Funny thing, I was watching the DVDs of the first season of FX’s TV show, Justified and in one episode there was a side character[…]
I would like to tell 5 quick, pistol/holster retention stories Retention story #1: Several years ago I taught at a major US city police academy,[…]
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,[…]
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[…]
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, or “Officer, The Guy in the Red Hat Started It.” Preemptive strikes and brandishing. How are these two subjects connected?[…]
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[…]
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[…]