Posts about combatives

Ben Mangels, African Commando

Ben Mangels died in 2015. Age 78. I lost touch with him about 2013. His wife got sick and he kind of dropped off the[…]

Pistol Disarms, Etc. in the Land of NO-Guns.

I do hear the… – “I’ll never have a gun, so why should I…” and, – “I can’t/don’t own a gun, so why should I…”[…]

Knocked Out on the Ground From a Kick

“Welcome to the jungle…”We all hear about how grounded wrestlers shouldn’t wrestle in the proverbial “street fight,” and one reason name-dropped is the catch phrase[…]

Words Fail…The Mysteries of De-Escalation.

In this age of widespread interest in de-escalation and verbal skills to defuse any and all encounters, this is a tale about how convoluted and[…]

Realities of The Tackle

       The who, what, where, when, how, and why do you want to tackle a criminal, your “drunk uncle (relative) or an enemy soldier?[…]