Indigenous Ability

  Hey Crew! Let's talk the historical & tactical importance of punch flanking. For mucho more on this see our latest instructional "R n T Flanking" where we take a deep dive. Info here. The Black Box Combat & Conditioning Training Warehouse https://www.extremeselfprotection.com/ The Indigenous Ability Blog https://indigenousability.blogspot.com/ The Rough ‘n’ Tumble Raconteur Podcast https://anchor.fm/mark-hatmaker

  We program the Tiger Stand over the Handstand as it recruits more shoulder stabilization. The Tarzan 12/Unleaded Block 5 is all about wise scalable spinal and shoulder stability. 6 Blocks of Old School Training Hacks, 6 months to a new you in minimum daily training time. Don't work harder, work wiser old ways. The Black Box Combat & Conditioning Training Warehouse https://www.extremeselfprotection.com/ The Indigenous Ability Blog https://indigenousability.blogspot.com/ The Rough ‘n’ Tumble Raconteur Podcast https://anchor.fm/mark-hatmaker

Step Right Up and See An Old Man Kiss a Heavybag. For details on some of the punches discussed, see our books and videos in The Boxing Like the Champs Series. The Black Box Combat & Conditioning Training Warehouse https://www.extremeselfprotection.com/ The Indigenous Ability Blog https://indigenousability.blogspot.com/ The Rough ‘n’ Tumble Raconteur Podcast https://anchor.fm/mark-hatmaker

  There is something in living close to the great elemental forces of nature that causes people to rise above small annoyances and discomforts. Beginning in 1911, Mrs. Wilder, of “Little House” fame wrote a column for a local Ozark newspaper, The Missouri Ruralist ; the column was titled " As a Farm Woman Thinks."  In these columns, she hits pioneer spirit mike drops left and right. Many of these nuggets of self-reliant gold were collected in a book titled Words from a Fearless Heart edited by Stephen W. Hines. I offer two big shovelfuls of Mrs. Wilder’s true preachin’ below. The stout-hearted and good souled should find much to sustain!   If patience and cheerfulness and courage… count for so much in man that he expects to be rewarded for them… surely such virtues in animals are worth counting in the sum total of good in the universe. Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. ·      ...

  “ Battles are won by fire and by movement. The purpose of the movement is to get the fire in a more advantageous place to play on the enemy. This is from the rear or flank .”—General George S. Patton, Jr. “ War as I Knew It ” [1947] “ Give ‘em the shift, then shift ‘em agin!”— Reported “Ringside” at an Impromptu Scuffle in Georgia, circa. 1840s. Fist fighting/Boxing were different animals in the early days of the Republic. Before the turn to “extending” bouts and the bleed over from AAU rules to score fights, less “fencing” minded tactics were embraced. Rather a full-throated adherence to “ Get in and tear it up ” was the watchword. We see many examples of this in the early era [ungloved] on into the early glove era [Dempsey, Wolgast, Ketchel et al.] into unlicensed fighting influenced by penitentiary adaptation on into the Cus D’Amato tutelage of the early Iron Mike as he leapt and shifted onto the world stage. In our latest Black Box Historical Combat Instructional Vo...

  Shoulder/spinal stability--12 Skills, scalable steps. Ready to go? If my 60-year-old arthritic ridden chassis can do this stuff, so can you. Need more info? Unleaded Block 5: The Tarzan Twelve    

  We continue with the lessons we can reap from master scout of the Southwest American Frontier & Africa, Mr. Burnham. See Part 1 , and Part 2 for full immersion.] “ At this time, I used to practise incessantly with the pistol, with both right and left hands, and especially from a galloping horse .” ·         How you train is how you will fight. ·         Static range time was not the way of these early Hosses. ·         Movement and chaotic movement at that. Mr. Burnham advises that we learn more from rough times than we do the every day nice and easy times we wallow in, day in, day out. “ In order to know life as it really is, it is necessary once in a while to be the under dog.” Ask yourself, who is the wiser, the man in the field doing it or the man on the couch viewing the how-to video? “ As compared to Arizona, California seemed a free and happy countr...

 

  ·         You Run. ·         Skip Rope ·         Do Burpees ·         Do Hindu Squats ·         Olympic Lift ·         Do Sit-Ups ·         Train more than 5 days per week. ·         Your training session lasts longer than 30-minutes. ·         You skip desserts. ·         You have a raft of supplements to consume each day. ·         You fast. ·         Count calories. If you wanna be lazy as a 60-year-old man, well, more info about the Old School Time-Tested, Self-Verified Combination Man Training Programs that are The Unleaded Whole Hog Progr...

 

  Unleaded Whole Hog: Block 5 “The Tarzan Twelve” Mark Hatmaker www.extremeselfprotection.com Block 5 “Tarzan Twelve” Features ·          We are now in the tweaking weeds where we use a few additional tips and tricks from the Old Days to get the Most Bang for Your Buck from Blocks 2-4. ·          ALL that follows presumes you are using the sliding rotation of Blocks 2-4 using the 3/1/2/1 Work-Rest Protocol. ·          This adherence is VITAL to reap the additional benefits that follow. ·          Block 5 introduces 8 Fast-Twitch Exercises to “Pre-Fatigue” the given muscle group making that day’s Block Rotation all the more efficient and effective. ·          There are 2-Groups of these Fast-Twitch Exercises [4 in each Group.] ·       ...

  [Excerpted from the upcoming Unleaded: Whole Hog-- The Support Manual. Unleaded Blocks 1-4 are currently available.] Wanna lose fat with no work? With no formal cardio? While increasing calories? Then gain lean muscle. You can lose 50 + pounds in 6-months, I ain’t even kiddin’. OK, there is a slight cheat on this Tip, but only slight. Here’s what I mean. The current “Tried & True” formula for losing fat is… ·         Reduce caloric intake. ·         Increase caloric expenditure. ·         Reducing caloric intake, aka, dietary restriction, aka denying the self; waging that never-ending war of the will between you and the Five Guys burger. ·         The caloric expenditure usually takes the form of aerobic exercise, aka, “cardio.” ·         The more calories burned the better. But… ...