Indigenous Ability

  [Best consumed along with the companion piece essay “ The Day Jiu-Jitsu Died in Paris. ”] First —As with the companion piece regarding jiu-jitsu this is not an argument regarding the superiority of Boxing over Savate/Kickboxing or vice versa. I have no interest in that, and the wise readers out there don’t either. Rather we are looking at the hazards of what mathematicians and engineers know all too well, the hazard of a Binding Constraint . We’ll come back to this. Second —This is also not merely a Boxer vs. Kickboxer story. The records are rife with such matches, what fascinates here, is less the stylistic match-up than it is the relaxation of the Binding Constraint. Again, we’ll come back to that as it is the crux. For now, on to the history. Location London, May 1906. The Britannia Theater in Hoxton. Our Protagonists . The Boxer: Pedlar Palmer. A canny bantamweight, his father a bare-knuckle champion of Essex. Palmer had a fleet style and a wide repertoire. ...

An indigenous combat solo drill for explosiveness, agility & ready weapon access. More such Drills in our store: http://www.extremeselfprotection.com

  Warriors of yore and down thru the ages have sought ways to maximize skills via solo drills, be it the Roman Legionnaire at work “at his post” using his gladius , the Apache nawoɬkaadi with his array of stamina drills, to the dry-fire poker chip draws of the Western gunman. Combat athletes of yore and thru today’s modern sportive fighters have been no less creative in finding ways to optimize solo training be it the use of halteres by the Ancient Hellene pankratiast , the heavy bag of the boxer, the countless mobility/agility drills of the grappler. The Men on the Margin of yore [read that as badmen, malefactors, convicts, criminals and sundry personages] has likewise devised ingenious methods to whet their violence inducing ability be it cross-thumb cocking “games” with the straight razor of the Yellow Henry Gang of New Orleans, the   balancer les jambes of the Parisienne Apache, to the staggeringly inventive “bat flips” and like training concoctions of the incarcera...