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There are a lot of things that you can do on purpose to good effective that are disastrous if done accidentally. It's that mindfulness thing. Almost any rule (whether a law or common sense) can be broken advantageously. Most of the time, breaking rules have negative effects. Often for others, but for us as well.
Self-defense, for example, is an affirmative defense: "Yes, your honor, I committed an act that satisfies all of the elements of the crime (assault, aggravated assault...

Met some extraordinary people over the weekend and had a great training idea.The people:Tim, one of the most talented man at playing a bad guy safely ever. Very skilled at the FAST armored suit defense stuff, scenario design, debriefing, all that jazz.Terry, relatively small, but for quite a while the highest paid bouncer in a hot region, and well paid for a damn good reason.Clint, who has walked on the dark side pretty thoroughly. He prefers vampires to his acquaintances. His...

A good day. I'm sweaty and filthy and sitting in a coffee shop south of Denver. Skipping out on a class I would love to see, but I don't have the equipment and I suck at spectating. Lesser temptation just to type.
One of the things about being well-trained in a good system and then filtering it through experience so it is tight and (possibly more important) I trust completely what my body will do is that I can't really learn a new good system and even have trouble with good drills.
I can...

Anecdotes are not evidence. I know this and yet...
Everyone who deals with certain extremes, every last person I know, has experienced things that don't make sense. People responding to a kill decision, before you have acted, as if they were stunned. Moving faster than it is possible for a human to move. Seeing bullets in the air. Feeling someone decide to take you.
We don't talk about them. Because we can't explain them. Maybe because we are afraid that no one else has ever experienced s...

There are differences in people and there are differences in problems.
Violence, for most people, it is a vague possibility. Easy to fantasize about, hard to imagine in any realistic detail. For a few it is a professional consideration. For some, it is an element of life, constantly possible.
Those types of responses may be universal. Maybe. Name a problem... say... a Russian invasion (since I seem to be in a 70's/80's mood). Especially after Red Dawn came out, there were a lot of people ...

What would you be willing to do if you were afraid your children would starve?
I've been playing with ways to explain mindsets, trying to find the doorways.
"We're a different breed," RC said. What does that mean? I see it, the functionality in certain times of stress and the way that that has changed our perspective on almost everything else. We are what we are, and we recognize each other. We also recognize those who don't comprehend this world we have lived in. Not only don't grasp it, ...

The One-Step is the primary drill in most of my training. there are more, of course, and like any drills it has its flaws. No one goes to the hospital, so something about it is not right.
A few posts back, things are getting a little heated up. That's fine. everyone is making points and I'm learning a lot. But the one step is coming into it and the two people are talking past each other and that is largely my fault.
Jonas has been exposed to the drill several times where we've talked...

in some places, I swear, having a triple-digit IQ qualifies as a super power...which got me thinking. About this list:
REAL SUPERPOWERS YOU CAN HAVE TODAY(send no money now, 90 day free trial on all super powers! Change your life at no risk to you!)Paying Attention to What You are Doing: this power makes you a force to be reckoned with, a model of efficiency. Something, especially on the highways and byway of our world, unique and effective.Finishing the Hard Stuff First: Normal humans...

I'm fond of saying, "If I teach this right, you won't learn anything new."  Part of empowering students is to help them realize how much they already know.  Physically, combat is observation and motion, things that everyone has been doing from the cradle.  Most of the mental/spiritual/emotional aspects are just as natural... what blocks them is our training and conditioning.  In that sense, training is not teaching you how to be an animal so much as helping you forget to be a human.  Unlearni...

In the last re-writes now, working far more closely with the editor than last time. I'm at that stage where I hate every word in the book. None of it makes sense, everything is juvenile, each comma is like fingernails on a chalkboard...
But it is done, for now. Until the indexing. But David, the publisher, wants to do that as a team effort after the galleys come out. Reprieve.
My choices of title, which included a big, red 7 dripping blood on the front cover or "The Book of Seven Rings...