Indigenous Ability

  aka HAPPY NEW YEAR! How old are you? Me? I’m 60. Convert your age into months. Me? 723 months. The average lifespan of the adult male in the US is 74.8 years, for women it is 76.3. That’s 897 months and 912 months respectively. The average human lifespan is less than 1,000 months. And that’s assuming we make it that long. There Are NO Guarantees. To Seat this Fact: Make a quick mental list of all you know who haven’t made that 74.8- and 76.3-year likely expiration date—be it accident, disease, luck of the draw. I repeat: There Are NO Guarantees. If you are a male and are 38 years old or older, you have already used up over half of your average lifespan reserve. Halfway done if you are a female 39 or older. Subtract your current lived months from your average lifespan months to get your lifespan reserve. Me? That’s 174 months remaining. That is a concerning number that diminishes each day. You have slept for an approximate 1/3 rd of your life. You wi...

  What follows is from Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s 1835 volume, “ Georgia scenes, Characters, Incidents.” This volume of reminiscences from Longstreet, who would go on to become a lawyer, state superior court judge, Methodist minister and president of the colleges of Emory, Centenary, the University of Mississippi and the University of South Carolina tells of a common scene in the early days of the Southern US of A [and I can vouch for the spirit holding true though my own Southern youth.] No less a personage than fellow Southerner Edgar Allan Poe remarked of this account of a Fight “ Although involving some horrible and disgusting details of southern barbarity it is a sketch unsurpassed in dramatic vigor, and in the vivid truth to nature.” [Longstreet sets the scene.] “ In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of---- two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men and the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog...

  This is on Today’s Rough n Tumble Menu [60-minutes after Unleaded Whole Hog: Block 3 Training.] 5-Minute Round Protocol Today for 6-Rounds Round 1: Ground Shark Mobility—Seated to Hands-Free Shin-Box Rise w/ 30# DB Round 2: Forearm Chop to Head-Butt & Alley Clinch Control w/ Twist-Step Round 3: Stockade Press [Cage] [The 3-Points of Contact Control] to Slide Chop Cross-Face to Up-Elbow to “Teefers” Return to Control ASAP! Slide Transfer Repeat. Round 4: Over-Under Clinch to “Chest Wipe” & 1-on-1 to Lateral Kneeling Drop Round 5: Inside Bottom Scissors to “Gut Thump” Break to Split-Post to Cross-Knee Pass to Slide-Out Pin Round 6: Double-Hug Body Walk-Up to Hopping Short-Arm Bar to Tiger-Man Arm-Bar If any of that is a mystery, see our Black Box Training Materials, all historically accurate and viciously verified. Train Smarter, Train Meaner, Not Harder. Train the Old School Way. For Old School Combat Ways and Livin’ The Black Box Warehouse https:...

  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...