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AFOOT AND FLOORED-GROUNDED.
Previously here, I explained why I use the term "emergency" throughout the Survival Centric Hand, Stick, Knife and Gun courses' fight modules. If you are fighting in crime and war it's an emergency. Part of this is "emergency maneuvering." Only I use differing terms for those altitudes. I introduce “afoot maneuvers and exercises ” and “floored-grounded maneuvers and exercises." Why the nomenclature?

I use the word, the term “afoot” instead of just “standing” or “upright,” because afoot already means standing and upright, but it also possesses an inherent vibe-sense of motion. You are afoot therefore up and doing...something.

I use the dual noun term “floored-grounded” because it instantly makes people realize “Oh yeah." "There too,” there where the negatives of inside and outside surface fighting exist. Notice the word “mat” is not included. Because it ain't ..."really there." Mats are a fake floor-ground.

If instructors are trying to convince you that sport-art-mat "submission ground fighting" is also “real” world, mixed weapon, self-defense? They are quite partially, "concretely" wrong, (pun intended) either somewhat ignorant or somewhat deceptive. If they know they are just doing an art-sport only. Great.

Mats are still very handy. Here’s a formula for reality mat introduction and regular use. Have practitioners first train on real surfaces. Work out on a real floor or outside for a period-segment. Then after that time is considerably clocked in, that inoculation-reality-feeling is regularly experienced, switch over to the mats for extended time training. Mats will extend the experimentation, rather than end it. You’ve clocked-in, touched-base with your reality time. You and your body know that sucked. Now onto the mats to practice more. Concentrate on moves, etc. without ripping your skin off.

Beyond the hand, the stick, knife and gun courses require maneuverings with weapon carry, weapon drawing and weapon use. Overall, afoot and floor-ground fight maneuvering is four-part study consisting of:

1) Natural walking, running and crawling-rolling about.

2) Footwork from all sports, not just boxing and kick boxing, but basketball, football, soccer, tennis etc. Make this connection. Use what you are already doing. I have many stories about this.

3) Obstacle course challenges. (There's a reason the police and military use them. But it is important that the obstacles be real-world predictable, mission-oriented. Reduce the abstract.)

4) Absorb the floored-grounded maneuvers that are directly helpful and related to survival, not sport. Not art. For just one example, their chokes are fantastic, while endless chess-like-submissions are mostly off-mission rabbit hole ditractions for crime and war fighting. Fun. Addictive. Amazing, but off-mission.

The Mark Lynn Benefit is "in the books." Such a big thanks to all who came in from as far away as Indiana. And thanks to all who donated from all of North America. Along with single day seminars from 2 satellite schools in Kansas City and in CT..

The effort could be well near or at $9,000 as donations are still coming in. The top photo is of Francisco Sanchez Zambrano covering his vast knowledge of Muay Thai. I taught two-hand stick and related stick floor-ground fighting. And David Beck taught Hapkido. "The Mad Professer" (yes, a real college departmant head) Jeff Allen killed with a boxing session and a ground survival session.

Bottom photo? 1990’s “Howling Commandos” (nickname for those who've been with me that long - like certainly Mark Lynn) Francisco, Jeff “Rawhide” Laun, and Jason “Run n’ Gun” Gutierrez. All know Mark well from those thrilling days of yesteryear and since, and showed up to be, and help the cause.

Mark remains in a rehab "house"...

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WHY THE WORD "EMERGENCY?"
The modules in each in my Survival Centric hand, stick, knife and gun courses, each level, each module within each level, include these topics:

*Mentality and psychology.

*Emergency medicine.

*Fusion. Organizing and blending hand, stick, knife, and gun training methods together as much as possible.

Emergency fighting as module titles. The word emergency. If you (citizen, enforcement, military) are suddenly forced to fight versus crime and war, it is indeed an emergency. It's a personal emergency for you. It's an emergency with striking, kicking, grappling, weapon use, all seamlessly applied, afoot through floored-grounded problems. For a naming example:

"Emergency Striking: The Elbow module."
"Emergency Kicking: The Frontal Snapping Kick Module."
"Emergency Grappling: The Rear Pulldown Module."
(These modules include hand, stick, knife and gun applications where plausible.)

Emergency ____this or that." In emergencies, you are "surrounded" by the law, moral and ethical standards. There are always appropriate, situational "use of force" and even military "rules of engagement." Officially calling this or that an “emergency” as system doctrine, reminds us (and naysayers and prosecutors) of the “who, what, where, when, how and why” bedrock. Plus, the attached moral, ethical, legal imperatives to survive the “before, during and after” of violence. Especially the AFTER, so often ignored in martial training.

