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[…]
KNEE BENDS AND FOOT TWIST ALERTS
KNEE BENDS AND FOOT TWIST ALERTSAmbush talk. Almost all, nearly every athletic action, sprinting, striking, tackling, evading, lunging, sports, or suddenly changing direction, begins with[…]
FLOOR-GROUND (Why I use this hyphenated terminology) by Hock Hochheim
FLOORED-GROUNDED Where do fight collisions occur? Where do the crashes, sticking points, and stopping points happen in conversations, arguments, arrests, fights, ambushes, violent encounters, Crime[…]
NOTES ON BOXING GLOVE CANCERS
NOTES ON BOXING GLOVE CANCERSIIt sort of pains me to write this because most people love their boxing gloves. But I think it will pain[…]
STRIKING FIRST – GRAPPLING LATER by W. Hock Hochheim
(Recently consulting with contacts in London, they sent me two video clips of unarmed versus the knife and asked me about them. One was by[…]
LIGATURE… “MANAGEMENT?” Yes. An article by W. Hock Hochheim
Ordinarily, to ordinary people, a ligature is something used to bind or tie something tightly. Depending on the context, it generally refers to a thread[…]
HESITANCIES TO SHOOT IN DEADLY FORCE SITUATIONS
I recently attended a police gunfight survival course (once I retired these courses are very inexpensive). The SWAT police captain showed a film of an[…]
YOU! And The Law, Self Defense. The AFTER in the Before, During and After
A very important part of my martial-combatives job is keeping people out of jail, out of courts and military tribunals. Any serious discussion of self-defense,[…]
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,[…]