Your Signature Moves?

Your Signature Moves and the Pareto and the Mental Model? Mental models are descriptions of reality that apply across every area of our life, usually[…]

Grimacing at Micro Expressions

“This guy must hate me!” I tell a story in my police books about a guy’s mean facial expression that was a lesson in life[…]

Rolling Blackouts and Rolling Flashlights

(Or…How I Learned to Love the Hock-Stinky-Arm-Method!) Texas got hit with a real pesky ice and snow storm last week, dropping temps lower than North[…]

Me and the ROK Marines

(My main theme here is usually about combatives, crime and policing, but I would be remiss not to mention my connections with the ROK Marines while[…]

Rituals of Death (Before the Death, Not After)

The rituals of death. Understanding them may save your life. But, when you try to research the term, all you are most likely to uncover[…]

The “Second (or Third) Round is Yours” Sports Theory

I really enjoy the numerous youtube videos of people being attacked and the victim unleashes a smart boxing combination and the badman drops like rock.[…]

Boxing Gloves are for Boxers

“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[…]

FIGHTING WANTS versus FIGHTING NEEDS

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

The Dead Grenade That Wasn’t Dead

(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[…]

Participation vs. Observation in Seminars

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