“That Would Never Happen To Me!” When you think about a violent incident from the “armchair of retrospect,” it’s easy to assume that the victim was careless, complacent and oblivious to the warning signs that must have existed as the situation unfolded. You take the position that he or she should...
Self-defense doesn’t have to be complicated. If someone were to ask me, after a lifetime of studying self-defense, a career in law enforcement and decades of life experience, “What are the most significant factors to successful self-defense?” Here’s what I’d tell them:Get fit, be smart, and hit hard. Simplicity is prerequisite...
What Would You Do If This Happened To You? Imagine being on the threshold of a serious, life-and-death streetfight, mugging or sexual assault. You’ve been confronted by a big, ugly, piece-of-dung who has singled you out as his next conquest. Talking your way out of this is getting you nowhere....
Would you like to discover a simple self-defense training strategy that will allow you to gain maximum benefits, quickly, with a moderate investment of your time? If you’re an advanced practitioner who’s hit a plateau, a novice hoping to acquire legitimate self-defense skills fast, or anyone who wants to optimize...
There are four indisputable principles you need to align yourself with if you hope to get maximum benefit and optimal results from self-defense. First of all, you need to think of self-defense as being synonymous with health. Secondly, you have to accept the fact that newly acquired knowledge and skills...
“Advanced Techniques Are The Basics Mastered” ~ unknown This post is about learning self-defence and combative skills faster, better, retaining them longer and continuously improving them. Fundamentals first! The development of your combative skills should be based on a solid foundation of “fundamentals.” Fundamentals are defined as “central or primary...
Riding a motorcycle has been used as a metaphor for all kinds of things: philosophy, living in the moment, dealing with fear, freedom, independence and the list goes on. In this post I list ten guidelines for safe motorcycling and draw the comparison to how those same principles can be...
There are seven essential categories to a comprehensive approach to personal safety. If you know what they are, you can evaluate your “mental map” about self-defense and determine what you know, where the gaps are and what you need to learn more about. This article provides the big picture of a self-defense...
