I originally wrote the following article a few years ago. It still says everything I want/need to say on the subject, and I re-post it here after running into the…

A couple of weeks ago, I was sent a video showing an older gentleman being attacked with a knife by a younger, bigger man. I am not 100% sure of…

  Why don’t more people actively train in self-defense oriented activities?   This is something that many people in the training community have been talking a lot about. Karl Rehn…

  One of the buzz terms in the self-defense/tactical communities is “situational awareness”. Everyone, from instructors on down to the newest students talk about it and emphasize that it is…

Once again, we turn to the problem of how we fit in all the training we need to do as an integrated, multi-disciplinary thinking tactician (using Craig Douglas’ excellent description).…

I get the question a lot on how to find a good school to train at. I have addressed it a number of times here and variopus places online, but…

  There is a common saying in the tactical training and self-defense communites: Don’t be prey; be a predator. At first glance, that is a really cool thought. Don’t we…

      We have discussed previously on many occasions the difficulties in training for the Multidisciplinary practitioner paradigm. We have so many components and (most of us) have so…

A short interview I did this past weekend where we manged to get in a bunch of info, including what I think an instructor should be doing to get better,…