List of posts

  • The blind advantage

    Force and speed are visibly important in a fight and in life. You cannot move without force and you cannot reach anywhere without speed. We tend to place our senses in a supporting role when we hone ourselves yet our senses and how our mind integrates the input makes all the difference. Here are four…

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  • 4 ways to become less of a target

    There are many misconceptions on avoiding attacks and most of them are ego based or are made only to justify a training regime. The most dangerous animal in the jungle is not the tiger, it is the poisonous beetle you step on without knowing you have taken your last step. Here are ways to avoid…

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  • Loaded carries

    Loaded carries

    Violence films well so it is highly depicted in art and news. Injuries not so much. One important way to avoid injuries is to perform loaded carries in various ways in order to build our awareness to movement under load from different places and heights and also to strengthen our connective tissue and movement patterns…

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  • Making each movement count

    The use of repetition to hone the human spirit is well known. Samurai hone their swords blade and hone their spirit and movement in countless repetitions aiming that each one is a slight improvement over the ones taken before.There is no need to be a samurai or a soldier or someone with a title to…

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  • Chain flow

    Chain flow

    The chain is one of the most honest tools you can utilize to build good movement and thought. Movement – the chain will let you know if you are tense or jumpy with sharp report, it will raise it’s voice when you don’t pay attention and will give you honest feedback on excessive movement. Thought…

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  • Working through stressful situations

    Many area of the world are now war zones to some degree. It is important to maintain routines and keep ourselves healthy and happy as much as possible despite the strain on our capacities. Here are a few ways to maintain and build throughout the storm:

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  • LAC MINUS

    LAC MINUS

    For those who are reading, LAC MINUS means suck less in Latin. The goal of any big organization and especially the armed forces is to have all the small parts including the people operate at a high efficiency while giving them the least amount of freedom and care possible. If you disagree, you may not…

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  • The Eiffel tower protocol

    There are times where the plan emerges from the outcome. Several years ago, I was planning to visit Paris and to climb up the Eiffel tower was one of my goals. A simple calculations showed that there is the equivalent of 31 floors to climb in one breath so I devised a plan to get…

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  • Deeper strikes in ten minutes

    It is simple but not altogether easy. Place yourself on your fists and toes with your body and head in one straight line. Breathe sixty breaths while maintaining this position with the least amount of tension in the body and then sit on your shins for ten breaths as you let your arms swing from…

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  • Sword in tight places

    We begin with gross motor skills or their equivalent in most learning paths. We must hone these until they can be forgotten and replaced with our own movements. This does not take away from the basics, the opposite is true. By learning to relent we learn to govern and by practicing the basics we learn…

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