Domestic Violence: Battered But Not Beaten
Mixing Jujitsu with your Tae Kwon Do may save your life!
For years Rancella Ferguson ignored her husband’s abusive ways, not seeing it as the...
Safety on the Streets: Recognize How Danger Escalates
As a student of the ninja personal protection martial art, based on fighting principles developed for intelligence gatherers in Japan centuries ago, you are...
Life and Death: When Seconds Count
Imagine leaving a party having had too much to drink and suddenly finding yourself attacked by three individuals! It’s a blitz attack in the...
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...
Adding Judo to Your Self-Defense Toolbox Part 1
Judo is arguably the most underrated fight sport for nonweapons self-defense. For years it’s been overshadowed by striking-based martial arts. It wasn’t until the...
Self Defense Is Not Rocket Science
Here is a bold statement; self defense is not rocket science. In its most simple form it should be a natural flow of simple...
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,...
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...
How to Spar for the Street: Part 1
Almost all martial artists include sparring in their training. However, there are many different types of sparring and there is some debate as to...
Adding Judo to Your Self-Defense Toolbox Part 2
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The Force of Competitive Throws
The Impact of someone being thrown on their head on concrete is far more devastating than the...
Studying Multiple Martial Arts
There is a saying - "Beware the man of one book." Homo unius libri, meaning "I fear the man of a single book."
I hear...
Fifty-Sixth Year Observations: Martial Arts Developed for Self Defense and Combat
Today is October seventeenth, two thousand and thirteen. Today I made sixty six years of age. That means I am no longer young. Actually...
Use Your Eyes to Save Your Assets
Knowing where to look when standing face-to-face with a hostile subject is critical, though it’s rarely addressed in training. This is a glaring omission...
Chris Thomas: My Approach to Teaching Self Defense
I was reading a military hand-to-hand (H2H) training manual, and recognized that the program had been influenced by the Filipino martial arts. One chapter...
