Great post Kit. It's time for me to catch up on reading your blog.
Young people reading this: whether you are interested in policing, "modern combatives" or old school combatives, I strongly...
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Great post Kit. It's time for me to catch up on reading your blog.
Young people reading this: whether you are interested in policing, "modern combatives" or old school combatives, I strongly...
What we used to call "a man of character."
Funny, I haven't posted for ages either, and I also had password trouble. I was popping by every now and then and not seeing much that drew my interest but seeing how Kit has re-upped I figured I...
Speculating about usage as a tourniquet : I imagine that it would be more effective if the sageo was wrapped around the limb as many times as possible? Otherwise I suppose an extremely narrow...
Kit,
Thanks, I hadn't known about those.
Haven't been able to log in to e-budo from my computer but as it turns out it still works on my old laptop. Glad to see that you are posting.
Chris,
I got the same message and reported it to the mods.
Al
Hyakutake-san,
Are you still living in the Phillipines? Rurally?
Regards,
Al
https://marcuswynne.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/guest-post-random-thoughts-on-counter-ambush-for-police/
Quite an interesting read. The bit about how US SWAT focuses on containing threat while SA...
Kata, I like it. Incidentally, in the interview I heard, Thompson also mentions the structure in terms of kata although he did not emphasize the flexibility and fluidity aspects as you do. It came...
I am very happy with my classic Seiko Sk007 that I acquired about 2 years ago. About the most economical of the Seiko dive watches AFAIK and with Vietnam-era styling. Simple.
Well that partly answers the question I had about Kit's opinion of Verbal Judo. I just listened to a recording of a talk with the author, Thompson, and it seemed to me that it could offer some...
Well this is some good news to wake up to. Looking forward to digging right in. I really got a lot out of your previous writings.
I am out of the loop so the information about the Gyofukan is news to me. Tony is an outstanding teacher, and an awesome guy.
Hi Sam,
I am left-handed and had to learn to do everything right-handed. The only time I ever saw this done differently was with a very senior practitioner of Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu in Japan who...
Gracie Breakdown just released a video on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlpX1DwEB1k
They don't make any suggestions for how things could have been handled differently so as far as an...
Hi Ed. I have a couple of questions for you.
1) Do you think the tactical decisions you made in your real life encounters where good ones, or could have been better, or were inappropriate?
2) As...
Agreed, absolutely. OTOH I feel like the tone of discussion could be different in this venue so I thought I'd run it by the board. Unfortunately there seems to be very limited participation here...
Amongst people that I respect there seems to be two contrasting camps amongst practitioners of real world defensive tactics:
Camp 1) practice your wrestling/boxing/jits/shooting and occasionally...
Kit,
Thanks for putting detail (and time!) into your analysis. Good stuff.
Do you find that many patrol officers wear knee protection? Or is that pretty much only a SWAT thing?
Another...
Search goes bad. Officer ends up on ground with subject with officer maintaining a mount position. Manages to deploy taser. Loses half the items on his belt in the process.
...
Certainly not enough control to prevent him from drawing and firing.
A positive take away: those officers both kept fighting after being shot/shot at and at no point gave up the fight (once they...
I do not know the context of what initiated the encounter.
As for what is on the footage, the Sergeant seems to be conducting himself with a good deal of consideration for the subject and...
An increasing number of shooters bring a tourniquet, combat gauze, etc. to the range when they practice. It seems like one ought to consider doing the same for home practice of iaido or kenjutsu or...
Todd,
I have looked at it twice and I do not see how the linked article provides the alternative, and I also do not see how it even addresses Kit's question about "What should officers do when an...
And it seems that, as with the discussion on cynicism, it comes down to individual officers pursuing these attributes on their own and with whomever else shows up to do the work. Once-in-awhile...