There’s an old story going around about me and a karmabit. The tale goes that during a seminar, lunch break, in the 1990s, a guy walked up to me and showed me his karambit, and I looked at it, opened a nearby window and threw it out the window of a two-story building. This isn’t … Continue reading The Karambit Gambit Handicap
“If I die in combat zone. Box me up and ship me home.” You’ve all heard that ditty? Or, maybe you haven’t? It comes for most who have had it as a cadence – a song – we all sang while marching and running in the military. It has been bastardized, or satired and altered … Continue reading The Drop Dead Gun
The Parable of the Wooden Gun Wooden, rubber band guns. Why do I use them? Let me count the ways… At seminars, police or others, I have seen and organized a whole lot of “force-on-force” style work-outs these last 26 years and without exaggeration, all over the world. This “FOF” nickname became popular in the … Continue reading The Parable of the Wooden Gun
Welcome to Hock’s Blog Page. Here military, police, martial vet and author Hock discusses what’s on his mind including books, movies, weapons, fighting techniques, martial school management, geo-political issues as they relate to training and much more. Plus he adds the occasional excerpt from his own books. Many of Hock’s articles and blogs have been … Continue reading Hock’s Fightin’ Words – Blog
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Let’s get real! W. Hock Hochheim via Force Necessary brings you the best self-defense, combatives videos, downloads and seminars currently available anywhere in the world. What you need to ask yourself is this – would you be wise to learn from someone who has spent his life researching the tactics and strategies of ALL THE MAJOR … Continue reading Hock Hochheim Combatives and Self-Defense Shopping
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W. Hock Hochheim is a former military police patrolman and investigator, a former Texas patrol officer and detective, and former private investigator. During his career, spanning three decades he worked in “line operations” only, and he’s investigated more than a 1,000 crimes and arrested nearly as many suspects. He has graduated from numerous, national Assault … Continue reading Hock Hochheim Bio
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