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MAY/27/24 Brick Mouse Speaks Man Weekend 2024 Review, Baltimore, 5/27/24

FEB/22/25 Ozark Agonistics Training with Paul BingHam in St. Louis, MO: April 26

FEB/06/25 Man Weekend 2025 May 22-25 in Halifax, PA

SEP/13/24 Fight Brain Meet Train Boxing, Stick, Knife & Wrestling: Saturday, October 26

APR/23/24 Man Weekend 2024 Moved to Pennsylvania Also, Crackpot Cleared to Fight By Doctor Dread

MAR/21/24 Stepping Out A Test Bout for The Beast O’Neal: 3/21/24, Portland, Oregon

MAR/19/24 Beast versus Crumb #1 Results of A Submission Boxing Bout Fought: 3/14/24

MAY/03/23 Joliet Agonistics Forming a New Experimental Training Group

JAN/09/23 60 Years Fled on Planet Meathead Training For My Final Fights on May 20, at Man Weekend 2023: 9/24/22, Utah

NOV/18/22 Call of the Wile Man Weekend Pre-Invitations for 2023: 6/15/2022

NOV/17/22 Post Fight Roster & Awards Man Weekend 2022: 6/13/2022

NOV/16/22 Dancing With the Brick Mouse Man Weekend 2022: 6/10-11/2022

NOV/15/22 Masculine Brutalistics Man Weekend 2022: 6/11/2022

NOV/14/22 Masculine Kinetics Man Weekend 2022: 6/11/2022

NOV/11/22 Masculine Logistics Man Weekend 2022: 6/10-12/2022

NOV/10/22 Boxing With Paul Bingham Man Weekend 2022: 6/11/2022

NOV/09/22 Meeting Andrew Edwards Man Weekend 2022: 6/10/2022

NOV/08/22 Jersey Moon Man Weekend 2022: 6/10/2022

NOV/07/22 Riding with Mescaline Franklin Man Weekend 2022: 6/15/2022

NOV/04/22 Paletopia East Tennessee: June 10, 2022

SEP/22/22 Man Weekend 2023 Video Highlights and a Message from the Man Weekend Boss

JUN/30/22 'Warshington' The Great Man Discussed by a Gutter Gnome

JUN/24/22 Andrew Edwards Interviews the Crackpot Warhorse Podcast #31: An Affair of Honor Part Two

APR/09/22 An Affair of Honor An Invitation Only Agonistics Meet in June 2022

MAR/24/22 Prepping Portland Joe Yeti Waters Relief Society HQ: 12/11/21

JAN/10/22 'Do You Still Coach?' Bradley is Wondering about Crackpot Combat Training: Dateline 11/7/21

NOV/16/21 Bob or A Bag? JW Cues the Crackpot on Free-standing Striking Apparatus

MAY/08/21 Kali? CB MacCull Asks the Crackpot About Knife Fighting Activity

MAR/17/21 'I Want to Start a Stick Fighting Club' Baruch Queries the Crackpot on Starting a Stick Fighting Club

MAR/16/21 The Five Kinds of Combat Pain Jason Wonders at the Winter of a Fighting Life and the Downside of Combat Training

NOV/09/20 ‘The Buckler’ Non-Elastic Mister Ney Wants to Know How to Use the Polypropylene Buckler from Cold Steel

JUN/20/20 Synonymous America Urban Survival Training in an Eastern Synonymous State, July 18-19

APR/14/20 ‘Point Deception' Electric Dan is Curious About Stick-Fighting with Fencers

APR/07/20 ‘Two-On-One Stick’ Electric Dan Wants to Know about the Practicality of a Weapon in Each Hand

MAR/10/20 Welcome to the Wheelhouse Practical Defense Video 6

MAR/05/20 Loco Lobo The Toughest Man I Knew

MAR/05/20 The Knee-Brace Crackpot Podcast #76

MAR/01/20 How Not to Get Hit Dennis Documenting Crackpot Combatives

MAR/01/20 How to Make a Snake Dennis and James Discuss the Training Snake

JAN/01/20 A Shilleagh for Christmas Crackpot Mailbox: Mars Ultor and Escaped from Baltimore Discuss Tire Thumping

OCT/27/19 'Putting in the Work' Man Weekend 2019 Stick Fights

SEP/28/19 Twerps, Goons and Meatshields Videos An Evolution of Freestyle Stick-Fighting and Blunt Machete Dueling in Maryland-Pennsylvania: 2004-19

SEP/09/19 Man Weekend 2019 Highlights from Lancaster Agonistics

SEP/06/19 'To Spawn as Many of My Kind as I Can' Crackpot Mailbox: MRT and James Discuss Anarcho-Tranny* Weaponry and Fat Girls!

