CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

Evaluating Drills

The One-Step

OS1: The One-Step

OS2: Four-Option One-Step

[Redacted]: The Baby Drill

OS3: Slow Man Drills

OS4: Three-Way Coaching

OS5: Dance Floor Melee

OS6: Frisk Fighting

OS7: Environmental Fighting

OS8: The Brawl

Interlude #1: Biases and Assumptions

Blindfold Drills

B1: Blindfolded Defense

B2: Blindfolded Targeting

B3: Core Fighting

B4: Blindfolded Infighting

D: Dynamic Fighting

D1: Dynamic Fighting

D2: Sumo

D3: The Hole against the Wall

D4: Moving in the Clinch

D5: French Randori

Interlude #2: Sources

F: Fundamentals

F1: Maai with Weapons

F2: Off-Lining

F3: Targeting

F4: Lock Flow

F5: Initiative

F6: Advanced Ukemi

F7: Pushing

F8: Core Defense

GM: Ground Movement Drills

GM1: Rollover

GM2: Rollover, Phase 2

GM3: Rollover, Phase 3

GM4: Rollover, Phase 4

GM5: The Wax On, Wax Off of Ground Fighting

GM6: One Up, One Down

GM7: Blindfolded Grappling

Interlude #3: Social and Asocial

PM: The Plastic-Mind Exercises

PM1: Animal Styles

PM2: Fighting the Elements

PM3: The Other

IW: Internal Work

IW1: Centering

IW2: Eating Frogs

IW3: The Game of the Stones

IW4: Lists

IW5: Slaughtering and Butchering

IW6: Ethics and Glitches

IW7: To Save My Children

IW8: The Predator Mind

IW9: Articulation

Interlude #4: Training Open-Ended Skills

C: Combat Drills

C1: Takeouts

C2: Multiman

C3: Breakthrough

C4: Bull in the Ring

C5: The Reception Line

Scenario Training

WW: World Work

WW1: The Clothespin Game

WW2: Ten New Things

WW3: Stalking

WW4: Escape and Evasion

WW5: Counting Coup

WW6: Say No

WW7: Dog Handling

WW8: Global Awareness

WW9: Legal Articulation

WW10: World Building

WW11: Personal Threat Assessment

SC: Sparring and Competition

SC1: Kumite and Variations

SC2: Judo Randori: Nage

SC3: Free Grappling and Variations

SC4: Jujutsu Randori

SC5: Full Contact

SC6: Mixed Martial Arts

SC7: Competition

Interlude #5: The Violence-Prone Play Group

T: Tricks and One-Offs

T1: The Touchstone

T2: “Hit Me as Hard as You Can”

T3: The No-Touch Parry

T4: Action/Reaction

T5: Gush

Real Superpowers You Can Have Today

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the Author