Home. It’s Elysium Fields or Nothing at All
“Home where my thought’s escaping, Home where my music’s playing, Home where my love lies waiting…” Paul Simon Paul Simon sang about it in his 1966 hit song Homeward Bound.…
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Lessons to survive the Apocalypse; Don’t be a retard
Post apocalyptic survival movies are usually pretty interesting to watch. And there’s something in them we can all relate to. We wonder how we’d fare if we were in the…
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Combatives Instructor on Police reform: “Bad Cops are NOT the problem.”
Bad training creates bad tactics and is the cause of most of the national backlashes. The good news is we can fix that. Backlash: The United States of America is…
The Price for Awareness
The ancient Greek philosophers argued among themselves over the idea of nature versus nurture. Meaning, are we born with a clean slate and what happens to us changes us in…
Tacticool: Don’t Let Your Desire For Awesome Outweigh Your Skill
Are you letting your desire for awesome outweigh your skill? In case you haven’t figured it out yet, we have a tendency around here to kinda not hold back. Such…
Why we are Killing Ourselves
Veteran suicide, 22 a day, PTSD, etc., aside from being blanket terms thrown out to cover anyone with a hint of struggle after their enlistment, these words don’t truly tell…
Loss
This subject has entire books written on it, but given some recent events I feel compelled to add my own thoughts to the already extensive work written on loss. Loss…
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Violence of Mind, Newest “Must Read” for the Self-Defense Practitioner
There are a several seminal or “Must Read” books in the self-defense industry. De Becker’s “The Gift of Fear”, Samenow’s “Inside the Criminal Mind” and Grossman’s more recently controversial “On…
The Truth About Motivation (Part 2)
In part one of this article series I addressed what I would consider to be the dark, cold, hard truth about bout motivation. The fact that you just have to…
Where are we?
“Hello, my name is Joe Friday, and I’m a cop.” That’s how it starts, right? The movie line… It might as well start this way here. For one, I can’t…