Meme with a black-and-white photo of a man adjusting his collar; bold text says 'Watson! The game is afoot!' and a caption about using the terms 'afoot' and 'floored-grounded' with SurvivalCentric.com.

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.[…]

Two men on a padded mat demonstrate a bent-knee, foot-twist self-defense drill; one blocks with an extended forearm as the other presses forward.

KNEE BENDS AND FOOT TWIST ALERTS

KNEE BENDS AND FOOT TWIST ALERTSAmbush talk. Almost all, nearly every athletic action, sprinting, striking, tackling, evading, lunging, sports, or suddenly changing direction, begins with[…]

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[…]

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.[…]

go to hell monopoly card. Learn hand, stick, knife, gun fighting methods that also keep you out of jail by hock hochheim

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[…]

knife fight and man dropps the knife.

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[…]

ground fighting training format by Hock Hochheim. statue drill for wing chun kung fu and Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune do

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[…]

Einstein and Hock discuss where is your here, where is your there. How do you get there?

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[…]