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Kenpo in a Thimble
The CoRe Kenpo system is based on what Master Clayton was taught by Mills Crenshaw/Ed Parker Sr. back in the late 50s/early 60s. Master Clayton was awarded his Black Belt by SGM Ed Parker in late ’62 or early ’63. At the time Master Clayton was promoted to Black Belt (Shodan), the curriculum was much […]
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Using Assert to Create a Test Suite
Within software development circles, there’s an idea called “Test Driven Development” and since the basic idea behind Ansible is to treat “infrastructure as code” – why wouldn’t you want to do some testing to verify the changes you intended to make are in fact made? This is where the Assert statement in Ansible comes in, […]
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Ansible and Templated Commands
I was working to automate some checks for the CIS Docker CE benchmark and was having trouble passing commands that resemble the following: Trying to pass that to either a shell or a command statement in ansible results in a templating error. So what’s the problem? Basically, you’re passing a command that has its own […]
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A Crash Course in Strength Training
Building and keeping physical strength has been shown to be probably the single most important things you do for your longevity and overall health. But building strength has historically been something of a black art, and worse yet if you do some searching online for help, you’re just as likely to find a bunch of […]
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Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground
I was watching the following video from Andrew Branca at the Law of Self Defense and wanted to do a distillation for my classes (and anyone else that’s interested in self-protection). Elements of Self-Defense There are five elements that have to be present for a claim of “Self-Defense” to be valid: I’m not going to […]
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The OODA Loop
Colonel John Boyd coined a concept he called the O.O.D.A. Loop (he apparently always said each letter as opposed to calling the oo-dah loop), a simple way of looking at a conflict (typically physical). The letters in the acronym stand for: The basic idea being that first an action must be observed (a punch is […]
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The Triune Brain
Understanding violence can be tricky (especially for those of us who haven’t seen more than a fight in Highschool), but I’ve come across some great models over the years to help categorize different types of violence as well as how to recognize their motivations. One of the more handy models is the Triune Brain – […]
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Training Method Notes
The training methodology employed in Casey Clayton’s Kenpo is a modified version of how he was trained by Mills Crenshaw and Ed Parker Sr. (Master Clayton was awarded his Black Belt by Ed Sr. in late ’62 or early ’63). Basics The foundation of the system relies on solid and safe biomechanics when striking/kicking/standing. Thus […]