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Category: Mark Hatmaker

Wear Them Down: Corbett’s Jab

Wear Them Down: Corbett’s Jab

A New Era James “Gentleman Jim” Corbett is regularly acknowledged as the dividing line separating the brawler/slugger era of boxing to the gloved “scientific” era. Corbett himself would tout the “scientific” method of fighting, which meant more fluidity and the addition of finesse punches to the usual power arsenal. Hear Corbett himself on the differences: Read More

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Total Observational Prowess

Total Observational Prowess

More Than Meets The Eye Situational awareness is a much-touted attribute of the truly ready and the ready wannabes of the world. Observational prowess is a much coveted and complex skill set possessed by the best indigenous trackers, seaman, scouts, and explorers. But if we are honest with ourselves, what we often call “awareness” in Read More

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Aquatic Combat Tactics: Evasion

Aquatic Combat Tactics: Evasion

Become An Aquatic Warrior Let’s take the concept of “Running the Gauntlet” as covered previously and apply it to aquatic environments. Any serious reading of the historical record (ancient or modern) will leave one hard-pressed to find examples of warrior cultures ignoring the ability of their warriors to maneuver in the water. Read More

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A Stance Is NOT Just A Pose

A Stance Is NOT Just A Pose

What is GAP? Any discussion about stance worth its salt has to use Good Athletic Position (or GAP) as the default starting point. For the uninitiated, GAP is the fundamentally good mechanical position that the body assumes when it is expected to perform optimally across a variety of stressors. These stressors can be a sudden Read More

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The Boilermaker Exhibition

The Boilermaker Exhibition

Lest We Forget… Mixed martial arts, mixed matches, and combination fights are not a new development. Even when following Greek pancratium and its long lineage through the fearsome hybridization melting pot of American Frontier rough & tumble, fights that were more than mere boxing—more than mere grappling—have been of great interest. Read More

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Viking Combat by Mark Hatmaker

Viking Combat by Mark Hatmaker

Overview For today’s historical-combat exercise, we are going to follow a weave of martial endeavors that begins with the American Frontier’s rough & tumble strategy of “Attacking the Buckler” and goes back to Viking archeology. From there we’ll move on to a “chicken or the egg” style debate about whether or not a French martial Read More

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