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: 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:...
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...
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
The purpose of GUNSAFE is to provide enough basic information about guns and how they work so that the average adult can recognize the...
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...
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 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
Many readers have written me in response to "The Link Between Martial Arts and Fitness," and not all of you were complimentary. In particular,...
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...
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...
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’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 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?
“Confidence is an unconditional state in which you simply possess an unwavering state of mind that needs no reference point. There is no room...