In my daily gig as old school combat archeologist I come across countless stories, tales, anecdotes and reportage claiming that “ The Old-Timers were tougher than ‘these kids today.’” The flip-side to that glorification of the past argument is that “these kids today” get the gift of standing on all of that accumulated old-school wisdom and the added bonus of attaching modern day bells and whistles to make today’s combat cadre tougher than the prior generations. So which story is true? Were the bad-asses of yore the tip of the top? Or…is it today’s crop of combatateers that prove the creamiest? This often leads to the old chestnut of a question “ Who would win between [insert past legend and legend in the making]?” There is simply no way to conduct such past and present comparisons with any sort of scientific rigor without aid of a time-machine. So, until we are provided with such a chronal-distortion device are we left without an answer to the “ Who ...
Examining & Resurrecting Indigenous Skills and Frontier Rough & Tumble Combat