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  • A STUDY OF TIMING - header image

    A STUDY OF TIMING

    06/04/2019
    Here is a thug v. thug video. Action begins at about 2:45. It is all about timing and about who has the initiative at the moment. How many times did the initiative change? Watch and comment below …
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    Absorb What is Useful

    03/30/2018
    It has almost become a cliche hasn't it? Bruce Lee's ethos of Jeet Kune Do (that is what Lee called his collective system of fighting). "Absorb What Is Useful". Sadly it has become an excuse for supe…
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    APPLICATIONS OF THE SMALL REVOLVER - PART 1

    06/21/2021
    WHY THE SMALL REVOLVER OVER A SMALL SEMI AUTO? The primary reason is that the small revolver (such as a J-Frame) or small semi auto (such as the Glock 43 or Sig 365) are not first line weapons. They …
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    Be Careful What You Program

    10/16/2018
    Western students are often impatient and excessively skeptical. It is as if everyone since birth has been trying to fool them about something and if they do not get some sort of instant gratificatio…
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    Blind Men, Elephants, and The One-Eyed Man

    11/10/2014
    You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know We have heard that term before, but I want to discuss it a little bit more because recently I have seen the resurgence of stuff that we dealt with many years ago. It…
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    Breathing Control - The Forgotten Fundamental

    01/15/2018
    Continuing with the discussions on marksmanship, an important pair of aspects are the issues of breathing and coordinating it with trigger press. One is strictly skill related, the other is skill and …
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    Brief History Of Close Quarters Combat

    09/23/2014
    I want to give a brief discussion of the history of CQC, or close quarters combat. I am hardly an historian so if I have missed something, please let me know here. The first thing I will say is that y…
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    Check Your Trigger Periodically!

    12/02/2018
     Ever since Glock made its debut into the LE world back in the late 1980s, there has been a quest to "perfect" its trigger. In truth, compared to many of the triggers on police pistols at the tim…
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    Close Range Combat - The Reality Of Today

    09/18/2014
    I wrote some time ago that people do not fight the same today. I recall my youth, and my quest for martial excellence. There was no internet, no Youtube, and the few sources of information were on the…
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    Concealment - Unseen in the Best Places - Part 1

    08/25/2014
    This is the first in a series of articles discussing how to carry a weapon without detection, as well as how to detect others that may be carrying weapons. I have been carrying concealed firearms all …