SELF PROTECTION LESSON: MOVE WITH THE INJURED MAN
If we are accurate and correct—if we hit a square-inch of important anatomy with enough force to break it—we inflict a debilitating injury. One major self protection lesson is that when it comes to blunt force trauma, injured people move in response to their injury. Neurologically, organisms move away from negative stimuli—broken ribs and a […]
DEBILITATING INJURY: HOW TO TAKE A PUNCH
The use of pain from debilitating injury in life-or-death situations is completely unreliable because everyone’s pain tolerance is different and completely unpredictable. Some people will quit, some will overcome, and others will shrug it off as if nothing happened. In the absence of debilitating injury, pain is really just asking the other person to capitulate. […]
INTIMIDATION DURING SELF PROTECTION IS A SUCKER’S GAME
Human societies are fascinated with strength and power. Obvious personal power especially — height, musculature, and a hair-trigger willingness to do violence or self protection are eternally impressive to us. We all desire what those attributes grant those who have them: to be respected, to inspire awe, and perhaps fear. When we are intimidated, we […]
FIRST STRIKE: HOW AND WHY YOU SHOULD LAND IT
Someone recently wrote in regarding strike response and how to be the first one to act in a violent situation: Dan H. writes: “I am working my way through your DVD series “Surviving the Most Critical 5 Seconds of Your Life,” and I understand and appreciate the series of actions based on response, etc. […]
SELF-PROTECTION MENTALITY: I WAS PREOCCUPIED WITH WHAT I WAS GOING TO DO TO HIM
My friend’s wife came back from grocery shopping this weekend with a chilling story and insight into her own self-protection mentality: A man stalked her in the remote parking lot behind the store. Now, the story obviously had a good outcome— nothing happened—but it was the way she talked about it, what was important to […]
SELF PROTECTION QUESTION: HOW CAN I JUSTIFY THE USE OF VIOLENCE?
Tobias from Sweden writes in this self protection question: “I find myself agreeing more and more about your specific way of thinking when it comes down to surviving life-or-death self-defense situations, especially in regards to the fact that the bad guys don’t operate by the laws of society and therefore, in survival, neither can we. […]
WHATS MISSING IN ALL SELF PROTECTION TRAINING & WHY THE MEDIA LIKES IT THAT WAY
I did a great interview with Brett McKay from the Art of Manliness this week. I share it with you in this article. Wanted you to really focus on what’s most important when it comes to your self-protection, and the interview I did with Brett really highlights the one key that everybody is forgetting, and […]
ARE YOU AGGRESSIVE, BADASS, OR DEADLY?
How serious are you? You can tell how high the level of committment to injure is in a person by where they place themselves to get the job done. 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 intervening distance through […]
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 […]
BUT I DON’T WANT TO KILL ANYONE!
I was recently reading an article on personal self defense in which the author was speaking of violence as though you could pick and choose the level of seriousness of the interaction. If he’s a little more serious, then so are you—and if he wants to kill you, well, that’s the only time you’re going […]