Within the martial arts world, there exists two distinct, ultimately incompatible models:  Martial Arts-As-Sport (MAAS) and Martial Arts-As-War (MAAW). Admittedly, not every martial artist recognizes this distinction, for far too many practitioners of MAAS don’t recognize that they are indeed students of a sportive, a competition or contest-oriented, art.  Boxers, UFC/MMA contestants, wrestlers, and students…

Since forever, Republican politicians and their apologists in conservative media would assure their constituents that unless the latter voted “Republican,” the country would go to Hell in a handbasket—or, what amounts to essentially the same thing, be “fundamentally transformed” into a socialist dystopia. We owe it to ourselves and, especially, to our children, you see,…

Christmas is upon us. Every year for quite some time now conservatives have gone on about the left’s “war” on Christmas.  This year is no exception. Admittedly, more so than at any other time in our past, and courtesy of the recent rise of Faucianity, it is in 2020, under the pretext of combatting “The…

Warriors aren’t born.  They are made. This is the philosophy behind Warrior Flow Combatives, or Warrior Flow. And a Warrior without Ruthless Intent is like a library without books or, more accurate yet, a square without four sides. Ruthless Intent is nothing more or less than the will to crush the Enemy, those who would…

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