- Yes, remember, the BIG "after!” The hospitals? Being or not-being arrested? And-or sued? A real teacher or student of so-called "survival" MUST consider the...aftermath. If your macho rough-tough-guy instructor doesn't include these warnings, or at least mention-warns about the "after" problems in their doctrine-mission-statement, (if they even are smart enough to have such a doctrine-mission-statement), I would find someone else. Think about it. In sports, arts, hobbies there is no real "after." You go home and take a shower. Have a beer with your classmates. You're not sitting in a holding tank or interrogation room. Part of my job is to keep you out of jail and off the E.R. bed.

(Of course, if you are doing a hobby, sport, or love an art? Know what you are doing and where it fits in the big picture. And then play on and have fun. Great. If you are happy I am happy. I myself, Survival Centric itself, have no time for play, hobbies or games. Even my Essential FMA course - taught on demand - is very cut down, serious and simple. Unnecessary complexity is like a death warrant.)

FLOORED-GROUNDED
Where do fight collisions occur? Where do the crashes, sticking points, and stopping points happen in conversations, arguments, arrests, fights, ambushes, violent encounters, Crime and war?
Many people refer to these areas as “ranges.” Students often ask range-related questions, and many training systems formally divide their curricula into ranges: kicking range, boxing range, grappling ranges. Then knife attack range. pistol attack range, rifle attack range, missile attack range, biological attack ranges, and so on.

Instead, I use collisions. Collision Six of my "Collision Six" module is all things, mixed weapon, floor-ground crashes. Note that I don’t just use the word “ground” or ground fighting. Why the hyphen? here's why...

• Gound. Regular people think of the word "ground," well, as everything outside, all surfaces outside. The dirt, rocks, grass, the streets, pavement, etc.. the ubiquitous “alleyway.” All that is "out of doors" geographically.
• Floor. Inside. Insides are where much fighting also occurs. We easily, quickly consider the word with all things inside like tiles, wood, carpet (over cement). Stairs. Etc.

Both pieces of geography have surrounding “stuff” too. To trip over, bang into, or even use. Needless to say, neither of these outdoor and indoor surfaces are…matted, padded.

I believe the two nouns “floored-grounded” linked together by a hyphen immediately conjures up, reminds people the harsh realities. Not just landed hard down on them, but also fishing-rubbing-sliding around on them.

In short, my decades in uniform and plain-clothes have taught me all that indoor, outdoor floor-ground stuff generally speaking, extra…sucks. I mean, you gotta' do what you gotta' do. But it sucks.

First of the month business. Some up and comings...

What happened to Australia in August? My heart happened. Increased heart rate and atrial fib, right after I had bronchitus months ago. A known kick starter for these heart problems. Stuff that should have gone away. Heart rate did drop to normal in a few weeks. But fib did not, bouncing around normal. Massive testing was next. Heart itself in super condition...except for this electric, mysterious, leftover fib. I feel symptomless and 100%.
Fib testing and treatment experiments have now crept well into August, keeping me home (as in the USA, but off of 15 hour flights to OZ.)

Worst case for me they say, a little interior "burn-arounds" for August which is no worse than an in-and-out serious dental visit, So the rest of 2026 is still on.

Geordie Lavers McBain in Brisbane vaulted into action changing most everything to February 2027. Brisbane-Melbourne, Perth and Snydney. (Fiji in the works.)

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NOTES ON BOXING GLOVE CANCERS
It sort of pains me to write this because most people love their boxing gloves. But I think it will pain some of you more eventually not to read and understand this. It’s about the negatives. the “boxing glove cancers.” You see in many ways without this knowledge-discussion on punching you don't know if you are either a sport boxer, or a bareknuckle self-defense puncher. The glove is a yardstick for this.

A good practitioner should know their mission and the difference. Both should be able to articulate and explain how this big boxing glove cancer manifests in training and reality. But numerous instructors and systems you blindly trust don't. This does not speak well of their wisdom. Their mission. Or yours.

The glove and bareknuckle related recipe of which I speak here is only hand – wrist - forearm. Three-part harmony. We are not migrating out to body position and movement etc., all of which actually puts more pressure on the recipe. In the self-defense, crime and war fighting, we the puncher will not have big, padded gloves. Will not have a wrapped wrist and lower forearm. We will have to make a bare, solid, tight, clenched fist. Meanwhile, a boxer-boxer and related “muscle-memory” has a big, padded glove, wrists wrapped, and does-not, cannot make a solid fist inside a boxing glove. Remember the night Mike Tyson punched that jerk in a Las Vegas bar. Mike knocked the guy into the next dimension…but broke his hand.

