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...

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...

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...

What you allow is what will continue. 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...

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....

  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...