31 Years on the road. In…A Martial Aniversary by Hock Hochheim
started in Kenpo 1972 years ago, but have the current "busines model" of traveling-tecahing seminars for 31 years. I walked into a Parker Kenpo school[…]
Q and A: HOW DO I GET RANK AND INSTRUCTORSHIPS IN HOCK’S SURVIVAL CENTRIC COURSES?
Question: How do I become a Survival Centric instructor? Or obtain rank? How does this training work? What are the courses? High Home Endeavors is[…]
WHAT I WON’T DO, DON’T DO
Every competent person, every competent organization has or should have a refined “mission statement.” It’s where you start. Like so many operations, and in a[…]
Diminished Fighter Theory.
Messing around with Judo, working out with friends, watching judo practice and tournaments, studying the stepping and positioning of opponents and the time[…]
SURVIVAL CENTRIC PRIMER: AWARENESS
Many years ago, JKD expert Tim Tackett taught me that one’s awareness was alerted by three things. 1. Visual – what you see. 2. Audio[…]
“ONE IN ONE,” KNIFE ATTACKS
n fact, in the big picture, you are very unlikely to be a victim of any violent crime in civilized regions. (England is always reporting[…]
BRIDGING THE MARTIAL GAP
When I decided in the mid-1990s that I had to “go my own way” I created a motto, a guideline… “Bridging the gap between the military,[…]
THEY CALLED IT BEAR WRESTLING
They called it bear wrestling. Found often under the circus sections called “"Monsters of the Midway." There was a time in America when a man[…]
The Car As A Coffin
Artificial intelligence cannot offer exact stats on how many officers are killed while they sit in their patol cars. They estmate each year some 3–8[…]
HAVE YOU SEEN THE ELEPHANT? SEEING THE ELEPHANT?
Many historians believe the expressions may trace back even earlier to big-game hunting, including African elephant hunting, though the Civil War usage is what firmly[…]
THE MARTIAL ARTS BOG. (…not “blog”- “BOG!”)
Don’t “bog down” in your martial arts when you first actually sought-seek-want clean, generic hand, stick, knife and gun survival versus crime and war. * Bog[…]
WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN?
Me and the Lone Ranger! Poking around the ROKU app, I stumbled upon the season 1, episode 1 of the old Lone Ranger TV show. The[…]
ME and THE “ROCK” MARINES…
The textbook manuals will define the ROK Marines as: “The Republic of Korea Marine Corps, also known as the ROK Marine Corps, or the ROK[…]
PARTS OF ARTS. SORTS OF SPORTS
“Parts of Arts.” “Sorts of Sports.” I spent most of my martial arts and military and police defensive tactics career, decades, looking for “The Next Best[…]