Evidence of a Fight
After you have experienced a real-life self-defense situation, win or lose, you will want justice. You’ll want the perpetrator arrested and prosecuted. This is...
Relax Kung Fu Practitioners
I practice karate (Ryukyu kempo and Isshin-ryu) and tai chi chuan. Most people think of me as a karate guy. So, I find it...
Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Spider Drop
In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses using the Spider Drop to safely fall in a tactical manner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4HrgHZmocM
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Control Fear with Knowledge
“I was parked on a side street writing a report when dispatch gave the neighboring car a call in my district. ‘See the bartender...
He Hath Crafted A Weapon of Knightly Prowess
Terry Tussey at the helm of Tussey Custom, is well known to GUNS readers. His classical styled yet modern and supremely functional pistols have...
Rapid Dominance is Always Moving Forward!
The next time you are sparring with the protection on or doing some realistic scenarios you must overwhelm your training partner and use the...
Domestic Violence: Battered But Not Beaten
Mixing Jujitsu with your Tae Kwon Do may save your life!
For years Rancella Ferguson ignored her husband’s abusive ways, not seeing it as the...
Martial Arts The Hidden Secrets – Guessing Game #3
Over the last six or seven years that I have been teaching seminars on Pressure Points, whether it be Kata Bunkai or self Defense...
The Importance of Pre-Conflict Skills for Knife Defense – Part 1
Reaction times in knife defense will differ with distance, but good news is many individuals can improve their reaction times with practice.
Don’t Mislead Me: Inadequate Explanations For Kata Movements
The question showed that this student was troubled by the woefully inadequate explanations for kata movements that he had been given over the years.
Since...
Best Practices: Closing the Reactionary Gap
One of the most important things you can learn about dealing face to face with suspects is the concept of relative positioning. Relative positioning...
How Wing Chun Helps the Mind
Wing Chun is an incredible art that when studied has far reaching effects on one's health. Right from the early stages of learning in...
The Other Way of Sanchin Kata
Many karate systems teach the Sanchin kata as an external training method to strength-condition practitioners with a series of breath-controlled tensions. This mainstream understanding...
Escaping a Fort Hood Style Massacre
In his article, Escaping a Fort Hood Style Massacre, Jim Wagner explains that we are all targets to Al Qaeda or those who wish to...
Stripes and Bars: Lead, Don’t Blame
WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG at an agency, administrators go into self-preservation mode. This, in turn, has a cascading effect all the way down to...
Got a Second? A Journey into the OODA Cycle
Introduction
Today’s environment of accelerating scientific discoveries and technological change bring ever-improving hardware to the end user. In this climate is it easy to overlook...