Indigenous Ability

  According to some word-mavens the origin of the maxim “the devil is in the details” refers to the convoluted language that the legal profession started using to Baroque excesses in Victorian England. A contract that might look good on the surface may have a lot of bad tidings hidden in the fine print-the details. We’ve seen the same thing as of late with folks realizing that their mortgage contract isn’t quite as sweet as they once thought.             The devil is also in the details of the fighting arts. Let’s face it, there are only so many ways to kick, punch, elbow, knee, head-butt, choke, lock, crank, rip a human being. We’re not going to see that much more in left-field innovation unless humans suddenly sprout a new appendage we can strike with or attack. That really only leaves one place to go with innovation, creativity, and malicious ingenuity and that is towards reverse engineering.      ...

  Resources for Livin’ the Warrior Life The Black Box Warehouse https://www.extremeselfprotection.com/ The Indigenous Ability Blog https://indigenousability.blogspot.com/ The Rough ‘n’ Tumble Raconteur Podcast https://anchor.fm/mark-hatmaker

  Comanche Warrior Wisdom for 21 st Century Cats Like Me ‘n’ You You’ll pick up a smattering of the language with this 10-minute episode of The Rough n Tumble Raconteur Podcast. You can listen via the link or wherever you get your pod on.

  Who Wants to Break some Bones? How about a return to Old School ABC/123 Snap-No Tap Catch/Scufflin’/All-In/Boombattle Mayhem? All Street Ready Top-Position Shoulder-Shreddin’, Elbow Snappin’, Neck-Breakin’ Mayhem. Presented in a Tit-for-Tat, “ If he does this, you do that ” one continuous freight-train of submission movement. Drill this Freight Train top-to-bottom for one month and your cross-body game will reek of menace—Guaranteed. You’ll learn in Deep Devilish Details how to ride like hell with the Cross-Body Kill and then you’ll learn 20 ways in which the bottom man might respond, and you will reply with 20 ways to make them regret they ever thought that response was a good idea. How detailed is this new Black Box Rough n Tumble Instructional Video? Well, have wee gander at this glimpse of the first section of the outline, and this is before the Hook Chaining even starts. Cross-Body Kill ·         Knee/Elbow Flank Pinch aka...

  Buckle up, Crew, as we’ve got some ground to cover. First, “ Face under pressure ” is, obviously, a reiteration of Ernest Hemingway’s original quote on the concept of “ Grace under pressure .” Some refine to simplicity and say it was his definition of courage/guts, but in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, he makes it clear he has something more in mind than sheer guts. As a matter of fact, he’s a bit disdainful of guts or courage on its own. “ It makes no difference your telling G[erald] Murphy about bull fighting…. [I] Was not referring to guts but to something else. Grace under pressure. Guts never made any money or anybody except violin string manufacturers .”-A letter dated April 20, 1926. Hemingway was expressing a courageous ideal as something more than mere bravado, he reaches for something that might be closer to the Italian concept of Sprezzatura, a word that appears in the 1528 volume titled The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione. The Book of the...

Hey Crew, Stamina wisdom from our Elder Statesmen of Mayhem. Resources for Livin’ the Warrior Life The Black Box Store https://www.extremeselfprotection.com/ The Indigenous Ability Blog https://indigenousability.blogspot.com/ The Rough ‘n’ Tumble Raconteur Podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fTpfVp2wi232k4y5EakVv ...