This is not an argument for palm strikes over punching. Another topic. In fact, these days we see a plethora of successful, multiple bareknuckle punches on the internet. Granted we don’t see the after-camera, aftermath of said punches, but from what we see these gloveless punchers do okay. There will always be anecdotal tales for and against punching in general. (Remember not to punch the “bicycle helmet area” of the head-skull. Aim lower)

Classic, gloveless martial arts like karate or kung fu worried about “fist-bone density-punch-hand-survival” and have exercises and equipment to build density. Makiwara pads etc. But you just can’t do too much of that! Else you'll eventually “destroy” your hands as some old-timers have done, turning their hands into arthritic-ridden, Klingon mitts. I have a few old-timer friends that cannot hold a cup of coffee in their hand from “karate arthritis.” But some building of the fist bones density is smart. (Same with the whole body and bones.)

Bag time. In Krav Maga and combatives training, we are supposed to be prepping to fight bareknuckle, yet some versions of those reality systems insist on excessive boxing glove time. Like on heavy bags. Why would survivalists spend endless hours on heavy bags with big boxing gloves? I see reality classes where for 15 minutes or so of an hour, people don big boxing gloves and hit heavy bags. Why not do this bare-knuckle? After all, this is Krav. This is crime and war fighting combatives. Or, at least why not MMA gloves? Much closer to bare hand.

Here’s a bag idea I enforce. Spend a certain amount of time, hitting the bag bareknuckle, developing a closer feel for proper reality for the hands, wrists, forearms recipe. Adding full body force tests the recipe for sure. Then after a reasonable period, add the extra time and put on the MMA gloves. This way you have touched upon the bareknuckle development and now excessive time could-should have some hand protection. MMA gloves. Big boxing gloves? NO! ZERO time with big boxing gloves! What are you training for? Your mission? Your goal?

I have seen a rather famous, self-professed “tough-guy-combatives” person spend several hours of each seminar teaching boxing-boxing with big gloves yet within in the combatives framework pitch. Of course, there are some boxing elements that are important to do…but bareknuckle. No question. But his session becomes big glove striking and big glove blocking. Straight-up boxing-boxing. This is an abstract disservice to bareknuckle survival, making dangerous, off-mission, muscle memory. Now, if said famous instructor declared in an opening morning, seminar briefing…

“Morning goal? Combatives. After lunch we will cover SPORT Boxing for 2 hours.” Okay. There’s an honest distinction. People know the topic shift. One topic in the morning. This other topic this afternoon. Blurring the two into one is a doctrine disservice. And then lots of naïve practitioners think, “Wow, I am doing the real tough stuff! Look at me! I am wearing boxing gloves and doing boxing! My macho barometer has gone way up." Well, yes and no, bubba. The more time you wear boxing gloves the more you are off-survival mission.

While boxing glove fighting and bare-knuckle fighting share some vital and common roots, they are not truly the exact same activity. Skilled boxers possess valuable attributes to decipher and learn-teach from. But remove those gloves, and fighting begins to change. Bare-knuckle fighting introduces additional considerations that simply cannot be ignored. This is a challenging distinction I know well, all puzzle pieces. Joe Lewis once said, “Nothing replaces ring time.” I believe in this too. In my black belt test, we have segments of developed kick boxing-MMA. But it must be proportionate with the big mission. One way is how “much percentage” rule.

How much? For example, what percent of your class, your seminar are you wearing big boxing gloves in your Krav-combatives-survival, self-defense class? Sure, there are some clever uses for gloves. I use them a bit too. Like for example being down on your back and trying escapes and counters. It’s good for the top-side trainer to wear boxing gloves and give the bottom-side trainee some safer flak and stress to overcome these strikes and function. (Wait? What? You are ground fighting without punching-striking? Then you are doing sporty-sport-art with abstract benefits. Are you sure you are in the right class? Right school? Right doctrine? Is this what you really wanted? Ignoring strikes as a doctrine?)

Boxing gloves also distort reality blocking. Sport boxing uses a great deal of big glove-based defense that should not be applied to bareknuckle reality. But that is another succinct topic for another essay. And, needless to add, boxing gloves and grabbing do not go hand in hand (pun intended). Like Judo players "forget" to punch after much time, boxers in boxing gloves "forget" to hand grab.

At very least wrestle with your boxing glove doctrine-applications and preach-teach-warn your people about these boxing glove cancers. A boxing glove is mandatory in boxing. Mandatory. A boxing glove in self-defense training can be an occasional tool if wisely applied. Be on mission.

If you are going to sport box? Then sport box. Wear those big gloves. You will be performing with big gloves on. If you are going to be survivalist citizen, cop or soldier, train like a survivalist. Train a lot with a bare closed fist the instant of punching, and in such a way...that you can drink coffee with you’re 65 years old. That’s surviving too.