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 6121Just because something really sucks doesn’t mean it works. Remember USM J. Jone’s three rules: Anything you teach must work moving or standing still, must work when you are adrenalized and, number one, anything you teach must have a tactical use.Combat sports train hard, but they train within a ruleset. Does that make it wrong? … [Read more…]
For the record, I have totally gone off the lesson plan. In seminars, I usually do social violence first. Oh well. And I am getting back to this because I don’t want to lose the thread, not because I don’t have other things to write about. Those will have to wait, though. Let’s get started. … [Read more…]
Maybe that should be Uncomfortable Safety. Or something else. The techniques that fall under martial arts are basically heinous crimes except in a very narrow set of circumstances. We are playing at causing pain and suffering. You can choose to be mindless about that and see it as a fun hobby. But if your students … [Read more…]
Watched a highly ranked martial artist a while ago, and something’s been bugging me. He was smooth. He had a good explanation of what he did and why. He had a lot of little, subtle motions (subtle is not the same as fine motor skill, these were good) and some fighters I respect were impressed. … [Read more…]
Violence serves a purpose. Multiple purposes, actually. And the purpose it serves, the goals (and parameters) will drive how the violence occurs. The threat who wants money for drugs will approach differently than the drunk college kid trying to impress a girl and neither will be quite the same as the person from a violent … [Read more…]
There are three paths to being good. Being human, you can take multiple paths simultaneously. So maybe path is a really shitty metaphor here. But bear with me. And I’m not going to talk about fighting, at least not right away. A talented photographer sees the way a camera sees. For whatever reason, the eye … [Read more…]
Have to get this out of the way first. Most of the self-defense techniques I see taught don’t take into account the essential nature of an assault. Not just ignoring the fact that it is fast, hard and from surprise. Most ignore the simple fact that the bad guy doesn’t do just one thing and … [Read more…]
The other element in this equation is YOU. Violence is used for specific purposes. As such, it has its own logic. Incidents of violence are chaotic because you have multiple people in an adrenalized state that is unfamiliar to at least one of them. It’s not that violence doesn’t have rules, it’s that you likely … [Read more…]
Fevers can come from a lot of different things. I was taught that sometimes it is simply the way your body kills viruses, or at least keeps them from reproducing. The fever is part of the process of healing. The virus is the problem, not the fever. The fever is not just a symptom, it … [Read more…]
I don’t write about domestic violence, because I don’t feel I know enough about it. I know, I know, that doesn’t seem to stop most ‘experts’ in any field… but, flippancy aside, understanding violence is important. Misinformed people get hurt. Passing bad information, even if it makes you feel good, victimizes the people who listen. … [Read more…]