Jim Wagner Articles

Your Phone Is Your Best Weapon

After I had run each person through a scenario as a witness I explained to my students huddled in a semi-circle around me, "Your...
Profiling Strategies by WR Mann

Knife Defense : Profiling Strategies

WR Mann's Profiling Strategies poster showing profiling and knife defense against a single attacker.
Neutralizing The Committed Edged Weapons Attack

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...
Get Fit Again

Isn’t It Time To Get Fit Again?

After spending nine months in the most physiologically loving, friendly environment - your mother’s womb - most of us are born healthy, happy and...
Ask Adam Savage: Testing the Bulletproof Water Myth

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?
Defensive Knives for Urban Environments – PART 3

Defensive Knives for Urban Environments – PART 3

I generally prefer folders to straight blades for defensive knives in urban environments – even though straight blades are more reliable.
Jim Wagner Articles

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We are not making soldiers better warriors with inadequate "reality-based self-defense systems" that hold onto outdated techniques and training methods.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...
Arnis Class

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.
Defensive Knife Training

Defensive Knives for Urban Environments – PART 4

Throughout history, knives have served dual roles as both practical necessities and cultural symbols across diverse societies worldwide.
Jim Wagner Articles

Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden

In the 2008 movie titled Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden instructor Jim Wagner teaches the star, Morgan Spurlock, how to survive...
Jim Wagner Fighting Tips

Evidence of a Fight

After you have experienced a real-life self-defense situation, win or lose, you will want justice. You’ll want the perpetrator arrested and prosecuted. This is...
Jim Wagner Videos

Jim Wagner History: A look Inside Jim’s First School in 1988

The Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection system was officially established on January 21, 2003. However Jim Wagner History: A look Inside Jim's First School...

The Japanese Samurai Fountain of Youth

Your Fountain of Youth is well within your grasp...let me help you see it more clearly. My 60 plus years on this planet includes two...
Jim Wagner Videos

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...

Selective Brick Breaking Using Kinetic Energy

Martial Artsist Dustin Fargher shares about selective brick breaking / depth control using kinetic energy. Breaking top - middle - bottom out of an...
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...