Self-Protection

The Trouble With Trying to Do It All: Have Clarity of Purpose and Choose the Right Path.

(Approx 2 minute 45 second read) All combat sports are one-on-one fights with rules. Self-protection, on the other hand, is not consensual fighting and should be approached differently. . Training for success in sport is designed to ensure success in sport. It makes little sense to train to develop one set of skills when they […]

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Common Ground: Universal Principles and a Shared Language – Different Paths, Similar Movements.

(Approx 2 minute 45 second read) The comments on my articles are inspiring, often funny, and sometimes, just uninformed. . To all the armchair enthusiasts, keyboard warriors, and practitioners from other methods who think kata is useless – let’s get this out of the way: You do not fight with kata. . The kata were

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Practical Self-Defense: Ditch the Drama and Embrace Reality. Sitting Pretty or Prepared?

(Approx 2 minute 10 second read) It’s astonishing to me that I need to clarify this further, something as straightforward as practical self-defense, yet here we are. Once again, the armchair enthusiasts seem unable to grasp the situation with any common sense. . To set the record straight: regarding the article where I was asked

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Under Pressure: The Way You Train is the Way You’ll Respond:

(Approx 2 minute 5 second read) You will perform the way you train. This principle holds across martial arts, sports, and virtually any skill-based activity or profession. Training shapes not only physical habits but also mental responses under pressure. . In response to one of my articles about an ill-advised self-defense technique performed for a

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Beyond Sparring: Understand the Limitations of Your Self-Defense Training in the Martial Arts.

(Approx 2 minute 40 second read) While there are always exceptions, thankfully, most of us today rarely face the need to use physical self-defense. . Recently, someone commented on one of my articles, suggesting that sparring is the ultimate test of self-defense because of its unpredictability. While sparring does offer some unpredictability, it is nowhere

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Right. Now, self-defense. Tonight I’ll be showing you how to defend yourselves against anyone who attacks you armed with a piece of fresh fruit.

(Approx 2 minute 50 second read) “In order to know how good you are at something, it requires exactly the same skills as it does to be good at that thing in the first place. Which means that if you’re absolutely no good at something at all, then you lack exactly the skills that you

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Kick Like a Pro, Limp Like a Legend. Kick Today, Ice Tomorrow. (Perhaps not the best choice in self-defense either.)

(Approx 2 minute 40 second read) For the last few days, I’ve been dealing with an annoying hip flexor strain. I have no idea how I got it – perhaps I slept the wrong way. I seem to be at that age. . Once again, it sparked an image in my mind of having to

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