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Learn How To Strike A Human Head with the Reality-Based Impact Head

class="td_pull_quote td_pull_center">Once my students have the motion and timing down for hand and arm strikes they never see a focus glove again. Instead...
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Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Office Massacre & School Shooting Survival

In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses office massacre and school shooting survival. If someone came into...
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Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Impact Weapons Defense

In this My Self-Defense Instructor video, Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses Impact Weapons Defense or how to survive an impact...
Jim Wagner: My Self Defense Instructor

Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Urban Criminal Ambush

In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses detecting an urban criminal ambush. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx0RNgyLcno SUBJECT: Detecting an Urban Criminal...
Jim Wagner Fighting Tips

Jim Wagner’s 10 Rules of Combat

This article discusses Jim Wagner's 10 Rules of Combat based on his observations of the key elements to surviving actual hand-to-hand combat. My uncle once...
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Airguns and Self Defense Training

Reality Based Training With Airguns Most violent crimes today are committed by armed criminals, be it with knives or guns, and yet most martial artists...
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The Danger of Repetition in Martial Arts Training

When it comes to reality-based self-defense, repetition, as practiced by most martial arts schools, could cost you your life. You've heard it said, "Practice makes...
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Jim Wagner Television: Women’s Survival Course – Germany

Jim Wagner's two-day Reality-Based Personal Protection Women's Survival course was videotaped by a German television crew in May of 2009. This is a look...
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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...
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Knife Attacks From Around The World

Not all knife attacks are the same. Unfortunately, you would never reach that conclusion by observing the way most martial arts instructors teach their...
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Tactical Hand Signals Part 3

Jim Wagner will teach you step-by-step tactical hand signals grouped into categories for ACTION, OBJECTS, NUMBERS, and AIR OPERATIONS. Copyright 2000 Jim Wagner. All rights...
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Jim Wagner Remembering 9/11

Today Americans are remembering 9/11 and the horrific terrorist attacks that not only changed world history, but directly impacted all our lives, including Jim...
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Your Phone Is Your Best Weapon

After I had run each person through a scenario as a witness I explained to my students huddled in a semi-circle around me, "Your...
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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...
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Conflict Communications: Team Communications and Teamwork

Unfortunately, most civilian martial arts training fall short in the area of team communications and teamwork, because there is an assumption that the martial...
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Rapid Dominance is Always Moving Forward!

The next time you are sparring with the protection on or doing some realistic scenarios you must overwhelm your training partner and use the...