Category: Random Thoughts
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My first time on the mat was something rather memorable. I was in kindergarten. Clad in blue jeans and a t-shirt my parent brought me to my first PAL wrestling training. My memory of it has grown fuzzy over the last 38 or so years but I do remember the Coach and or assistant running…
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I went in to 2024 expecting it to be a challenge both personally and professionally having come off of a breakdown in September of 2023. To say that I underestimated the potential hiccups is a massive understatement. I got the ever-loving shit kicked out of me physically, mentally, and emotionally. I am not going to…
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Blame Bryan Cannata. I stole the term from him. I was a part of an American Bowie Knife study group he had assembled of some of some pretty good stabby guys. At one point during a session we were addressing using the Bowie knife in a reverse grip (tip up/edge in) and he referred to…
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Cold Steel, Arwrology, and All-In Fighting were the first World War 2 era hand-to-hand combat manuals I purchased. Of course they were purchased from the once mighty Paladin Press. They were purchased on little than a whim as I was looking for something “new”. I had run martial arts gamut essentially up until that point…
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– Before I start I want to make it absolutely clear, nothing stated within this article is directed towards my immediate FOC. If you have to question as to whether you are in my FOC chances are, you are not. No harm in asking I suppose. – On one side, you have family units set…
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A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to spend some time with a strong-arm robber hereby, known as SAR , and a crack dealer hereby known as CD. As usual, in these types of situations, the topic of violence came up, and you would have thought that these two were about to give their…
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Post Avenue Park, early 1990’s… Summer… You stand there straddling the bike you built from parts salvaged from stolen Mongoose’s and Dyno’s that had been dumped around the neighborhood. The park is full as usual, the basketball courts all brimming with tension. Violence is not uncommon. The young cats brawled with reckless abandon. Random haymakers…
Hooks, Jabs, and Sarcastic Stabs 