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  • Self Defense for Police Officers
    While some see Driving While Illegal (DWI) as another issue in the illegal immigration debate, for police officers around the country it is just another potential danger. Every time a police officer gets out of a cruiser for a routine traffic stop, he or she isn't safe until it is over.
  • The Art of Boxing isn't for Self Defense
    Boxing is an exciting sport where two superb athletes square off in a ring and battle to the limits of human endurance. But while boxing is a brutal competitive sport, it is trully an ineffective method of self defense.
  • Sambo Russian for Judo
    Sambo is an acronym for SAMozashchita Bez Oruzhiya or Self-defense without weapons martial art developed in the Soviet Union during the early half of the twentieth century. Very similar to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) in that Sambo is a combination of local style wrestling and Japanese Judo.
  • Paradise, Martial Arts, and Magnum PI
    For eight seasons Tom Selleck play Private Investigator Thomas Magnum, a Navy Academy Graduate, former Seal and Vietnam veteran. Magnum lived on the beautiful estate of Tom Clancy like author Robin Masters. He lived out every man's dream life. He fought bad guys, got the girl, drove a red Ferrari 308 GTB and he lived rent free in paradise.
  • Kali - The Filipino Cultural Art of Stick and Knife Fighting
    Every culture throughout history has created some form of martial art so their people can defend themselves in a time of crisis. But the only true test of a martial art is actual combat.
  • Battlefield New York City
    What can we learn from the tragic deaths of two young volunteer police officers?
  • The Wolves Are Howling
    On Saturday, January 6, 2007 Christopher Newsom, Jr., 23, and Channon Gail Christian, 21, were out on a date enjoying themselves. The night from hell would begin when the young couple was carjacked, bound, and blindfolded.
  • Sport Combat Is Still Sport
    The fact is most people don't realize that sport combatives like boxing, mixed martial arts, wrestling and fencing are just sports. All take a lot of skill, training, and heart to compete in, but at the end of the day they only simulate real life combat.
  • Train Hard, Laugh Hard
    While they never brag, and rarely talk of courage and honor, they often share their knowledge and experiences through humorous accounts of their adventures. Even when it concerns the most dangerous and deadliest of situations.
  • The Close Combat That Forged An Empire
    The Romans understood that training and attitude were what they needed to survive the savage battles of their time. And the same holds true today whether you are a soldier, police officer, or just someone concerned about defending themselves and their family from brutal street violence and terrorist activity.
  • The War Is Knock, Knock, Knockin' At Your Door
    The chaos of the global jihad has come to the streets of Western Europe.
  • The Ultimate Fighting Secret
    To fully understand BJJ you must first must look at the evolution of jujutsu into the pre-WWII Judo curriculum developed by Jigoro Kano in the late 19th century.
  • Knife Fighting in the Streets of Briton
    Some people think that the only solution to violent crime is to take guns off the streets. Proof of how futile these efforts are can be seen in the United Kingdom.
  • What Happened to the Marines?
    Rivalries aside, most people agree the Marine Corp trains some of Uncle Sam's toughest warriors. Sadly, the Marines, like so many military organizations, have fallen prey to political correctness in modern times.
  • America Frees Women To Fight Back
    The women of Afghanistan are now learning how to protect themselves and fight off their repressors thanks to the United States.
  • Things Change or People Die
    While obsolete weapons wind up in a museum, and outdated tactics are preserved in text, once a martial art has been deemed no longer useful on the battlefield it still survives as a sport or as a hobby thanks to groups of enthusiasts who keep up the style to preserve part of their culture.
  • Once a Marine Always a Marine
    So, how could a 70-year-old man could take on, and kill, a much younger armed opponent? The answer lies in his old-school Marine Corp training.
  • What To Do When A Killer Walks Into Your Classroom
    What to do if a situation like what happen at Virginia Tech happens to you or your loved ones.
  • Protect Yourself from Him
    In close combat fighting your body is the weapon. It is you alone, against an angry and abusive attacker. This is not about revenge or being as bad as they are; it is about the survival of you and your children.
  • Bayonets Not Bombs
    "This is a political war and it calls for discrimination in killing. The best weapon for killing would be a knife, but I'm afraid we can't do it that way. The worst is an airplane. The next worst is artillery. Barring a knife, the best is a rifle - you know who you're killing."
  • Kensei: Sword Saint
    Samurai Miyamoto Musashi was a swordsmen of legendary ability in his own time and left writings that still influence martial artists still today.
  • Tokui Waza Presentations
    In Judo, Tokui Waza means "favorite" or "best" technique. It's the throw that fits naturally to your body type, and you have practiced it thousands of times to make it an instinctual response. Everyone at the club or local tournament knows that you'll use it, but there's nothing they can do to stop it; you're just that damn good at it. Same thing goes in business.
  • Death Stalks the Night
    When someone puts a knife to your throat or points a gun towards your family there are only two choices: You can die, or you can kill the bastard.
  • Only Real Martial Arts Stop Rapists
    Women who are looking for a martial arts style that will provide them with a way to defend themselves, there is no government agency licensing or even looking into instructors or the proven effectiveness of the claims. Therefore there is an over abundance of inexperienced, untrained, liars who claim they are teaching self-defense.

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