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STRONG SIDE BACK 2

I owe the allocentric framing entirely to Mark Hatmaker. In his most recent post (The Orthodox Fighting Stance, part 2), he introduced the neurological language that gives shape to a phenomenon fighters adopt reflexively; the preference for placing the dominant side to the rear when the stakes rise. Hatmaker wrote that this posture “turns offContinue reading “STRONG SIDE BACK 2”

PROGRESSIVE ATTACKS – SINAWALI

This covid-constrained summer of 2020, Master Keating published Comtech Developmental Training, Vol. 1, Sinawali which is an explication of the solo drills that cultivate development, the “IBB Progression.” There are eight drill patterns best learned by using double sticks: BBB III BBI IBB BII IIB BIB IBI (I)nward and (B)ackhand strikes Each pattern is aContinue reading “PROGRESSIVE ATTACKS – SINAWALI”

TOMAHAWK

James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales (1823-1841) is a five-part series comprised of The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Praire. (Mark Twain has a nicely acerbic essay on Cooper’s literary offenses.) In the Last of the Mohicans (1992) movie, Col. Munro’s younger daughter Alice, grows weary on the escortedContinue reading “TOMAHAWK”