“My Battle-Axe Has a Hale Thirst!”

Greetings Warriors!

Black Box 12 is released, well, as of right…NOW!

· A preview of the syllabus for Black Box #12, released tomorrow.

In short:

· Clinching w/ a Weapon

· Tomahawk-Battleaxe Dancing

· RnT Mount Escapes

· And Two Old School PT Hidden Gems

This one is, no hyperbole, pure OD mean and killin’.

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ESP RAW 225

The Black Box Project 12: Clinching w/ a Weapon/Tomahawk-Battleaxe Dancing/RnT Mount Escapes & Old School PT

Mark Hatmaker

Rough ‘n’ Tumble Clinching w/ a Weapon

Bowie “Spine-Grip”

· Slicing-In

· + Butting-In

· Wheeling the Slice to Gut-Ripping [Bone-Block Correlate]

· Chopping-In to Neck-Hooking

· Spine-Pull to Slice-Out

· + Slice-Back or…

· Stab-Back

· Neck-Hooking to “Meat ‘ems” to Slice-Outs

Bowie “Digger-Grip”

· Digging-In

· Hooking-In

· To Rolling-Grip Slice-Out

· + Reverse-Roll Slice or…

· Back-Stab

· Hook-In to Meat ’em to Rabbit-Stab

Tomahawk

· Chop-In or…

· Hook-In

· Hook-In & Ground-the-Fist [Sokoob’i Matzoc’a] or…

· Hook-In + Sky-Fist Punch [Tomoob’i Topa’itu] to Ground-the-Fist

C & E Exits

· The X-Exits

· Spine-Grip Blade Pushing

· Digger-Grip Blade Pushing

· Tomahawk Punch Pushing

· The Shrugging to…

· Spine-Grip Gutting

· Digger-Grip Gutting

· Tomahawk Breastbone Cracker

Ground Scufflin’ Hellaciousness

Surviving the Top-Saddle/Mounted Position

· Sport answers can be technical and elaborate due to Petzmann Effects

· We need Quick & Dirty Survival answers in the face of strikes, poor ground terrain, and potential of multiple attackers.

· Before we get out, we need to Not Get Hit.

· Street/Rough ‘n’ Tumble Rule #1: Do NOT Bridge without the Clutch

· Street/Rough ‘n’ Tumble Rule #2: Do NOT Shrimp/Wrestler’s Kick without the Clutch

· The Under-Saddle Survival Base

· Foot Position Reason #1: Hard to Spur

· Reason #2: Powers The Knee-Bump

· Solo-Knee-Bump Form

· Partnered Knee-Bump

· The Clutch

· Precise grip positioning for punch control.

· Cross Post & Wrench vs. Attempted Punching

· R for R w/ Wrench L & Vice Versa

· You ain’t out…yet…but this is the survival base out of which all RnT Top-Saddle Escapes will operate.

· Master these steps of saving your skull then we’ll overlay the escapes/bottom attacks on top.

Frontier Weaponry: Tomahawk “Dancing”

· Defining the Tomahawk Dance

· Skill-Developer and Conditioner Combined

· There are many versions, that can be linked and/or improvised within but we will offer standard sets to educate the unity of weapon familiarization, weapon-use stamina, and the surprising amount of variety in one-one maneuvering.

· My suggestion, toss the Kettlebell time and put that into ‘hawk cultivation.

Warm-Up #1: Tso’apu Hagowoi’tu [The Shoulder Loosener]

· 1 3-Minute Round

Warm-Up #2: Kwipunar’u Nostsowit’u [Twisting Strength]

· 1 3-Minute Round

Tsohpe Nikhar’i Sum’u [Tomahawk Dance One] Tabe Mahoinit’u [The Sun Goes in Circles]

· Step 1: Tall Circles [Kwanaba’itu Mahoinit’u]

· Step 2: Advancing the Sun Goes Behind a Cloud [Tomookat’u Mahoinit’u]

· Step 3: The Sun Touches the Ground [Sokoob’i Tabe]

· Step 4: Retreating Rising into the Cloud [Nuu’ Tomookat’u]

· Step 5: Retreating into Tall Circles

Training Suggestions

· Each Step as an Independent Clockwise & Anti-Clockwise Round

· 1 Round as Double Sun Circles thru Each Step

· 1 Round as Single Clockwise Circles thru Each Step

· 1 Round as single Anti-Clockwise Circles thru Each Step

Old School PT Spotlight: Two Hidden Gems

· The vital importance of the gluteus medius & psoas to old school thought.

