Indigenous Ability

  [The photo is offered as proof-of-principle, in that one-hand swings--off hand at that-- versus the pull of G’s become a piece of cake with The GFF Program .] Scattergun Muscle Defined When we encounter the phrase “scattergun” or “scattergun muscle” in the old record, we are hearing archaic slang for targets along the periphery. We hear echoes of this euphemism in old prison slang. The most current usage I can find is in “Paul Wade’s” Convict Conditioning 2 where he refers to training the neck, grip, and calves as “shotgun muscle.” He explains it thusly: “ These groups were often called shotgun muscles by the old-time prison athletes, because they ride shotgun with the bigger movers.” Unleaded Scattergun is broken into three broad classes. ·         One-Grip-Fingers-Forearms [GFF] ·         Much ado about work-grip here and nothing about hand-grippers. ·       ...

  More often than not, the obvious things or “simple” things in this world are not quite as cut and dried as we often assume. Today’s case in point, the titled knockout, or KO from here on out. To the layman, when they hear that a fight ended in a KO, they envision an opponent rendered unconscious lying on the canvas. Not a bad assumption, as such a state would indeed be classed as a KO. But…there is to the boxing/MMA aficionado more to the KO than a state of horizontal unresponsiveness. To flay the onion skin layers of the KO let’s start with the state that precedes the official KO…the Knock Down. The Knockdown or KD In the boxing ring, if a fighter hits the canvas, that is technically a Knockdown, it is not a KO until they have been counted out. In MMA the knockdown is a moot point as the action often follows the fallen opponent to the mat. In MMA being counted out does not exist but… The referee is still looking for the same signs of incapacity or inability to ...

  [Excerpted from The Suakhet’u Program : Indigenous Warriorship , available now or see  The Black Box Subscription Service . This is only a single aspect of the daily 8-minute carry-it-forward Warrior practice. Buckle up as we venture forth with… ·         Sailors the world over ·         Scout & Tracker Advice ·         Comanche Warriorship Practices ·         Insights from Zen Practitioner Surveys ·         And a bit of brain science. Our Sailors “ Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore generally looking down .”—John Masefield, The Bird of Dawning The wisdom behind the observation being that nothing [nothing] will open your eyes to the vagaries of the wind than learning to sail or having to rely on the wind to get you from point A to point B. The reading of tell-tal...