Jim Wagner Videos

We Still Can: Fitness Over 50

Mike "D," in his 70s, will show you 1. Waking Up Wellness 2. Breakfast Beautifier Drink 3. Morning Magic Warm Up. Produced by Jim...
Stripes and Bars by Amaury Murgado

Stripes and Bars: Lead, Don’t Blame

WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG at an agency, administrators go into self-preservation mode. This, in turn, has a cascading effect all the way down to...
Jim Wagner Articles

Blood Flowing in a Fight is a Real Possibility

Blood running down into the eyes can blind you during a fight. Blood running down over the lips feels disgusting and many fighters dislike...
Ted Gambordella – Fights To Win

10 Things To Be A Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Part 6: Eat Like A...

10 Things You Need to Know to be a Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Part 6 Everyone knows that the Mixed Martial Arts Craze is taking...
Michael Sullenger

Law Enforcement Training and Use of Force

Introduction Police officers must use force when placing uncooperative subjects under arrest, as well as during situations of unrest (e.g. riots, protests where property is...
How to Spar for the Street

How to Spar for the Street: Part 2

In this How to Spar for the Street series of articles we are discussing how to make your sparring relevant to real situations. The...
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Defensive Knives for Urban Environments Part 6

Beyond Filipino MA and Reality-Based training lies lesser-known knife systems, each carrying perspectives that are rarely explored but deeply instructive.
Jim Wagner Videos

Jim Wagner TACTICS: Suicide Bomber Response, KAPAP, Handcuffs

In this video about suicide bomber response, Jim Wagner, an official guest instructor of the Israeli police and military in 2001 and 2003 to...
Airborne Asanas

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,...
Sprinter

An In-Depth Look at Combat Conditioning for Self-Defense

A surprising paradox in martial arts is that practitioners are typically in good shape - yet they fight in safe and protected competitive environments?
Jim Wagner Articles

The Right Response to a Ground Attack

Imagine that an unarmed person has mounted you, he is sitting on your stomach as you lay flat on your back, and he is...
Jim Wagner Articles

Use the Environment as a Weapon

When I was a corrections officer working in the Costa Mesa Police Men's Jail in 1990 a prisoner attacked me and ran me into...
Jim Wagner Articles

Project Prayer Flag and POW Network

When I arrived in California from teaching my Reality-Based Personal Protection courses in Germany last week I had a letter waiting for me at...
Ted Gambordella – Fights To Win

10 Things To Be A Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Part 4: Ground Jiu Jitsu...

10 Things You Need To Know To Be A Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Part 4: How To Do Ground Jiu jitsu Without A Gi. Everyone knows...
Combat Triage

Combat Triage: General Conditioning: Hamstrings, Hips, Shoulders

Application 2 Category: General Conditioning: Hips-Shoulders-Neck Three target areas of stress that I am often asked about are the Hamstrings, Hips and Shoulders. It is by...
Violence

Dancing with Darkness: The Reality of Conflict

Let me continue a bit on the discussion of my last post: I had an interesting conversation with a member of my group (Kyusho-jitsu Kenkyukai,...