Chiron

I think it was Machiavelli in his Art of War  that said "The greatest reward for a fighting man is simply to trust him." That reso...

You are amazing. When I die, these are the things that I will have wished I said and possibly the things you would have wished to have hear...

Sometimes you get a request that is just flabbergasting. If that's a word. "We want an unarmed defensive tactics system for our of...

This is a message to someone special. Might be you, might not. It's all good. Remember watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer  all tho...

Coffee, really. Last weekend taught a full two-day seminar dissecting principles and application at Randy King's KPC Self Defense in E...

I've described boundary setting in both ConCom and Scaling Force , but I was recently informed that I haven't written it down quite...

Sometimes I hate not thinking in words. Usually it's a superpower. But right now I'm struggling to explain something that I see as.....

I've been struggling, for years now, with not being in sworn service. It shows up here on the blog, but it's more evident in the tim...

Anything in the human world is a complex interaction. I have a history, a set of assumptions, a suite of facts and things I want to believe ...

The longest fight I have ever had lasted over an hour. At no time was I in any danger. The thing was, we were dealing with an inmate who w...

Saw an ad offering "No Bulls**t" self defense training. That's laudable. That's the goal. For that matter "No bullshi...

...and me. This will be (probably) the last of the MovNat AARs. Talking about training methodology. I've written about Toby before ....

In combatives, you'll hear people talk about the principles of a system, or principles-based training. That's fine and dandy right u...

Spent the last two days crawling, hanging, jumping, throwing and running. And learning. It was a good time. K says I have a very specific sm...

I use Maslow's pyramid in a lot of my books and classes. Not because it's great science, there are holes in it you can drive a...

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...