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[…]

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[…]

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“REVNESS,” SIZE MATTERS AND MORE

Size, age, shape, strength, etc, versus size, shape, strength, age, etc. and I will make up a new word here. “Rev-ness” for the etc. column.[…]

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KEEPING YOU OUT OF JAIL (AND HELL)!

I’ve always been concerned with teaching hand, stick, knife, gun fighting, right along with skills that keep people out of jail and-or within the “rules[…]

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YOU DID IT! HE DROPPED THE KNIFE? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

YOU DID IT! HE DROPS THE KNIFE! WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?Convergence knife. Knife combatives. Converging the law and rules of engagement with knife training. If you[…]

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Statue Drill Tipped Over to Ground Fighting, by Hock Hochheim

Many moons ago I learned what I call the Statue Drill. It’s like a human wing chun dummy. Which to my memory comes from a[…]

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Where is Your “Here?” Where is Your “There?” by Hock Hochheim

HERE. THERE. A WHERE QUESTION. A where look inside the Who What, Where, When, How and Why questions. The Ws and the H. My life’s[…]

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Simpler – Faster – Capable

While 2025 starts my 30th year anniversary of traveling and teaching, I have been toiling away as a teacher since 1989. Before traveling-seminar teaching starting[…]

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WHERE WE LIVE, WE CAN’T HAVE A GUN OR A KNIFE, SO WHY SHOULD I?

  I teach in some 8-10 countries a year, so I am in highly restricted weapon jurisdictions, least of all some very liberal states in[…]

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[…]