I turn 60 in 53 days. I’ve been training in Western Martial Arts for 48 years. For 44 of those years, I trained with what I thought was the ideal—everything from scads and scads of Hindu Squats, Dands, Dive-Bombers, Pull-Ups, box jumps, tire-flipping, sprints, miles of roadwork, skipping-rope, shadow-boxing, Olympic lifting, the whole nine yards. By 2018-2019 I had compiled a treasure-trove of counter-intuitive old school physical culturist information, not from the usual manual re-prints but from actual correspondence, yellowing fighter interviews, etc. So much of this information struck me as archaic and likely out-and-out wrong. Afterall, so much of it was diametrically opposed to what we know as gospel truth today. And then the obvious elephant in the room rared it’s trunk and asked, “ Old Man, you obviously revere and resurrect these old school combat ways, enough so you put them to the test in the gym day-in day-out and find them not only up to snuff, b...
Examining & Resurrecting Indigenous Skills and Frontier Rough & Tumble Combat