Indigenous Ability

  Well, well, well, that book is finally here! THE FRONTIER STOIC: Life Lessons from Those Who Lived a Life. ·         227 pages of Old School Hosses leading the Way. ·         Available in softcover in our store . ·         Or as an e-book here .   A preview below… A ROMAN, A FRENCHMAN, A YANKEE, & A MAASAI WARRIOR GO INTO A BAR OUR ROMAN DRINKING BUDDY “ None of those who have been raised to a lofty height by riches and honors is really great. Why then does he seem great? Because you are measuring the pedestal along with the man. A dwarf is not tall though he stands on a mountain; a Colossus will maintain its size even when standing in a well. This is the error under which we labor, and how we are deceived; we value no man by what he is, but add the trappings in which he is adorned .”-From Seneca’s Epistles ·       ...

  The Old Man’s Premise : We are always wiser to take our self-help advice from Men & Women of action. People who have lived much, who burn the wick to the end. Be they athletes, explorers, adventurers, frontiersmen, survivors, or “average” men and women in tough spots, their words, their insights should be weighted far heavier than anything offered from a chair, “brain-cycled” from an app, “discovered” reclining on a sofa, or hoped for with an affirmation. That in a nutshell is the entire premise of our upcoming book, The Frontier Stoic: Life Lessons from Those Who live a Life. We must never forget, advice offered that was not lived is false, it is untested. Much advisory eloquence is simply well-turned prose that was never lived. Edifying in the way of a fine poem but just as ephemeral. Words from the trenches, acts that provided solace in real trying circumstances, well, that My Friends, that is something worthy of mulling and putting into practice. One such ex...

  “Dirty Boxing” in today’s parlance has a specific connotation, a more sportive one at that. Dirty Boxing as it applies to 21 st century MMA is the combination of striking, clinch control and takedowns that take place in the variants of the over-under clinch. We have an entire course on that topic titled, surprise, surprise Dirty Boxing. [ Click that link to view.] The term “Dirty Boxing” prior to the 21 st century, particularly from the 1920s thru the 1990s referred to all the fouling aspects of the game, be they intentional or accidental. There was an entire cadre of fighters in the 1920s thru the early 1940s in particular, who made extensive canny “hidden” use of a bewildering arsenal of “dirty” tricks. This arsenal, for the most part, thinned and all but disappeared in the great culling of talent that was World War II. The dirty boxing that remained in post-war years was a clumsier more haphazard variety. For a compendium of these early “dirty tactics” see our c...