Can you Escape a Hostage Situation from a Small Boat – Can Water Protect...
Can the shockwave from something like a 50 caliber rifle actually be deadly even if the bullet never reached its target?
Taekwon do and Muay Thai Competition Styles
Many times the road to victory begins with an understanding of your opponent’s style of fighting. Two of the most popular forms of competition...
Work Against Multiple Opponents
Work against multiple opponents is challenging both psychologically and physically.
In Systema, there are a number of simple things to understand and practice to help...
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...
Your Best Defense is a Strong Offense
In this article, Hank Hayes of No Lie Blades explains that in this day an age your best defense is a strong offense.
When you...
Mikhail Ryabko’s Stick Tying Techniques
This happened over 20 years ago in Russia. My friends and I were at Mikhail Ryabko's class. The format of classes was such that...
A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Classic Colt 1911
This is the story of one man's lifetime dream - come true. I finally learned the hard lessons of imperfect tries, and lifted the...
Adding Judo to Your Self-Defense Toolbox Part 1
Judo is arguably the most underrated fight sport for nonweapons self-defense. For years it’s been overshadowed by striking-based martial arts. It wasn’t until the...
Warrior Training with Traditional Martial Arts Part 1
Part One: Traditions – Introduction
“The way you train is the way you fight and the way you fight is because of the way you...
Master Willie Lim Analyzing and Interpreting Kata
Master Willie Lim is known for his expertise at analyzing and interpreting kata and he has traveled around the world making a difference in our understanding...
Streetwise Knife Fighting
In the world of knife fighting there is an unspoken rule. Go in, cut and get out unscathed. It is that simple, but we...
He Hath Crafted A Weapon of Knightly Prowess
Terry Tussey at the helm of Tussey Custom, is well known to GUNS readers. His classical styled yet modern and supremely functional pistols have...
The Four Interconnecting Roots of Martial Arts, Monastic Martial Science & Yoga
If someone tells me there is a dimension of martial practice beyond the obvious, above the commonly held mainstream methodologies and techniques, I want...
The Martial Artist a Lethal Musician
One cannot learn how to make music without understanding how it functions much like one cannot practice martial arts without understanding martial arts forms...
Handgun Disarms: The Gas Alone From A Pistol Can Kill You
The general rule for handgun disarms, when it comes to trying to disarm an attacker of a pistol in hand-to-hand combat, is "If you...
Making Soldiers Better Warriors
We are not making soldiers better warriors with inadequate "reality-based self-defense systems" that hold onto outdated techniques and training methods.
Perhaps the reason why our...
