Chiron

David Silver at YMAA just sent the preview DVD of the Jointlocks video.  Damn.  I think we knocked it out of the park. Don't want to g...

Malc asked about first steps in acquiring the skills to be independent.  First steps, always, are to make a list of what those skills are.  ...

A friend, the brilliant, funny, Wendy Wagner, recently wrote a post on growing up poor: The Fingerprints of Poverty I want to riff o...

It's in your nature to fight.  It is in your nature to be strong.  It is in your nature not to be a victim. We are the products of 4 bi...

What you see controls how you think.  And how you think controls what you can see. Lots of people are shopping for the holidays right now an...

Years ago, I was a regular on the Budoseek BBS .  Good people, good knowledge, but when I was in Iraq I found I didn't have time for on-...

While I was distracted from the blog, I wasn't idle.  It might be a good time to post some links.  Interviews and the like. http://exi...

Verner wrote: Sometimes I wonder, why do we bother with martial arts anyway? For sport and fun, OK, but for combat? Why would you want to l...

This may be the longest stretch of not writing on the blog since it started.  Mea culpa. That doesn't mean I haven't been writing....

I want to run with Pax's comment from the last post: " From my place at the front of the room I have complete responsibility to sp...

Teaching. It is not the student's responsibility to understand you.  It is your responsibility to make yourself understood. It is rare...

How you tell a thing is at least as important as what you tell. http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2011/06/tried-by-twelve.html  Pref...

How you tell a thing is at least as important as what you tell.  You can be  100% right, and tell the story in such a way that it alienates ...

Not sure where I'm going with this.  Bear with me. You can look at almost any human interaction as one of these three things.  From co...

There are three natural strategies for dealing with predators: Hide, run and fight. There are two more for dealing with your own species: P...

Life has changed.  The first year I kept this blog, my definition of a good day was different.   Here's one example. Today was a good ...

This is aimed mostly at professionals. There are three general kinds of people that will require force.  The three types don't fight fo...

Two big training weekends and I want to debrief them.  Not specifics, but some generalities.  Important things. I sometimes say that a per...

This has been a long eleven days. Roughly eight hours a day of training preceded by an hour or two of prep and finished with four or more ho...