Posts by W. Hock Hochheim

A Bigger Picture. In the martial arts world, stick versus stick fighting is most closely associated with the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA). A huge chunk[…]

Palace Intrigue Report #87: Taproots in Martial Arts Business (This essay causes me trouble, even among friends)   Is your instructor, system, art, tribe, etc.[…]

I was doing a seminar in early 1990s and an attendee approached me during a break and said, “I see you’ve studied NLP.” “No,” I[…]

In the last decades or so, numerous self-defense people have been going around, reading off ”Pre-Assault Tips” lists, and been considered such “inventive geniuses” by[…]

Late last year I was interviewed for a martial arts book, and they asked opinion questions to a series of traveling martial-seminar guys like me.[…]

MMA – Mixed Martial Arts? Or MMA – Mixed-up Martial Arts?   The tabulators tell me that 2021 this will be my 51st year doing[…]

A lot of American football coaches and players watch game films. I instead, have watched hours of football “how-to” training films to see how these[…]

Growth. Finding new information and ideas is a never-ending, quest-job. Makes me think of the old line I never liked,   “Keep it simple, stupid.”[…]

I tell everyone that when I am evaluating a martial move for myself or others, in one filter I consider a two prong question. Have[…]

  The “corporate” name for what I’ve been doing for 26 years this 2022, the big umbrella name is the “Scientific Fighting Congress.” Under that[…]