Chiron

A few years ago, friends of family or family of friends (names, locations etc. withheld) attempted to recruit me for their survivalist cell....

It seems that sometimes when much is going on, there is less time to write about it. As far as the need to write, to get stuff out of my sy...

Forty minutes into the first shift on line and I'm putting cuffs on a big guy. By the end of the day: fights averted, mental health iss...

A really pressing need to get away, be alone, let some of the dreck and contradiction and just slime of living in society seep away. So no ...

It's about time for a short series on the things that people just don't get when they are talking, thinking, training or analyzing a...

  Probably in the last ten years I've had the opportunity to be at the center of three things that have been done extraordinarily well. ...

As part of a project I am trying to put together a manual for agency instructors on this new way of teaching.  Most of it draws from a previ...

Sometimes it's not what you think it is. You spend years training, researching, planning, visualizing and then sometimes the rubber hits...

There was a short space years ago, assigned to a relatively small unit of about ten officers and only me and my friend were not going throu...

One of the things that is far more rare (and thus precious) than it should be is the ability to get to the edge of what you know and stop th...

Dave Chesser at  http://formosaneijia.com  shared an experience that's worth looking at.  Not for what happened, there are too few detai...

Teaching private students is fun and easy.  Provided they have good safety basics (they know how to take a fall and they don't panic at ...

The snow falls in fat flakes outside, pushed into flurries like ghosts by a fitful east wind.  It looks like it will stick this morning, bla...

When Wally Jay originally designed Small Circle Jujitsu he didn't see it as a system by itself but as something you could add to any sys...

My captain used to say, "For most people, carrying a gun is like a fifteen year old with a condom in his pocket.  He's not going to...

Teaching cops is different than teaching civilians.  One of the big differences is that in a regular martial arts class, your students want ...

Been asked to put together a few class for a writer's conference coming up in two months. Planning the classes has been fun- working wi...

Tired and busy. I'll be teaching six classes in the next two weeks from a custom lesson plan just for these guys. Have spent the last ...

We all do it. We have spent our entire lives creating a detailed mythic story of who we are. Nothing in this story is by chance. We never...

George Ledyard is an aikido instructor in the Seattle area. I haven't met him, but he wrote something once that really resonated, somet...