Chiron

Move less. If I had one piece of advice for the physical aspects of self-defense, it would be two words.  Move less. Fighting is like mar...

This is that question Tiffany asked yesterday: So... today in class we were having a discussion on bullying. Having been bullied as a child...

A friend asked a question on FaceBook today that I can't answer on FB.  Can't answer it there because the answer isn't simple, a...

Trying to brainstorm something for mixed environment (urban/rural, hot/cold, etc.) survival every day carry.  I like working from basic prin...

My favorite used book store is Robert's in Lincoln City , Oregon.  Whenever we make a trip to the coast we make a point to stop by.  I...

The Conflict Communications Manual is out to the first readers.  Waiting on their feedback, and then the usual boring stuff and the book wil...

Lots of comments on the last post and some of them require more thoughtful answers than I can do in a short space. Preamble, though:  ther...

The list won't be exhaustive, and I wish all of the things on here were simple and had simple solutions.  Most martial arts training isn...

I'm editing on the Conflict Communications manual.  As always, I hate editing.  By the time you get to this stage of editing, you've...

Talking with Wayne A. for the last couple of days... good talks-- he's smart, skilled and comes from a very different background (mart...

I've written a basic intro to risk management before.  You can find it here: http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2008/12/elements-of-ris...

Good playtime with KJ yesterday.  He wanted to work infighting defense against elbows, specifically elbow flurries. Ergo, we both had bloody...

My lovely and talented wife is working on a non-fiction book.  It is about becoming a writer.  Not another how-to book, more like pathnotes....

No experienced instructor is right. No inexperienced instructor can know when they are wrong. As instructors, we are sure about many thin...

I separate knowledge and belief. There are things you don't know. There are things you can't know. There is a vanishingly small ...

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 m...

I didn't get cut Thursday.  I've known for a couple of weeks now, since just before I left for Germany. The original injury was in...

For my thousand and first (1001) post, I'm going off tangent.  Religion and politics. Had an epiphany.   Want to share...