Posts by W. Hock Hochheim

KNEE BENDS AND FOOT TWIST ALERTSAmbush talk. Almost all, nearly every athletic action, sprinting, striking, tackling, evading, lunging, sports, or suddenly changing direction, begins with[…]

FLOORED-GROUNDED Where do fight collisions occur? Where do the crashes, sticking points, and stopping points happen in conversations, arguments, arrests, fights, ambushes, violent encounters, Crime[…]

NOTES ON BOXING GLOVE CANCERSIIt sort of pains me to write this because most people love their boxing gloves. But I think it will pain[…]

(Recently consulting with contacts in London, they sent me two video clips of unarmed versus the knife and asked me about them. One was by[…]

Ordinarily, to ordinary people, a ligature is something used to bind or tie something tightly. Depending on the context, it generally refers to a thread[…]

I recently attended a police gunfight survival course (once I retired these courses are very inexpensive). The SWAT police captain showed a film of an[…]

A very important part of my martial-combatives job is keeping people out of jail, out of courts and military tribunals. Any serious discussion of self-defense,[…]

Many years ago, JKD expert Tim Tackett taught me that one’s awareness was alerted by three things. 1. Visual – what you see. 2. Audio[…]

n fact, in the big picture, you are very unlikely to be a victim of any violent crime in civilized regions. (England is always reporting[…]

When I decided in the mid-1990s that I had to “go my own way” I created a motto, a guideline… “Bridging the gap between the military,[…]