I have been looking at some of the forums that focus on self defense, some even focus on information for Florida residents. What is funny is that you need to pay attention to who the sponsors are. These forums don’t provide objective information on a subject, instead they are just used by some of the [...]
I was looking at the pictures from one of those “unarmed self defense” seminars. It was the typical mythology of canned attacks and clever solutions. Too bad nothing I saw in the pictures would solve the problem when used against an attacker that was not following the script. One picture had some elderly lady in [...]
Many times I see example of a self defense technique that involves some form of attack being countered as the student plaing the role of the attacker stands there waiting to be told what to do. The student is frozen in the moment with no instructions on what is expected of him and is easily [...]
I had the pleasure of training under Tom Sotis at one of the recent Suarez International events. This was the second time I trained in the AMOK! system and found it to be useful information. Tom is the real deal for knife work. Many claim that they can teach you knife defense, Tom just does [...]
I find what is being offered at some of these “unarmed self defense” classes just plain comical. Now I sure don’t have all the answers, and what I have came from someone else, but I sure can do better than a lot of what is being sold in the State of Florida.
I would make this [...]
I love the way some “instructors” put together a resume. They can sure make things sound impressive to the uninformed. Now any idea should be able to stand on its own, so this is not about the validity of a technique, it is about somone using credentials to try and sound impressive. Using Google you [...]
Just what the Internet needs, another blog!
Well in looking at what is going on in the “self defense” world I figured it was time to at least try to improve the signal to noise ratio a little bit.
What brought this on you ask?
I was looking at the photos from a “self defense” class that was [...]