MAY/06/19 ‘Would You Guide a Group of Young Men?’ Crackpot Mailbox: ‘In an Introduction to Combat and Fitness?’ Maximus Rex Wants to Know

OCT/10/18 Does Altitude Training Work? Comparing Stamina Before and After 3 Months of Alpine Training

SEP/29/18 ‘Tomahawk Chop’ Viking vs Erique Axe Knife Man Weekend 2018

SEP/28/18 Paladin vs Erique Steel Duel Man weekend 2018

SEP/25/18 Paladin versus Viking A Modern Agonistics Blunt Steel Duel

JUL/20/18 Practice Slow, Learn Quick Three Videos on Minimal Contact Coach Sparring with Blunt Extension Weapons

JUL/14/18 Heavy Fencing Notes on Slow Sparring with Overweight Weapons

JUN/30/18 Long Stick Notes on Sparring with Heavy 30 to 36 inch Sticks

JUN/18/18 Greetings Gentlemen Sean and James on this Year’s Man Weekend

JUN/12/18 A Masculine Missive Notes on Re-Forging a Half-Worn Soul

JUN/12/18 James LaFond Final Stick Fight By Lancaster Agonistics

FEB/24/18 Devil & The Good Sons T-Ball Bat Training: As An Exercise and a Weapon

OCT/17/17 Horizontal Heritage Employing Cultural Appropriation as a Masculine Virtue?

OCT/05/17 Man Weekend 2017 Footage of Our July Meet in Out Of Service, PA

OCT/04/17 'Gentlemen?' Nero the Pict versus the Khan

SEP/24/17 Training with James LaFond Modern Agonistics: Boxing, Knife Fighting, Machete Dueling, Stick Fighting and Urban Survival Methods

JUL/24/17 Combative Appropriation Among the Men of the Hanged God, Out of Service, PA, 7/22-23/2017

JUL/17/17 Training Heavy Extension Weapons A Crucifix Post Video

JUL/14/17 The Umbrella Block Modern Agonistics Training Video

JUL/12/17 Training Like a Gladiator Notes on a Modern Version of the Palus

MAY/19/17 'Funny Stories, Vicious Fights' A Modern Agonistics Q&A with Lynn Lockhart

MAY/05/17 Lancaster Agonistics Training in Southern Pennsylvania with Sean Glass

MAY/05/17 Goon Surfing A Time and Measure Drill with Focus Mitts, Not Punching Mitts

MAY/05/17 Block-Head Jab Drill Learning How To Deal with the KO Puncher in Your Bag Work

MAY/05/17 ‘Why You Don’t Lead With a Power Jab’ A Video Primer on the Jab

MAY/05/17 What Knuckles Do You Punch With? An Introduction to the Use of the Fist

MAY/05/17 ‘Football with a Stick’ The Roof Block Drill: Training to Defend against the Overhand with a Stick

MAY/05/17 Punishing Foe-Meat Dehumanizing the Antagonist in a Primal Way, With the Stick Slash

MAY/05/17 Shanking Arуas A Demonstration of Primitive Single-Edged Knife Use Against an Unarmed Attacker

MAY/05/17 The Spear Drill Defending against the Knife Stab with No Weapon: A Video Contact Drill

MAY/05/17 Defending against the Twerp Realistic Size Relationships Between Antagonists

MAY/05/17 ‘The Meat of Your Hand’ An Extension weapon Review for Jeremy Bentham

MAY/05/17 Keeping the Savages at Bay A Briefing on Weapon Retention

MAY/05/17 Beneath the Stairway to Heaven Sam Jay’s Training Video: An Instructional on Extension Weapons

MAY/05/17 For Ishmael Demonstrating Rocky Mountain Black Hawthorn Crafted as a Hoodrat Warding Baton

MAY/05/17 Cane Them! Some Old Fat Guy Who Looks Like He Just Rolled Out of Bed Attacks a Yellow Dindu Double Amputee!

