Every competent person, every competent organization has or should have a refined “mission statement.” It’s where you start. Like so many operations, and in a training company like mine, the mission statement is how you build and direct doctrine, avoid dogma, confusion and even hypocrisy. People-companies within their sphere must seriously define, the – “what … Continue reading WHAT I WON’T DO, DON’T DO
In the big picture of fast and furious, speedy, adrenalized stick fight, where does the single stick disarm exist? How can it? Let’s take a look. An important way I think for starters, is to first examine the overall Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) subject of stick versus stick disarming. I identify really only FIVE stick … Continue reading FMA STICK versus STICK DISARMING
Like our Hoplite above. He stuck the pointy end in first, but then, what happens next? THE POINTY END (Of Knives and Bullets) “Just stick the pointy end of the knife in, that’s all you need.” (Like our Hoplite above. He just stuck the pointy end in, yeah he’s first in, but then, what happens … Continue reading THE POINTY END (of Knives and Bullets)
Notes on Paring Knives, Kitchen Knives for Knife Fighting? This is my knife, there are many like it, but this one is mine.” – Paraphrasing the rifle creed of a Marine. “This is my paring knife, I eat food with it in public, I claim to trick police and still kill criminals.” – the … Continue reading FIGHTING KNIVES, FRUITS TO NUTS?
(I say lost because, I have no memory of doing this interview!) What got you into the martial arts? That is a very long story, but even as kid, I was always interested in tactics and fighting. Maybe movies and TV spurred my interest? The how-to tricks. A vehicle to learn this stuff was martial … Continue reading THE LOST INTERVIEW
Respect the Head Shot? Do you? Really? One of the conundrums in FMA stick sparring is figuring out the realistic importance of the head shot and emphasizing it in a training doctrine. Ignoring the strike (as in “pretending” it didn’t happen and “sparring-on”) because you have a helmet on is training doctrine mistake. Making … Continue reading RESPECTING THE HEAD SHOT IN STICK SPARRING
The grab strategy is now deemed possible and “okay.” In the 1990s and early 2000s, I received a considerable amount of trash talk. forum ridicule for demonstrating and suggesting that – if you could grab/wrap up the knife bearing limb, it was good idea. I had suggested that IF you could, you grab the … Continue reading Grabbing The Weapon Bearing Limb – In Fashion – Again
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) resurrected back into uniform after some 17-plus years as a detective. All thanks to some upper-management, “flip-the-applecart” plan. (Lets make the foot-doctors into heart-surgeons and heart-surgeons into foot-doctors.) So, after … Continue reading BACK IN POLICE UNIFORM…
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 of thinking about, these two kinds of takedown categories. 1-Going down with him. 2-Staying up or somewhat up as he goes down. There’s one group of methods were you crash … Continue reading AFTER THE TAKEDOWN, YOU…
What does having an epiphany mean? a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something. an intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking. an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. For me, in martial-combatives studies this is quest for that somewhat, magic moment of … Continue reading SEARCHING FOR EPIPHANY… In the Martial World