Indigenous Ability

  Crew, we all know the clinch game is a huge part of both the sport and the down & dirty side of vicious rough ‘n’ tumble. We wanna make this game as wise and wicked as we can while not working against ourselves. The following “spear” or palm-turnover is just one of many tiny tweaks we can make towards the wise and wicked ways of old. Below you’ll find the complete syllabus where this material came from. ESP RAW 221 The Black Box Project 8: Street-Dentistry “Hair-Triggers”/Clinch Hellaciousness/Facelock 101/Frontier Trade-Knife Spheres of Attack & A Two-Fold Numbering System Mark Hatmaker www.extremeselfprotection.com The Street Dentistry Parlor Hair Triggers Versus Body-Shots: The Flanks ·         Triggers: The Modern Definition. ·         Hair-Triggers AKA Loaded Triggers: The Street-Dentist Definition ·         Flank Blocks, Fore & Aft ·    ...

  Two Question Pop Quiz Question #1 : When are you most likely to sustain a use or training injury? “ Duh, Mark, whenever I put the body under repeated or unusual stress that results in said injury.” Question #2 : Preferred trained responses are more likely to emerge after long inculcation—True or False? “ Um, true. Mark, these are too easy, you got anything better to offer than this?” Maybe. Indulge me for a few more paragraphs. So, trained patterns, be they patterns of movement, patterns of behavior, or even cognitive grooves are more likely to emerge than non-trained patterns. In essence, what we do more of is likely the best predictor for future manifestation. If we have never bothered to break an egg, we will be most unlikely to suddenly manifest deft single-handed egg-breaking into a wisely warmed omelet skillet with finesse. What we do not exercise/practice does not appear spontaneously . If we regularly practice annoyance at trivialities in the mundane...

  The Wisdom of the Stoics, Plains Warriors, and experienced Frontiersmen all agree on many points. Let us look at one facet of agreement and perhaps learn a little bit [or a lot] from the Cheyenne Warrior, Little Wolf. ·         Little Wolf had long experience in battle both with other tribes [notably the Sioux] and many engagements with the “ Vehoe ” [“spiders” aka “White Folk.”] ·         Little Wolf, although a warrior, was noted for his equanimity, his compassion, or best expressed as his keen-eyed perspective. That is, he only responded to that which required a response, and in that response, sought the appropriate measure. ·         Charles “Ohiyesa” Eastman, the noted mixed-blood Lakota physician knew Little Wolf in his later years and offered that it was Little Wolf’s compassionate nature that made him such an effective war chief. ·     ...

  July of 2017 Puebla, Mexico Athletes from around the world have gathered for the Ultra Trail Cerro Rojo, a 31-mile ultra-running competition. In the women’s division there is a 22-year-old from Chihuahua named Maria Lorena Ramirez. She is of the Tarahumara tribe. [More on that in a minute.] Lorena won the women’s division. Why is this of note to readers of a blog titled “Indigenous Ability?” First, a few more details. ·         Lorena was a 22-year-old goatherd with no special running training at the time of her victory. ·         She arrived wearing sandals and skirt. ·         Race organizer, Orlando Jiménez remarked, “ She carried no special accessories. She didn’t bring any gel, or energy sweets, walking stick, glasses, or those very expensive running shoes that everyone wears to run in the mountains.” Readers of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run wil...

  [Some kind folk have mentioned how much they dig this bit of bloviating and aim to apply it—Thank you and good on them for that! I’ve tightened the wheels a bit and tacked on a new tail at the end from Arthur Chapman that seems apt and holds with the Warrior-Poet Spirit we’ve been discussing] Circa, 1830s-1880s, if a friendly [or merely polite sort] asked one “ How’re doin’?” You might hear from gregarious hombres, “ Well, I’m livin’ in the shade of the wagon.” To declare that one is “livin’ in the shade of the wagon” is to say, “ Life is all right by me, no matter which way she bucks.” If we pull this gregarious little phrase apart and have a look at the context it reveals more than a quaint colloquialism. Crossing “The Great American Desert ” [The Great Plains] and actual deserts was no easy feat. The Oregon Trail, the Bozeman, the Santé Fe, the Applegate, the Gila, the Upper and Lower Roads of Texas, and all the other lesser known routes for the adventurous, determ...