Reality Training

Articles on USAdojo.com about the importance of reality training in the martial arts and being prepared for any self defense situation.

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

When Can You Legally Defend Yourself?

In order to legally defend yourself, using physical force against a hostile person who you believe intends to do you harm, three elements must...
Vladimir Vasiliev Russian Martial Arts

Control Tension with Systema Conditioning

In Systema conditioning, we try to create all the exercises so that they lead us directly into the highest levels of fighting skill. Training...
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 Videos

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...
Vladimir Vasiliev Russian Martial Arts

Fast Moves Are Different From Jerky Movements

Human eye actively responds to jerky movements, to flashing and kaleidoscopic change of images. As a result, our eye cannot separate speed from jerkiness....
Jim Wagner Articles

Is Someone Watching You? Men Committing Lewd Acts

This was not the first call I had to deal with where men watched women from a distance, committing lewd acts. Most of the...
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...
Jim Wagner Articles

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...
Jim Wagner Videos

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...
Jim Wagner: My Self Defense Instructor

Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Hotel Security While Traveling

In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses hotel security while traveling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZWsS6zpw-g SUBJECT: Hotel security for business and vacation PURPOSE:...
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

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...
Jim Wagner Articles

The Hunger Games: Violence Without Responsibility

I went to the newly released movie HUNGER GAMES over the weekend. The blockbuster in its second week earned $364,933,000 million dollars worldwide. A...
Jim Wagner Articles

Using Closed Fist Or Open Hand Strikes?

In most police academies and military combat units worldwide professional students are taught to use closed fist strikes when resorting to hand-to-hand conflict. When...
Jim Wagner Articles

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...