Edged Weapon Defense: Is the 21-foot Rule Valid? Part 1
PoliceOne.com Editors Note: For the record, the 21-Foot Rule, when accurately stated, says that in the time it takes the average officer to recognize...
CHI – Life Energy or Inner Energy
By examining the history of various peoples around the world, we often stumble upon the concept of energy which resides in the body and...
Defensive Knives for Urban Environments Part 2
Just because your teacher and your teacher’s teacher have enshrined certain fantasy knife grips doesn’t mean they are safe.
Formlessness And The Dao Of Movement
The Dao of movement may imply different things to different people, ease of movement, many different stances, continuity, the art of improvised movement, etc.
All...
Martial Arts The Hidden Secrets – What is Smart Training? #6
To me, it is the best possible utilization of your training time. How many people in a weights gym do you see, standing around...
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...
Israeli Martial Arts and Deadly Mistakes in Gun Disarming
Gun disarming is one of the most important skills you want to obtain when training in a martial art that claims to be about...
Asanas for the Airborne and the Work Worn
If you're like most people these days, there are times when your body aches from overwork, your head throbs from daily pressures, you're tense,...
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...
Kyusho Attacks the Inner Body
Inside – Outside
Typical Martial Arts attack the outer body, while Kyusho attacks the inner body.
We looked at this idea a bit in the Blog on...
Does Tae Kwon Do Have Locking and Trapping
Have you heard that someone is taking Aikido or Jujitsu to learn locks and traps as there is not much locking and trapping in...
Redundancy in Martial Arts Techniques Makes for Success in a Fight
Back in 1997, DKI member and physician Chaz Terry helped set up a small investigatory study of pressure point techniques which was conducted at...
Big: That’s Not a Knife . . .THAT’S a BIG Knife
By Lynn Thompson - Cold Steel ~ In my earlier article regarding "Mouse Knives" I urged my friends and customers to examine their knife...
Systema SpetsNaz No Contact Combat
The main secret of Systema SpetsNaz No Contact Combat is an ability to blend in with an opponent unnoticed.
The goal of any martial artist...
Own a Technique
This is a difficult one!
How many repetitions are required to own a technique? 100? 1000? 10,000?
Multiply that by the amount of techniques available and...
Is Kicking the Knee the Best Defense in a Street Fight?
Dear Michael,
A friend who practices traditional karate recently told me that the best defense in a street fight would be sidekicks to my opponent’s...
