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...
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: My Self Defense Instructor

Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: The Will To Survive Drill

In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses his will to survive drill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVG84TxvsIU SUBJECT: The Will To Survive PURPOSE:...
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...
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...
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...
Jim Wagner Videos

Jim Wagner Television: Sweden

Jim Wagner worked in Stockholm, Sweden on the popular 2007 television series YIPPE KI-YAY, starring Musse Hasselvall and Jarmo Ek, as a martial arts...
Jim Wagner Fighting Tips

Aggressiveness: Developing the Warrior Attitude

Aggressiveness is a key trait that a martial artist must possess or at least seek to acquire. Developing aggressive behavior in beginning students without...
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: 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: My Self Defense Instructor

Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Spider Drop

In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses using the Spider Drop to safely fall in a tactical manner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4HrgHZmocM SUBJECT:...
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...
Jim Wagner Videos

Jim Wagner: Using A Tactical Light

This video by Jim Wagner is about using a tactical light (flashlight or torch) to gain a tactical advantage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j_L-OAlsrU SUBJECT: Using a tactical flashlight (torch) PURPOSE:...
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...
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Child Stranger Abduction

There are many types of criminals who do a wide variety of crimes and there are different types of abductors involved in child stranger...
Jim Wagner Articles

Violence Must Be Practiced

Violence has to be a part of your reality-based self-defense training. If you are only practicing techniques but you are not imagining and simulating...