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Upon hearing the idea of any physical conflict being over in three moves people have different reactions. Cops and correctional officers — who’ve had their share of defensive tactics go wrong — usually look skeptical at who said it. Some martial artists believe that their devastating Ancient fighting style would be capable of doing just … [Read more…]
I’m often asked about certain aspects of a system or technique. The response below was just one example. The original question was about the Wing Chun square/basic/box/whatever someone is calling it where-ever they are. He had some specific questions about what the stance was good for. I took one look at his questions and realized … [Read more…]
Is two guys beating the snot out of each other and rolling around on the ground violent? Yes. But that type of violence is only one small slice of themuch larger and complex pie that is violence. A complex and dangerous topic that involves a whole lot more than one on one, mano y mano, … [Read more…]
There have been serious changes made in martial systems over the last century. But change isn’t the problem. The problem is: People no longer recognize that these changes have occurred. Furthermore, they have forgotten, or were never taught, why these changes were made and for whatspecific purposes. You may not have realized it, but those … [Read more…]
I have taken extreme flak from people about my views on grappling. I have four basic standards about groundfighting: Submission fighting is to be used only on people who you want to control and *NOT* injure (e.g. a drunk friend OR someone you are trying to arrest). Those circumstances are NOT self-defense scenarios If it … [Read more…]
Someone just asked me if “BJJ really teaches smaller people to defeat bigger.” Apparently this is the new marketing claim. My answer… *** BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! That’s adorable. First off: BJJ and it’s hybrid offspring MMA are the two most muscle intensive sports fighting systems I know of. Second: ANY system with weight classes is a … [Read more…]
“First, tell me what you know. Second, tell me what you don’t know. Then — and only then — tell me what you think.” When a four star general called in all the factions of a squabbling intel division and laid down this law, people listened. What happened is these standards also reduced the … [Read more…]
Learning Leads to Various Degrees of Understanding, Part I In Part II, we will look at where different types of learning methods fit in to the three Modes of Conceptualize, Training, and Experience. Conditioning is another method of learning. This method can be thought of as part Training and part Experience. The Training part … [Read more…]
We’re going to take a weird sojourn through 17th-century French theater, an eyewitness account (names withheld) of an embarrassing demonstration, 10-day weather forecasts, and end (hopefully) with a point about taking drills too seriously. First, a trip to the theater with an excerpt from Moliere’s The Bourgeois Gentleman, the premise of which is that a … [Read more…]
I got dragged into a debate about 9mm vs. 40. My response that a pistol is not a defense weapon really got them going. Here’s some things to chew on… *** Start with the fact that when you are legally and morally justified to use a pistol, someone is in the middle of trying to … [Read more…]