High Probability Self-Defense Techniques If you’re going to learn self-defense techniques, make sure your instructor is teaching high-probability self-defense techniques. It always strikes me as odd that there are self-defense instructors who start by teaching people how to escape from being strangled by someone. For some reason, this seems to be particularly prevalent in Krav …
How Do You Know When You’ve Mastered A Technique? Over the years, lots of students have asked me this question? I’m sure lots of other instructors have been asked the same thing. So, how do you know when you’ve mastered a technique? Know The Formula Once you learn the following, it’s actually pretty easy to …
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Men vs Women’s Self Defense In the Red Corner My mate Kelly McCann claims there’s no difference between men’s vs women’s self-defense. He says it is all just self-defense. He also believes that older and frail women don’t stand a chance in a fight anyway. I, on the other hand, am a huge believer in …
Five-Minute Self-Defense Tip Here’s a quick five-minute self-defense tip. One of the things I learned during my time in the Foreign Legion was that time spent gathering intel was very rarely wasted. It’s a lesson I teach my students and people who attend my personal safety presentations. How does it apply to civilians? When you …
Got Kids? Judo know the half of it. Here’s an article about five great reasons why Judo is for kids. For those of you who’ve read my stuff in the excellent (now defunct) European martial arts magazine “Fighting Arts International,” you might remember my advocating Judo before anyone in Europe or the States had …