Self-defense Sequence

Your Secret Self-Defense Sequence

Unconscious Machine Gun of Moves When people come into my self-defense gyms one of the first things I teach them is to have a defensive...
Best Practices by Amaury Murgado

Best Practices: Developing Training Acronyms

Effective training acronyms and teaching terms can communicate larger concepts in a few letters. Law enforcement officers present a tough audience for trainers and educators....
Gang Graffiti

It’s All About Revenge For Gangs

One of the few absolutes in the world of street gangs is that when there is a gang-involved drive-by shooting, street brawl, or school...
Combat Triage

Combat Triage: General Conditioning: The Fighter’s Repose

Downtime Training: The Fighter's repose is about training your body to repair. For the true fighter, there is never any real off-time. When a fighter...
Changquan Long-Range Boxing

Internal and External Work: A Composite Organism

As a composite organism in wushu training, internal and external work helps to make a martial artist strong outwardly and sturdy inwardly. DOWN through the...
Best Practices by Amaury Murgado

Best Practices: Dealing With Citizens Complaints

Dealing with Citizen complaints is not always easy, but treating irate citizens with respect and patience can help you stop serious trouble before it...
The Winning Edge

The Winning Edge: Less Is More

Defensive tactics programs and police combatives programs often fail as a system because they encompass a set of techniques instead of following a set...
Jim Wagner Articles

Just Go For Center Mass

If you stick to the center mass principle you’ll be a lot more effective because it simplifies target acquisition in your mind, and this...
Jim Wagner Articles

Can A Lie Protect You: Cover Story

Have a COVER STORY for strangers who strike up conversation with you and you don't want them to know anything about you. When I was...
Stephen Spivey Survival Guide

Become A Silverback Gorilla

If you would like to see the epitome of confidence, just click on your TV and watch an animal program featuring a family of...
Russell Stutely Hidden Secrets

Martial Arts The Hidden Secrets – Order of Things #2

Rather than the usual layout of chapters etc within a book. I have set out to introduce you to the “secrets” of Karate in...
Bob Chaney Teaching Martial Arts

Bob Chaney Applies the Science of Physics to Fighting

Tae Kwon Do Grand Master Bob Chaney may be one of the best-schooled individuals in the martial arts today.  His over all knowledge of...
Jim Wagner Articles

Seven Signs of Terrorism

A terrorist car bomb and a suicide bomber right in the middle of Stockholm with the sole purpose of killing Christmas shoppers. Many thought...

6 Points For Firearm Defense

Events of the last several years have finally sent the “wake-up call” to the entire world. The United States begrudgingly joins with many countries...
Get Real with Dan Meadows

Why A Shooters Stance Or Position Is Critical For Self Defense

For over 47 years I have been a student of firearms training. I started shooting and hunting when I was 8 years old. I...
Willie Lim Classical Dimension

Willie Lim Kata Training is Outside the System

When I was training in TKD I was young and eager, an like so many others, interested only in the free sparring. In my...