AFOOT AND FLOORED-GROUNDED, an essay by W. Hock Hochheim
AFOOT AND FLOORED-GROUNDED. Previously here, I explained why I use the term “emergency” throughout the Survival Centric Hand, Stick, Knife and Gun courses’ fight modules.[…]
The Car As A Coffin
Artificial intelligence cannot offer exact stats on how many officers are killed while they sit in their patol cars. They estmate each year some 3–8[…]
THE DISTRACTED GUNMAN
Gun disarms. It’s tricky business.In 26 years on the job, I have disarmed only a handful or two of pistols and shotgun incidents. This includes[…]
STAYING APART and STAYING ALIVE…
Through the years I have written quite a bit about staying apart from a tactical response team perspective and from solo police officers forced together[…]
PRACTICED AT THE ART OF DECEPTION. FAKES AND STRING THEORY!
A string! One great fake that opens a hole, then one stunning blow, then a tree-step combination…for starters. 5 parts of the string. 1 plus[…]
IF YOU PULL? YOU MUST SHOOT! OTHERWISE, NO PULL!
Every once in a while, in my years in police work ranging back to the early 1970s, we would get a new shift supervisor like[…]
STAYING APART IN COMBAT
I am full of old-school mainstays. Some I like. Some I don’t. In military training tips – I was in at the tail-end of Vietnam[…]
THE POINTY END (of Knives and Bullets)
Like our Hoplite above. He stuck the pointy end in first, but then, what happens next? THE POINTY END (Of Knives and Bullets) “Just stick[…]
“INSPIRE NOT CONFINE”
The “corporate” name for what I’ve been doing for 26 years this 2022, the big umbrella name is the “Scientific Fighting Congress.” Under that[…]
Getting a Grip on your Grips! Weapon Handling!
For starters, I am not a knife or gun collector, no more than I would collect hammers, screwdrivers or wrenches. I just don’t care. You[…]