Posts by W. Hock Hochheim

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING? (Or how I learned to not wear a baseball uniform when practicing Tennis…) (If you are happy camper doing classic martial[…]

“Harvey … give me the shotgun, or ELSE!” (and other Harvey tales.) That was the time when cops usually got killed, I reminded myself, looking[…]

I wonder…has the de-escalation fad sort of died down? It seems like it was all the rage a while back. Everyone was preaching it in[…]

“It’s a Brother Thing?”  There was and is always a lot of talk about the various feuds between Remy and Ernesto through the years. How[…]

Binge and Purge – The Martial Arts – Or, How I Learned Not to Need Subsection 3B of the Ukulele Islands Miasma Fighting System I[…]

Ben Mangels died in 2015. Age 78. I lost touch with him about 2013. His wife got sick and he kind of dropped off the[…]

The Equal Opportunity Stabber. Saber or Reverse Grip? I am an “equal opportunity stabber.” Sound weird? Hear me out. I’ve heard the knife whisper. Have[…]

Interview or ambush? You walk up to trouble, or trouble walks up to you! So, if it’s not a stone-cold, surprise, physical ambush, you are[…]

It was afternoon in August in the early ’80s. Egg-frying, Texas hot. That is to say that if you plopped a raw egg down on[…]

I do hear the… – “I’ll never have a gun, so why should I…” and, – “I can’t/don’t own a gun, so why should I…”[…]