“But What If He Flinches?”
Below is a question we recently received that I imagine might be on your mind as well. “In some of your DVD footage the eyes are the target for the first injury and in other footage the eyes are, say, the third injury target. “You emphasize the importance of going for a throw only AFTER […]
Are You Learning To Fight… Or To Dance?
Free Combat Training Principles… Secrets For Staying Alive When ‘Rules’ Don’t Apply “Are You Learning To Fight… Or To Dance?” **************************************************** “In our peacetime tactical training we should use difficult, highly imaginative situations and require clear, concise and simple orders. The more difficult the situation the more simple the order must be. Above all *** […]
Targeting: Secret To Self Defense Success?
Most people only give lip service to them. Or pretty much ignore them altogether. But are targets really… the magic bullet? Before we get into what targets are and what they can do for you, let’s go over some things they’re not: Targets are not ‘weak points’ To say that targets are ‘weak points’ is […]
Fighting Through Injury
Semantics can be a funny thing–reference the title, above: On the one hand, it could mean ‘fighting on even though one is injured’ or ‘enduring in the face of adversity.’ On the other hand it could mean ‘using injury as a tool when fighting’ or ‘dirty pool.’ Chances are you read it one way, and […]
Speed: The Last Thing You Need For Self-Defense
Speed. In Target Focus Training, we make you train slow, or, at least not as fast as you could go if you went full-bore. In order to understand why we do this, we need to look at what’s required to achieve our goal of injuring an attacker. Debilitating injury is the result of an interrelated […]
The Beating, the Breaking, or the Fall from a Great Height?
The intelligent use of violence involves every means available — all bets are off and no holds barred. You literally do whatever you want to the man (this is, after all, what we mean by ‘free’ in ‘free fighting’). We have the ages-old rock to the head; we can break his joints by putting the […]
There’s only one way to train
There’s only one way to train — HARD. If you think going slow means easy, soft, light and painless, you’re dead wrong. Slow means correct — spot-on targeting, constantly driving your body weight through his structure to buckle it, full follow-through. When it’s done right it’s implacable, methodically cruel, painful, and, yes, even bruising. As […]
It’s a Nice Idea–But Does It Really Work?
Perhaps you’ve already had the dream: at a park in daylight, with children, or a dark close-in space like an alley, or, the one I remember most vividly, a seedy gas station… regardless of the setting, they come for you. Many or just one, it doesn’t matter; you take an eyeball, you break a leg, […]
Why Not Just Buy a Gun?
Or carry a knife, for that matter? There are a lot of good arguments to be made for doing both instead of spending the money, time and effort to train to use your body as a weapon. It takes far less effort to purchase and carry an extraneous tool — and far less effort to […]
A Couch Potato’s Guide To Self Defense and Other Stories
***************************************************************** “For great aims we must dare great things” -Clausewitz ***************************************************************** Hey Guys, Been getting quite a few questions about dealing with edged tools like knives: *** Hello Tim, As a guy who wanted to aim for being a well rounded fighter I try to train and possess skills like in the fire arm, knife […]