Negative Impact of Repetition Type Drills in Stick Fighting
The patterned sound of click clack, click clack, click clack is heard as the modern stick fighter's weapon goes through various repetition type drills...
The Most Effective Methodologies for Strength Training
People are reluctant to get involved in weight training; especially individuals over 30. Your health and longevity are linked directly to your muscles.
Martial Arts The Hidden Secrets: Pressure Points Myth or Reality? #10
I have read with some amusement articles reference the use or rather non-use of Pressure Points. Like any "part of the jigsaw" of Martial...
Art of Fighting: A Lesson in Perseverance
A Lesson in Perseverance, or Proof that Talent Means Nothing Robert M. Clyne, host of “The Art of Fighting,” made this incredible video about...
Systema Training Considerations
A human being is a complete system and for this reason we have to make our training a complete and whole system as well...
Tai Chi Chuan’s Powerful Self Defense
Tai Chi Chuan's powerful self defense movements are so well hidden or disguised that by the time one's enemies see it or realize it, they...
Tussey Custom .45ACPs
Two beauties flaunt top pistolsmith's craftmanship. These 1911's are sound tactical weapons and they're gorgeous!
Anyone who even casually looked at the shelf of gun...
Muay Thai Boxing the Vietnamese in 2011
In 2007 I did a magazine story entitled, "Boxing the Vietnamese" about me training with a boxing team in Cholon, the China Town of...
Becoming the Total Warrior
We all search for personal refinement and fulfillment, but in the martial arts we work tirelessly to help empower others to become the total...
An Instructors Guide to Teaching Knife Defense to Civilians Part Two
Training
Inasmuch as anyone with absolutely no experience can be deadly with a knife; training how to use one offensively is the best way to...
Best Practices: How To…Respond Instead of React
The Aug. 9, 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, triggered a chain of events that changed how the public perceived law enforcement....
SNS Rules For Gunfighting
A major factor in man’s ability to survive this long is his sympathetic nervous system (SNS), his emergency auto-pilot, because it is this system...
Knowing the Freeze: The Bodies Adrenal State
As a predator attacks, your body will go into an adrenal state. You are flooded with adrenaline (epinephrine), noradrenalin and cortisol. The good news...
Martial Arts The Hidden Secrets: Body Alarm Reaction #9
If I were to choose one aspect of Martial Arts training above all others then Body Alarm Reaction (BAR) would be it. This is...
Just Go For Center Mass
If you stick to the center mass principle you’ll be a lot more effective because it simplifies target acquisition in your mind, and this...
The Basics of Bunkai: Part 5
In this series of articles we've been looking at the basics of "bunkai" (kata application). The purpose of these articles is to introduce the...
