THE CAVE OF ADULLAM DOCUMENTARY

                                             

The Cave of Adullam follows Detriot-based martial arts teacher Jason Wilson and his teachings within his facility.

He focuses heavily on releasing past and current trauma through various techniques, not just martial arts, for not just kids but adults as well.

The hyperlink above says it will take you to the movie but it doesn't work on my computer but the error is coming from ESPN so good luck.

I did manage to find it late last year though but for the life of me I cannot find it again!

Anyway he has plenty of clips on social media which gives you a fair insight into the stuff from the documentary and as far as teaching young boys, who can be a handful at times, it's first class.

I'm not going to say that our socio-economic difficulties in Australia is anything like some of these kids are facing, but the principles of the teachings is the same.

If I find a working link then I'll be sure to post it.

Here are my notes from it:

• If you get angry don’t let it rule you and infiltrate your decision making
• Sport can put you in situations where you have to handle life problems but without the life consequences
• Start training by having each player say out loud what’s overwhelming them and then asking why if you they need to go deeper
• Don’t look at the distraction, focus on the problem
• It's easier to raise boys then repair broken men that come from broken boys
• Don’t hold trauma, release it
• Masculine males lack compassion, patience, tenderness and are long suffering so it’s not gonna solve every problem like you think it will (e.g. hammer and nail)
• Sit holding up a pole in front of you with a ball on top it and keep it from falling off which will require relaxation and focus, then have a coach try and distract them without touching them and see if they can maintain it
• To train focus, have a partner flail their arms up and down like wings, and you have to choose the right time to pass a ball through when a gap opens up gap with other distractions going on around you
• Fight before the fight meaning fight your emotions to control yourself
• If you get angry and then let it rule you then write "I will not be mastered by emotions instead I will rule over them" 300 times
• Every time you don’t finish the fight, you’re still in it
• It’s not a lack of discipline, it’s a lack of desire rooted in not loving yourself
• If you move away to fix a problem but the problem moves with you, then moving isn’t the problem
• Give them the best so they don’t get accustomed to settling for less all the time
• Try belly breathing taking all of your negative emotions captive and blowing it out of your consciousness and a  coach will tap you but don’t let it distract you then follow up with 1 thing that’s on your plate for each person
• Don’t give yourself outside responsibilities if you’re not serving yourself first
• When you have internal trauma you use distractions to keep everyone, and the trauma, at bay
• Badly behaved kids puts pressure on the entire family so have dad do push ups with son on his back so the son can notice all the extra load they’re putting on him and the family, also asking the son how long can dad/mum do that for on top of their other responsibilities and that they could be sucking most of the energy out of him/them which is slowly crushing the family
• Follow that up with the son then also putting their hands on floor and helping dad do the push ups where they are now taking responsibility for themselves
• For control and focus, with a knife and fork on a dinner plate, cut up a tortilla bread into 4 pieces without heating that scratchy plate sound
• If trauma can be handed down from generation to generation then so can healing