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How Drake vs Meek Mill Beef Looking Right Now! Posted by Official WorldStarHipHop on Friday, July 31, 2015 CRGI COMMENTARY Clint Overland: This is a great example of an educational tune up. Notice it starts with 1 shot, not to hard but given with enough force to get attention. Then comes the disciplinary talking … [Read more…]
One of the things that makes communication difficult and some problems hard to solve is that very different things can be the same thing. I wrote about DV as an example of taxonomies some time ago. Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder are both different, but they get to the same place, seeing people … [Read more…]
Violence is a visceral thing and people tend to respond to it emotionally. There is always an emotional element to an act of force. Simultaneously, people assume a moral aspect to an act of force. One person is assumed to be the good guy, one assumed to be the bad guy. Combined, these make a … [Read more…]
Read Part I Rabbit Trail I suspect there is an intellectual drift in our thinking as professionals in the world of violence. Whether it is as force professionals, martial art instructors, self-defense instructors, or etc., human nature is to normalize what we learn from experience and training. Once normalized, there is an unconscious judgment that … [Read more…]
An opening disclaimer is important: research, hard science, is difficult to find on this topic. Ethics as they are on human research prevents us from setting up attacks on a randomized sampling pool of unsuspecting, uninformed women. The ethical guidelines on human research are there for a reason. The result? What follows is based on … [Read more…]
What If….? What if you are attacked? What if someone sticks a knife in your back? What if you don’t know how to defend yourself? “What ifs” are terrible. They are projections of situations and scenarios that may never happen. They increase fear and make you anxious and leave you feeling uneasy all the time. … [Read more…]
Talking with Sifu Lam about the importance of skill and strength and skill vs strength and how to prioritize my training and he gave me this. I call it “Lam’s Equation” 10 skills = 1 strength 10 strengths = 1 will I understood the 10 skills = 1 strength piece. You simply need a skill … [Read more…]
“Violence is seldom the answer. But when it is it’s the only answer.” The ‘only answer’ version is Tim Larkin. While I heartily agree with the sentiment, I disagree with the phrasing. I scale it to ‘the best answer’, ‘ or ‘most effective,’ or ‘most appropriate.’ Why? ‘ “Violence is seldom the answer, but when … [Read more…]
We have a dear friend named Peyton Quinn. He runs the Rocky Mountain Combat Application Training and is one of the pioneers of Adrenal Stress training. Peyton is a curmudgeonly genius who lives in the wilds of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. As we each approach the subject differently, we’ve had many a long conversations … [Read more…]
*** Here’s the thing, DON’T confront these guys unless you’re ready to rock and roll. A lot of street rats and skells do indeed do something weird and attention grabbing to test your reaction. They also get verbally offensive and try to turn it around onto you when called on their behavior. (“I’m not following … [Read more…]