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extract from NEURAL-BASED TRAINING BOOK ONE: RETROSPECTIVES

DRAFT concept cover, final TBD My collaborator Dennis Martin of CQB Services, UK, sent along this brief article this morning. It’s a good introduction to the snippet posted below in response to recent requests to explain “shadowboxing with guns” I mentioned in...

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Blasts From The Past

Marcus, David Scott-Donelan and Dennis Martin training the US Army in the 80s. Fresh after a kidnap-raid and hot pursuit by two SWAT teams. The 60 plus member SWAT team took over 80% casualties in the first ten minutes of the exercise. They lost all their command...

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WORKING WITH WARRIORS — The Evolution of Combatives

BUY HERE I was recently going over my Amazon reviews. When I went to this book, authored by my good friend and long time collaborator Dennis Martin, I couldn’t find my review. I have the draft copy — written many years ago when the book first came out — but my actual...

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Veterans Day 2020

The proud young High School ROTC Cadet on the left is Peter Wang. He was 15 years old at the time of this picture, taken shortly before his death. The shy six-year old on the right is Marcel Pinte. He was the youngest French Resistance fighter to die during the German...

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Jedi Council, circa early 90s

From far left, clockwise around the Council Table: Vince O'Neill, Oklahoma State Police, Old Skool Oklahoma gunfighter; (then) Sergeant Dave Spaulding of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department, then SWAT and Training; (then) Special Agent Scott Ralston, Federal Air...

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Some Dudes I Learned From

From left to right:  John "Lofty" Wiseman, Regimental Sergeant Major, 22d Special Air Service. Sergeant Evan Marshall, Detroit Police SWAT and Firearms Instructor. Dennis Martin, co-founder of CQB Services, Hereford UK. Captain David Scott-Donelan, Rhodesian Special...

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