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Jim Wagner: My Self Defense Instructor

Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Choke Hold Training Dangers

In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses choke hold training dangers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhB9gM0kP68&feature=youtu.be SUBJECT: Choke Hold Training Dangers PURPOSE: To...
Hank Hayes of No Lie Blades

Your Best Defense is a Strong Offense

In this article, Hank Hayes of No Lie Blades explains that in this day an age your best defense is a strong offense. When you...
Iain Abernethy

Kata Naihanchi – Karate’s Most Deadly Kata?

The kata Naihanchi (Tekki) is practiced within the majority of karate styles. The word 'Naihanchi' is said to mean 'sideways fighting' due to the kata's...
Our Tae Kwon Do Self Defense Heritage

Our Tae Kwon Do Self Defense Heritage

When we look at our Tae Kwon Do self defense heritage it seems we have moved backwards. We have veered of course and developed...
Knife Attack CCTV

Knife Attacks Can Be Sudden

Knife attacks can come on suddenly before you have time to realize it! *From a recent CCTV video – An argument on the street starts out...
Firearms Training for Martial Artists

Firearms Training for Martial Artists

In the martial arts world, weapons training helps develop qualities that are both advanced and potent. The practice of extending one's body outward by...
Ed Sumner Sensei and Teruo Chinen Sensei

Training With Teruo Chinen Sensei

Ed Sumner Sensei's Training With Teruo Chinen Sensei: The first time I met Teruo Chinen Sensei was at the annual college tournament, held that year at Washington...
Intelligence and Advance Work

Intelligence and Advance Work

Protecting your client goes way beyond the actual shielding. This article will explain the importance of advance work, and how you can benefit using...
Shime Waza Choke

Shime Waza – The Techniques of Constriction

Basic Concepts The art of karate is a brutally effective method of self-defense characterized by grabbing, squeezing, pressing, twisting, bending, leveraging, breaking, and chokes and...
Best Defense in a Street Fight

Is Kicking the Knee the Best Defense in a Street Fight?

Dear Michael, A friend who practices traditional karate recently told me that the best defense in a street fight would be sidekicks to my opponent’s...

Selective Brick Breaking Using Kinetic Energy

Martial Artsist Dustin Fargher shares about selective brick breaking / depth control using kinetic energy. Breaking top - middle - bottom out of an...
Knife Grips

What is the Best Knife Grip for Combat?

“What is the best knife grip for combat?” I get asked that question a lot at seminars. I usually respond by saying “Well, show me...
How to Properly Hold a Knife for Self-Defense and Military Applications

How to Properly Hold a Knife for Self-Defense and Military Applications – Part 1

Of the innumerable knife concepts and maneuvers that I consider unsound, the most egregious of these are the unsafe knife grips that abound.
Donald Miskel

Stand and Deliver: The Dynamics of a Real Street Fight

A little plagiarism on my part but I would like to discuss the dynamics of a real street fight. So, let’s talk fighting. I don’t...
Stealth .45 ACP

Stealth .45 ACP Compensators

I don't like compensators. To my traditionalist's eye, they are funny-looking contraptions better suited to imaginary guns in Star Wars movies. Real men all...
Shureido Gi

The Tradition of Folding the Gi

Traditions in every aspect of life are extremely important. They not only give direction to the culture; they uphold the values and reason for...