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 […]
KNEE BENDS AND FOOT TWIST ALERTS
KNEE BENDS AND FOOT TWIST ALERTSAmbush talk. Almost all, nearly every athletic action, sprinting, striking, tackling, […]
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 officers are killed while sitting in patrol cars and perhaps 10–20 shot but surviving in similar situations. Back in the 1970s, the ’80s, and even the ’90s, the phrase “the car as a coffin” was already a warning, a cop training phrase, a “word to the wise” about being stuck in a car and getting killed by an outside shooter. The advice was simple:
PARTS OF ARTS. SORTS OF SPORTS
“Parts of Arts.” “Sorts of Sports.” I spent most of my martial arts and military and police defensive tactics career, decades, looking for “The Next Best Thing.” This path took me through many martial arts and martial sports. All the while I knew I wanted and needed: * clean, swift, hand, stick, knife, gun methods, * standing through floor-ground, * in all environments, rural, suburban, urban, in-out of buildings, * legally defensible, * from verbal skills through lethal force, * for crime-fighting and war fighting.
ON KNIFE STRESS DRAWS (and other weapons)…
Getting the weapon off of-from-out of your carry sites with your everyday clothing wear is important training. In this generic, free-from-formal art subject, in my four major hand, stick, knife, gun Survival Centric combatives courses doctrine, we really worry about…the quick draw. There are separate training module topics. Within each topic are different citizen, police and the military concerns-methods. The variations are simple. Know-follow the laws and rules of engagement. Crime is crime. War is war. Screw that up and be jailed, and-or sued, and-or dead.
A HEALTHY WAY TO VIEW MARTIAL LEADERS AND SYSTEMS. THINK FOOTBALL!
A HEALTHY WAY TO VIEW MARTIAL LEADERS AND SYSTEMS. THINK FOOTBALL! To my surprise a recent post I made about Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) has made the rounds in the thousands, even though it was kind of an “inside baseball, ” “palace intrigue” post. It was supported, even "heart-loved" by about a thousand, many of whom are long-time martial artists who witnessed what I was writing about.
THE TRUE HISTORY OF ARNIS DE MANO
There seems to be some confusion going around about Presas Arnis Family history, systems and in […]
SABER GRIP VERSUS REVERSE GRIP
“WHERE THE POINTY END STICKS OUT.“There is some, to, too-much time spent in the military, martial […]
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. CHUNKING BRINGS THINGS TOGETHER. THANK YOU GEORGE MILLER.
N THE BLINK OF AN EYE. CHUNKING BRINGS THINGS TOGETHER. THANK YOU GEORGE MILLER.We are on […]
HICK’S LAW AND ITS RESPONSE TIMES. LET’s JUST FORGET ABOUT IT.
Since my last entry on TASK SATURATION (which is a generic problem) and the entry gets […]