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Hard Knocks: Old School KO Power-- The Leg Spring Hook by Mark Hatmaker

Released as of TODAY! The first in a series on building Old School KO Power via Bonafide historical tactics. Included in Volume 1 of the Hard Knocks Program are… Name : Dempsey’s Leg Spring Hook, the Dundee Leaping Hook, the “Clue Bird”, and “The Leavenworth Leap” as it was called in 1920’s era prison fighting. Fist Position Arm to Shoulder Angle ·         Greater Tubercle ·         Acromion ·         Bursa “Squeeze”/Pinch Three Uses ·         Range Closer ·         Power Amplifier ·         Built-in Evasion The Six-Part Flight Instructions The Long Range Spring Hook & The Mid to Close Range Spring Hook 3 Ways to Charge/Prime the Spring Hook 3 Ways to Priming to Punching 3 Tactics to Spring Hook Preceded by Distance Closing Footwork The Doub...
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Neotenous Cardio by Mark Hatmaker

  Resources for Livin’ the Warrior Life The Black Box Store https://www.extremeselfprotection.com/ The Indigenous Ability Blog https://indigenousability.blogspot.com/ The Rough ‘n’ Tumble Raconteur Podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fTpfVp2wi232k4y5EakVv ...
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Puddin' & Proof by Mark Hatmaker

  I repeat myself…60 years old. Train 5 days per week. Never over 30 minutes. Or...you can work harder, longer, and some Old Timers would say, with less Wisdom. Unleaded Whole Hog Conditioning: 6 Blocks of Training, 6 Months to a new You. To address the questions I am getting flooded with in Messenger, perhaps this will save time. ·         The entire 6 Blocks are available in the store and diet info is offered in dribs and drabs via the blog and podcasts. ·         In the Store they are all titled Unleaded Whole Hog are labeled by Block #'s. ·         Beginners should start with Block 1, those who already train can skip 1 and assemble Blocks 2-6. ·         With a possible addition of the Warrior Walking material, and those who like to dig deep should consider adding The Suakhet'u Program for all of the cortisol reducing ele...
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Improving & Maintaining Speed by Mark Hatmaker

  Resources for Livin’ the Warrior Life The Black Box Store https://www.extremeselfprotection.com/ The Indigenous Ability Blog https://indigenousability.blogspot.com/ The Rough ‘n’ Tumble Raconteur Podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fTpfVp2wi232k4y5EakVv ...
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The Roots of The Rough ‘n’ Tumble Mindset [Part of The Frontier JKD Series] by Mark Hatmaker

  [One in a series of pieces on Frontier JKD , you can read the initial essay here .] The American Frontier Rough ‘n’ Tumble mindset has a psychology of its own. What occurred in the clash of cultures in the Wildlands of the New World was not a mere transport of ideas and ways from The Old World, i.e., Europe. Be those ideas combat, trade, politics, economics, law, hell, even the sciences took their own doglegged tack in the new land. We can get a broad overview on how this unprecedented mindset manifested in Frederick Jackson Turner’s 1893 thesis, The Significance of the Frontier in American History . The ideas were later developed in greater detail, notably by the eminent Librarian of Congress historian, Daniel J. Boorstein, in many linked works on the uniqueness of this era. Let us begin with Mr. Turner as our guide into this roughshod, pragmatic, self-made mindset, this psychology of pluck and grit. Thus American development has exhibited not merely advance along a ...
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The Barbary Shrug [A Chapter in Frontier JKD] by Mark Hatmaker

  [For background on Frontier JKD see this brief essay to set the stage.] San Francisco’s Barbary Coast received this nickname from its violent rough n tumble nature. The original Barbary Coast refers to the Berber Coast of North Africa where Muslim Pirates held sway for some time. The US fought a series of engagement wars there from 1801 to 1805 known as The Barbary Wars—it is from one of these battles that we get the line “… to the shores of Tripoli ” in the Marine Hymn. With the advent of The California Gold Rush in 1849, San Franciso and its environs went from a population of 492 to over 25,000 people. Most all seeking fortune in the gold fields or…in less savory ways. From overlanders who crossed the continent to get there and folks who ‘rounded the Horn via sailing vessel, importees from the penal colony nation of Australia, a huge influx from China, a notable contingent from the Five-Points Gangs of New York and many other wild mixes of cultures and men and women of...
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Indigenous Jeet Kune Do by Mark Hatmaker

  Likely we are all familiar with the following Bruce Lee quote…  " Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is essentially your own." It is a foundational bit of wisdom found in Mr. Lee’s posthumously published collection of combat notes titled Tao of Jeet Kune Do . It is a more straightforward transliteration of teachings phrased more ambiguously in the Tao Te Ching , attributed to Lao zi. For my taste, I prefer Mr. Lee’s iteration to the Tao Te Ching . The JKD teaching is straight forward and allows for no wiggle room for interpretation. But… What if I were to tell you that more than a few Indigenous warrior tribes of the American frontier embraced that bit of JKD pragmatics centuries before the publication of that volume in 1975? There are more than a few Warrior teachings that echo this hard-edged no-fealty to dogma, disdain for tradition, worship only at the altar of efficiency and effectiveness. I have ...
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