Jim Wagner History: A look Inside Jim’s First School in 1988
The Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection system was officially established on January 21, 2003. However Jim Wagner History: A look Inside Jim's First School...
Jim Wagner Television: Women’s Survival Course – Germany
Jim Wagner's two-day Reality-Based Personal Protection Women's Survival course was videotaped by a German television crew in May of 2009. This is a look...
Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Escaping Nylon Handcuffs
In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses escaping nylon handcuffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrKXH6Cw674
SUBJECT: How to defeat nylon handcuffs
PURPOSE: To...
The Winning Edge: One Stance, Three Uses
If you sit around chatting with instructors who teach in law enforcement, you will find a great deal of diversity on any training topic...
Katas: Closing the Skill Gap
Although they are often derided by the uninitiated for their perceived lack of practicality, the katas are the key to ensuring karate remains a...
Blocks in Martial Arts are Strikes
I recently was explaining our concepts to a man who had been training at a local martial arts school. It was almost as if...
Jeet Kune Do Knock Out Potential: Developing JKD Power in Your Punch
We have all observed students execute a punch or strike but upon contact there was just no impact power. When I was involved in...
Jeet Kune Do & The Military Knife
The knife has been a vital part of a warrior's personal arsenal for thousands of years.
It is nearly as old as mankind. Even with...
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...
Project Prayer Flag
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...
Police Officer Survival Guide – Schiopathic, Psychopathic Behaviors and Your Survival
Any individual can become violent and the vast majority of society would commit a homicide under the right circumstances. Consequently, it cannot be assumed...
Martial Arts The Hidden Secrets – Guessing Game #3
Over the last six or seven years that I have been teaching seminars on Pressure Points, whether it be Kata Bunkai or self Defense...
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...
De Ashi Harai is like the Judo Jab
Just as in boxing, where it is said that "Everything works off the jab", in Judo it might be said that "Everything works off...
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...
Nunti Bo: The bo with the sai on the end
In Isshin-ryu we have three bo (long staff) kata. About 20 years ago I was pondering a particular characteristic of one of them. Let...