SURVIVING THE AFTERMATH OF SELF-DEFENSE
The following question is why we go to such great lengths to educate our self-defense clients about the realities of breaking the physical plane. Anonymous writes: “Denver Colorado, three years ago. A friend of mine (we were both Rangers in Vietnam) was out for his 60th birthday celebration with friends. They all decided to leave […]
SELF DEFENSE QUESTION: ARE THERE ANY DOWNSIDES TO LIVING IN THE CAUSE STATE?
Jason H. writes in this self defense question: “Do you really live in the Cause State every day? Do you find that it affects you negatively in any way (socially) and if so, how do you deal with that?” Jason, This is a great self defense question, and one we don’t hear about too often. […]
LEARNING SELF-DEFENSE IS NOT ENOUGH
The biggest problem with learning 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. Or the fact that it’s probably what he wants to do to you too. Think about it this […]
SELF-DEFENSE TRUTH: WORRYING ABOUT LOSING WON’T MAKE YOU WIN
“But what if he [INSERT AWFUL THING HERE]?” I get asked this question all the time. It tells me a lot about the person asking it. “But what if…” tells me about a person’s frame of mind, and how they see themselves in violence. They’ve chosen second place, victimhood, with a wait-and-see attitude that makes […]
SELF-DEFENSE FACT: INJURY IS WHAT WORKS IN VIOLENCE
It’s a universal self-defense fact that if something works in violence, it works because of injury. (Or capitulation, but we’ll get to that in a minute.) What happens if someone gets hit by a truck? Well, more often than not, they get killed. The faster the truck is going, the more likely that outcome. The […]
DO SELF DEFENSE LESSONS LIKE TFT REALLY WORK?
Regardless of your experience in self defense lessons, you may have 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 […]
LEARN SELF DEFENSE: SHUT UP AND HURT HIM
You can’t learn self defense until your mouth stops. If we were training to be crisis negotiators, we’d need to talk to each other. A lot. All the time, in fact, to keep that line of communication open so it doesn’t collapse, go dead, and sink into the opposite of communication: destruction. If you can […]
A SELF DEFENSE TOOL IS JUST A TOOL
Why use a handgun, or a baseball bat as a tool? Your chances of being accidentally effective increase with the use of a self defense tool. The tool doesn’t increase your skill or your accuracy; it only magnifies the trauma when you do manage to line things up just right. With this perspective, the knife, […]
SELF DEFENSE TECHNIQUE: BUILD YOUR TARGET MAP
Nate R. writes: “I’ve been to multiple TFT self-defense seminars. One aspect of training that wasn’t covered in any of the seminars I attended was darkness. Violence: muggings, rape, murder, etc., often happen in darkness. If the aim of TFT is to ready those who spend money and time on it to learn to be […]
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? […]