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“In Combatives, self defense and Krav Maga we should not spend exorbitant amounts of time hitting bags and mitts with big boxing gloves. It is[…]

  “I think people need to learn how to hand, stick, knife, gun fight first, then dive into your bobbies, sports and arts later. Get[…]

(In my true police/detective books, I wrote an essay called, “Most Dead Ever,” a compilation of the calls and cases I went on where the[…]

  Now more than ever I see in seminars (and some classes) this odd idea to make participants stand around and watch just two of[…]

I would like to tell 5 quick, pistol/holster retention stories Retention story #1: Several years ago I taught at a major US city police academy,[…]

It is the duty of every martial person to learn each joint and the directions they go in and the directions they don’t go in,[…]

Are you an martial innovator, or a martial replicator? After a thought provoking discussion on Facebook, starting with this photo… …the comments came up that[…]

An email I received a few years back – “Dear Mr. Hoochymeins, I am looking for suburban combatives. I see ads for urban combatives but[…]

A death grip is officially defined as an extremely tight grip, First you have to grab. One of my training structures is the Stop 6 program[…]

Years ago, I saw a western with Sam Elliot. I can’t remember the name of the western. Two guys came to kill him at a[…]