APR/04/17 Interview with a Literary Vampire Oliver from The Beat Catches James Training Behind the Old Plantation House

JAN/05/17 ‘No Dues, Rituals, Traditions or Barriers’ Modern Agonistics Kindle Edition

OCT/10/16 Thank You, Jim The End of My Coaching Road

OCT/08/16 Man Weekend 2016 Erique, Nick, Sean and James Stick-Fighting in the May Rain on the Shoulder of a Pennsylvania Mountain

SEP/14/16 ‘Everybody and Their Sister’ A Man Question from Rick Wayne on Selecting a Combat Art

AUG/31/16 ‘Charles versus Lonely Dog?’ A Man Question from Sean about Matching Stick-Fighters

AUG/18/16 With the Dondus Sparring on the Net-Removed Basketball Court: 8/11/16

AUG/01/16 The Range Ladder Developing Adaptable Time and Measure for Hand-to-Hand Mayhem

JUL/16/16 Stoking the Fighter's Fire Notes on Coach-Sparring

JUN/30/16 Agonistics Update Baltimore Training Schedule as Of July, 2016

MAY/23/16 ‘The Gangster Shot’ Handling Firearms in Halifax, PA 5/21/16

MAY/23/16 Fighting in the Rain My Last Stick Fight, Halifax, PA, 5/21/2016

MAY/12/16 ‘Getting on Board’ A Modern Agonistics Fighter is Writing for an MMA Webzine

MAY/11/16 Calling Out the Black Jamaican Nazi A Man Weekend, 2016 Challenge: What About that Amistad Duel, Oliver Wendell Hayes?

MAY/11/16 Planting Twerps Calling out Cory for Man Weekend 2016

MAY/11/16 Calling out the Afro-Cherokee Viking A Man Weekend, 2016 Challenge: Erique, Three Rounds of FMA, Your Choice of Weapons

MAY/10/16 Peter Pan with a Tazer Man Weekend 2016: An Open Challenge to Members of Lancaster Agonistics

APR/11/16 Agon 2016 Saturday, 4/16 & Sunday, 4/17: 12-1 Each Day

APR/03/16 Seeking Time and Measure Knife Practice 20 March, 2016

APR/01/16 A Prayer for Ray Down But Not Out

MAR/16/16 ‘Private Agon’ Saturday, April 16, 2016, 12-1 p.m.

MAR/09/16 ‘What Say You Men?’ The Lancaster Agonistics Man Weekend

FEB/21/16 Going Out On My Shield Modern Agonistics Fighters Asked to Fight at an April Event

FEB/19/16 'Practice Slow, Learn Quick’ Combination Sparring

FEB/19/16 Working with a Sparring Partner Stick Boxing & Uneven Double Stick

FEB/19/16 Navigating the Combat Space Stick Basics #4 Footwork Steps & Drills

FEB/19/16 Dominating and Vacating the Combat Space Adapting FMA Counts to Solo Training: Stick Basics #3 Stroke Catalog

FEB/18/16 Being A Factor in the Combat Space Stick Fighting Basics #2 Stroke Fundamentals

FEB/17/16 ‘When the Spartans Checked Out’ Stick Basics #1 Forearm Conditioning Exercises

DEC/18/15 Winter Training, 2015-16 Agonistics and Boxing Update

NOV/08/15 Agonistics: Sunday, 11/22/15, Noon until 3 p.m. Boxing, Stick-Fighting and Knife-fighting Drills and Sparring

JUL/23/15 The Beat Down Cory’s Farewell Agon: Sunday, August 16, 2015, 1:30 p.m. at Jim Frederick’s Kenpo

JUL/11/15 Wear A Cup When Stick Fighting! Charles & James Fight it Out For Gabriel's Legacy Black Sash

JUL/11/15 Weaponry Footwork Study Attention Sean, Dave, Alex and Kolya: Four Different Styles of Mobility in Full Contact Round Robin Session

