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The Black Box Project 6 & New Year’s Resolutions for the Stout-Hearted by Mark Hatmaker

 


Bringing the New Year in Old School Style!

Our latest DVD [Black Box 6] has just been released. The video is just a wee-peek at the kindest bit of info included.

Broadly we cover 6 Major Areas of Historical Combat

One-Throwing Hands “Street Dentist” Style

Two-Rough ‘n’ Tumble Clinching

Three-Fat-Out-of-the-Fire Groundwork Combination Fighter Style

Four-Frontier Trade-knife

Five-Mark’s Submission Candy Corner

Six-Old-School Unleaded Conditioning

For a deeper delve into the 6 topics I offer the complete syllabus for Black Box 6 gratis.

[Keep in mind, just because some terminology may match a modern correlate do not assume the details and tactical applications are also equivalent. Au contraire! The Devil is Always in the Details!]

The scholarly may read on…

ESP RAW 219

The Black Box Project 6: Street-Dentistry/Clinch Hellaciousness/The Ground Correlate/Mark’s Candy Corner/Frontier Trade-Knife

Mark Hatmaker

www.extremeselfprotection.com

 

The Street Dentistry Parlor

Knuckle-Busting Versus High Straight-Punching: Jabs & Rear-Straights

·        Standard Catching + Drill

·        “The Roaring 20’s Catch” + Drill

·        The “Whys” of The Roaring 20’s Catch

o   Opens Trigger-Punching Lines

o   Disrupts the “Set” of Punch Two

·        The Street Dentist Catch + A Careful Drill

Versus Hooks

o   Standard Block

o   The Old School “Salute” Block

o   The Street Dentist “Hammer” Triggers

o   Hammer Trigger Recipients

o   “Running the Rails”

o   “The Crossties”

o   “The Roundhouse”

o   The Hammer Trigger as High Jerk Clinch Entry

o   The Hammer Trigger as Low Jerk Clinch Entry to Hand-Off

o   The Hammer Trigger to Twisting Underhook

Upright Scufflin’ Hellaciousness

Making the Single-Underhook Your Partner in Crime

o   The Standard Single-Underhook Clinch aka “The Weak Sister”

o   The Old-School Single-Underhook

o   The Off-Line Sweet Spot

o   Hand Placement

o   Elbow Position

o   Head-Placement #1: Their Head

o   Head-Placement #2: Your Head

o   “The Pinch”

o   “The Bull Drill”

“But, Mark, what about that free hand, can’t he punch me with it?”

o   The Bull Part, Two

o   The Heart-Slap & Slide

o   “The Wrist Garter” [Pay close attention here as this pops up a lot in 2021’s Frontier Trade-Knife Curriculum—See Below.]

o   The Elbow Steal

o   The Easy Drop

Ground Scufflin’ Hellaciousness

Making the Single-Underhook Your Partner in Crime, Part 2

o   Combination Fighters saw no true distinction between the upright and the horizontal.

o   This allows for a far-seeing view of the fight and easier arsenal access as the mind does not compartmentalize.

o   The Bottom Scissors Single-Underhook

o   “Screwing” the Hand In

o   Bucksaw Entry

o   Off-Line & Off-Your-Back

o   “The Wrist Garter”

o   “Elevator” or “Boot”?

o   “The Knee Rides the Bronc”

A Pause for Old School Conditioning

Unleaded Leg Extensions

o   Vital Tools for Scufflers

o   The Single-Leg Push-Away

o   The Single-Leg Pigeon Toe

o   The Corkscrew

Back to Ground Scufflin’ Hellaciousness

o   The Angle of the Easy Sweep

o   Concerted Use: Boot, Knee, Underhook, and Hand

o   The Corkscrew Brings It All Home

o   Elbow Stealing vs. A Dropped Post

Mark’s Snappin’ Submission Candy Corner

o   Riding the 1/4 Position Like an Old School Hoss

o   Seatbelts are for Suckers

o   Pocket Spins Give Gifts

o   Gift #1: The Rip-Out DWL [The Kind Version]

o   The Rip-Out DWL [The No Comebacks Version]

o   The Cup-Grip Bonus

“But, Mark, my gift was stalled by a catch-grip or high-posting hand.”

o   Gift #2: The Sit-Thru Shoulder-Ripper

o   The Kind Version—Just kidding, there is no kind version.

Vicious Weaponry: Frontier Trade-Knife

Get ready to dig deep into this topic for several months, kids.

o   The Four Grips Used in Frontier Trade-Knife

o   The “Hawk”

o   The Spine

o   The Skinner

o   The Digger

o   The Why of Four?

o   Non-Uniformity of Tool

o   Easier Transference of Skill to Improvisation, that is, one of the four will work with most any object you can lay your hands on.

o   A knife ain’t a sword or a stick—lose the idea of any “Angles of Attack” rooted in lengths or ranges not in your hand.

o   Frontier Trade-Knife is more about Spheres of Attack than Angles.

o   The Grip-Drift Drill

ESP RAW 219 can be had this month for $32 (S & H included--Domestic & International) at the end of the month the price goes to $42 Domestic/$52 International. (Of course, it's only $26.50 for the RAW Crew-- Join the Crew and save some moolah! For details on how to do that and never miss a Black Box volume + get some freebies, see here.)

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For those scratching their head over Street Dentistry.

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