Tag: force necessary

31 Years on the road. In…A Martial Aniversary by Hock Hochheim

started in Kenpo 1972 years ago, but have the current "busines model" of traveling-tecahing seminars for 31 years. I walked into a Parker Kenpo school in Irving TX run by 1st gen Keith See. (There were no kids allowed back then.) After a few belts (punches, whiskey and rank) I joined the Army. Then decades of policing. During and after, went through many instructors / many systems, ran a JKD and self-defense combatives school from 1989 to 1997 in north Texas

Grabbing The Weapon Bearing Limb – In Fashion – Again

  The grab strategy is now deemed possible and “okay.” In the 1990s and early 2000s, […]

BACK IN POLICE UNIFORM…

My last two years in the late 90s I wound up back in patrol (I was […]

AFTER THE TAKEDOWN, YOU…

In very generic terms, and with you as the “tosser-thrower-tripper,” in the old-school business of “taking […]

The Quandary of FMA Training Stick vs. Stick, versus Stick Combatives

A Bigger Picture. In the martial arts world, stick versus stick fighting is most closely associated […]

KISSING OFF THE K.I.S.S. METHOD

Growth. Finding new information and ideas is a never-ending, quest-job. Makes me think of the old […]

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 […]

FIGHTING WANTS versus FIGHTING NEEDS

  “I think people need to learn how to hand, stick, knife, gun fight first, then […]

Innovating and Re-Inventing the Basics

Are you an martial innovator, or a martial replicator? After a thought provoking discussion on Facebook, […]

Preemptive Strikes and Weapon Brandishing

Preemptive Strikes and Weapon Brandishing, or “Officer, The Guy in the Red Hat Started It.” Preemptive […]