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Fear and Loathing of the Killer, Henry Lee Lucas

     It was a head.      I mean a skull.       Just a skull. Laying there on the ground.       And[…]

Jailbreak! And the Pyscho Martin Crebbs

     Jailbreak! And the Psycho Martin Crebbs      It was afternoon in August in the early 1980s.      Egg-frying, Texas hot. That[…]

Should You Even DARE Use a Knife to Defend Yourself?

For 26 years now, a motto for my Force Necessary: Knife combatives course is, “Use your knife to save a life!” Desperate times and situations.[…]

Realities of The Tackle

       The who, what, where, when, how, and why do you want to tackle a criminal, your “drunk uncle (relative) or an enemy soldier?[…]

Storm Jumper! Captured Alive in Water Channel

     On the east side of our city, there ran a series of waterways, storm channels to handle the bad Texas rainstorms. I know[…]

OUTSIDE-INSIDE, Drawn Guns and Knives…or Not? And If So – When?

Not a lot of people practice drawing their weapons under realistic stress, if indeed some people ever practice drawing their weapons at all. In typical[…]

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[…]

The Greatest Pistol Shot I’ve Ever “Seen!”

It was gruesome. Memories of pain fade, but not those of parents much. Out of respect for the surviving parents, I will pass on revealing[…]

The Karambit Gambit Handicap

There’s an old story going around about me and a karmabit. The tale goes that during a seminar, lunch break, in the 1990s, a guy[…]

The Drop Dead Gun

  “If I die in combat zone. Box me up and ship me home.” You’ve all heard that ditty? Or, maybe you haven’t? It comes for[…]