Chiron

22 hours ago I got three hours sleep. My fault.  Things broke just right so the only time I could sleep I didn't want to, so I decided t...

I touched on this in the book.  What we are teaching is rarely what we think we are teaching, and that is largely because of our ego. We ass...

This is a skill and a tool, something I really want to teach a class on.  Learned correctly and utilized consistently it can lead to steady ...

A warrior is someone who makes war for a living. Period.  It's not some autonomous, independent, noble killing machine, some reborn knig...

Not writing much. Finally have time to take a breath, actual days off (two of them!!) and need to fulfill some obligations- reading manuscri...

It sucks writing around stuff instead of writing about stuff. Today I earned partial credit for the karma of eight lives.  Nothing spectacul...

Spectacular, on so many levels. A fort made of mud dominates the river.  It was close, teasing close, but I couldn't get to it to explor...

The thing about atavistic power is that it works.  The people who say "violence never solved anything" haven't paid much atten...

The man who runs this facility is a good leader. He might be fairly new to the field and that makes him ripe for rookie mistakes, but he is ...

It is a small place, just big enough to bury a couple of kings, really.  Thirty feet up a cliff there is a hollow, clearly carved, and a sma...

Van Canna is a senior practitioner of Uechi-ryu.  He frequently posts on the Uechi BBS.  He can be obnoxious and rude and send people into ...

Just one example of how life changes training- Concrete.   If footwork is critical to your style (and I have yet to see one where it isn...

"It's not there." I sighed. "Don't use the search function," I said.  For at least the fourth time.  He hit the ...

The thanatos is strong tonight. I may edit this later to put in the links that will help this make sense.  Freud said that there were two co...

Both of these came up while writing the series and I didn't want to break the flow.  A while ago, Johann asked about techniques for brea...

It's all over. The cops have shown up, sirens blaring... or they haven't. The ambulance has rolled away, or it hasn't. Whatever ...

Here it is. The fight. I kind of want to end this post right here. It would be poetic, but incomplete. It's good to read into stuff, to ...

If you get hit by surprise, you are going to freeze. How long you will freeze will depend greatly on your training and who you are, but the ...

If it goes physical, the next three stages apply to what would be called 'the fight'. All three of the next stages are very differen...

Prevention and De-Escalation In most cases there will be some warning before an attack is imminent. I'm not as optimistic as some author...