Indigenous Ability

  Yours Truly Walking the Walk Well, thanks to some final puzzle pieces from acquired resources on our most recent desert research trip we are ready to present the revised approach to Numur’u Tomahawk. I guarantee it is as authentic and verifiable as I can make it from the sources. [ The curious may find the Post-Script regarding the Comanche language of value.] The February Black Box volume presents this single aspect of tomahawk work termed Wupi’ta’pun’i Ta’i [Rendered sometimes as Wupi’ta’pun’i Kahne Tubaana . Wupi’ta’pun’i Kahne Tubaana translates to “Tomahawk Wall” or “Tomahawk House.” In some iterations “Tomahawk Cave” Wupi ta’pu’i Ta’i . I find “Cave” a better representation as it refers to a formidable fortress from which to fight and hold off aggressors. Wupi ta’pun’i Ta’i can be thought of as the blocking system for the tomahawk. “System” is a bit too staid a word for how this approach works. Anyone who has been present for our live “Spirit Blade or “Emot...

  We will begin our visit with three Warrior cultures in reverse order and get a glimpse into a single attribute valued by all Warrior cultures, everywhere. All three of our chosen Warrior stand-ins valued the attribute but each had a different way of reaching/developing the valued ability. Our reverse order allows us to ascend the ladder of effectiveness/efficiency, that is, to develop an appreciation for the attribute and to see how each culture sought to deliberately develop and hone the razor-sharpening of it. Only one of the methods allows, to my eye, a concrete fast track to development, but the sojourn with each Warrior culture acts as a bolster to this preferred method. The Continental Soldier: Coup D’Oeil Coup D’Oeil is the French correlate of our attribute. It translates literally to “ stroke of the eye.” It refers to the ability to sum and assess tactical situations with a mere glance or glimpse. Its most famous iteration comes from the lips of Napoleon: “...

  My twin studies of the archeology of frontier rough ‘n’ tumble combat and “primitive” indigenous abilities have [and continue to] unearth tasty morsels of violent mayhem that we deliver in our revised RAW/Black Box curriculum. Thus far this material has been manifested as physical expression [the tactics and how-to] and the cognitive side of the game [the strategy, history, mind-setting.] Along the way though, there have been many illuminating ideas in the areas of a more esoteric nature, that we may loosely judge akin to meditation, environmental immersion, awakening practices. These terms “meditation” and the like are abstract Western constructs and do little to convey what these practices are truly like. [ Full Disclosure : I practice the Suakhet’u myself, 365 days of the year, rain or shine and have found the benefits and revelations of paramount use to my life. Take that for a statement of crass salesmanship, or if you know me, you may take it for how I mean it—a fra...

  [Best consumed with Part 1 of this discussion Combat Abs: The Negative Injunctions, #1.]     Old school thought [and you and me I wager] loved the aesthetic ideal, pursuing the Greek statuary standard but carved by present day living flesh. To pursue this standard though, they sought energistic simplicity laser-focused training and a gimlet eye on how and why each portion of the anatomy functioned in isolation and in concert with the whole. Anything less was [and still is] mere dilettantism. “What is the arc?” One of the questions of the Old School way is asking What is the Arc? or What is the Range or Spectrum of Performance for each functional movement. Once that questioned was intelligently answered then one could go about training with better intent and better results due to only tensioning the targeted musculature in its working arc. Moving beyond this arc in either direction takes tension off the targeted muscles thusly… ·    ...