ON KNIFE STRESS DRAWS (and other weapons)…

Getting the weapon off of-from-out of your carry sites with your everyday clothing wear is important training. In this generic, free-from-formal art subject, in my[…]

SABER GRIP VERSUS REVERSE GRIP

“WHERE THE POINTY END STICKS OUT.“There is some, to, too-much time spent in the military, martial arts and combatives world debating, discussing even arguing about[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Hock on his back with his legs crossed at the bent knee.

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[…]

Kansas City Chiefs Superbowl ring

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[…]

KNOWING “WHERE” YOU ARE IN A FIGHT

IT’S PROPRIOCEPTION! Who, what, where, when, how and why? The BIG “W’s and H” questions that one answers in a fight (and life).   “Where?”[…]

IN DEFENSE OF FMA STICK FOLLOW-UPS

If you are a FMA “stick versus-stick-fighter,” I think, about…ohhh…80%…85% (?) of the stick material typical taught, thee so-called by many – “fancy stuff,” fancy[…]

THE POINTY END (of Knives and Bullets)

Like our Hoplite above. He stuck the pointy end in first, but then, what happens next? THE POINTY END (Of Knives and Bullets) “Just stick[…]

FIGHTING KNIVES, FRUITS TO NUTS?

  Notes on Paring Knives, Kitchen Knives for Knife Fighting? This is my knife, there are many like it, but this one is mine.”   –[…]