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Intelligence and Advance Work

Intelligence and Advance Work

Protecting your client goes way beyond the actual shielding. This article will explain the importance of advance work, and how you can benefit using...
Bodyguards and Assassins

Amateur Assassins and the Threat They Impose

This is not a review for the Donnie Yen movie Bodyguards and Assassins; this is an article about amateur assassins and the threat they...
Jim Wagner Fighting Tips

Head Games: Overcome Combat Stress

Anxiety is an emotion that if conquered, can teach you survive in a crisis situation. Anxiety can also be a useful tool to the...
Jim Wagner Articles

Accidentally Killing Your Opponent

Do you carry a pair of handcuffs with you? Most martial artists don't. How then are you going to restrain a suspected criminal, whether...
Jim Wagner Videos

Jim Wagner History Videos

In Jim Wagner History Videos Jim Wagner shares his history of teaching and training in many different scenarios. Jim Wagner History: Law Enforcement Career from...
Systema Breathing Drill

Break Through Tension with A Systema Breathing Drill

We all know that breathing is our best tool to eliminate tension. We have done numerous great drills at Systema classes and seminars including aSystema...
Best Practices by Amaury Murgado

Best Practices: Stress Management

Stress is an officer’s number one nemesis. During a call, it creates automatic psychological and physiological responses that reduce your effectiveness. Too much stress...
Jim Wagner's Fighting Tips and Tricks

Dealing with Combat Stress Before it Happens

How will you perform at the moment of truth? What's going to happen to you emotionally when you're locked in mortal combat? Will you...
Jim Wagner Articles

Learn How To Strike A Human Head with the Reality-Based Impact Head

class="td_pull_quote td_pull_center">Once my students have the motion and timing down for hand and arm strikes they never see a focus glove again. Instead...
Jim Wagner Fighting Tips

Fighting Words

How do most sparring matches begin in a typical dojo? It usually goes something like this. Two opponents square of on each other, give...
Jim Wagner Articles

Using Closed Fist Or Open Hand Strikes?

In most police academies and military combat units worldwide professional students are taught to use closed fist strikes when resorting to hand-to-hand conflict. When...
Confidence and Competence

Confidence and Competence

Confidence and Competence, this is one of my favorite topics of conversation. Why, because most people would rather talk a good game than actually...
Russell Stutely

Meat & Potatoes of Pressure Points

Its time to move on to the "meat and potatoes" of how to use and make Pressure Points work for you! Let's assume that you...
Vladimir Vasiliev Russian Martial Arts

Control Tension with Systema Conditioning

In Systema conditioning, we try to create all the exercises so that they lead us directly into the highest levels of fighting skill. Training...
Tussey Custom PistolSmith

Damascus Knight .45

Master pistolsmith Terry Tussey presents a sub-Officer's 1911 with seven rounds of payload in a super compact package. Bridging a chasm some 2,000 years wide,...
Jim Wagner Fighting Tips

The Five Levels of Force

There is a proverb that declares, “You do as you are trained.” If you are trained to always defend yourself with feet and fist...