Violence Must Be Practiced
Violence has to be a part of your reality-based self-defense training. If you are only practicing techniques but you are not imagining and simulating...
Practicing Martial Arts In Your Head
This article is about practicing martial arts in your head by building scenarios and working your techniques with abbreviated motion, helping to reinforce what...
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...
Three Dimensional Knife Defense
After the attacks of 9/11, I was running self-defense classes out of my martial arts academy outside of Chicago. A couple higher ups from...
Weight Gain Season On The Horizon
It's here, just look at the seasonal shelves in your favorite store. Retailers refer to this time as the holiday season, but I like...
Project Prayer Flag and POW Network
When I arrived in California from teaching my Reality-Based Personal Protection courses in Germany last week I had a letter waiting for me at...
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...
Bob Chaney Applies the Science of Physics to Fighting
Tae Kwon Do Grand Master Bob Chaney may be one of the best-schooled individuals in the martial arts today. His over all knowledge of...
Martial Arts The Hidden Secrets – Order of Things #2
Rather than the usual layout of chapters etc within a book. I have set out to introduce you to the “secrets” of Karate in...
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,...
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...
Head Games: Overcome Combat Stress
Anxiety is an emotion that if conquered, can teach you survive in a crisis situation. Anxiety can also be a useful tool to the...
Combat Triage: General Conditioning: Focused Breathing
Last weekend I watched a great little movie called: From Mexico With Love. I was happy because it had a very happy ending, but...
Self Defense vs. Personal Security
For the most part I don’t write on demand and I don’t take requests. I’m a martial art instructor not your local DJ. That...
Samurai Weapons
Throughout the history of the Samurai, Samurai weapons included different size swords, daggers, spears and more necessary for different types of kills.
The age of...
Neutralizing The Committed Edged Weapons Attack
This interactive training session is written and designed for operators who are in the face of life threatening situations on a daily basis or...