Posts by W. Hock Hochheim

posse commutitus

“PUT TOGTHER A POSSE!” Says The Marshal. “POSEE COMITATTUS!”

It bothers me to hear and read in the news that Chicago is a crime hell-hole. Chicago is actually a big, parts-beautiful-and-safe place. Only parts[…]

staying alive in active shooter searches

STAYING APART and STAYING ALIVE…

Through the years I have written quite a bit about staying apart from a tactical response team perspective and from solo police officers forced together[…]

I'm essential in the military - hock hochheim

STAYS BACK WATCHING! A SBW…

Stays Back Watching… I read where the Pentagon is working up a medal for those who were dispatched to the US-Mexico border. Whatever. Sure. The[…]

knife fight and man dropps the knife.

YOU DID IT! HE DROPPED THE KNIFE? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

YOU DID IT! HE DROPS THE KNIFE! WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?Convergence knife. Knife combatives. Converging the law and rules of engagement with knife training. If you[…]

hock hochheim, combatives, how to end a fight

“THIS IS THE END. THIS IS THE END MY FRIEND” – the DOORS by Hock Hochheim

In the who what, where, when, how and why in fight-life, it begs the question – “How does this fight end?” I have long listed[…]

ground fighting training format by Hock Hochheim. statue drill for wing chun kung fu and Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune do

Statue Drill Tipped Over to Ground Fighting, by Hock Hochheim

Many moons ago I learned what I call the Statue Drill. It’s like a human wing chun dummy. Which to my memory comes from a[…]

Survival Centric 30 Year Anniversary image

30 Years on the road. In…A Martial Aniversary by Hock Hochheim

I started in Kenpo 53 years ago, but have the current “busines model” for 30. I walked into a Parker Kenpo school in Irving TX[…]

Einstein and Hock discuss where is your here, where is your there. How do you get there?

Where is Your “Here?” Where is Your “There?” by Hock Hochheim

HERE. THERE. A WHERE QUESTION. A where look inside the Who What, Where, When, How and Why questions. The Ws and the H. My life’s[…]

paul vunak, jkd, jeet kune do, bruce lee, hock hochheim,

Paul Vunak

Stumbled upon this old Paul Vunak tape (attached and below.) Paul changed my traditional martial arts life in 1986. He also connected me to the[…]

knfe fighting book cover, military knife research course book by hock hochheim

MILITARY KNIFE RESEARCH COURSE by Hock Hochheim

A few years back now I wrote the missive tome, “The Knife Combatives” book. No brag, just a fact, that it was and is still[…]