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The Importance of Pre-Conflict Skills for Knife Defense - Part I

The Importance of Pre-Conflict Skills for Knife Defense – Part 1

Reaction times in knife defense will differ with distance, but good news is many individuals can improve their reaction times with practice.
Teaching Knife Defense

An Instructors Guide to Teaching Knife Defense to Civilians Part One

The knife is one of mankind’s oldest and most valuable tools. It’s also the weapon of choice for most violent attacks around the world....
Teaching Knife Defense

An Instructors Guide to Teaching Knife Defense to Civilians Part Two

Training Inasmuch as anyone with absolutely no experience can be deadly with a knife; training how to use one offensively is the best way to...
Combative Knife Fighting Truths

Combative Knife Fighting Truths

There are 12 brutal truths when it comes to combative knife fighting. Knife fighting is a serious topic and should never be taken lightly!...
Knife and Handcuffs

Three Dimensional Knife Defense

After the attacks of 9/11, I was running self-defense classes out of my martial arts academy outside of Chicago. A couple higher ups from...
The Case For Defensive Knife Training

The Case For Defensive Knife Training Part 1

Whenever new students come to Defense Science classes they are usually taken aback by the emphasis on defensive knife training. I remind them that...
The Case For Defensive Knife Training

The Case For Defensive Knife Training Part 2

In Part I we discussed the alarming upsurge of knife violence in First World countries — and the necessity for defensive knife training for...
SNS Rules For Gunfighting

SNS Rules For Gunfighting

A major factor in man’s ability to survive this long is his sympathetic nervous system (SNS), his emergency auto-pilot, because it is this system...
How to Properly Hold a Knife for Self-Defense and Military Applications

How to Properly Hold a Knife for Self-Defense and Military Applications – Part 2

For too long Asian and Western knife aficionados have too eagerly advocated many knife grips that are questionable and even dangerous.
Tussey Para Ordnance P-14 45

Para Ordnance P14-45

The gun was a train wreck. I was rooting around my safe and came across the Para Ordnance P14-45 I used at the range...
Tussey Custom PistolSmith

A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Classic Colt 1911

This is the story of one man's lifetime dream - come true. I finally learned the hard lessons of imperfect tries, and lifted the...
Stealth .45 ACP

Stealth .45 ACP Compensators

I don't like compensators. To my traditionalist's eye, they are funny-looking contraptions better suited to imaginary guns in Star Wars movies. Real men all...
Steven Seagal

Custom Pistols of Steven Seagal

When even a Black Belt isn't enough . . . The Custom Pistols of Steven Seagal Believe it or not, there are still a lot...
Streetwise Knife Fighting

Streetwise Knife Fighting

In the world of knife fighting there is an unspoken rule. Go in, cut and get out unscathed. It is that simple, but we...
How to Properly Hold a Knife for Self-Defense and Military Applications

How to Properly Hold a Knife for Self-Defense and Military Applications – Part 1

Of the innumerable knife concepts and maneuvers that I consider unsound, the most egregious of these are the unsafe knife grips that abound.

The AR-15 is Not an Assault Weapon

I would like to offer some education to my fellow Americans. This has nothing to do with political views, or recent events. I am...