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Paul Coughlin book Excerpt

Hey everyone my friend Paul Coughlin has released a great book called Unleashing Courageous Faith.

In this book he has a section called CLOSE THE GAP. Check it out. 

Close the Gap 
John Renken, a friend of mine and a pastor in Clarksville, 
Tennessee, is a hand-to-hand combat instructor in the 
army who at one time also held the world record for fastest 
knockout in full-contact fighting—eleven seconds, in Tokyo. 
I have watched the video, and it’s impressive. His opponent 
was much bigger and stronger, but John kept his courage 
stoked. Instead of defaulting to a defensive orientation, he 
attacked with a left foot to the head. Footage shows that his 
highly focused opponent—perhaps drunk with hubris, a fruit 
of shadow thumos—didn’t even see it coming. 
John trains military personnel to defend themselves with 
their bare hands, and he says there’s one thing he cannot 
really teach another person. It’s up to them to do it, or not, 
and that makes all the difference: “One of the main and 
most difficult objectives of this training is instilling in our 
soldiers the courage necessary to close the gap and engage 
the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. I agree with the Army in 
their definition of Warrior Ethos, which in many ways is the 
exercise of thumos: ‘The defining characteristic of a Warrior 
is the willingness to draw close to the enemy.’” 

If you like this check out his website http://www.paulcoughlin.net

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CMMAA NEWS
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Posted by: saint

Hey everyone just a quick update. 

First, we had a major water leak in our roof that rotted some of the drywall.  We are in the process of repairing that water damaged area.  Please bear with the mess while all that drywall is replaced.

Second, summer is nearly over and we are looking at moving the JR. Grappling Times around.  Would 4pm be to early?

Next, there will be no class on Saturday as the majority of our team will be in Ft. Lauderdale for the Jr. National Championships. 

Lastly, if you havent done it yet please sign up for the text alerts so that we can inform everyone of last minute changes.

Text Message Alert
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Posted by: saint

Hey everyone we now have text message alerts on the website.   This is for severe weather alerts, reminders for promotions and tournaments.  I would highly encourage all of you to sign up.  If you go to www.cmmaa.com it will be on the left side under the Xtreme Ministries logo.

 

God Bless and see you soon.

 

 


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