Just Show Up
When I started my Martial Arts/Self-defense odyssey some 45 years ago (this July will be 46 years), I was obsessed with getting better and I thought the main way to…
Read MoreHomeowner Vs Bad Guy : Entangled
Another Entangled Fight involving a private citizen with weapons. What’s fascinating to me is the headline from the news source. They write “wrestled for the gun”, not me. https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2025/04/10/apartment-resident-wrestles-gun-alleged-intruder-shoots-him-dead
Read MoreEntangled Weapon Fight – Home Invasion
There a couple of interesting takeaways from this incident.
Read MoreShivworks Disciple
I am a long time knife nerd. I was deeply, deeply involved in the Filipino and Indonesian Martial Arts from around 1982, through 1997 or so. I even had instructor…
Read MoreCleaning
With the risk of sounding like a horrible cliche, I have been a life-long shooter. I shot my first firearm (my dad’s winchester ‘97) during a dove hunt when I…
Read MoreEntangled But Not a Fight, Carjacking Edition
There are people that like to dispute the fact that grappling happens in self-defense scenarios, even with all the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The following video is another example…
Read MoreAbsence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence
We in the gun community know that honest data and knowledge are key to our safety and success in a self-preservation paradigm. It makes very little sense to base our…
Read MoreEntangled Weapon Fight – No Space
An entangled fight where the good guy is confronted in his tiny office where he has no room to move and no time to get a gun out. While we…
Read MoreBrazilian Jiu Jitsu for Self Defense
“Never go to the ground!” ….. hmmmmmmm…. “never” I have a friend in law enforcement who has an excellent story of using bottom half guard to keep a guy between…
Read MoreThe Tueller Principle Part 2
In part one, we looked at how far away seven yards truly is, and how that impacts our defensive reactions. In part two, we are going to examine how that…
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