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Jim Wagner: My Self Defense Instructor

Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Playground Booby Traps

In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses play ground booby traps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1G1KpQe6ZM SUBJECT: Playground Booby Traps PURPOSE: To teach...
Combat Triage

Combat Triage: General Conditioning: Building Up Your Core

One of the things that I've noticed in working with my up and coming fighters is that although many of them are strong; they...
Knife Attack CCTV

Knife Attacks Can Be Sudden

Knife attacks can come on suddenly before you have time to realize it! *From a recent CCTV video – An argument on the street starts out...
Jim Wagner Articles

The Right Response to a Ground Attack

Imagine that an unarmed person has mounted you, he is sitting on your stomach as you lay flat on your back, and he is...
Stripes and Bars by Amaury Murgado

Stripes and Bars: Self-discipline

NOT TOO LONG AGO, I was asked to identify the one leadership characteristic that rises above all others as the most important. Though I...
Martial Arts Internatioinal

The Knife: The Ultimate Tool To Develop Trapping Skills

One method Progressive Protective Systems (PPS) practitioners use to develop trapping skills is knife sparring within a confined environment. Knife fighting usually occurs with...
Bodyguards and Assassins

Amateur Assassins and the Threat They Impose

This is not a review for the Donnie Yen movie Bodyguards and Assassins; this is an article about amateur assassins and the threat they...
An American Martial Artist Travels to Jamaica

How Muay Thai Fighters Set Up Their Opponents

An American Martial Artist Travels to Jamaica to Learn How the World's Best Muay Thai Fighters Set Up Their Opponents Before Delivering the Knockout...
The Best Block is No Block

The Best Block is No Block

The best block is no block at all!! With that said, it is well known and documented that if you try to block an...
Ted Gambordella – Fights To Win

10 Things To Be A Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Part 6: Eat Like A...

10 Things You Need to Know to be a Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Part 6 Everyone knows that the Mixed Martial Arts Craze is taking...
Best Practices by Amaury Murgado

Best Practices: Critical Incident Delegation And Documentation

Critical incident delegation and documentation is as important as as the tactical side of an operation and Amaury Murgado explains how it will help...
Russell Stutely Hidden Secrets

Martial Arts The Hidden Secrets – It Might Look the Same #4

I want you to think about the following for a while before you take any action. Have a good long think and try to...
Donald Miskel

Fifty-Sixth Year Observations: Martial Arts Developed for Self Defense and Combat

Today is October seventeenth, two thousand and thirteen. Today I made sixty six years of age. That means I am no longer young. Actually...
Violence

Dancing with Darkness: The Reality of Conflict

Let me continue a bit on the discussion of my last post: I had an interesting conversation with a member of my group (Kyusho-jitsu Kenkyukai,...
Russell Stutely

How to Learn Pressure Points Correctly?

I want to share some really important information with you. People often ask me the best way to learn how to use Pressure Points, so,...
Iain Abernethy

The Basics of Bunkai Part 7

This series of articles explores the basics of "bunkai" (kata application). Over the last six parts we've been discussing the fundamentals of this vitally...