WHEN IS IT TIME TO LEARN SELF-DEFENSE TECHNIQUE?
People talk about self-defense technique as if it is the foundation of fighting and violence. And sure, technique is essential to learning how to fight effectively, such as knowing a specific joint to target and how or practicing a certain punch or strike so it’s ready when you need it. But self-defense techniques are also […]
PERSONAL SELF-DEFENSE: THERE ARE NO “EASY” TARGETS
How hard would you stomp on a man’s neck during personal self-defense if your life depended on it? Hard enough to break it, right? And how hard to you think that is? Probably with everything you’ve got. The human body is tougher than you’d think — it can take an awful lot of punishment before […]
MULTIPLE ATTACKERS SELF-DEFENSE: PART THREE
When the five guys pulled up to go after Will, they tried to limit his options by coming up onto the sidewalk and hemming him in between the car and the building behind him. Will failed to see that as a problem. As the car door snapped open, Will was already in charge of the […]
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 […]