JUL/06/15 Dull Steel Knife Duels Damien and James Attempt to Recreate Roman Scissor Combat

JUN/30/15 Stick Fighting Terminology Basic Body Mechanics

JUN/29/15 Fresh Meat Alert! [Confirmations] Sean's Agon: Tuesday, July 14, 2015, 11:00 A.M., a Sensibly Brutal Celebration of Masculinity

JUN/23/15 Double Blade versus Blade & Shield Damien Using Low-line Kicks versus James from a Set of 2005 Steel Bouts

JUN/16/15 Erique's Agon Recap A Contact Record

JUN/14/15 Stick-fighting Footwork Notes A Stick Work Discussion with Dave

JUN/12/15 Erique's Agon Sunday, June 14, 1:30-2 p.m., Jim Frederick's Kenpo Karate School

JUN/07/15 Stick Takedowns Two Single Stick Fights That Went to the Ground

JUN/05/15 The Supinated Thrust Breaking Rhythm in a Machete Duel

MAY/28/15 The Lateral Head Stroke The Mechanics of Scoring the Stick-fighting Master Stroke

APR/30/15 Agon 2015 Hosted by Pat & Lou Pierce, 6/14/15, at A Parkville Location Yet to be Determined

APR/08/15 Dueling With the Cold Steel Gladius James and Cory Experiment with The Synthetic Blunt Sword

APR/05/15 Modern Agonistics Just in Print from DarkEyedGirl Books

APR/02/15 Bag Work Building Stick Stroke Mechanics: Answering A Video Coaching Request From Athenian Alex

MAR/29/15 Footwear & Melee Tactics A Vintage Machete Duel Between Kestle & LaFond

JAN/30/15 Combat For Men Empty Hand and Armed Training

NOV/25/14 Roof Block Clinic Sunday, November 30, 2014, 1:00 p.m. Jim Frederick's Kenpo

SEP/16/14 Fighting for Dom’s Helmet Modern Agonistics Event Update

AUG/02/14 ‘Sci-fi Male Solipsism’ Beauties in Beast Mode: Why Are So Many Men Applauding Masculine Women? By Jack Donovan

JUL/27/14 ‘Always Existing by Nature’ The Wars of the Ancient Greeks by Victor Davis Hansen

JUL/18/14 Shadowboxing for Bare Knuckle A Man Question from Brooklyn Shane

JUL/17/14 Worshipping in the Temple of Ouch Achieving Self-evolution Through Combat

JUL/06/14 At The Gates of Inebriation A Combat Confessional

JUN/17/14 ‘And Your Mongrel Children Too!’ A Race-mixing Road Trip

JUN/17/14 The Strip Notes on The Fighter’s Subconscious Eye

JUN/12/14 Staying Fight Fit Past Terminal Notes on Fight Conditioning Past Fifty without Healthcare

MAY/19/14 Alpha Brawl #1 Video 5/18/14: Charles versus James

MAY/18/14 Not Training For a Fight? Why it Happens

MAY/15/14 Gabriel’s Belt #1 The First Modern Agonistics Alpha Brawl

MAY/06/14 Sympathy For The Goon Combat Arts Pitfalls for the Big Man

MAY/02/14 Team Inebriation versus Team Sober An Agonistics Anonymous Update

APR/29/14 Charles versus James A Modern Agonistics Challenge

APR/27/14 The Shanking Video Saturday April 19th 2014

APR/16/14 Slash & Thrust An Agonistics Guide to Round-Robin Scoring with Blades

APR/15/14 Ghetto She-beast versus Boxer-babe A Real Boxing Self-defense Story from Harm City, Maryland

MAR/14/14 ‘Something Precious’ A Modern Munera for a Recently Passed Martial Arts Patriarch

FEB/24/14 The Shanking A Blade-based Agon

FEB/20/14 Lightsaber Arnis FMA Wand Strikes Examined

FEB/15/14 Strong Side Roof Blocks Set One: The Snake & The Fan

JAN/02/14 Not Breaking Your Hand The First Step To Surviving A Stick-fight

JAN/02/14 Submission Combat Baltimore Area Training Schedule As Of 1/5/14

DEC/20/13 2014 Event Schedule Modern Agonistics Submission Combat Meets

DEC/16/13 Backyard Valhalla The Worst Combat Idea Since the French Knights Decided to Walk a Mile in the Mud at Agincourt: Agonistics Anonymous

