Posts about self defense

While 2025 starts my 30th year anniversary of traveling and teaching, I have been toiling away as a teacher since 1989. Before traveling-seminar teaching starting[…]

  I teach in some 8-10 countries a year, so I am in highly restricted weapon jurisdictions, least of all some very liberal states in[…]

A string! One great fake that opens a hole, then one stunning blow, then a tree-step combination…for starters. 5 parts of the string. 1 plus[…]

Many moons ago, as a young naive lad, I grabbed a guy’s hand and thought…okay, well, outer wrist throw…. I did it and the guy[…]

With advancing age and advanced age, one’s reliance on “kuraty” wanes. Someday I know I will be limping around with only my snub-nose, hammerless revolver[…]

(I say lost because, I have no memory of doing this interview!) What got you into the martial arts? That is a very long story,[…]

  The grab strategy is now deemed possible and “okay.” In the 1990s and early 2000s, I received a considerable amount of trash talk. forum[…]

My last two years in the late 90s I wound up back in patrol (I was a real “Adam 12” dinosaur patrolman from the 70s)[…]

In very generic terms, and with you as the “tosser-thrower-tripper,” in the old-school business of “taking people down,” it would be worthy of mentioning, worthy[…]

The mistake? Ignoring the successful moves. I could write a ton about this point and its unintended after-effects in hand, stick, knife, gun survival training[…]