Generating Maximum Power
****************************************************** “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”- Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) ****************************************************** I was […]
Social Confrontation vs Asocial Violence – Part 3
Once you understand the difference between social aggression and asocial violence, you can make informed decisions on what you’re looking at — if it’s a ranting, noisy display, you have a choice. If someone pulls a knife and cuts you, you won’t make the fatal mistake of asking them why. What you may have thought […]
Social Confrontation vs Asocial Violence – Part 2
The Essential Differences Between Social Aggression and Asocial Violence Social Confrontation is: Yelling Guy Avoidable Survivable Can be solved using social skills. Asocial Violence is: Guy with Gun Lethal Unaffected by social skills and requires decisive action. The violence that comes from social posturing is avoidable; it is often loud, dramatic and instantly recognizable. You […]
Social Confrontation vs Asocial Violence – Part 1
I’ve been putting up some posts on the subject of the tool of Violence. This is very different from most views on Self Defense. I think today’s post clarifies exactly why this understanding is critical to you surviving what most poeple call “self-defense” situations… SOCIAL CONFRONTATION VS. ASOCIAL VIOLENCE: DON’T GET CAUGHT IN THE TRAP […]
Striking… TFT Style
In our DVD products and at live self defense training sessions we make a big deal of the fact that most of what is taught about punching or kicking won’t do squat for you in a real street confrontation. You’re far more likely to just piss off some thug until you learn that every punch […]
Scenario Based Training Vs. The Hard Knot
When people say ‘scenario-based training,’ they’re actually using a code phrase for ‘all the crap that comes before the actual violence.’ The yelling, the approach, the grabby man-dance. Of course, once the violence starts it’s all the same old, same old–injury, injury, injury. Pedestrian, predictable, and downright boring. All the stuff that comes before, all […]
Time to Stop Lying to Yourself
Experienced instructors are some of the most relaxed people I know. The question is, of course, why? When you have the mechanical ability to cause injury and couple it with the driving motivator of intent, everything throttles back and gets calm and easy–you’re not out spoiling for a fight or giving yourself an anxiety disorder […]
The Mindset to Survive and the Will to Win
Combat Training Principles — Secrets For Staying Alive When ‘Rules’ Don’t Apply **************************************************************** “A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he’s not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.” – Georges Clemenceau ***************************************************************** So what was lacking in the training of the 3 survivors […]
Training to “Wait and See”
A frequent question we get is, “Okay, I get this whole violence thing, but what if–” and then it’s usually followed by something the other guy is thinking of doing, trying to do, or just plain doing. This is code for ‘I don’t want to get hurt.’ Well, nobody does… If this were something that […]
Why Self-Defense is NOT Enough…
The biggest problem with ‘self-defense’ is that it says nothing about what has to happen to the other guy. Or, to be blunt, it says nothing about what you have to do to the other guy. And that missing something is probably whatever it is that he wants to do to you. Think about it […]