ANTISOCIAL CONFRONTATION: AGGRESSIVE, BADASS OR DEADLY?
You can tell how serious someone is about really dropping a man by where they place themselves to get the job done and where they land when it comes to antisocial confrontation. Angry or aggressive fighters will go toe-to-toe, literally stepping up to the man and then reaching out with their limbs to cover the […]
IS LETHAL FORCE SELF-DEFENSE USEFUL IN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE?
I would hope lethal force self-defense isn’t useful in your everyday life… As we say at our courses, we sincerely hope you never have to use what we’re teaching. But like a fire extinguisher or handgun, when you need it, nothing else will do. You don’t buy one looking forward to the opportunity to use […]
ANTI-SOCIAL AGGRESSION AND TRAGEDY ARE AVOIDABLE
(Though this incident occurred in 2009, and plenty other anti-social aggression incidents just like it have come to pass since then, it stands out as horribly indicative of the essential problem.) One person ends up dead, another is a newly minted killer, and a family will never be whole again: Was this antisocial aggression avoidable? […]
SELF DEFENSE MINDSET: WHAT IS YOUR LIFE WORTH?
Think about your self defense mindset. When it comes to fighting to the death or living, what is your life worth to you? Your car? Your cell phone? The contents of your wallet? Twenty bucks? Everybody’s going to have a different answer, and if you don’t already have one you should try to figure out […]
UNDERSTANDING VIOLENCE: FOUR LEVELS OF HUMAN INTERACTION
When it comes to understanding violence and normal human behavior, there are four general ways in which human beings interact with one another: As a person – social This is trying to change behavior, mood, or motivation. This is where most people would like to keep the situation. As a skill-set — anti-social This is […]
LEARN SELF DEFENSE: THE DEFINITION OF VIOLENCE
This may sound obvious, but when it comes time to learn self defense, you’ll need to understand that there a lot of things violence is not. It is not a particularly rough cage-match; it is not a bar fight where everyone’s sharing beers ten minutes later; it’s not getting your nose bloodied. Many people who […]