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Unconventional Spin Of Boxing Moves
When you talk about combatives, it can’t get more simple than the five basic moves of boxing: jab, cross, hook, upper cut and overhand. But in this article, I wanted to have a little bit of fun with these moves. We’ll do this, by using a couple slight variations you can add to your training…
Read MoreThe Importance Of Why In Your Training
Back in 2012, I was contacted by a Federal Government agency, whose privacy I will keep from this article. After years of being taught a complex defensive training program, they brought me into their Chicago offices, and sat me down in front of a 200 page manual and 200 page stack of power point slides. …
Read MoreWhy Our Kids And Grandkids Need Us Today, And How We Can Prepare Them With And Without Martial Arts
As we know, the world can be a dangerous place even for children. With bullying on the rise at school and children spending more and more time on social media and video games which can present its own set of dangers, the instances of some of kind of altercation happening is continually increasing. However, as…
Read MorePunch As Strong As Superman
Let’s get one thing straight, I know you are not Clark Kent. However, there is this one move that you see frequently in the movies, and on occasion, you see in MMA fights. When it happens in the movies, it is pretty cool, and when it happens in the ring, it is exciting and devastating.…
Read MoreWomen Have The Right Answer
Being a happily married man for over 20 years, my wife wants this next statement, which I say during my self-defense classes, engraved and framed on our living room wall: Women have the right answer. When I speak to an “only women” group at my self-defense academy, they get the answer to my very important…
Read MorePummel To Better Combat
There are five different areas of combat: kick boxing range, close quarters combat, ground fighting, weapons defense and mass attack (or multiple opponent defense). If I had to choose only one range to teach to a loved one, I would choose close quarters without a doubt. I’ve written before on my reasons, so I won’t…
Read MoreWhy Your Self-defense Training Isn’t Working
The story was usually the same. A law enforcement, military or security group would call me in, and say something like: “Our training isn’t working…” or “Two of our guys got beat up bad, and they said their training failed”. Whoever the organization was, I could tell they were desperate and were feeling pressure either…
Read MoreThe True Reality Of Self-defense, And The Goal Of Learning Faster
Whether I have students walk into my martial arts school, or administration interviewing me on integrating a new defensive program to their officers, everyone always wants to know one main answer to a question: How long will it take to teach someone how to gain a skill? Therefore, what I’d like to do is dive…
Read MoreForget About Mount!… ?
We all have heard about violent confrontations of an attacker getting “mount” position and completely destroying their victim. When I ask women who attend my female self-defense seminars, what is the scariest position you could be in when attacked, mount is always at the top of the list. Needless to say, mount position with it’s…
Read MoreThe Eight Ground Fighting Positions
Since the 1990’s, there is no doubt that ground fighting has finally gotten the respect it deserves in the world of competition, martial arts and self-defense. Because it has been some time since those early years of the UFC and other “no rules” tournaments, I thought it would be a great idea to take a…
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