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...
Frecuancia Marcial

juego De Manos Es De Villanos

“juego De Manos Es De Villanos” Refrán Mexicano Era día de examen en el Gimnasio de la Federación de Estudiantes de Guadalajara. Antes de iniciarlo me...
Jim Wagner Articles

Dealing With Combat Stress Before It Happens

How will you perform under combat stress. When the moment of truth arrives? What's going to happen to you emotionally when you're locked in...
Got a Second? A Journey into the OODA Cycle

Got a Second? A Journey into the OODA Cycle

Introduction Today’s environment of accelerating scientific discoveries and technological change bring ever-improving hardware to the end user. In this climate is it easy to overlook...
Donald Miskel

Riding the Strike of the Cobra: The Softer Approach to Blocking

In this series of lessons, we want to explore several advanced principles of soft blocking. The hard approach to blocking is designed to use...
Jim Wagner Articles

Jim Wagner Reality-Based Training Tool

Have you ever heard this argument during knife training before? The attacker swears, “I cut you! You would have been dead!” Then the defender says, “No...
Police Officer Survival Guide

Police Officer Survival Guide – Ten Deadly on the Job Errors

There is little truly new on the subject of officer survival tactics. It is the simple, unglamorous basics that will keep an officer alive. Sadly,...

Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Terrorist Hand Grenade Survival Technique

In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection discusses a terrorist hand grenade survival technique. SUBJECT: Hand Grenade /...
Michael Sullenger

The Importance of Kata

Over the past several years I've written articles discussing various sides of martial arts training.  In my article entitled, “Commercialism vs. Traditionalism” I talked...
Firearms Training for Martial Artists

Firearms Training for Martial Artists

In the martial arts world, weapons training helps develop qualities that are both advanced and potent. The practice of extending one's body outward by...
Russell Stutely

Learning Power Generation Helps With Learning Pressure Points

The next area that you need to understand BEFORE you even start learning Pressure Points is Power Generation or as we call it Waveforms. I...
How to Properly Hold a Knife for Self-Defense and Military Applications

How to Properly Hold a Knife for Self-Defense and Military Applications – Part 2

For too long Asian and Western knife aficionados have too eagerly advocated many knife grips that are questionable and even dangerous.
Robert Margolin Tonfa

The Tonfa Enters the 21st Century with the Defensive Leverage Device

Ever since man first picked up a rock for self-defense he has been on a never-ending quest to improve the weapons at his disposal....
Donald Miskel

Breathing is Fundamental

Of all of the natural body functions breathing is probably the most fundamental. It isn’t something that we do consciously. Breathing has more to...
Chris Thomas discussing applications of Wansu Kata

MasterClass With Chris Thomas

To help you in this time of social distancing and infection control, Chris Thomas is offering a special discount on MasterClass with Chris Thomas....
Donald Miskel

Self Defense vs. Personal Security

For the most part I don’t write on demand and I don’t take requests. I’m a martial art instructor not your local DJ. That...