Reality Training

Articles on USAdojo.com about the importance of reality training in the martial arts and being prepared for any self defense situation.

Jim Wagner Videos

Tactical Hand Signals Part 1

This video, taught by Sergeant Jim Wagner, is the first of its kind that complies 130 of the most commonly used tactical hand signals...
Jim Wagner: My Self Defense Instructor

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...
Jim Wagner: My Self Defense Instructor

Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Office Massacre & School Shooting Survival

In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses office massacre and school shooting survival. If someone came into...
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...
Donald Miskel

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...
Jim Wagner Articles

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...
Jim Wagner Fighting Tips

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...
Jim Wagner Articles

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...
Knight in Shining Armor

Traditional Martial Arts and Combatives

"A knight in shining armor is a man who has never had his metal truly tested" ~ Unknown In a forthcoming DVD produced in conjunction...
Jim Wagner Videos

Jim Wagner History: The Police Academy Class 104

This is a look into Jim Wagner's police academy training with the Orange County Sheriff's Academy in Garden Grove, California USA. Going through as...
Jim Wagner Articles

Going Postal

From 1983 to 1993 there were ten incidents where postal employees went on homicidal rampages killing a total of 34 supervisors and fellow employees....
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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 Articles

Conflict Communications: Team Communications and Teamwork

Unfortunately, most civilian martial arts training fall short in the area of team communications and teamwork, because there is an assumption that the martial...
Jim Wagner Articles

Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden

In the 2008 movie titled Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden instructor Jim Wagner teaches the star, Morgan Spurlock, how to survive...

Behavioral Protective Offensive

Once the combative mind frees itself of the obstructions from necessity (primarily caused by the fixation with technique), it will evolve to its highest...
Jim Wagner Videos

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...