping to use these lessons to maximize my limited training time and capabilities.

I might also be interested in becoming an entry level instructor some day. I have a lot of friends and coworkers who have shown an interesting in learning some self defense skills due to sketchy experiences they or people they know have had. But most of them are unable or unwilling to get into a long term training program. It would be nice to offer them some quick and easy to learn skills that would make them a lot more effective if they ever do get caught in a self defense situation.

Thanks for the opportunity to learn some new skills and become a more effective defender for myself and my family!
TJ