Chiron

We all have biases and assumptions as instructors. So does your instructor. We can't help it. We see the world a certain way and cert...

At some point some of you have met someone who was fast and looked slow. Someone who always seemed to be at the right place, at the right t...

Mentioned early, but it deserves some more talk. I don't mean conditioning in the fitness sense. I mean it in the Behaviorist Psycholog...

There are three ways to look at fighting (millions, of course, but three in this set) that are different, and those differences drive almost...

Was asked last night about techniques for gun disarms. Not my thing. I've trained them extensively, have a few I trust, but I've n...

This came up at a class last night and it keeps coming up. Last night was a homogenous group, almost everyone instructor level in the same s...

For what it's worth, I have been doing a lot of writing. Just not here. So this will be a catch up: cool stuff, whining, bitching and...

Sampling error is a big problem whenever you try to figure out what is going on. You surround yourself with people and, at some point, you...

Something that has been bugging me for some years and may have cracked it. You can train not to telegraph, in fact that is critical if you w...

Four major writing projects I want to finish this month. The hardest is Tim Bown's manuscript. It's frustrating, and sometimes I fe...

Anon1 and Josh both wrote some comments on Peace and Rehabilitation that deserve more space than the comments section. Josh wrote: " Do...

It was always abstract. From almost the first moment we met, in a dingy basement apartment off-campus, discussing the probable nutrient val...

In a couple of weeks I'll be doing a lot of panels for a local writer's conference. The usual stuff-- violence and bad guys. But t...

I'm working on the manual for talking down EDPs (Emotionally Disturbed Persons) and I pretty much have to do a section on what to do whe...

I've been here for two days and I still haven't seen any of. It's easy to joke with K: "Been to some of the coolest cities...

I expect this post will come off as esoteric and unfocused and confused-- but that's okay. I'm looking for answers to messy situati...

Since you asked... Read this first, if you haven't already. It's the basics of how I teach power generation. The drop-step falls ...

This is a preview/think-out-loud for the print edition of " Drills " that should be out in 2012. The publisher wants added materi...

Just got back from the Secret Giant Violence-Prone Play Group. Very cool. First, the concept behind the VPPG: KJ and I started ours a year ...

Used to be, back in the day, (imagine a reedy, old-man voice) we sometimes had to go in on combative inmates without weapons or armor. For ...