Posts about combatives

THE SACRIFICE FALL

THE SACRIFICE FALL    Pride before the “Fall.” Pride before the FAIL (or Fall) – meaning “those people who are overconfident or too arrogant are[…]

THE BIG BLEND: COMBATIVES – SPORTS – ARTS

Decades ago, I was working out with karate expert friend, and I grabbed his arms. He’d never been grabbed like this, and he had the[…]

MARTIAL STUDIES – ARE YOU ALSO GOING TO “JAIL SCHOOL?”

Do – Don’t do. Should do – shouldn’t do. Are you also going to “Jail School?”     What you don’t do in a fight-combat,[…]

BLACKJACKS and SAPS, ETC.  

With advancing age and advanced age, one’s reliance on “kuraty” wanes. Someday I know I will be limping around with only my snub-nose, hammerless revolver[…]

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?”[…]

Peek A Boo Is a Bare Knuckle Boo-Boo

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[…]

WHAT I WON’T DO, DON’T DO

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[…]

Grabbing The Weapon Bearing Limb – In Fashion – Again

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

BACK IN POLICE UNIFORM…

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)[…]

AFTER THE TAKEDOWN, YOU…

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[…]