What Makes us Tick ? Tales from a Krav Maga Instructor
What makes us tick 
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Clint Badlam - Krav Maga Bedminster
I think back to last year and that dreaded coach, Euro star & then another train trip which I made alone to Liege in Belgium. My French is basic and my Walloon/Flemish is non-existent. My uncanny nose and sense of direction saw me through to the Hostel after, hassling numerous people in my broken French gobbledegook. So that night sitting on my bed I was still crapping my pants, as my mind turned to the unknown of the next few days. I think that so many people never get to this stage purely on the basis of their fears and how they don’t even take the first step towards success, let alone a big trip into the unknown. Believe me that night sitting there, I was actually thinking about turning around and going home the next morning!
That internal dialogue, ‘the voice’, call it what you will remained there to look after me, protect, me and save me from harm, embarrassment and above all certain failure. What harm? What danger, what huge and monumental mistake had I made? ….. NONE, NOTHING, NADA!
I was here for a reason and I had worked hard the past 3 years to be where I was, right here on the eve of my instructor course. I started to reflect back on all the small steps from, checking out Krav Maga on the web some 3 or more years before, e-mailing Paul to enquire and join up to try Krav Maga for the very first time. I smiled and remembered the meeting of my first ever REAL Israeli instructor Amnon Darsa (that was monumental for me), my first grading, every grading after that, every session where I hurt so much, tough training, hospital trips, injury setbacks these HAD ALL brought me to sitting on that bed in Belgium.
So this was my absolute right, my time to learn and my time to deliver on everything I had prepared for. So a happy ending… after the initial half hour of meeting the training team and my fellow students I knew that this was where I belonged and the previous diatribe from my inner caring voice disappeared! I have since travelled further afield with no worries and made that step change in development and in quashing that inner doubt quickly and with no mercy.
My French is improving too! My point is this……. If there’s something you want however crazy and unobtainable it seems you can get there through small steps and with a clear path. Some steps are very painful and some steps are downright sadistic and in most cases the path changes to the original one pictured in your mind’s eye but the goal get’s closer and closer.
Me and Paul market and advertise for business as that is the lifeblood of any business but there is also an undertone of sincerity in the fact that Krav Maga and the family ethos is one that should be promoted and protected with ferocity. We don’t recruit a$$holes, we check our egos at the door and we welcome likeminded people into the fold. I know that there are so many people out there who talk about starting something new but sadly never do. Krav Maga is one of them as so many people tell me ‘Yeah I would love to do that I will definitely come along’….most don’t.
Stay Safe
Clint Badlam - WWW.RealityBasedTraining.co.uk
