Chiron

Snowed in a lot over the winter so getting some good reading in. For the classics, just finished Seneca's "On the Brevity of Life....

Got to watch an interesting specimen. In retrospect, I’ve seen them before, quite a lot actually. But this one was blatant enough to draw a...

I recently read Junger's book, "Tribe." It hit a lot of my buttons-- not well thought out or researched, explanations just as...

Finished a new book about a month ago, "Processing Under Pressure" by Matthew J. Sharps (link at the bottom). It had been sitting ...

Anna blogs over at God's Bastard . And we have some good conversations. There's a whole side to self-defense that doesn't lend i...

Hopefully, this will be the last of the introspection posts for a while. But I committed to writing close to the bone: Another reason the n...

A while ago I got drafted to teach a weapons defense workshop. It's not something I teach often. I've written about the format here ...

I think the last stretch has been the longest time without a post since the blog started. There are nonexistent, rational and irrational rea...

There's something I've written about, thresholds, and it's not quite right. Experience with violence rewires you. The person who...

There are things about fighting that are very difficult to learn without fighting. There are things about an assault that are difficult, may...

Working on a model. A lot of things have puzzled me for the last several years, especially things that look, to me, like people fighting aga...

There's a lot happening in the world right now. More than you know, but probably less than you fear. Take a breath. Tension, fear and an...

IDC is Instructor Development Course. It's not a standard "Master Instructor" or "Train-the-Trainer" course in that ...

Just finished teaching an Instructor Development Course with Garry Smith of the Academy of Self-Defence in Sheffield . Not planning on debr...

Had to put on the suit this morning. Last night, decided to check in on FaceBook and just happened to see an update on a memorial page and...

One of the things I missed from being raised in ranch country was the work. No running water, we (I) packed it from the creek in five-gallon...

Neil hit a critical point: " There are so many cognitive biases that I'm pretty convinced humans almost never act based on reason....

Walking out some internal stuff. Friend Steve Barnes put something up on FB: " I f your philosophy of life, politics, or humanity depe...

Going to try to capture the thought I woke up with this morning. It was about sacrifice throws, sutemi waza , and how many principles they i...

The bad guys have one or several preferred victim types. They go to the places where their types congregate. They choose the best prey from ...