Anytime I hear or read about someone talking about the supposed difference between self-defense oriented BJJ and competition oriented BJJ, I throw up a little in my mouth. Rather than…

I posted this a couple of years ago, but I want to revisit it because it is a topic that unfortunately keeps coming up. There is current mantra being circulated…

Within the last few days, I have been reading a number of online posts as well as having some private discussions through email, text, and PMs with people all roughly…

This video provides some interesting insight into an aspect of criminal assaults that often gets overlooked. I am not going to cover the situational awareness aspect of this. My dear…

A wonderfully illustrative video: This viral vid has attracted a lot of commentary, and most of it centers around either the fact that it shows how poor situational awareness leads…

This is an interesting video for a few reasons. Every time someone promotes any grappling in a self-defense context, the same insipid, moronic comment is trotted out “you will get…

I don’t give a flying bag of monkey crap how good you are when you have had a couple of hours to warm up, are doing it by yourself, have…

This is an interesting video to me for a lot of reasons, because it so simply illustrates how so many simple self-defense community tropes are incredibly foolish. Now, before I…