RIP www. stickgrappler .net

Rest in Peace www . stickgrappler . net.

I had a good run with the custom domain name of www . stickgrappler . net. I don't recall when I started using the domain name. Will edit into this post when I find out.

About 2 or 3 years ago, Google discontinued providing the service of renewing custom domain names. Although Google emailed me about it well in advance, I was busy with Real Life. Haven't updated my blog/site since November 2020. 

I felt like getting back into blogging/posting after about a 4 year break circa 2024 and discovered the auto-setup with Google's custom domain name renewal on my behalf went kaputski. Now some Thai gambling site owns the domain name. Riddle me this Batman:  "Why does a Thai gambling site want to be called "stickgrappler .net" ???!?!?!?!!?"

I haven't had the time to update all the internal links in the 1,800+ posts to reflect the original domain name of http://stickgrappler.blogspot.com. I have slowly started the update though. In the meantime, if any links are broken, please replace "stickgrappler.blogspot.com" for www . stickgrappler . net and the link should work.

Slowly getting back into updating my blog/site. Thank you as always for joining me in my Sojourn of Septillion Steps!

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Venues of Fighting by Badger Johnson

Breaking down fighting into 'venues of fighting' helps with analysis.

1. Melee (mass fighting, group combat)

2. Warfare (all-out fighting with casualties)

3. Sport-fighting (MMA, cage fighting, ring fighting, No-holds barred fighting)

4. Dueling (agreed combat with some rules between two combatants)

Individual combat (stand up fighting, ground-fighting, but with rules)

5. Ceremonial fighting (traditional fighting, Sumo, Bataireacht (Irish stick fighting) and Coraíocht (Irish wrestling). )

6. Self-defense fighting (street fighting, mortal combat, life-or-death fighting)

7. Historical Reproduction fighting (HEMA, jousting)

8. Handheld-weapons fighting (single and double stick fighting, knife fighting, sword and buckler, handguns, flails, spears, and so on.)

9. Demonstration fighting (kata, one-steps, demonstrations using a static opponent)

10. Stage fighting - fighting for movies and theatre. Includes fanciful moves which may or may not be combat effective.

11. Gladiatorial fighting - combat against various foes, bear-baiting, and other animals.

12. Quick-kill fighting. It happens in other venues but there are specific methods of quick-kill like throat jabs, neck snaps and eye-jabs to deadly followups

Please check out Badger Johnson's other essays:

• A Martial Framework
• How To Exceed Your Plateaus
• Adding to Arnold's Six Principles of Success
• 10 Tips on how to analyze a martial art for effectiveness
• "To be a master is very different from being an expert."
• Addendum, Clarification and Expansion of Paul Vunak's Fighting Secrets
• Expanded Ways of Attack
• "Fifty Important Elements in Martial Arts"
• Can Trapping Work?
• The Genesis and Development of Zone Theory
• A few aspects of self-defense training
• Some of the important ten things…
• Over-speed Training - Accessing the Subconscious and the Power of Threes
• Coaching, self-coaching, talent, experience, genetics, opportunity, motivation
• Thresholding
• "I'd Like to Teach the World to Dance"
• Some thoughts today
• "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" 
• Beyond Martial Skills
• Some of the Major Misconceptions or Fallacies of JKD 
• How Bruce Lee may have improved skill using biofeedback 
• The Art of Fighting Without Fighting   
• Not Martial Trained, But Fighting Fit
• Against One Who Scares Us
• What Bruce Lee Taught Us 
• What is Mobile Kicking? 
• Fighting Fit Part 2 - The Seven Essentials 
• How Bruce Lee Trained His Quick Kill 
• Seeing Deeply - the Method and Intangibles 
• Big Picture - Training Martial Arts and Self-Defense 

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