FORGET FIGHTING. DELIVER AN INJURY.
To be invincible in hand-to-hand combat and be able to deliver an injury, you need to have at least a passable fluency in all the various forms it can take: Boxing. Kick boxing. Ground fighting. Stick fighting. Knife defense. Gun disarms. I have no doubt I’m missing some here. Once you get all those covered, […]
A FIREARM ISN’T EVERYTHING
The handgun is one of the most powerful personal tools for the taking of human life. But it’s not foolproof. It is a tool that can aid in the defense of your life, but that doesn’t mean it will save your life. As an external device, it has several inherent disadvantages, which are magnified […]
NAILING DOWN INTENT
In isolating what makes violence effective, you can clearly see that debilitating injury is key. It changes everything in your favor and converts that awful, scary man into an injured man, helpless to keep you from causing further harm. Cause injury is the result of penetration (body weight in motion) and rotation (the complete follow-through) through […]
THE ANATOMY OF A SELF DEFENSE SEMINAR
Our two-day base seminars are the distillation of more than 20 years of experience, research and the training of thousands of people to use violence as a survival tool. In approaching a format for a weekend seminar we had to answer two questions: Knowing what we know, how would we use violence today, right now? […]
THE SELF DEFENSE PARADOX: IF YOU WANT A TRULY PEACEFUL LIFE, THEN TRAIN VIOLENCE.
As an instructor I see myself purely as a technician in possession of certain technical information that may or may not be useful—that’s for the client to decide. I prefer this perspective as it’s simple and straightforward—I just want you to step in and do what you’re afraid he’s going to do to you. To […]
WHEN YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE, HERE’S HOW YOU PLAY BY THE RULES
In the self-protection training environment, anything works as long as we all agree it does. On the street, the only things that work are the laws of physics. If you don’t get an injury, nothing changes in your favor. Nobody’s going to “respect your technique” just because they’re supposed to. People will keep going as […]
SHOCKING STUDY REVEALS FITNESS NOT A FACTOR WHEN FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE
How long do you think you’d last in an all-out fight for your life? A minute? Three minutes? As long as it takes? The people at Force Science put together a study to measure law enforcement personnel’s ability to recall crucial details after a grueling obstacle course meant to simulate a fight with an assailant, […]
BODY MANEUVERS FOR BUSINESSMEN
Most days Tareq Sholi spends his time sifting through numbers as an accountant at mining giant Rio Tinto. But today Sholi, 30, is simulating punches to his sparring partner’s neck, chest and groin. It’s all part of a two-day crash-course aimed at making businessman like Sholi as versatile in self-defense as they are in cutting…
ITS A MAN’S WORLD… OR WHY I HATE TRAINING WOMEN
Training women in self protection is hard. Not because of anything they themselves do. Women are far more receptive to the message than men and “get it” much more quickly. The problem lies with the men they must train with and the ignorance and prejudices those men bring to the process. Women are precisely as […]