Are you an martial innovator, or a martial replicator? After a thought provoking discussion on Facebook, starting with this photo… …the comments came up that[…]
An email I received a few years back – “Dear Mr. Hoochymeins, I am looking for suburban combatives. I see ads for urban combatives but[…]
Preemptive Strikes and Weapon Brandishing, or “Officer, The Guy in the Red Hat Started It.” Preemptive strikes and brandishing. How are these two subjects connected?[…]
It has always mystified me that Filipino stick people virtually never consider from whence their stick comes from. I don’t mean the rattan farm. I[…]
A death grip is officially defined as an extremely tight grip, First you have to grab. One of my training structures is the Stop 6 program[…]
Drop it! In police work we are told to never have anything in our gun hand, in case we suddenly have to draw our pistols.[…]
.This is where I have fallen down. Where my knife course has fallen down. Before the fall, in the 1990s there was a “resurgence” if[…]
I worry about the “who, what, where, when, how and why” questions. In my courses and should be in your courses too, part of[…]
For decades now, I have spotted “sloppiness, bad structure here and there in training, be it during my old Texas school of the[…]
Just about everyone knows by now, that “bare-knuckle” punching upon parts of the head can be damaging. Specifically I like to remind people[…]