Posts by W. Hock Hochheim

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

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

There are plenty of people who have shot plenty of other people without any training at all. Consider the history of self defense, crime and[…]

I was thinking about the classic park in Manila. “Rizal Park, also known as Luneta Park or simply Luneta, is a historical urban park in[…]

I wonder…do people know why so many folks have big bison-buffalo beards today? What caused the more “recent” …beard fad? Craze? A burst of beards?[…]

Strangulation. To soldiers, it’s a way to take prisoners and kill the enemy. To police, it’s pretty much a no-no. To martial people and martial[…]

A few years back I taught a seminar at Doc Sheldon’s Private Training Center in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. The place is loaded with equipment[…]