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Altitude Scoutcraft & Elevation Training Hacks by Mark Hatmaker

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 ...

Hard Knocks: Old School KO Power-- The Leg Spring Hook by Mark Hatmaker

Released as of TODAY! The first in a series on building Old School KO Power via Bonafide historical tactics. Included in Volume 1 of the Hard Knocks Program are… Name : Dempsey’s Leg Spring Hook, the Dundee Leaping Hook, the “Clue Bird”, and “The Leavenworth Leap” as it was called in 1920’s era prison fighting. Fist Position Arm to Shoulder Angle · Greater Tubercle · Acromion · Bursa “Squeeze”/Pinch Three Uses · Range Closer · Power Amplifier · Built-in Evasion The Six-Part Flight Instructions The Long Range Spring Hook & The Mid to Close Range Spring Hook 3 Ways to Charge/Prime the Spring Hook 3 Ways to Priming to Punching 3 Tactics to Spring Hook Preceded by Distance Closing Footwork The Doub...

Neotenous Cardio by Mark Hatmaker

Puddin' & Proof by Mark Hatmaker

I repeat myself…60 years old. Train 5 days per week. Never over 30 minutes. Or...you can work harder, longer, and some Old Timers would say, with less Wisdom. Unleaded Whole Hog Conditioning: 6 Blocks of Training, 6 Months to a new You. To address the questions I am getting flooded with in Messenger, perhaps this will save time. · The entire 6 Blocks are available in the store and diet info is offered in dribs and drabs via the blog and podcasts. · In the Store they are all titled Unleaded Whole Hog are labeled by Block #'s. · Beginners should start with Block 1, those who already train can skip 1 and assemble Blocks 2-6. · With a possible addition of the Warrior Walking material, and those who like to dig deep should consider adding The Suakhet'u Program for all of the cortisol reducing ele...

Improving & Maintaining Speed by Mark Hatmaker

The Roots of The Rough ‘n’ Tumble Mindset [Part of The Frontier JKD Series] by Mark Hatmaker

[One in a series of pieces on Frontier JKD , you can read the initial essay here .] The American Frontier Rough ‘n’ Tumble mindset has a psychology of its own. What occurred in the clash of cultures in the Wildlands of the New World was not a mere transport of ideas and ways from The Old World, i.e., Europe. Be those ideas combat, trade, politics, economics, law, hell, even the sciences took their own doglegged tack in the new land. We can get a broad overview on how this unprecedented mindset manifested in Frederick Jackson Turner’s 1893 thesis, The Significance of the Frontier in American History . The ideas were later developed in greater detail, notably by the eminent Librarian of Congress historian, Daniel J. Boorstein, in many linked works on the uniqueness of this era. Let us begin with Mr. Turner as our guide into this roughshod, pragmatic, self-made mindset, this psychology of pluck and grit. Thus American development has exhibited not merely advance along a ...