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(In my true police/detective books, I wrote an essay called, “Most Dead Ever,” a compilation of the calls and cases I went on where the[…]

Old-school, double sticks and espada y daga training. We had to DEFEAT the sinawali pattern as the attacker CHARGES (not just standing there, but charging[…]

  Now more than ever I see in seminars (and some classes) this odd idea to make participants stand around and watch just two of[…]

Funny thing, I was watching the DVDs of the first season of FX’s TV show, Justified and in one episode there was a side character[…]

I would like to tell 5 quick, pistol/holster retention stories Retention story #1: Several years ago I taught at a major US city police academy,[…]

It is the duty of every martial person to learn each joint and the directions they go in and the directions they don’t go in,[…]

Are you an martial innovator, or a martial replicator? After a thought provoking discussion on Facebook, starting with this photo… …the comments came up that[…]

An email I received a few years back – “Dear Mr. Hoochymeins, I am looking for suburban combatives. I see ads for urban combatives but[…]

Preemptive Strikes and Weapon Brandishing, or “Officer, The Guy in the Red Hat Started It.” Preemptive strikes and brandishing. How are these two subjects connected?[…]

It has always mystified me that Filipino stick people virtually never consider from whence their stick comes from. I don’t mean the rattan farm. I[…]