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The Mill: Quick Reference – Essential Tips & Key Movements
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The Quick Reference – Essential Tips & Key Movements
Matt Penn
Real violence doesn’t wait for technique.
It crashes in, fast, chaotic, and unforgiving.
The Mill is a combat training system built for one
To make your skills hold up when the world is collapsing around you.
No choreography.
No tournament fantasy.
No cooperative drills.
Inside The Mill, you train under pressure, fatigue, confusion, and disadvantage — the exact place where most systems fail. You learn to strike faster, move smarter, weaponize your environment, and escape with purpose.
You will to build a functional 2–3 count fighting setHow to deliver 100 sets in under one minuteHow to function through chokes, tackles, pins, grabs, and bear hugsWhere to strike to shut down aggression fastHow to use everyday objects as survival toolsHow to redefine kata through real-world testingHow to build pressure resistance, not performanceThis book is not about pretty movement.
It is about decisiveness, survival, and control — forged through repetition, stress, and adaptation.
Stay in the fire. Get forged.
This is The Mill.
🥋 PREFACE
Why The Mill Was Created
I’ve spent decades watching people train.
Some reached black belt.
Some sparred brilliantly in the dojo.
And yet, when pressure came — sudden, ugly, overwhelming — their skill evaporated.
They didn’t fail because they were weak.
They failed because they had never trained where fear lives.
Most systems teach you techniques.
The Mill teaches you what happens after the technique breaks down.
This book grew out of years of teaching students who wanted something real — police, security, nurses, doormen, parents, everyday people. They didn’t care about belts. They cared about getting home alive.
The Quick Reference – Essential Tips & Key Movements
Matt Penn
Real violence doesn’t wait for technique.
It crashes in, fast, chaotic, and unforgiving.
The Mill is a combat training system built for one
To make your skills hold up when the world is collapsing around you.
No choreography.
No tournament fantasy.
No cooperative drills.
Inside The Mill, you train under pressure, fatigue, confusion, and disadvantage — the exact place where most systems fail. You learn to strike faster, move smarter, weaponize your environment, and escape with purpose.
You will to build a functional 2–3 count fighting setHow to deliver 100 sets in under one minuteHow to function through chokes, tackles, pins, grabs, and bear hugsWhere to strike to shut down aggression fastHow to use everyday objects as survival toolsHow to redefine kata through real-world testingHow to build pressure resistance, not performanceThis book is not about pretty movement.
It is about decisiveness, survival, and control — forged through repetition, stress, and adaptation.
Stay in the fire. Get forged.
This is The Mill.
🥋 PREFACE
Why The Mill Was Created
I’ve spent decades watching people train.
Some reached black belt.
Some sparred brilliantly in the dojo.
And yet, when pressure came — sudden, ugly, overwhelming — their skill evaporated.
They didn’t fail because they were weak.
They failed because they had never trained where fear lives.
Most systems teach you techniques.
The Mill teaches you what happens after the technique breaks down.
This book grew out of years of teaching students who wanted something real — police, security, nurses, doormen, parents, everyday people. They didn’t care about belts. They cared about getting home alive.
94 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2026
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