DEC/11/13 Shanking Svetlana A Minimal Gear Contact Progression

DEC/08/13 The Sneaky Right Tony Cygan Training for a Comeback

NOV/04/13 The Straight Eight Diamond An Agonistics Knife Application Drill

NOV/04/13 The Straight Eight Triangle An Agonistics Knife Application Drill

OCT/31/13 Stabbing Erique An Addendum to Winter of A Fighting Life

OCT/30/13 Submission Combat Training Fist Stick Blade

OCT/28/13 The Sharkee Solution Handicapping Knife Sparring & Competition

OCT/24/13 Lana: Evolution #1 Adapting Agonistics Principles for the Female Defender

OCT/07/13 The Straight Eight The 8 Most Effective Knife Strokes

SEP/28/13 The Crooked Seven The 7 Most Effective Stick Strokes with Economy of Motion

SEP/20/13 Essential Stick & Blade Seminar Saturday, November 9, 2013, 2-4 PM

AUG/29/13 Gabriel's Agon Saturday, November 2, 2013: 2-4 PM

AUG/07/13 Combat Drills for Submission Stick Conditioning Footwork, Coordination, Power & Stamina

AUG/06/13 Submission Combat Stroke Counts Six FMA Counts & the Modern Agonistics Count

JUL/09/13 Breaking the Combat Relaxation Barrier Five Stick Sparring Methods Adapted from Boxing

JUL/06/13 FMA & Submission Combat Training Baltimore Sessions as of July 6 2013

JUN/28/13 Training with the Author For Men Only: Effective May, 31 2015

JUN/21/13 Submision Combat Conditioning Set Summer 2013

JUN/19/13 The Master without a Mask A Case Study in Reality-based Esoteric Applications

JUN/17/13 The Dog Brother A Case Study in Parochial Miscommunication

JUN/12/13 Cultivating Contact FMA in the Age of MMA A Report for a Baltimore Area JKD Instructor

MAY/24/13 Spectator Program Agon 2013

MAY/17/13 Cold Steel Kukri Challenge Five Blunt Machete Duels Scheduled for Agon 2013

MAY/14/13 Agon 2013 Modern Agonistics Challenge Meet

APR/29/13 Stick & Dagger Kinetic Photo Diary #1: Late March 2013

APR/08/13 Agon 2013 Brief Specific Procedures for Our May 25th Meet

APR/08/13 World Bais Tres Manos Seminar Jon Bais Instructing

APR/05/13 Headgear Brief Keeping Your Head in Weapon Sparring and Competition

APR/01/13 Modern Fighter A Contact Weaponry Video Archive

MAR/29/13 FMA with Sifu Tom Clark A Hybrid Jeet Kune Do Oriented Filipino Weaponry Class

MAR/21/13 Gladiatorial Combat Sets Modern Agonistics Contact Weaponry Selections

MAR/21/13 American/FMA Combat Sets Modern Agonistics Contact Weaponry Selections

MAR/12/13 Kenpo Edged-Weapon Combatives 2013: Control Countermeasures by Jim Frederick, Behavior & Scenarios by James LaFond

FEB/24/13 Gear Behaving Badly #1 Notes on Using Fencing Masks with Wooden Blunts

JAN/25/13 Some Seminar Outlines

JAN/01/13 The Agonistics Code A Modern Code Duello

DEC/31/12 A Freestyle Stick Pipedream A 2009 Report for PickYourFight Promotions

DEC/31/12 The Lateral Redondo Bag Drill for Stick-fighting

DEC/29/12 The Brutal Salsa Bag Drill for Stick-fighting

DEC/29/12 Developing Two and Three Step Weapon Drills Integrating Strokes and Footwork for Combat

DEC/28/12 Bridging from Weapon to Empty Hand Tips on Contact Weaponry Evolutions

DEC/25/12 An FMA Gathering Bais Tres Manos with Jun Paliangayan: 10/6/2012