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...
The most dangerous one is the one in the middle. Warrant Officer Clint Oosthuizen of the South African Police Service is my Brother From Another Mother. He's a master instructor of karate, military combatives, knife combat, handgunnery, combat tactics urban and rural,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I received a delightful invitation today from Dr. Chris Berka, who read my post NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND THE REAL FIGHT. We're coordinating a discussion ABM will record and post on their social medias about how her work has inspired, influenced and reinforced my own...
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...