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[…]

Hock on his back with his legs crossed at the bent knee.

HAVE I FALLEN ON THE KNIFE? BIG MISTAKES I HAVE MADE TEACHING MY KNIFE COURSE OVER THE DECADES

Or…How To, or How NOT To, Maintain a Popular Knife Course Through time, the who, what, where, when, how and why, my original, once quite[…]

Remy Presas on the cover of Black Belt magazine

RIPPED CALLUSES AND SMOKING RATTAN

On a rather famous FMA page, a member asked for opinions on-about the pros and cons of Remy Presas Modern Arnis. I answered… Three people[…]

CPR AT SAMBOS, OR HUSBAND KILLS WIFE AND WATCHES…

“Sixty-five…fight on the Sambos parking lot,” the police dispatcher announced, as Glen Nowles and I prowled the midnight hour, wintery north Texas streets in our[…]

Hock standing with instructors

ADVERTISING MARTIAL ARTS AND COMBATIVES SEMINARS

Instructors! Instructors! Instructors… In the last 29 years I have made certified instructors and black belts around the world from the USA to Australia. I[…]

Illustration of a person standing next to an older model car with the trunk lid open and a leg hanging out of the trunk

THE FIRST MURDERER I CAUGHT IN TEXAS, I THINK…

The first murderer I caught in Texas was an interesting case. I think this was the first one there, but it might have been the[…]