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AFOOT AND FLOORED-GROUNDED, an essay by W. Hock Hochheim

AFOOT AND FLOORED-GROUNDED. Previously here, I explained why I use the term “emergency” throughout the Survival Centric Hand, Stick, Knife and Gun courses’ fight modules.[…]

Two men on a padded mat demonstrate a bent-knee, foot-twist self-defense drill; one blocks with an extended forearm as the other presses forward.

KNEE BENDS AND FOOT TWIST ALERTS

KNEE BENDS AND FOOT TWIST ALERTSAmbush talk. Almost all, nearly every athletic action, sprinting, striking, tackling, evading, lunging, sports, or suddenly changing direction, begins with[…]

HESITANCIES TO SHOOT IN DEADLY FORCE SITUATIONS

I recently attended a police gunfight survival course (once I retired these courses are very inexpensive). The SWAT police captain showed a film of an[…]

SURVIVAL CENTRIC PRIMER: AWARENESS

Many years ago, JKD expert Tim Tackett taught me that one’s awareness was alerted by three things. 1. Visual – what you see. 2. Audio[…]

“ONE IN ONE,” KNIFE ATTACKS

n fact, in the big picture, you are very unlikely to be a victim of any violent crime in civilized regions. (England is always reporting[…]

BRIDGING THE MARTIAL GAP

When I decided in the mid-1990s that I had to “go my own way” I created a motto, a guideline… “Bridging the gap between the military,[…]

The Car As A Coffin

Artificial intelligence cannot offer exact stats on how many officers are killed while they sit in their patol cars. They estmate each year some 3–8[…]

HAVE YOU SEEN THE ELEPHANT? SEEING THE ELEPHANT?

Many historians believe the expressions may trace back even earlier to big-game hunting, including African elephant hunting, though the Civil War usage is what firmly[…]

PARTS OF ARTS. SORTS OF SPORTS

“Parts of Arts.” “Sorts of Sports.” I spent most of my martial arts and military and police defensive tactics career, decades, looking for “The Next Best[…]

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“REVNESS,” SIZE MATTERS AND MORE

Size, age, shape, strength, etc, versus size, shape, strength, age, etc. and I will make up a new word here. “Rev-ness” for the etc. column.[…]