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‘Round the Warrior Bend! by Mark Hatmaker

 


Greetings Crew!

The Skippable Part: This Old Man is back from vacation—the photos are from a week of river running in craft ranging from this aging body, to my sailboat, to canoes, kayaks, white water rafts, and jet skis.

56-years-old is around the corner, so gotta get as much meanness in before she fails me. I hope you can say the same!

“You are an old man, take a rest: What? If I were running in the stadium ought I to slacken my pace when approaching the goal? Ought I not rather to put on speed?”—Diogenes responding to the clueless.



The Meaty Part

A little preview and tentative timeline of things to come…

The “Bull” Position

·        Black Box will start covering the Old School “Bull” Position, that is, survival when an opponent has Top-Saddle or Mount.

·        There is nothing sportive here and it ain’t your time-eating subtlety game.

·        When strikes and bites are on the table from the Rider, the Bull has to get wiser, leaner and meaner.

·        This will be a Black Box Service exclusive with no freebie video.


Old School PT Roll-Out

·        We are looking to get the first volume of the real-deal Old School Body Changing PT out in August.

·        The 1st will be The TLJ Program [Tendon, Joints, & Ligaments.]

·        40+ “exercises”/holds placed into a logical sole-of-the-foot to the tip of the scalp sequencing that will go a long way towards “strengthening at the extremes” for injury prevention, rehab, and mobility.

·        This ain’t stretching, this is not mobility drilling.

·        The Old Timers distrusted “loosening joints” and were more concerned with structural stability, from this comes speed and strength and all else that will be built on this foundation.

·        There is also a 4-Part Internal Finisher that has some surprising “assists” in one of the 4F’s of Human Physiology.

·        This Video/Booklet Program will be a Black Box Subscriber exclusive initially with a roll-out to gen-pop further down the road.

·        For a bit more on this see here: https://indigenousability.blogspot.com/2021/06/foaming-boiler-old-school-pt-by-mark.html

The Esoteric Warrior

·        The 1st Volume of The Suakhet’u Program: Opening the Sensorium is scheduled for release in September of this year.

·        It lays the foundation for the Morning Practice and opens the doors for the “Alive Walks & “Being” Practices to come.

·        Again, this Video/Booklet Program will be a Black Box Subscriber exclusive initially with a roll-out to gen-pop further down the road.

·        For a bit more on this see here: https://indigenousability.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-suakhetu-program-opening-sensorium.html

Two-Handed Tomahawk

·        Got a “jones” for two-handed tomahawk, big ax work, battle-axes?

·        I can hook you up.

·        Can’t say much more about this yet, but, oh, man is this some fun stuff!

The Society for Savage Gentlemen & Feral Ladies

·        Hoping to have the edges smoothed by Fall.

·        Shall be a skin-in-the-game/accountability endeavor.

·        We can all read purty words and share memes, I wager those who are intrigued by the society want more meat on their life bones than that bit of passivity.

·        Trust me, I’m working on it, but feel free to keep spurrin’. Your enthusiasm fuels my own!



Crew, there is mucho more coming down the pike, but rather than roll this into 10,000 words allow me to list a bit coming to The Black Box Subscription Service, the Indigenous Ability Blog, and my commercial friends…

·        Why it might be a wise idea to trash all those old school manuals according to more than a few contemporary sources. [More on this in an academic piece later.]

·        Why understanding the Ludic Fallacy and Peltzman Effects can be the combat athlete’s best friend.

·         More “knuckles-in” Rough ‘n’ Tumble fighting in the following realms…

·        Upright striking…

·        Grounded Striking…

·        Upright Grappling…

·        Down & Dirty Grappling…

·        One and two-handed tomahawk…

·        Volume three of Boxing Like the Champs.

·        The Rough ‘n’ Tumble Enchiridion Volume 1.

And last, but not least, lookin’ to see if we’re ready to poke heads-out-of gopher holes.

If you are bustin’ for an Old School Rough ‘n’ Tumble Boot Camp full of tactics, conversation, camaraderie, and hell, who knows, maybe an adventure or two—Let me hear it!

Get enough spurs, we’ll start planning this expedition.

[For more Rough& Tumble history, Indigenous Ability hacks, and pragmatic applications of old school tactics historically accurate and viciously verified see our RAW/Black Box Subscription Service where we move from mere reading to DOING.]

For more on the Black Box Program.



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