Let’s begin with a corralling definition—when we discuss supplements, I refer to any and all non-food, non-prescribed items one swallows in pill form, mixes and drinks, or transdermal patch or injection. I repeat—we are discussing NON-PRESCRIBED supplements. If a medical professional writes a scrip and you take it to a pharmacy and they hand it over without batting an eye—we ain’t talking that. What we are discussing—anything that you can freely walk into a vitamin aisle and grab off the shelf, anything “prescribed” by a blog [this one included], a podcast, web article and, very likely our current “super-scientific” head of Health and Human Services. All of these voluntarily chosen supposed “helpers on the margin” are what is in the crosshairs today. Before we get all sciencey and get to the real meat of this essay, let’s get three things out of the way. ONE Full Disclosure: The Old Man’s Current Supplement Regimen · A lo...
There was an astonishingly creative panoply of drills to build punching power, balance, precision, finesse and overall form. These drills can be found spread throughout early boxing training, in singular pockets of rural approaches to fighting and are rife and rampant in the rough n tumble tradition where power was a premium. In our newest Black Box Instructional Product , we present 20 of these drills under the rubric “ Doubleday Drills ” in honor of Civil War veteran and purported “Father of American Baseball” Abner Doubleday as so many of these drills are rooted in hard-smackin’ they remind me of teeing off with a good old fashioned hickory bat. We’ll provide more history on these another day, but for now I believe it suffices to say that getting started on 20 Drills to hit harder and meaner is the key thing—less readin’, more doin’! Many of these drills train attributes that are now illegal, making them ideal for street/self-defense use. I am 100% confident that the hisot...