Meme with a black-and-white photo of a man adjusting his collar; bold text says 'Watson! The game is afoot!' and a caption about using the terms 'afoot' and 'floored-grounded' with SurvivalCentric.com.

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.[…]

Trainer kneels on a blue mat, holding a participant's ankle as another man lies face‑down during a martial-arts drill; punching bags in the background.

FLOOR-GROUND (Why I use this hyphenated terminology) by Hock Hochheim

FLOORED-GROUNDED Where do fight collisions occur? Where do the crashes, sticking points, and stopping points happen in conversations, arguments, arrests, fights, ambushes, violent encounters, Crime[…]

Composite image: two boxers sparring in a ring on a red background with the headline 'Notes on Boxing Glove Cancers' and SurvivalCentric branding below.

NOTES ON BOXING GLOVE CANCERS

NOTES ON BOXING GLOVE CANCERSIIt sort of pains me to write this because most people love their boxing gloves. But I think it will pain[…]

Two men sparring in a training room, one grabbing the other while they move in a defensive stance; meme caption reads 'When possible strike first, grapple later...'.

STRIKING FIRST – GRAPPLING LATER by W. Hock Hochheim

(Recently consulting with contacts in London, they sent me two video clips of unarmed versus the knife and asked me about them. One was by[…]

Silhouette of a person climbing a rope against a brick wall, lit from the right side.

LIGATURE… “MANAGEMENT?”  Yes. An article by W. Hock Hochheim

Ordinarily, to ordinary people, a ligature is something used to bind or tie something tightly. Depending on the context, it generally refers to a thread[…]

YOU! And The Law, Self Defense. The AFTER in the Before, During and After

A very important part of my martial-combatives job is keeping people out of jail, out of courts and military tribunals. Any serious discussion of self-defense,[…]

THE MARTIAL ARTS BOG. (…not “blog”- “BOG!”)

Don’t “bog down” in your martial arts when you first actually sought-seek-want clean, generic hand, stick, knife and gun survival versus crime and war. * Bog[…]

WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN?

Me and the Lone Ranger! Poking around the ROKU app, I stumbled upon the season 1, episode 1 of the old Lone Ranger TV show. The[…]

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[…]

image of a knife wielding attacker in a dark alley

WHO DO WE FIGHT? by Hock Hochheim

(In my upcoming book, as a result of the popularity of my Who, What, Where, When, How and Why lectures, this book will be published[…]

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