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Arapahoe Awareness Pop Quiz & Lessons from a Tiger-Hunter by Mark Hatmaker

  “ All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them .”—Arapahoe Warrior Adage Ready for the Pop Quiz? Question 1 : On this morning’s commute, you saw birds perched on telephone lines and road-signs, which way did they face? Question 2 : What does the birds facing direction tell you about the day? Question 3 : At which precise landmark did the sun rise over your home this morning? Even if it were cloudy, you should still be able to ballpark the rising point. Question 4 : Where will it rise over your home 6 months from now? And, how do you know this? Question 5 : I want to conduct a night-raid this evening, is the moon conducive to cover for this proposed raid—Yes, or No? [ Answers at the end of this musing .] There is not an Indigenous Tribe on the face of the globe that did not value wide-awake awareness. Not lip-service awareness, but toes-in-the-dirt here-here-and-now present knowledge. This “Nature Awareness” was a ke
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“How to Foul” aka Street-Boxing 1920’s Style by Mark Hatmaker

  April 1 st is not for fools. The topic of this month’s volume of mayhem for The Black Box Brotherhood is the aforementioned, “How toFoul” aka Street-Boxing 1920’s Style. Covered will be the Root of the “Foul,” with all the drills that lead to fouling well. We will discuss briefly “How to Hide the Fouls” but spend most of the time getting the “fouls” right so we can snag a little of that historical meanness and make it street-ready from the jump. Only one “Foul” is glove -dependent, it can work without it, but…I’d weight all the others higher, they inflict maximum hell with minimum damage to our dainty selves. A mini list of what’s included on this volume is below as well as a sneak peek at the next volume. [The mini-list excises all the drill steps, that is privileged material for the pony-uppers. This volume, as with all Black Box material is video and syllabi driven historically accurate and viciously tested for scrumptiousness.] The Shift Drop [Matched Leads] T

The Real Josey Wales, Parts 1 & 2 by Mark Hatmaker

  Let us begin with an extract from Josey Wales creator, Forest Carter’s, novel The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales. This extract was Carter’s explanation for Wales’ background. THE MOUNTAIN CODE . “ The Code was as necessary to survival on the lean soil of mountains, as it had been on the rock ground of Scotland and Wales. Clannish people. Outside governments erected by people of kindlier land, of wealth, of power, made no allowance for the scrabbler. “As a man had no coin, his coin was his word. His loyalty, his bond. He was the rebel of establishment, born in this environment. To injure one to whom he was obliged was personal; more, it was blasphemy. The Code, a religion without catechism, having no chronicler of words to explain or to offer apologia. “Bone-deep feuds were the result. War to the knife. Seldom if ever over land, or money, or possessions. But injury to the Code meant---WAR! “Marrowed in the bone, singing in the blood, the Code was brought to the mountains o

Comanche Warrior Awareness & The Eyes of the Masters by Mark Hatmaker

  [This offering couples well with the prior Apache Awareness Pop Quiz .] Strange as it may seem, there is an intriguing overlap between the, so-called, “artistic eye,” and the Indigenous Warrior concept of “Always Seeing.” [ Suakhet’u .] ·         Always Seeing can also be gussied up to the tactical jargon of “Always Awareness.” ·         Always Awareness, to my mind, surpasses the weak tactical sister, and far-more touted “situational awareness” which is, by definition, situational, that is, used upon occasion. ·         “Always Seeing” is just that, alive and awake to The ALL of the Wide World Before Us, the Heavens Above Us, and the Flora and Fauna Around Us. [Those curious two-footed Fauna we call humans, included.] ·         Situational Awareness by dint of being a cortisol activated bottom-up neural process can not be elevated to Always Awareness as the continuous cortisol infusion would create health problems [mentally, emotionally, and ultimately physically.] ·