The Hock Report, and Survival Centric

The Hock Report, and Survival Centric

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Discover research, articles, stories, methods and more on surviving fight, crime and war as collected by military vet, police vet and martial vet W.

Hoch Hochheim with 54 years experience in these fields, and 31 years traveling to 12 countries teaching.

08/28/2026

Nice job Shepdev.online for recording these interactive shooting steps in the attached modern video. Professional. When I started these exact same simulated ammo studies in 1990s, (see photos) I did not record and film them to this pro extent. Got pretty much the exact same results thrrough the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and today.

90s. That was back when I was accused by the gun world of "Hock plays with toys." My, we have come a long way. (I still do these exercises in the Survival Centric: Gun course. I have called them for decades " The Run By Drills." You have to cross-body shoot and same-side body shoot on a still and moving bad guy SHOOTING BACK AT YOU!. Watch the film...
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DcWbWF2xWzs/

08/19/2026

“CHEAT AND DEFEAT.”“Don’t ‘become’ a system or an art. Don’t desire to replicate and absorb every single thing. Mindlessly, get the t-shirt, get the tattoo. Learn every single thing from every single art and system for one and only purpose, to cheat it and defeat it. Cheat and defeat. Take it apart, iota by iota, find the iota’s weakness. Build the iota counter. Build it into your fort versus crime and war.” - Hock

(People spend so much time in arts and systems fighting the mirror of themselves when in hand, stick, knife and gun crime and war there is no shape, size, weight, age, s*x, rules, strengh mirror. In fact, crime and war banks and plans on these inequalities.)








08/18/2026

CRASHED! Yesterday the Hock Report news email went out to 16-thousand-plus on the list. This included an ad for my CONFRONTATIONS book, with a purchase link for the book via a distributor-publisher that I like and that is more of a personal-professional working relationship connect with me. Well, I discovered this morning... the page was overwhelmed since and crashed.
First off...sorry...
Secondly...thanks for trying...
Meanwhile, an alternative...

Amazon. Not so personal. (HA!) but working...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJRYD8JQ?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback

08/17/2026

Next in the roedeo chute...
Message me here for details...

08/11/2026

I was recently and have been asked again..." Do you have "senior" versions of your courses.
I remember back in 1972 watching Ed Parker Kenpo Karate brown belts working on their requirements. There was a special spinning, jump kick that looked to us white and gold belts like a Ringling Brothers Circus trick. We looked at each other and said with dread, "We are going to HAVE to do THAT one day?" And I was about 19 years old.
NO can do.
NO could ever do.
NO need to do.
NOR should, certainly, any senior.

Senior courses? Well, pretty much, yes, I do have a senior version. And that is - do everything...only less of it. Ha! Actually though ...seriously, here's the deal...

I am a mediocre athlete. I find that handy as a teacher because the majority of practitioners...(98%?) are just regular people... whether they like to hear it or not, they-we are mediocre "athletes.""
- not these muscle-bound,
- not roided-out,
- not tattooed out the ying-yang,
- not circus acrobats.
- not obsessed-hooked on fighting tricks that they must turn checkers into chess moves. Inventing problem predicaments that will never appear in real fights and concocting escapes from them.
- oh, and....by the way...I have become a senior! I relate.

We are just regular people doing simple things. (This falls back to the WHO question #1 - who are you...really-REALLY? Then act accordingly. WHO do you REALLY think you will be fighting? We do have ALL ages of people attend these seminars and classes, for decades. Seniors have brought a training partner, or we'll match you with someone that knows you're a senior.

In the opening safety speech of every seminar I tell everyone, if you see something that relates to your "medical" concerns? Just say..."I shouldn't do that one."

But we all do "degrade" with age. I have written before that at some point, ALL of these tricks, even the simple ones will be unattainable, and I will be left with stumbling around with a hammerless, snubnose revolver in my jacket pocket, in a jacket "I won't care about."

(It was always fun when the police instructors would tell you..."bring a jacket you don't care about" on range days. We knew what that was for.)

08/08/2026

Who hand?
What hand?
Where hand?
When hand?
How hand?
Why hand?

"...danger may walk up to you, and you may walk up to danger. In fact, sometimes you may have to search for it. For citizens, security personnel, police officers, and soldiers, circumstances arise when something goes wrong, someone is missing, a suspicious noise is heard, a crime has occurred, or an enemy may be nose-to-nose or nearby.

Something must be done, or some experts might even suggest nothing must be done. Too dangerous. But what is that 'danger assessment level? Sounds like a Zen riddle and situationally, that is true.

You might call the danger a macro or micro (big or small) invasion upon you, yours or somebody else. Interview or an ambush and you are somehow somewhat involved, or it's about you directly? How much are you involved? This is an 'involvement assessment.'

Some of those "Zen" situations are actual pending invasions that..."

The page....https://survivalcentric.com/sc-hand/

08/03/2026

Who gun?
What gun
Where gun?
When gun?
How gun?
Why gun?

The page.... https://survivalcentric.com/sc-gun/

"In the 1990s I was accused of 'playing with toys' when I insisted on using any kind of simulated ammo to further a scenario lesson plan. Then the 'industry" was forced and virtually shamed into this style of training.

I will not, do not teach range marksmanship. I leave that to my many talented friends. I only cover simulated ammo situations and decision making.

This is a gun course 40-plus years in the making-evolving. Keeping you alive and out of jail is my mission, my profession. I am confident you will see, hear and do things you haven't before."






07/30/2026

Who knife?
What knife?
Where knife?
When knife?
How knife?
Why knife?

The page.... https://survivalcentric.com/sc-knife/

"A knife course 40-plus years in the making-evolving. Keeping you alive and out of jail is my mission, my profession. I am confident you will see, hear and do things you haven't before."







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