combatives expert hock hochheim standing beside survival centric logo

Simpler – Faster – Capable

While 2025 starts my 30th year anniversary of traveling and teaching, I have been toiling away as a teacher since 1989. Before traveling-seminar teaching starting[…]

Empty hand vs. knife defense

WHERE WE LIVE, WE CAN’T HAVE A GUN OR A KNIFE, SO WHY SHOULD I?

  I teach in some 8-10 countries a year, so I am in highly restricted weapon jurisdictions, least of all some very liberal states in[…]

Image of various sportsmen in different uniforms

WHAT CLOTHES ARE YOU WEARING? WHAT CLOTHES WILL YOU BE FIGHTING IN?

What are you wearing? You don’t train for football while wearing a baseball uniform.“Abstractum Reducere!”[Reduce the Abstract]     Maybe you’ll get into an argument.[…]

TWO KARATE GUYS FIGHTING AND SUEING?

Can They Sue You? Can They Sue Each Other? Assumption of Risk In Martial Arts Schools… (The raw law on the “Assumption of Risk” has[…]

image of a knife wielding attacker in a dark alley

WHO DO WE FIGHT? by Hock Hochheim

(In my upcoming book, as a result of the popularity of my Who, What, Where, When, How and Why lectures, this book will be published[…]

Hock lecturing during a seminar

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[…]

graphic art image of a person in a bath robe defending their home at night

HOME INVADERS AT MY HOME!

I believe my house was once under attack from home invaders, thwarted by me and my gun. Here’s what happened, plus a few things you[…]

Hock standing in a boxing gym holding equipment. An image of a mannequin holding a rifle. A ballistic target in the lower right corner.

REDUCE THE ABSTRACT

(Photo: Use a flat-soft-hand-pad? Or harder, head and face shaped head? Use a flat, non-human, paper target? Or 3D, dangerous form. Once again, expensive option[…]

PRACTICED AT THE ART OF DECEPTION. FAKES AND STRING THEORY!

A string! One great fake that opens a hole, then one stunning blow, then a tree-step combination…for starters. 5 parts of the string. 1 plus[…]

Poses show different concealed gun draws

IF YOU PULL? YOU MUST SHOOT! OTHERWISE, NO PULL!

Every once in a while, in my years in police work ranging back to the early 1970s, we would get a new shift supervisor like[…]