Ben Mangels died in 2015. Age 78. I lost touch with him about 2013. His wife got sick and he kind of dropped off the[…]
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I do hear the… – “I’ll never have a gun, so why should I…” and, – “I can’t/don’t own a gun, so why should I…”[…]
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There is a clever meme and some quotes going around now that claim “you can’t have an illegal alien on stolen ground.” You[…]
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As taught to me from several FMA instructors from the Presas Family to the Inosanto family, going back decades, the classic “Chain of the____ (fill[…]
For decades now, I have spotted “sloppiness, bad structure here and there in training, be it during my old Texas school of the[…]