MULTIPLE ATTACKERS SELF DEFENSE: PART ONE
Multiple attackers self defense presents a number of unique problems that you must address in order to survive and win. Our friend, Will, for example: The five guys in the car made it clear to Will that they wanted to do more than just “kick his ass.” He knew that if everyone got a piece […]
SLOW YOUR SELF PROTECTION TRAINING DOWN
People often ask why we insist they start with slow practice for self protection training when everybody knows that real violence is fast. One way to answer this is to think about firearms training, especially your first day on the range. If yours was anything like mine, you started with the firearm in a hip […]
SELF DEFENSE TECHNIQUE: BUILD YOUR TARGET MAP
Nate R. writes: “I’ve been to multiple TFT self-defense seminars. One aspect of training that wasn’t covered in any of the seminars I attended was darkness. Violence: muggings, rape, murder, etc., often happen in darkness. If the aim of TFT is to ready those who spend money and time on it to learn to be […]
SELF DEFENSE MOVES: KNOW HOW TO BREAK A NECK
“Why would anyone ever need to know that?” Usually the question comes as a shocked response, a condemnation for what it is we train. Through experience, I’ve found that the easy answer (“Well, wouldn’t you want to know how to do it if that’s exactly what you needed to survive?”) fails, weirdly, as the initial question […]
VIOLENCE & KISS (OR KILL IT SIMPLY, STUPID)
Violence is simple. How simple is it? We can answer that with two more questions: How can untrained people prevail? How is it that untrained people can prevail over trained people? Because for all their blissful naïveté, the victorious untrained have a firm grip on the tool of violence. This fact stands because violence is […]
SELF DEFENSE IS A SHAM • PART 2
Self defense training means many things: It is the moral imperative we use to draw a line between predatory and “civilized” use of force: “I will only fire in self defense.” It is the legal rule we use to judge whether or not that use of force is a crime: “The defendant claims to have acted […]
PRACTICING SELF DEFENSE: CAN BIGGER-STRONGER-FASTER MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
The answer depends on who’s doing the injuring and who’s getting injured while practicing self defense… Bigger, faster, and stronger are great attributes to have, if you know what to do with them: If you have more mass, you can hit harder. If you have more strength, you can hang on nice and tight for […]
THE BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS IN USING VIOLENCE
It’s a terribly illuminating thing to shut off your social filters and listen to killers talk about killing. With our filters on, we naturally recoil, feel like prey, and try to figure out how to counter all the atrocity he’s talking about so blithely. The killer’s perspective flies in the face of principled self defense, […]
SELF DEFENSE IS A SHAM • PART 1
When you think of what self defense is, what do you see? I see nothing. Okay, maybe that’s a little too harsh, too fast… If I try really hard to cut through the ambiguous fog of those phrases, I can almost see someone getting attacked, desperately trying to get away, maybe getting backed into a […]
VIOLENCE STARTS AND ENDS WITH YOU
Over the years, we’ve tried many different ways to talk about “the attitude” you have to have to enter into violence and violent conflict. Most recently, we’ve talked about “intent” and “cause-state.” In the former. you have to want to do it, and in the latter, we give you all the reasons why you want […]