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VICTORY not SURVIVAL: Warrior Flow Combatives, Becoming GOOD and DANGEROUS
By
Jack Kerwick
In the contemporary United States (and the Western world generally), misconceptions concerning manliness abound. These misconceptions derive from a variety of sources that I identified in a previous article. There the focus was specifically upon the confusion that prevails over the nature of a violent engagement of the type that occurs in a true self-defense…
Good Friday: Theories of the Atonement
By
Jack Kerwick
As I write this, it is Good Friday, the day that Christ, God-in-the-Flesh, died on the Cross. Christians the world over recognize this event as “the Atonement,” the means by which their Lord and Savior, fully God and fully Man, reconciled the Ground and Creator of the cosmos with the human beings who He made…
VICTORY not SURVIVAL: Warrior Flow Combatives and the Ultimate Reason for Training
By
Jack Kerwick
Warrior Flow Combatives stands alone among martial arts systems in multiple ways. For present purposes, I focus upon its unabashed declaration of its raison d’etre. As its founder, USMC Lieutenant-Colonel Al Ridenhour, informs his students: “I’m teaching you how to kill the bad guys.” Strictly speaking, Warrior Flow is not designed to train people how…
VICTORY, not SURVIVAL: Warrior Flow Combatives: It’s not a “Fight”
By
Jack Kerwick
A friend of mine, who is not any kind of martial artist, recently expressed during the course of one of our many conversations a point of view that is all too common. It is treated as axiomatic by most people and even among the vast majority of martial artists and sports contestants. The viewpoint is…
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