Gunsafe
The purpose of GUNSAFE is to provide enough basic information about guns and how they work so that the average adult can recognize the...
Practicing Martial Arts In Your Head
This article is about practicing martial arts in your head by building scenarios and working your techniques with abbreviated motion, helping to reinforce what...
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...
Science of Bruce Lee’s One-Inch Punch
Forget all those broken boards and crumbled concrete slabs. No feat of martial arts is more impressive than Bruce Lee’s famous strike, the one-inch...
Rick Clark on Judo Chokes Or Shimi-Waza
In Judo, shime-waza is a general term for a grappling hold that critically reduces or prevents either air or blood from passing through the...
Stealth .45 ACP Compensators
I don't like compensators. To my traditionalist's eye, they are funny-looking contraptions better suited to imaginary guns in Star Wars movies. Real men all...
Use Your Eyes to Save Your Assets
Knowing where to look when standing face-to-face with a hostile subject is critical, though it’s rarely addressed in training. This is a glaring omission...
Escaping a Fort Hood Style Massacre
In his article, Escaping a Fort Hood Style Massacre, Jim Wagner explains that we are all targets to Al Qaeda or those who wish to...
Defensive Knives for Urban Environments – Part 5
Today’s FMA maintains its traditional weapons-based foundation while adapting to modern training methods and competitive formats.
10 Things To Be A Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Part 3: Take Downs Like...
10 Things You Need To Know To Be A Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Part 3: How to do take downs like a wrestler.
Everyone knows that...
Jim Wagner: Using A Tactical Light
This video by Jim Wagner is about using a tactical light (flashlight or torch) to gain a tactical advantage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j_L-OAlsrU
SUBJECT: Using a tactical flashlight (torch)
PURPOSE:...
Dancing With The Dark Side
At some point, the true martial artist must come to grips with this messy, brutal reality. I call this "dancing with the dark side."
Let...
Returning To Classical Kata With Willie Lim
A true understanding of karate is to found by returning to classical kata. Unlike modern karate, it is forms which hold the key to ancient...
Neutralizing The Committed Edged Weapons Attack
This interactive training session is written and designed for operators who are in the face of life threatening situations on a daily basis or...
Kata: Why Bother
There are many differing views on the value of kata. Kata is regarded by some to be the very 'soul' of the martial arts....
Jim Wagner History: The Police Academy Class 104
This is a look into Jim Wagner's police academy training with the Orange County Sheriff's Academy in Garden Grove, California USA. Going through as...
