easy-digital-downloads domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/erikphillip/public_html/conflictresearchgroupintl.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121This will be a rehash of some things I’ve said before. Hmmmmm. Maybe I’ll just make a post with a list of all the things I say too much and then quit writing? Naaaaah. New questions come up all the time. Making certain people proficient at violence is simple. Not easy, but simple. The physical … [Read more…]
It’s not always possible, but when your focus is on teaching students, as opposed to teaching material, it’s kind of imperative to know who the students are. Rookie officers, for instance, need a solid base. Sometimes that even involves detailed explanation of the problem, e.g. the different kind of force incidents, force policy and basic … [Read more…]
Someone sent me a link to a video. I don’t want to hurt people’s feelings, so I won’t share it. It purports to be an examination of fantasy versus reality in knife defense. In the video, fantasy is slow and easy, reality is hard and vicious. Which I agree with. “Harder, faster, closer and more … [Read more…]
I normally don’t engage in conversations on planes. Small talk doesn’t interest me. With very few exceptions if I talk about what I do it makes the people around uncomfortable. And people make me tired. Today was a pleasant and awesome exception. I happened to sit next to a lady who on top of playing … [Read more…]
Been circling a thought. It’s nothing new in a lot of ways, but I don’t think I’ve hit it up the middle yet. 90% (statistic totally made up) of what I teach is about learning to see. That includes everything from seeing the physical possibilities (open targets, lines of balance, momentum vectors, environmental opportunities) to … [Read more…]
Learning fighting (whether in the guise of self-defense or martial arts or combatives)* isn’t that hard. It’s natural. It is something your ancestors have done, largely without any training, since before there were people or even fish. Often training is not about how to do things or learning more techniques. It is about finding the … [Read more…]
There is a lot of input on social rules for eye contact and there are profound gender differences and cultural differences. Your history and depth of understanding will deeply affect how you use eye contact for communication. It is huge. But it’s not just an external thing. Absolutely, people will read a message in my … [Read more…]
“I can’t do that.” Most of the time, people are thinking cause and not effect, or motion rather than results. “I can’t do that (hit hard, or knock someone down or pull a trigger) because I’m (too weak, too small, too…)” It’s mostly horseshit. You can do it (get the effect) but you probably can’t … [Read more…]
I don’t think I’ve broken this out as its own piece before, and doubt if I have the space to go into details. To follow along, you’ll need a basic understanding of Violence Dynamics, which is just a fancy way of saying you know about different kinds of bad guys and how they attack. This … [Read more…]
The myth of Pandora’s box always confused me. It made no sense. After all, Hope was in the box filled with all of the evils and ailments of men– famine, disease, death, jealousy, anger– and in order to get the benefit of Hope, it was kept in the box, not let out to infect the … [Read more…]