A Stance Is NOT Just A Pose

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 vertical jump, a quick explosive lift, preparing to move in either direction laterally, transitioning to back-pedaling, et cetera. The key to GAP is that it is a foundation for variety– a starting point for options if you will. Read More

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How To Avoid A Violent Attack

The Numbers Are Staggering In recent years we have seen a dramatic increase in the crime rate for most cities. I live near Washington DC, and while there has been a drop in many criminal categories, the homicide rate has increased by a whopping 37% so far this year. And although the number of other Read More

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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.

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The Benefits of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Be A Complete Fighter There are many types of martial arts out there and I have studied over 15 of them in my 35+ years of experience in martial arts, even earning black belts in five of them. Currently, I study Krav Maga, an Israeli Martial art taught to the Israeli military; Pekiti Tirsia Kali, Read More

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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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Building a Basic 3 Day Survival Kit by Derek Smith

Are You Prepared? As a counterintelligence agent living and working in Turkey, I would go on 30-day missions where I was operating alone with absolutely no backup. If the shit hit the fan, there was no one for me to call for help. My team was over 100 miles away and would definitely not get Read More

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