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Pressure Point Techniques

Pressure Point Techniques: How Safe Are They?

A team of doctors try to find out! From the time George Dillman began to demonstrate kysho-jitsu (pressure point fighting), which he learned from Hohan...
The Winning Edge

The Winning Edge: Less Is More

Defensive tactics programs and police combatives programs often fail as a system because they encompass a set of techniques instead of following a set...

Seigyo through Metsubushi: Control through Blinding

In Martial Arts we wish to control the situation at hand and manipulate the opponent to stop attacking us. We can control our opponent physically or mentally, or both.
Stephen Spivey Survival Guide

Knowing the Freeze: The Bodies Adrenal State

As a predator attacks, your body will go into an adrenal state. You are flooded with adrenaline (epinephrine), noradrenalin and cortisol. The good news...
Recognize How Danger Escalates

Safety on the Streets: Recognize How Danger Escalates

As a student of the ninja personal protection martial art, based on fighting principles developed for intelligence gatherers in Japan centuries ago, you are...
Jim Wagner Videos

Women’s Self Defense Training DVD with Cynthia Rothrock

Martial Artist and actress Cynthia Rothrock invited Jim Wagner to appear in her 2005 training video titled Women's Self Defense with the Best Experts...

Young Bo Kong Taekwondo Counters

Take Kwon Do Grand Master Young Bo Kong as spent a lifetime perfecting his skills in the ancient art of Korean hand and foot...
Jim Wagner: My Self Defense Instructor

Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Machete Defense

In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses machete defense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqKlQIHqJDg SUBJECT: Machete defense when unarmed PURPOSE: How to survive...
Streetwise Knife Fighting

Streetwise Knife Fighting

In the world of knife fighting there is an unspoken rule. Go in, cut and get out unscathed. It is that simple, but we...
Vladimir Vasiliev Russian Martial Arts

Systema Pushups

A few years ago, when I was visiting Mikhail Ryabko in Moscow, he demonstrated a slow fist Systema pushup against the wall. I still...
Willie Lim Classical Dimension

Tai Chi Chuan’s Powerful Self Defense

Tai Chi Chuan's powerful self defense movements are so well hidden or disguised that by the time one's enemies see it or realize it, they...
Tactical Folding Knife

Folding Knives Are A Lethal Force Option

Recently, I spent two days in a fantastic class learning the less than sophisticated art of using a “tactical” folding knife in a potentially...

Nage No Kata And Katame No Kata Part 1

Kata? Not in this dojo. We only do fight'n Judo here. It's bad enough you have to learn some of it just before ya...
Mike Stidham Speaks Out

The ABC’s of Mixed Martial Arts Training

Today, Anderson Silva is arguably the greatest MMA fighter in the world. Georges St Pierre is often compared to him. Watching these fighters is...
Urban Tactical Weapons and Street Violence

The 3 Important Stages of Street Violence

Street violence which can be directly related to the unlawful exercise of physical force is a reality we all live with on a daily...
Russell Stutely Hidden Secrets

Martial Arts The Hidden Secrets: Body Alarm Reaction #9

If I were to choose one aspect of Martial Arts training above all others then Body Alarm Reaction (BAR) would be it. This is...