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THE SACRIFICE FALL

THE SACRIFICE FALL    Pride before the “Fall.” Pride before the FAIL (or Fall) – meaning “those people who are overconfident or too arrogant are[…]

THE BIG BLEND: COMBATIVES – SPORTS – ARTS

Decades ago, I was working out with karate expert friend, and I grabbed his arms. He’d never been grabbed like this, and he had the[…]

KNOWING “WHERE” YOU ARE IN A FIGHT

IT’S PROPRIOCEPTION! Who, what, where, when, how and why? The BIG “W’s and H” questions that one answers in a fight (and life).   “Where?”[…]

Grabbing The Weapon Bearing Limb – In Fashion – Again

  The grab strategy is now deemed possible and “okay.” In the 1990s and early 2000s, I received a considerable amount of trash talk. forum[…]

BACK IN POLICE UNIFORM…

My last two years in the late 90s I wound up back in patrol (I was a real “Adam 12” dinosaur patrolman from the 70s)[…]

AFTER THE TAKEDOWN, YOU…

In very generic terms, and with you as the “tosser-thrower-tripper,” in the old-school business of “taking people down,” it would be worthy of mentioning, worthy[…]

Ten Fighting “Stances,” Positions

In 1986, I became fascinated by the Bruce Lee’s essay on “the stance of no stance,” idea. Whether hand, stick, knife or gun, I opted[…]

How Urban Is Your Combatives Cotton Patch?

An email I received a few years back – “Dear Mr. Hoochymeins, I am looking for suburban combatives. I see ads for urban combatives but[…]

Words Fail…The Mysteries of De-Escalation.

In this age of widespread interest in de-escalation and verbal skills to defuse any and all encounters, this is a tale about how convoluted and[…]