Warrior Flow Combatives is a martial system founded by retired USMC Lieutenant-Colonel Al Ridenhour.  It is unique among all such systems in two respects: First, it unapologetically underscores the martial character of the martial arts.  “Martial,” it is all too easy to forget nowadays, means “of or pertaining to war.” Historically speaking, it went without…

Last year, 2020, is a year that deserves to remain forever nameless. That being said, from its hardships—which, being, as they were, the spawn of human vice, were really outrages—we learned, up close, interpersonally, in real time, more about the machinations of fear than we would have been able to learn otherwise. The lengths to…

For all of their ultimately irreconcilable differences, there nevertheless exists among the world’s wisdom traditions a trans-cultural, trans-historical consensus regarding the primary importance of identifying the nature of ultimate reality. To put it another way, they all agree that, at the conceptual level, there is a basic distinction between reality and appearance, the world and…

Fear. Among the most universal and primal of all emotions, there is scarcely one among us who hasn’t felt its presence.  Perhaps this is why we seldom like to discuss it, at least when it comes to addressing our own fears. Subjectively speaking, there is nothing pleasant about the experience of fear.  Men especially are…

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