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Combat Principles: Beat Anyone in a Fight

Years ago, I was lifting my daughter from the floor. She helped by jumping as I lifted, and our combined energy drove her head...
Jim Wagner: My Self Defense Instructor

Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Hotel Security While Traveling

In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses hotel security while traveling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZWsS6zpw-g SUBJECT: Hotel security for business and vacation PURPOSE:...
Donald Miskel

Weight Training for Martial Artists

I expect to get two responses to my discussion of weight training for martial artists. One will probably cry, “Perish the thought. Martial arts...
Cold Steel Mouse Knives

Big: That’s Not a Knife . . .THAT’S a BIG Knife

By Lynn Thompson - Cold Steel ~ In my earlier article regarding "Mouse Knives" I urged my friends and customers to examine their knife...
GUNSAFE: A Community Firearms Safety and Responsibility Course for All Adults

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The purpose of GUNSAFE is to provide enough basic information about guns and how they work so that the average adult can recognize the...
Jim Wagner Articles

Your Phone Is Your Best Weapon

After I had run each person through a scenario as a witness I explained to my students huddled in a semi-circle around me, "Your...
Iain Abernethy

The Basics of Bunkai – Part 8

Welcome to the final part of The Basic of Bunkai - Part 8. In this series of articles we've been exploring the basics of...
Close Quarter Baton Training Programs

Close Quarter Baton Training with Police Safety Batons

We want to introduce the ActionFlex police safety batons that will improve law and security enforcement officer training. Security and law enforcement personnel have long had...
Fitness For Martial Artists

Fitness For Martial Artists

Many readers have written me in response to "The Link Between Martial Arts and Fitness," and not all of you were complimentary. In particular,...
Tuidi-jutsu and Kyusho-jutsu

The Sub-Arts of Karate: Tuidi-jutsu and Kyusho-jutsu

Tuidi (Grab-Hand) "The Grappling Aspect of Karate" All bodies can be weakened - they all have nerves, vital points, joints, tendons and muscles that will...
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...
Jim Wagner Articles

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...

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...
Tussey Custom PistolSmith

Tussey Custom’s Lightweight Stealth-Comp

A state-of-the-art 1911 carry gun from a master pistolsmith! When it comes to the world of guns, Terry Tussey has pretty much "been there and...
Isshin-Ryu and Pressure Point

Isshin-ryu and Pressure Point Fighting

When traditional karate practitioners are introduced to pressure point fighting and shown how it unlocks the secrets of kata and other aspects of classical...
Is Your Coach Destroying Your Confidence?

Is Your Coach Destroying Your Confidence?

“Confidence is an unconditional state in which you simply possess an unwavering state of mind that needs no reference point. There is no room...