· The Psoas as foundation link.

· The gluteus medius as the “subtle” power.

· The “Walk.” [This pops up more in The Suakhet’u Program.]

Two Exercises to Targeting These Two Gems

· The Sky-Touch

· The Extended Controlled Lift

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“My Battle-Axe Has a Hale Thirst!”

Mark Hatmaker

Below you will find a few choice references to battle-axes from the sagas interspersed with a bit of bite-swinging lore.

“A manly attack, that!”—[Spoken by Kari Solmundarson after Skarphedin Njasson kills Thrain Sigfusson with an axe strike to the jaw.] Njal’s Saga, Ch.92

A favored weapon of what is called the Viking warrior tradition, we also find its influence bleeding into the early Pict and Scots where for a while it was a weapon of preference—likely heavily influenced by the Viking influx in the region.

“Now just for fun we’ll each name what we place our trust in. I’ll choose first, and there are three things I place reliance on---one is my purse, the second my axe, the third my storehouse.”—Spoken by Glum in Killer Glum’s Saga, Ch. 14

We also find the indigenous peoples of the Americas using axes [tomahawk has become the catch-all term] both small hand-axes and, also in some cases, larger two-handers more reminiscent of what we see in the aforementioned cultures. We must never forget the possible influence from these Norsemen.

See a prior newsletter offering for the contact point. Vikings, Voyageurs & Skræling.

“He wore a plated mail-coat and a steel helmet with a brim as wide as the width of your hand. He held a gleaming axe over his shoulder, the blade of which was an ell in length. The man was dark, with black eyes and the appearance of a Viking.”—Said of Hunbogi the Strong in The Saga of the People of Laxardal, Ch. 62.

There is a deep and long culture of pragmatic ax use from the woodsmen of Northern Europe to the lumberjacks of the Americas. One would be remiss if one did not delve deeply into the ways and means of axe use by those who used them for hours each and every day of their lives.

For just one of our many explorations of lumbermen lore see The Lumberjack Tabata, [Battle] Ax Mechanics & “Don’t Be a Rubber Maid”

“He was dressed in a black tunic and blue-striped trousers and high black boots; he had a silver belt around his waist and was holding in his hand the axe with which he had killed Thrain—he called it Battle-Ogre—and a small shield, and around his head he had a silk band, with his hair combed back over his ears. He looked the complete warrior, and everybody knew him without having seen him before.”—A description of Skarphedin Nhalsson.] Njals’ Saga, Ch. 120.

The use of battle-axes, tomahawk two-handers as conditioner and war implement were often augmented by sets, or “dances” that allowed the wielder to know the weapon from knob to eye and build up a helluva physique while at it.

For instruction in beginning your own battleaxe journey see the current RAW/Black Box.

“They shall discover today that my axe is both my shield and my armour.”—[Thormod Kolbrun’s skald upon being asked why he carries no shield. The Saga of The Sworn Brothers, Ch. 24

The Black Box Project will present 50+ Battle-Axe dances over the next several volumes.

“He had a broad axe, a mighty weapon, keen-edged and sharp, with which he had sent many a man to dine in Valhalla. He also had a barbed spear with a hard point, a large socket and thick shaft. In those days, very few men were armed with swords.”—Said of Thorgeir Havarsson in The Saga of The Sworn Brothers. Ch. 3

“Oliver lifted his axe and struck behind him with the extreme point of it, hitting the neck of the man who was coming up behind him, so that his throat and jawbone were cut through, and he fell dead backwards. Then he heaved his axe forwards, and struck the next man in the head, and clove him down to the shoulders.”—Saga of Magnus the Blind & Harald Gille

[For techniques, tactics, and strategies of Rough and Tumble Combat, Old-School Boxing, Mean-Ass Wrestling, Street-Ready Frontier Scrapping, nitty-gritty Old World PT, & Indigenous Ability culled from the historical record see the RAW/Black Box Project Subscription Service.]