A blog focusing on "warriorship" as it applies to martial arts and law enforcement.
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tactical preschool 62 (video reference library)
Published on 2012-02-11 17:06:15
A YouTube member named “SwatMARKS” has put together a nice animated reference library for many of the room entry techniques I have mentioned here.
of the office that appertaineth to a knight
Published on 2012-02-06 19:22:13
Office of a knight is the end and the beginning wherefore began the order of chivalry. Then if a knight use not his office, he is contrary to his order and to the beginning of chivalry. *** The office of a knight is to maintain and defend the holy catholic faith by which God the [...]
have people ever really changed?
Published on 2012-01-30 18:54:49
The rest now took their seats and kept to their own several places, but Thersites still went on wagging his unbridled tongue—a man of many words, and those unseemly; a monger of sedition, a railer against all who were in authority, who cared not what he said, so that he might set the Achaeans in [...]
reading ancient warrior codes
Published on 2012-01-30 06:00:43
Written by Taira Shigesuke around 1700 AD. The Bushido Shoshinshu was intended to instruct the novice Samurai of the peaceful Edo Era, who had not known the rigors of battle, with the practical philosophies of previous eras. Bushido Shoshinshu is roughly translated as “Bushido for Beginners.” A fellow blogger over at The H Line has a post [...]
is it really so wrong…
Published on 2012-01-23 19:15:23
…for a guy to learn good information and say that the woman giving it is attractive?
specialization is for insects
Published on 2012-01-20 13:12:50
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook [...]
there’s no peeing in the war room
Published on 2012-01-18 18:11:08
I would think that you would probably have to be living in a cave somewhere in Afghanistan to not have heard about, or seen the video of, a group of Marines urinating on some Taliban corpses. Personally, I’m a tad ambivalent about the whole thing. Definition of AMBIVALENCE 1: simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and [...]
warriordom
Published on 2012-01-12 18:05:17
Rory Miller put up the following post on his blog a few years ago: http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2009/04/warriordom.html A warrior is someone who makes war for a living. Period. It’s not some autonomous, independent, noble killing machine, some reborn knight or paragon. It is someone who is paid money to make big problems go away, often in a [...]
how much is good enough?
Published on 2012-01-04 18:48:24
In light of my recent post “what exactly do you think you are doing”, I thought that moving up this post from last year would add yet another professionals opinion on the issue of training priorities. Former SEAL and “Tactical Impact” star Kyle Defoor has a blog going. Go check it out. I especially like [...]
what exactly do you think you are doing?
Published on 2012-01-02 13:31:40
Image via Wikipedia A theme that keeps popping up in discussion with my like minded friends revolves around the issue of firearms training and it’s sometimes over-emphasized place in (some) peoples lives. While “overtraining” in weapon skills is obviously NOT a problem in comparison to all of the people who are undertrained, and constant practice [...]