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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The Talent War, or How To Find The Finest Warriors
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED -- BUY HERE I stumbled across this new book while researching selection and assessment. So synchronicity was at play. It turns out that Mike Sarraille and Jocko Willink served with a good friend of mine whose triple thumbs up "Good To Go" bumped THE...
Snowmobiles, Cognitive Neuroscience and Training Design
John Boyd, the brilliant fighter pilot and strategist/warrior-monk, opened his lectures on strategy with this example: “Imagine that you are -- on a ski slope with other skiers—retain this image in Florida riding in an outboard motorboat—maybe even towing...
Still Training After All These Years
Gratitude to Guro Mike O'Melia, of the Sayoc Clan, Minneapolis Tribe I devote about 98% of my training development and training time to the nurturance of superior instructors in performance enhancement under extreme stress. Most of them come from Tier One units and...
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Gifts, Military Neuroscience, Undercover Operations, and Mirror Neurons
These short trailers illustrate the intense stress of the undercover operator. Dr. Chris Macedonia, who was the DARPA Program Manager for Accelerated Learning, told me something after my presentation that inspires me to this day: “Marcus, where I sit, I see all...
Neurophysiology and The Real Fight
Geoff Thompson is one of the founders of reality-based self defense. Geoff, and my friends Dennis Martin and John Brawn, were the reasons I went to the UK in the 90s to test neural-based training on the street. If you want to see how training works in a street...
Elon’s Pigs, and The Old Man and His Knife
Elon and his pigs reminded me of a family story.. My grandfather Eustachio was a renowned Filipino martial artist and fighter. He killed 14 men in consensual duels in the Philippines, not uncommon in the early 1900s. He escaped from tribal police by swimming out to a...