Chiron

Just finished the second day of a three-day course for the training unit of a European city. After dinner, over coffee, the boss asked me, ...

Normally, my default is to simplify. To cut stuff out. By definition, efficiency means less wasted motion. The best athlete in any field mov...

Generally, martial arts are taught very poorly. For the so-called "traditional" Japanese and Okinawan arts, they way they are taug...

Minnesota was a big experience with a lot of learning. I'll debrief it when the lessons have had some time to settle. In the meantime,...

The writing project for the end of the year will begin in November. It won't be a novel, but I'll do it as part of the NaNoWriMo cha...

I have lesson plans. I have lesson plans coming out of my ears. I've written lesson plans for SAR, the Sheriff's Office, the Natio...

Enjoying Germany. Great people and food (had the Deutsch version of haggis last night, very good). Jet lag normally doesn't bother me bu...

Just finished reading a book, purporting to be about science, where the author was ridiculously ignorant about what science even means. Mayb...

VV, get it? Fifth post in a row starting with V? This will actually be the fourth post talking about validation. First, read this article an...

There will be one more post on validation but it's going to take a little research and composition. And it's political. So a short b...

Since I seem to have a theme going... Long good talk with Erik Kondo last week about improving navigation on CRGI and many other things....

You can't be sure. There is no such thing as a "survival level of proficiency." The world has a 100% death rate and no matter ...

Trying to answer an e-mail and it needs a little thinking out loud. It wasn't a big thing, there was a single sentence about validity, ...

Sonny Umpad taught that first you must learn to read your opponent. But then you must learn to write him. Make him do and be what you need ...

Just trying to clear up some language here. There are three very different things that tend to get called scenario training. Maybe more, b...

"The thing that strikes me in this whole class is that you think about time very differently than anyone I've ever known."--- ...

Except for the upcoming seminar in Seattle , and maybe a little brawling with friends, I have the rest of the month free. Which is good, bec...

Planning the section on defense for "InFighting." And there's a snag. Not a big one, probably easily solved, but it is part of...

I have a love-hate relationship with teaching. I love teaching, or I'd make my living another way. Watching people grow stronger is one ...

Two people can have entirely different reactions to the same event. What can be crippling psychological damage to one is a challenge or an i...