Month: February 2018

Okay, let’s look at flintlocks, muskets, and black powder cowboy guns. Back in the day, firearms were ridiculously difficult to load, aim and fire….

Why am I spending so much time on guns? Well, odds are probably about 90% that if you plan on someone murdering someone else…

Let’s talk about rifles and so-called assault weapons. You can’t call a AK-47 a “Machine gun”. It’s like calling a Mercedes a “Bus”. Machine…

Let’s look at guns first. The gun is the most common weapon used in novels. What’s the least? A little known African weapon known…

We’ve done a VERY cursory examination of unarmed fighting, and I’ve left a lot out. I didn’t even touch on Filipino arts at all…

Gave up on the roman numerals. I was having nightmares of being back in 8th grade. AUUGHHH!!!! So, how do you write a fight…

Roman Numerals. My first big mistake with this series! I remember just after getting my second degree black belt, reading a sci-fi novel where…

Modern martial arts. There’s been a ton of them, like combat-o, who made the mistake of bragging they were unbeatable. Then they went into…

I better wind this series up soon, or I’m going to have to try to remember what C and M are in Roman Numerals!…

Yesterday, we covered Okinawan Karate. Japanese Karate to a certain extent was derived from the first few years of Funakoshi’s students, who transformed it…