VIOLENCE STARTS AND ENDS WITH YOU
Over the years, we’ve tried many different ways to talk about “the attitude” you have to have to enter into violence and violent conflict. Most recently, we’ve talked about “intent” and “cause-state.” In the former. you have to want to do it, and in the latter, we give you all the reasons why you want […]
VIOLENCE & KISS (OR KILL IT SIMPLY, STUPID)
Violence is simple. How simple is it? We can answer that with two more questions: How can untrained people prevail? How is it that untrained people can prevail over trained people? Because for all their blissful naïveté, the victorious untrained have a firm grip on the tool of violence. This fact stands because violence is […]
SLOW YOUR SELF PROTECTION TRAINING DOWN
People often ask why we insist they start with slow practice for self protection training when everybody knows that real violence is fast. One way to answer this is to think about firearms training, especially your first day on the range. If yours was anything like mine, you started with the firearm in a hip […]