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Category: Mark Hatmaker

Open Quarters VS Closed Quarters

Open Quarters VS Closed Quarters

A Nautical Perspective Today, a wee bit of history from the days of Fighting Sail and then we wade into how we might learn a thing or two from these 18th & 19th century sailors. Picture, if you will, a wooden sea vessel. Make it a swift sailing sloop or a heavily armed man-of-war or Read More

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Mark Hatmaker: Arsenal Tunnel Vision & Building Redundancies

Mark Hatmaker: Arsenal Tunnel Vision & Building Redundancies

Before we get into the meat of today’s martial thought exercise let’s take a few inventories. In the first inventory I want you to list a minimum of one dozen Designated Weapons, that is devices, gadgets, gear that is acquired, packed, and utilized primarily for self-protection. Read More

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Walk Like A Warrior Part 2: By Mark Hatmaker

Walk Like A Warrior Part 2: By Mark Hatmaker

Hey crew, As an addendum to the recent “Walk Like a Warrior” post, here are a few excerpts from an 1884 anthropological study by a man who spent 4 years among the Kanyuksa Istitcati (Seminole to most, but to them at the time the word was a term of contempt.) Read More

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Walk Like A Warrior

Walk Like A Warrior

What Do I Mean? In reading contemporary historical accounts written by soldiers (cavalry and dragoon), settlers, scouts, pioneers, and other citizens of the American frontier in the 1680s-1880s, I find mention that Native Americans (“Indians” or “Savages” in the accounts) did not walk like “white men.” Their gait, stride, and foot placement is often described Read More

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You’ll Never Be Ready

You’ll Never Be Ready

I’ve got some bad news for us–we’ll never be ready. The predators of the world always have the upper-hand. They get to choose the when, the where, the how, the why, they get to choose everything. None of the victims we read of in the wake of violent attack woke up the morning of their Read More

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