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 6121“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…]
I love teaching cops. Teaching martial artists I am aware that most of them, from rank beginners to ‘modern combat masters’ are getting nothing more than a handful of details to add to their daydreams. A few (and they are damn few in any given class) will need it– but they aren’t the macho posturers. … [Read more…]
Most stuff in real life can be avoided or de-escalated. If you have been around 100 people today, there was at least one situation you could have escalated. Odds are you don’t even remember it because we are all constantly adapting to and manipulating the people around us. Violence isn’t a normal distribution (Bell curve). … [Read more…]
Some background first. There are a lot of experts on criminal behavior out there. There are also a lot of ‘experts’. ‘Experts’ first. The biggest problem is that bad guys lie. A lot of the so-called experts were clearly snowed. They were manipulated from the very beginning to tell the story that the bad guy … [Read more…]
Some of the tenets of adult education versus childhood education are: In order to interest an adult, you must show the adult the value in the lesson You must tie in what you are teaching with what the adults already know You just fit the new information into the world that the adult lives in … [Read more…]
I’m sure there are more, but for my purposes, there are three distinct modes of teaching and learning: Conditioning Training Play To make this useful, we have to define them. For our purposes, ‘Training’ is verbal teaching, explanation, patterns and repetitions. Almost anything that you learn as a step-by-step process. Practicing basics is training. Going … [Read more…]
The idea is simple. If you are in danger of dying—starving, thirsty, sick or about to be killed and eaten– that is your highest priority. Until you have taken care of your immediate survival needs you don’t give a damn, and you don’t waste resources, on anything else. Once your immediate physical needs are taken care of, you can … [Read more…]
I’m going to explore some of the different mindsets of violence. In addition to the social classifications, there are three asocial types that I want to hit: the severely disturbed; those in great need; and those who enjoy acts of violence. These mindsets are important to understand. They are not like the way that most … [Read more…]