REDUCE THE ABSTRACT
(Photo: Use a flat-soft-hand-pad? Or harder, head and face shaped head? Use a flat, non-human, paper target? Or 3D, dangerous form. Once again, expensive option[…]
PRACTICED AT THE ART OF DECEPTION. FAKES AND STRING THEORY!
A string! One great fake that opens a hole, then one stunning blow, then a tree-step combination…for starters. 5 parts of the string. 1 plus[…]
IF YOU PULL? YOU MUST SHOOT! OTHERWISE, NO PULL!
Every once in a while, in my years in police work ranging back to the early 1970s, we would get a new shift supervisor like[…]
HAVE I FALLEN ON THE KNIFE? BIG MISTAKES I HAVE MADE TEACHING MY KNIFE COURSE OVER THE DECADES
Or…How To, or How NOT To, Maintain a Popular Knife Course Through time, the who, what, where, when, how and why, my original, once quite[…]
RIPPED CALLUSES AND SMOKING RATTAN
On a rather famous FMA page, a member asked for opinions on-about the pros and cons of Remy Presas Modern Arnis. I answered… Three people[…]
CPR AT SAMBOS, OR HUSBAND KILLS WIFE AND WATCHES…
“Sixty-five…fight on the Sambos parking lot,” the police dispatcher announced, as Glen Nowles and I prowled the midnight hour, wintery north Texas streets in our[…]
ADVERTISING MARTIAL ARTS AND COMBATIVES SEMINARS
Instructors! Instructors! Instructors… In the last 29 years I have made certified instructors and black belts around the world from the USA to Australia. I[…]
THE FIRST MURDERER I CAUGHT IN TEXAS, I THINK…
The first murderer I caught in Texas was an interesting case. I think this was the first one there, but it might have been the[…]
INTERRUPTING THE QUICK DRAW
“Interrupting the Quick Draw.” or, sometimes I’ve call “Gun Arm Grappling.” Martial, police and military material I have been working on for decades. When teaching[…]
KNIFE FIGHT and the JAILHOUSE SUPERBOWL RING
It’s time boys and girls to rerun my knife fight story and the Superbowl player and the ring… Our city in North Texas boasted two[…]