Annette's Shooting Video Thanks to Ms. Annette for the use of her training video here. Annette is an up and coming competitive shooter who spent an hour with me refining her use of visualization, kinesthetic rehearsal and temporal sense manipulation. She wanted to...
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Neural Based Training Seminar, Charlotte NC, 31 Aug – 1 Sep 2013
Yes, I know it's Labor Day weekend. My friend and brother-from-another-mother the esteemed Nick Hughes of DEADLIEST WARRIOR and the French Foreign Legion (http://nickhughescombatives.com/) asked me to come down and the two of us completely missed the holiday in our...
Repost: Neural-Based Training for Situational Awareness (first printed in SWAT Magazine).
I remember an old and crusty veteran of military, government and law enforcement service giving me his take on the concept of street smarts, or, to use the phrase law enforcement adopted from the military aviation community, situational awareness. “It’s like art,...
Random Thoughts On Mental Training and Performance Enhancement PT 7, or Deconstructing Jerry Miculek
I get asked, often, to take a look at videotape from various combat athletes. For one reason or another I might not be able to go to them or they to me, or it's just easier for both parties to look at video and then confer via phone or e-mail. I thought it might be...
Random Interesting Things…
Here's an Old Guy showing the Young Guns how it's done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TuNSB9jkpyQ My friends all know my love of post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction; this gem by the astonishing duo of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett is...
REPOST FROM 2012-ish: Mindset Rambles Pt 6; The Other Guys Assimilating mental training…
Here’s another repost. Matt Graham in this open-source video allows two civilian commentators into a mixed enrollment class near a .gov training facility in VA. He took over a portion of the job that my friend and mentor Ed Lovette had back in the day. Matt has a...
Mindset Rambles Pt 5, or “How To Use The Research To Actually Train Better, Faster and Cheaper”
I was talking with John Robb, the very brilliant analyst and blogger of www.resilientcommunities.com and www.globalguerrilas.com fame, about our respective ADD. It used to be called "having diverse interests" or "polymathy," but these days the DSM has a diagnosis for...
And You Thought Wolverine Was Just A Comic?
Here's some links from the cutting edge of warfighter performance enhancement, which speaks to our ongoing rambling thoughts on training mindset: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/12/andrew-herr/all/...
Random Thoughts on Mindset, Pt 4
I've always found it useful to define terms. "Mindset" is a fuzzy term. What does it mean? Poll any number of combat practitioners -- military, law enforcement, combat athletes -- and you'll get as many different answers as you have people. I don't think there's one...
The Evolution of Mindset Training, Part 2: More Random History
(part of an occasional series on neural-based training) A couple of my beliefs about mindset training for combatives: 1. You don't train it by reading about it. 2. You don't train it by listening to somebody else talk about it. 3. You don't train it by watching DVDs...