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A Day of CQB Rounds with The Old Man by Mark Hatmaker

  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:...
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Punch Flanking by Mark Hatmaker

  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

The Tiger Stand by 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

A Paean to the Uppercut Bag by 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

Words from a Fearless Heart offered by 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. ·      ...

Rough n Tumble Boxing Flanking Maneuvers by Mark Hatmaker

  “ 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...

#2 of The Tarzan Twelve by Mark Hatmaker

  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