Posts by W. Hock Hochheim

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Beat, Break, Damage or Wait? Real “Ground” Fighting

It is the duty of every martial person to learn each joint and the directions they go in and the directions they don’t go in,[…]

Innovating and Re-Inventing the Basics

Are you an martial innovator, or a martial replicator? After a thought provoking discussion on Facebook, starting with this photo… …the comments came up that[…]

How Urban Is Your Combatives Cotton Patch?

An email I received a few years back – “Dear Mr. Hoochymeins, I am looking for suburban combatives. I see ads for urban combatives but[…]

Preemptive Strikes and Weapon Brandishing

Preemptive Strikes and Weapon Brandishing, or “Officer, The Guy in the Red Hat Started It.” Preemptive strikes and brandishing. How are these two subjects connected?[…]

Protecting the Belt: Impact Weapon Retention

It has always mystified me that Filipino stick people virtually never consider from whence their stick comes from. I don’t mean the rattan farm. I[…]

The Importance of a Death Grip on a Weapon or on a Person!

A death grip is officially defined as an extremely tight grip, First you have to grab. One of my training structures is the Stop 6 program[…]

Drop It! What’s in YOUR Gun Hand?

Drop it! In police work we are told to never have anything in our gun hand, in case we suddenly have to draw our pistols.[…]

Thee…”Sam Elliot Decision” To Treat or Not to Treat?

Years ago, I saw a western with Sam Elliot. I can’t remember the name of the western. Two guys came to kill him at a[…]

Ankle Breaks in Gunfights

Through the 1970s to the 1990s, I noticed a tripping accident was fairly common in line operations, police work. Ankle juries. Line ops is often[…]

Some Gunplay. Nights of the Mad Pay-tre-ons.

Country and Disco. Rednecks and Hippies. Back then when I first patrolled the streets in the 1970s, be it in the Army or out, I[…]

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