Lord of the Flies is one of the world’s best-loved allegories of civilization and the way it has played out through violence. Continue reading
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Why Game of Thrones Has Come to Fascinate Us
Posted in Film, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags CCTV, Coppola, Denis Rader, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Irreversible, Jamie Lannister, Joffrey Lannister, John Hobbes, Leviathan, Lord of the Flies, Marquis of Queensbury, Mountain, Navy SEAL, Oberyn Martell, Piggy, Polanski, Ralph, Robert Towne, Salo, Target Focus Training, Tim Larkin, Tyrion Lannister, Verys, Viper, William Golding on November 4, 2014 by Jarrod BoyleReality-Based Self Defence: Scenario Training – 2
Posted in Journalism with tags Blitz Magazine, fear pyramid, Geoff Thompson, Jim Armstrong, Lee Morrison, martial arts, reality-based self-defence, S.P.E.A.R, scenario training, Senshido, Target Focus Training, Tim Larkin, Tony Blauer, Urban Combatives on October 5, 2014 by Jarrod BoyleBlitz Magazine, September 2014 Vol. 28. No.9
“Senshido is not a style or system as such,” begins Jimmy Armstrong, the Glen Waverly-based instructor who also teaches Lee Morrison’s Urban Combatives. “It’s more a collective group of people that really want to help others and we use the vehicle of self-protection to do that. A lot of people seem to think it’s a style [or] system and all we do is shred people and do scenario training to the ‘nth’ degree, but what we do is far bigger than just those two things.” Continue reading