Indigenous Ability

  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...