Stripes and Bars: Don’t Be An Idea Person
THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF IDEAS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT. However, there is a shortage of people who will actually implement them. In today's world,...
Kata: Lock or a Key
In this article I'd like to briefly discuss some of the ways in which we can view kata, and how, if we adopt a...
How to Properly Hold a Knife for Self-Defense and Military Applications – Part 2
For too long Asian and Western knife aficionados have too eagerly advocated many knife grips that are questionable and even dangerous.
Shihan Abbott’s Unique Training Methods
USADOJO.COM spent time with Shihan Dana Abbott discussing his unique training methods in the sword arts. We asked him about his training and the...
Humility is Key to a Fighter’s Success
Every budding fighter goes through what I call the 10-fight itch. Some experience it at 3 fights, others at 15, depending on how often...
Going Postal
From 1983 to 1993 there were ten incidents where postal employees went on homicidal rampages killing a total of 34 supervisors and fellow employees....
The Conflict Cycle
Any human conflict that you engage in will have a predictable cycle. Whether the conflict involves a heated argument with a hostile subject or...
Japanese Samurai Swords – A Brief History Part 1
The first proofs of the existence of Japanese Samurai swords in Japan date from 240 BC, during the Yayoi period, when the queen, Himeko,...
Breathing is Fundamental
Of all of the natural body functions breathing is probably the most fundamental. It isn’t something that we do consciously. Breathing has more to...
Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: How to Cut and Stab with a Knife
In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses how to cut and stab with a knife.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N058HolK6Kg
SUBJECT: The...
Reality-Based Training One Minute at a Time
It doesn't take years to learn self-defense, it takes days.” That’s a statement I've used to promote my Reality-Based Personal Protection system for many...
Croatian Soldiers and the Invention of the Necktie
Old history books share that it was a cravat that became the symbol of a small European nation and its beauty soon won over...
Jiyrandori and the Unification of Jiujitsu Disciplines by the Kodokan
Introduction
Under bujitsu, it is basic criterion to question actual fighting performance capabilities as equal to its ability. The goal of this article is to...
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...
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...
Use the Environment as a Weapon
When I was a corrections officer working in the Costa Mesa Police Men's Jail in 1990 a prisoner attacked me and ran me into...