Indigenous Ability

The video link at the end of this post will take you to a short demonstration we posted of an Old School Test that uses one [that’s right, one] position to test for… ·         Posterior Chain Flexibility ·         Psoas Strength [Internal stabilizers are far more important than the “show” muscles, work the stabilizers and the esthetics of the show will follow.] ·         Guttage aka “Speed Bumps” The Standard Standing Body Fold becomes less “standard” when you do it the Old School way—just as with much of Old School Combat Tactics and Physical Culture, what often “looks like” is not “the same as.” The video explains the ins and outs of how to conduct the 5-second test, as well, as offers suggestions on how to improve your “Test Results” in the span of just one week. We go into far far more detail on Pliant Strength in Unleaded Volume 1: The Pliant Physique where the prem...

  [That Part 2 bit in the title tips that it is a good idea to read in conjunction with Part 1 which immediately precedes this offering. All quotes are from the masterful pictured volume.] “ How is courage spent in war? Courage is will-power, whereof no man has an unlimited stock; and when in war it is used up, he is finished. A man’s courage is his capital and he is always spending. The call on the bank may be only the daily drain of the front line or it may be a sudden draft which threatens to close the account. His will is perhaps almost destroyed by intensive shelling, by heavy bombing, or by a bloody battle, or it is gradually used up by monotony, by exposure, by the loss of the support of stauncher spirits on whom he has come to depend, by physical exhaustion, by a wrong attitude to danger, to casualties, to war, to death itself .” An imminently useful observation for we not in the trenches. Will Power/Courage are exhaustible resources—we do not possess an infinite supp...

  In 1945 a slender volume titled; The Anatomy of Courage by Charles McMoran Wilson was released. It was an update of his prior volume, The Mind of War . McMoran was a medical doctor who saw much frontline service in WWI which led to a series of lectures regarding his observations on cowardice, bravery, and troop resilience-these lectures make up the volume The Mind of War. McMoran was privy to more such close hand human observations in the Second World War which led to the revised title which is an expanded version of The Mind of War. The volumes are a goldmine to the student of courage as they are not mere surmise or cold clinical observations of college students in campus experiments or bold baseless assertions [“ You know what I would do if I was in battle!” ] Such studies are well-nigh worthless, akin to watching someone’s masturbation technique to evaluate their potential as a lover with a real-live partner. These are analytical observations by a trained scientific m...