Startle Reflex + Stress Response – Similar but not the Same
Startle reflex and stress response are biological and psychological realities that affect whether you can access their physical skills in a real-life encounter.
A Practical Guide To Fighting Without Fighting…
We often hear the phrase “fighting without fighting” in movies and books. This conjures up ideas from the mystic to the manic. The fact...
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...
Police Officer Survival Guide – Where Crooks Get Guns
A year long study was made by the Dallas Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in which recovered guns that...
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...
Self-Defense – For Show or For Go
When delving into the topic of self-defense, one must be able to articulate the goal desired. What is it the instructor wishes to impart...
Fighting Words
How do most sparring matches begin in a typical dojo? It usually goes something like this. Two opponents square of on each other, give...
10 Things To Be A Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Part 5: Conditioning For A...
10 Things you need to know to be a Mixed Martial Arts Fighter #5: Conditioning For A Fight
Everyone knows that the Mixed Martial Arts Craze...
Best Practices: Goal-Oriented Training
Many in law enforcement view training as something to try to get out of. Since it’s often seen as a necessary evil, it’s always...
The Basics of Bunkai Part 7
This series of articles explores the basics of "bunkai" (kata application). Over the last six parts we've been discussing the fundamentals of this vitally...
Control Fear with Knowledge
“I was parked on a side street writing a report when dispatch gave the neighboring car a call in my district. ‘See the bartender...
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...
Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Criminal Counter-Surveillance
In this My Self-Defense Instructor video, Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses criminal counter-surveillance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q8ZBK3xhgs
Jim Wagner: My Self-Defense Instructor
SUBJECT: Criminal Counter-Surveillance
PURPOSE: Detecting...
Life In A Day – A Survival Attitude
No matter how much training you have, without a survival attitude, you may not survive an attack.
She was a hard working woman, and a...
si Quieres Vencer, Aprende A Padecer
“si Quieres Vencer, Aprende A Padecer” Refrán Mexicano
Noviembre de 1975. Esa noche la clase apenas iniciaba. Al llegar a las 400 repeticiones de un...
Stillness in Combat
In the end, whether you have to discourage a would be predator or combat an attacker mushin, that calm in the face of opposition,...
