Tom Kier, Tactical Training Expert

American Glutton

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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One of Ethan's favorite roles was playing D in the Hulu series, Chance. The character D was based on Tom Kier. Tom has been a combatives instructor for the past 30 years and he is considered a subject matter expert by USSOCOM (The Unites States Special Operations Command). He also holds a master instructor/Tuhon rank in Sayoc Kali. Sayoc is a Filipino martial arts system developed by Pamana Tuhon Chris Sayoc. Mindset is an integral part of Sayoc, and Ethan thought it would be a good idea to get Tom on the podcast to share some of those principles, and how they can assist in achieving your goals.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Blood. Outside of acting, my two favorite things
0:08.4	to do are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast,
0:14.0	we're going to talk about all of it. Food as entertainment, food as sport, food as fuel.
0:20.9	I'll talk to experts and the average person, just like you and me.
0:25.4	I'm really excited about today's episode. I had the pleasure of playing a character based
0:32.1	on our guest tonight. That character was the character D in the television show Chance
0:37.3	that was on Hulu for a couple of years. D was loosely modeled after Tom Kair. The writer of
0:44.1	the book, Chemnun, had met Tom and was utterly captivated by him and basically used him as a major
0:53.0	influence on this book because Tom is so interesting. US Socom considers him to be a subject matter
0:59.7	expert in edged weapons. He holds the title, Tuhan, in the Syakali martial arts system,
1:07.7	a system that was developed by Pomana Tuhan, Chris Syak. A huge part of his training is in mindset
1:17.7	and having had lots of conversations with him about this, I thought that it would be an appropriate
1:23.9	talk for the podcast. Tom, welcome to American Glutton. Thanks for having me. Yeah. I really think that
1:35.4	anyone with any kind of goal can benefit from some of the concepts you and I have talked about,
1:42.8	specifically your ideas on mindset, your ideas on thoughts, words, deeds, I think willingness is
1:51.0	a big thing. You've covered a lot of topics that resonated with me that I've spent a lot of time
1:56.0	thinking about. I guess first of all, where did these ideas for you come from? Well, I train
2:02.8	combat us. I teach people how to become more capable in a violent encounter or overcome
2:11.9	very life-threatening, stressful situations, perform better under stress. That's really my job.
2:19.0	Right. So over the years, we've looked at what allows someone to excel in those tough situations,
2:27.0	how to maybe cover things that they would think is impossible. Like, how am I going to do this?
2:32.3	If I'm in this situation, how am I going to succeed? That's what we specialize in. And we
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