Shorthand Empty Hand: Expedient Stylized Fighting

"You must be willing to offer greater violence in return for violence offered you. That attitude must precede all else. Begin cultivating it now."
– Gabe Suarez

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Articles

Shorthand Empty Hand Radio Appearance with Bill Colley
By Bill Colley and Phil Elmore
Shortly after the release of the Shorthand Empty Hand core curriculum text, Phil Elmore appeared on WFBL 1390 AM with Bill Colley. Colley's popular conservative morning show was the perfect venue in which to discuss self-defense. The .MP3 audio clip of this appearance is roughly seventeen minutes long.
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The Principles of Shorthand Empty Hand
By Phil Elmore
Every functional martial art is based on principles rather than on the memorization of rote techniques. What this means is that the practitioner – rather than memorizing a complicated decision tree of fixed responses to predicted attacks – applies the principles of his or her martial art to a given situation. He responds as appropriate using the tools learned (the actual fighting techniques) in a dynamic, not rote, fashion.
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Reflections on Shorthand Empty Hand
By Phil Elmore
Before the Shorthand Empty Hand core curriculum text was even available, it was the subject of tremendous controversy. Those who support The Martialist and Phil Elmore's other work were eager to buy it; those who hate the man and his writing were only too eager to trash it. Very few people actually read it before commenting on it. Initial sales put the book in the publisher's bestseller list. Phil Elmore ponders the curriculum and the future of SHEH in this article.
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A Woman Scorned
By Phil Elmore
You've heard the phrase about "a woman scorned," yes? I don't think I ever had the opportunity to deny this particular woman – or a man posing as a woman – attention or validation, at least not individually. Still, an individual posting as "JKDChick" at the Internet's preeminent troll site write a very long, very angry, very childish denunciation of the book Shorthand Empty Hand. Not a review by the author's own admission, this appalling screed says a lot about those who have a problem with the SHEH program and with me as a person.
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