Posts about combatives

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?”[…]

It’s always fun and exercise to mix and match martial arts. I did it for years too. Rather…mindlessly too. I knew it had abstract benefits[…]

Every competent person, every competent organization has or should have a refined “mission statement.” It’s where you start. Like so many operations, and in a[…]

  The grab strategy is now deemed possible and “okay.” In the 1990s and early 2000s, I received a considerable amount of trash talk. forum[…]

My last two years in the late 90s I wound up back in patrol (I was a real “Adam 12” dinosaur patrolman from the 70s)[…]

In very generic terms, and with you as the “tosser-thrower-tripper,” in the old-school business of “taking people down,” it would be worthy of mentioning, worthy[…]

What does having an epiphany mean? a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something. an intuitive grasp of reality[…]

A Bigger Picture. In the martial arts world, stick versus stick fighting is most closely associated with the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA). A huge chunk[…]

Growth. Finding new information and ideas is a never-ending, quest-job. Makes me think of the old line I never liked,   “Keep it simple, stupid.”[…]

I tell everyone that when I am evaluating a martial move for myself or others, in one filter I consider a two prong question. Have[…]