Attitude Adjustment Part IV
Once a predatory assault has started and our Survival Attitude strategies are in effect (Staying Conscious, Breathing, and as Vertical and Bipedal as possible) we must turn the tide. In the Functional...
View ArticleAttitude Adjustment Part V
We have just been surprised by a predatory assault. We have managed to survive the initial onslaught of the attacker and used the Reversal Attitude to stop, or slow the cadence of the assault. Before...
View ArticleAttitude Adjustment Part VI
Let’s Resolve ThisEvery violent conflict has a beginning, middle and end. In the Functional Edge System these phases of the conflict fall within the strategies of the three categories of Attitudes;...
View ArticleRANTING AND RAVING
As I approach my 48th birthday and I find myself teaching around the world and trying to get my school going with Jocelynn; I got to thinking about all the things that have kept me around the martial...
View ArticleImpact, Pressure and Stress: The Force Triangle
In my experience as a self-protection and combat sport coach I have noticed that there is one major, multi-level quality that, when well developed, greatly enhances our chances of survival in the...
View ArticleTaking Control
The subject of control and arrest has been hotly debated in the Law Enforcement community for a long time. The techniques taught in departments have changed through history. In the very early days of...
View ArticlePale In Comparison
I remember in the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s a magazine called Inside Karate. One of my favorite sections of the magazine was a recurring feature called Comparative Styles in which five renowned...
View ArticleWhat a Scene
Scenario Training is to Reality Based and Behavioral Self Protection what Sparring is to Combat Sports and Mixed Martial Arts. For both camps of study it is the closest we can get to the actual event...
View ArticleAbove The Law
The following article is an expansion on one of the lecture topics that I cover during my Functional Edge System Behavioral Self Protection Coach certification courses. In nearly four decades of...
View ArticleCritical Mass
I have lately been having some great internet exchanges, over Facebook and other media, with some colleagues, “e-acquaintances” and even some folks that don’t like me, about self-protection, martial...
View ArticleMyth-Directions and the Middle Path
Once again I will be sharing and expressing some views on Self Protection, Martial Art, and Combat Sport and on subjects related to the same that have recently surfaced on the "interweb" and caught my...
View ArticleForm, Forms and Formlessness
There is no doubt Bruce Lee, his thoughts on martial arts, and his philosophies of life in general, have influenced many martial artists, combat athletes, and self protection professionals for about...
View ArticleWhat Doesn't Kill You....
One punch, one kill! Techniques too deadly to really practice on humans! Neck, joint and bone breaking locks and strikes! On the list goes of the skills you will gain by practicing any given Martial...
View ArticleSpeedy Results
Speed is a necessary attribute in combat. Many practitioners seek to be faster but they do so just by executing fast movement. Although this indirectly helps, it is not the most efficient way to build...
View ArticleSharp Issues
Caution! The video on the link below is graphic and shows people being fatally and near fatally wounded by a knife assault. It is included here solely for the purpose that some knowledge may perhaps...
View ArticleOut-of-Control
So lately there's been a lot of controversy about gun control and gun banning in social media, the internet, tv and other media. Everybody that reads my blog pretty much knows what my stance is on...
View ArticleTales of the ...Oh, Cult.
Or perhaps just a cult-like or cultish organization. A cult is very extreme but very real possibility in the world of self protection and martial art; but more frequently, good people get sucked into...
View ArticleThe Three Training Methods "Nuts" and Bolts Part I
Often in my blogs I speak of three different areas of training. I call these Martial Art, Combat Sport and Self Protection. I will be discussing the individual traits of the three different areas in a...
View ArticleThe Three Training Methods "Nuts" and Bolts Part II
This month's blog is going to address the second training methodology that I alluded to in last months blog which is combat sport. One of the most interesting things about combat sport is that It has...
View ArticleThe Three Training Methods "Nuts" and Bolts Part 3
In the first two parts of this series we discussed the Pros and Cons of two of what I consider the three pillars of Martial Training. We looked at Self Protection Systems, and Combat Sports. In this...
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